After a great weekend at the FPV Grand Prix in Grimsby last week, I met up with some of the other pilots for a fly around this lovely quiet park a bit closer to home.
Frame: EMAX Nighthawk 250 Full Carbon
Flight Controller: Naze32 w/ Cleanflight 1.8.1
Motors: EMAX 2204 2300Kv
ESCs: DYS SN20A (BLHeli 13.2)
Propellers: 'Unbreakale' Surveilzone DAL 5040 (Blue)
OSD: MWOSD 1.4 running on OSDoge
Battery: MultiStar Race Spec 4S 1400mah
Camera: Xiaomi Yi (Firmware v1.2.0 with 35Mbps bitrate - not that you can tell after YouTube has finished with it - the source footage is excellent).
Overall the Xiaomi Yi camera is pretty outstanding (for the price), two areas of concern are.... firstly.. focus issues are common, and I keep I had a hair under the lens on one, and a lump of dust on the sensor on another (but they are fairly easy to clean).... secondly the low light quality is far worse than I'd imagine.. with the sun in the sky I can't fault the quality, as soon as the clouds go over, or the sun sets everything gets 'soft' and dull (as you can see from the clip at 1:42) which was only a few minutes after the sun had set.
