Mapping function - Take more photos between the intervals
Hi guys
You know during the mapping mission, the Dronelink software will help you to take photos at certain intervals. My question is can you adjust the time to take photos for each interval.
I am talking like take 1 photos every second?
I did mentioned in other post is that some place like the forest, you need more photos taken otherwise the software could not align the photos correctly. I managed to get it done manually by taking photos between the interval manually (use the camera function). However, I wonder can you set it? Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
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Assuming you have a drone with a fast write speed, and fast SD cards, you can set the capture speed to 1s - but I would only recommend that if you set the photo type to JPEG first as it is unlikely you will be able to write RAW files to the SD card at a 1s interval.
Hi Barry
That does not work, I tried it already. If you do that, it will only take 1 seconds of photo interval when flying to the starting position.
When it starts mapping, then it back to the old interval.
Thanks for the reply. I really appreciate it :D
Look at the pic. You can set it to 1s in the map function but you have to switch to jpeg first
Okay, I will give it a try and let you know the result.
You could increase the overlap to higher also, probably so much you couldn't capture everything. Like 90% or more. You will get a lot more photos. Might give you more uniform spacing then straight time intervals.
Also you can slow the drones speed.
Just another thought on this. If your goal is to increase ability of software to merge the photos, changing the time interval and/or flying slower, only increases the "front" overlap. If you use the overlap buttons you can increase the side overlap also. You can see on the plan that increasing the side overlap narrows the "rows" that are flown.
Hi guys,
Yeah I have tried to set taking the photo interval to 1 seconds and 20 seconds, it does not work. I even mission preview and it gives me this results.
This is for 1 second intervals
This is for 10 seconds interval
As you can see both of them take same amount of picture per run. But I guess it is not too bad. I can just manually take the picture.
I hope someone can pass this to the dev team about this. Thanks.
Yeah, flying slower is not going to be an option because I already.. "ask" (for lack of the better word) the drone to fly on cine more, which is slow. What I mean is I match it with the cine mode speed already.
The mission preview will not render intervals shorter than 2 secs, but if your drone supports it, it will do it. Having said that, your drone / camera probably does not support it.
Uhhh no, my drone is DJI Mini Mavic 2, the shortest interval is 1 seconds. I will do a full video for you to see what is going on....
If you mean the DJI Mini 2, per DJI's spec sheet, 2 sec interval photos is the fastest.
Just out of curiosity, if I may ask, why do you seem to not want to use the "distance" method of capture? While not an expert by any means, reading through the information and the forums, it seems like it has multiple advantages over attempting to use the "timed interval" method.
Hi Jim
Tried it out Barry's method (adjust to 1 second) this afternoon and yes, it does work.
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George: Because we are doing mapping, the more photos we have th better it is. Thai is why I take photo every second. Not sure can do it for distance method of capture.
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