Written by Patrick Sherman Advanced Flight Technologies Column As seen in the July 2017 issue of Model Aviation.
Your drone has a camera on it, but that doesn’t necessarily make you an aerial photographer any more than owning a scalpel makes you a brain surgeon. The automatic settings that are preprogrammed into drones from manufacturers such as Yuneec, Autel Robotics, and DJI provide solid results in most environments. In fact, they do such a good job that many pilots never feel the need to change the default configuration. However, learning to manually control your camera’s operating parameters opens a world of possibilities.
