A Merry Christmas to all

To those people, I’ve not seen in years, all the best for 2023.

More DJI Avata with GyroFlow

I created another video for my Avata review exploring the world of GyroFlow.
Unfortunately, this will be the last Avata video, as the drone has now returned to DJI.

DJI Avata

My DJI Avata review has just gone live on Tech Radar.

It’s an amazing peice of equipment that pushes the boundary between FPV and cine drones that’s a blast to fly.

I’ll be posting some more videos created with the DJI avata shortly.

Autel EVO Nano+

Having covered the Lite+, Autel very kindly sent me the EVO Nano+ for me to cover for Tech Radar.

Things didn’t go to plan, initially.

As I had a drone ending crash, destroying that machine completely.

A very broken NANO+

This drone was very kindly replaced by Autel, and things went better after that.

Here are the two videos associated with the review.

Autel EVO Lite+ vs DJI Air 2S

A comparison of these two great drones has just gone live on TechRadar,

Autel EVO Lite+

I’ve just reviewed this amazing piece of equipment on TechRadar

Here are some direct links to the videos showing what this drone can do.

Autel EVO Lite+ Samples

20,003 and counting….

Gosh…I just checked in this morning to see that my total views has just reached breached 20 thousand! Amazing. Thanks to everyone that’s come along, and I’ll try to get more new stuff on here soon!

Jekyll Episode 4 dissapointment

I was *really* disappointed in the fourth episode of Jekyll screened last night on the BBC. For starters there wasn’t much Hyde, which didn’t help, but it was the insertion of back-story information at this stage seemed to be entirely pointless. The plot I’d enjoyed for the first three was effectively stalled, and with the exception of one revelation, the undetermined origin of Jekyll, it contributed nothing.
I presume this is a six part series, so they’ve two more to get things back on track. But this was the low point for me, and was reminiscent of those end of season episodes American shows have when they’ve run out of money and make one almost entirely of flash-backs.

Nikon AF-S VR 70-300 – is brill!

My lens arrived! Not in time to go to London, but it arrived.
I went out in the middle of the day and shot some wildlife (not literally…) to get some practice. None of the results are amazing, but I’m still getting used to the VR, among other things. But I can see the potential, and it’s enormous.
What I really need to do is get myself to an airshow…I’ve decided. When I’ve taken something genuinely wow, I’ll post it up.

I’m not a patient person

Yesterday I ordered a new Lens for my Nikon SLR on 24 hour delivery, but it hasn’t appeared yet!
My concern is that it won’t arrive till next week, which will entirely stuff my plans to take it to London this weekend and shoot the Red Bull Air Race. I’ll be annoyed if that happens.

Why do companies offer 24 hour delivery, charge you for it and then not send it? Grrr….

 Update:

It’s apparently on it’s way to  me, due to be delivered today…by Royal Mail…that’s the good news.
The bad news is that Royal Mail are currently having a 24 hours strike!