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Recently purchased the S2 Cinematic kit over the holidays for my company's marketing department and I'm utterly disappointed.
The S2 works amazing as a follow camera. Will give it all the credit it deserves.
That said, the unit fails for any kind of establishing shots and cinematic work. I'm getting unusable latency and lack of control from 100'-800' with the controller. With a billed range of 3Km, I feel like I got "sold" on this camera. Not to complain without credential, but I'm a trained engineer, former radio guy in the Army, Part 107 pilot, and been flying commercially for years. I purchased this as the "ONE" camera I could take to get all of my work done, but finding that I now need to carry a seperate DJI product just to get reliable establishing and landscape shots.
It's so bad--I'm getting unreasonable video latency in orbit mode around the controller at 50'.
Skydio 2 - Purchased Dec 2021
Pixel 5 - Airplane mode on
Controller - Came with Cinematic kit
Software - Most recent update
I contacted Skydio about this a week ago and still no response. RF interference is an excuse as the majority of my work is in open terrain in nature with no wires, towers, etc..
I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt and assume I got a bad unit, but is anybody else having this kind of challenges? I'm upset even having to ask for a workaround after dropping the coin on this one instead of the mavic 3.
The S2 works amazing as a follow camera. Will give it all the credit it deserves.
That said, the unit fails for any kind of establishing shots and cinematic work. I'm getting unusable latency and lack of control from 100'-800' with the controller. With a billed range of 3Km, I feel like I got "sold" on this camera. Not to complain without credential, but I'm a trained engineer, former radio guy in the Army, Part 107 pilot, and been flying commercially for years. I purchased this as the "ONE" camera I could take to get all of my work done, but finding that I now need to carry a seperate DJI product just to get reliable establishing and landscape shots.
It's so bad--I'm getting unreasonable video latency in orbit mode around the controller at 50'.
Skydio 2 - Purchased Dec 2021
Pixel 5 - Airplane mode on
Controller - Came with Cinematic kit
Software - Most recent update
I contacted Skydio about this a week ago and still no response. RF interference is an excuse as the majority of my work is in open terrain in nature with no wires, towers, etc..
I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt and assume I got a bad unit, but is anybody else having this kind of challenges? I'm upset even having to ask for a workaround after dropping the coin on this one instead of the mavic 3.