Recent content by 480sparky

It's due to perspective. Even using a modern rectiliner lens and stitching multiple images, the result would be the same. Here's what a P3A does when stitching multiple images: The streets on the right and left are straight, and run parallel to each other. No info available, but I'd be...

It was taken with a special panoramic camera. The camera rotates as film is drawn across a cylinder inside and uses a narrow slit for a shutter. It's easy to recreate such an image, even using a drone. Send 'er up, take a horizontal series of images and use special software to combine the...

No help. The ones that address an existing image require the FOV of the lens used. As panoramic cameras used rotating slit shutters projecting an image onto film being passed over a cylinder, they inherently do not have a 'native' FOV as they could be adjusted to any up to 360°.

I have an old photo (taken in 1909) that I have determined precisely where (relative to the ground) it was taken from, but I'm wondering if it's possible to use the features in the image to mathematically calculate the height at which it was taken from. I have positively identified 6 houses...

See post #4.

Final edit of last nights' video session:

Just a quick-n-dirty edit of the grand finale. A better edit will need to wait until the weekend. I didn't get up to 400' until 13 seconds into the video... I wanted to start with a fresh battery instead of having to land at an inopportune time.

Idiots will be idiots. No amount of posting on innernets forums or legislation will eliminate them.

Five miles? You aren't gonna see much detail.

Absolutely no way can a Phantom have that fast of a shutter speed to capture the wingtips like that. A real video would have blurred the wingtips.

Just remember........ if you're in business, and use the drone, it all tax deductible. The drone, any prep classes, the test..........

Probably the only thing they learned is how to run really fast to avoid being charged. Kids the way they are being raised today, they went home, had a great laugh, and posted it all on social media.

Helicopter narrowly escapes dangerous drone collision

And it is. This is in addition to that.

Um.... like the title of both the thread and the video say........ AZ Screen Recorder.