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FatShark PilotHD frame drop test

1,037 views · Published 13 September 2013 · 4:43 · Indexed 28 October 2026

Channel: Bo Lorentzen · 2013 · People & Blogs

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Flying low under the trees to provoke the PilotHD frame drop issue.

Related blog post fpvguy.com/2013/09/pilothd-v1.html

Really want to love this camera, its a custom build recording flight camera, and if they had limited it and called it a 520p flight camera, it probably would be a RockStar right now.

When looking at the raw video from camera, it strikes me that there is not truly clear and defined details. did not understand it right away, but then checked the details a little closer.
Seems its a up-rezzed 960x520 video system, taking a freeze frame from a diagonal contrast line clearly show that the stair-stepping is bigger blocks than it would be at 1280px I scaled it down in photoshop until the stairs matches pixels.. long side was 960px not 1280px
System would work sooo much better if the manufacture would let it run at 960px, less data to deal with, and no frame drop problems. ;-)
The good news, this is a "large" sensor camera, and have a fair dynamic range, I also prefer the "look" of the image over other similar cameras such as the keycam 808#16, I would love this camera if it just did not drop so many frames. Maybe Greg at FatShark can release the true nature of this camera in versions 2.0, throttle the pixels back, and let it record its real resolution, it would easily be able to keep up with the frame-rate and data-rate requirements at that resolution.

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