Fimi X8 Mini v3 Flight Test Review at The Beach in Seaside Oregon
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- The Oregon Coast was a great place for my first flight with the Fimi X8 Mini v3. So far so good with this little drone. I thought the video quality was quite good. In future videos I'll go through all the features that this drone offers, and we will compare it with competitive products from DJI, Potensic and Holystone.
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Looks like a really nice vacation spot. Putting it on my list Marcus.
What a treat Marcus!!! Very peaceful and relaxing to watch.
I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thank you so much!
Oh BTW, absolutely beautiful ocean waves and the a beautiful day. Thank you so very much for sharing this wonderful video. 😀👍
Thank you Shane! It was a great day!
Seaside is in my neighborhood but now that I am disabled it is unreachable. So Thank You for the wonderful views as I went there occasionally before my stroke. I like the fresh Ocean air and view.
Yes, the ocean air is amazing. I hope you're able to get back to the beach soon.
Thanks Marcus, what a lovely location to vacation and fly a drone! That surf is amazing!
Thank you gary. It was a lot of fun.
Hi Marcus 👋🙂. Watching your fantastic video 💯.
This Fimi X8 mini v3 drone is impressive. Have a great weekend and God bless you and your family always 🙏
Thank you so much Shane!
You have such great scenic locations to choose from in your part of the country, I'm envious. A far cry from the endless corn and bean fields here in the MidWest section where I live.
This was a beautiful place to fly! I agree! 🙂
Thanks for the video, can't pass up a good drone video. Thanks for the bonus video about the salt making. I've been to the coast many times when living in the Portland area, but never was aware of the salt making by the Lewis and Clark Expedition and what an important part it played in their survival. I would have never thought that salt would have made such a difference in the success of their trip. I think that we take so much for granted these days and our ability to just go to the supermarket and buy a bag of salt. Thanks for a good drone video and a little bit of history.
Thank you! We went up to Astoria and stopped at Fort Clatsop too. So much history there.
Thank you for the great drone footage of very beautiful scenery. I also found the placards very interesting and informative. What a beautiful place to fly a drone.
Thank you so much George!
LOL.. you are the only one I have heard call this the X8 Mini V3 🤣🤣 WOW!!! probably one of the best colour profiles I have seen from any Fimi Mini 3 to date. If that footage was straight from the sd card... your (donor) has a real winner. I agree.. don't update to 1006B.👍👍💪
Yes, I just noticed on the box that they don't call it X8 Mini anymore. I also thought the color science looked good.
@@IdahoQuadcopter : It's a shame there are so many variances within the same model.. It is again... a "Lottery" .. R has a good one there.
Great quality on the video and a lovely area to capture. Many thanks for sharing the info Marcus
Many thanks Shaun! It was a fun outing!
Update on my Warranty claim with Fimi. I don't understand how a company that can make pretty good hardware could be so blatantly fraudulent when it comes to taking care of their customers. Today was the most ridiculous of the week and a half saga. . The hardware is decent it really is I'm not so sure about the longevity of it because I've had a drone for about a year actually about 9 months and I had a major failure. The Fimi warranty on their drones is one year and that's listed on their website. My drone fell out of the sky and when it fell it broke one of the legs. After providing Fimi With everything that they asked for over the last week and a half they come back today with the drone legs are only under warranty for 180 days. The motherboard and everything else is one year. Because the failure of my drone resulted in one of the legs being broken the whole thing is not under warranty. For anyone who's confused let me clarify . The broken leg is not what caused the drum to crash . The crash was caused by an internal error which would be under warranty if the leg had not broken when it fell 200 feet . I would suggest before you buy a Fimi look up comments on warranty and customer service. In a week and a half I have yet to find a not horrible story
I'm sorry to hear it. I fully understand your disappointment.
Nice scenery.
It was a nice day, thank you.
Good flight thank you for show us the Fimi..👍
It is absolutely my pleasure! Thank you!
Wow look at that surf. Thanks for the video and it looks like you are off to a good start on having a fun vacation. GOD Bless You
Thank you! That flight was so much fun!
This little drone has exceptional quality of video. And it flew very well. Nice.
Yes, the drone flew great, and I thought the video quality was quite good!
Awesome thank you for sharing this very informative compilation! 🤍
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for the test, camera looks pretty solid.
You know for $299 it's not a bad choice. It's got a tone of features too.
Been looking forward to your video on this......
Why thank you! I liked the drone!
Hey Marcus! That is a nice little drone! good video quality and flight control. Thanks for the tour! Cheers, Brendan
Thank you Brendan! It's not a bad little bird.
Really nice footage
Thank you very much!
Very cool AND educational. Thanks, MArcus!
My pleasure! Thank you John!
Looks like my Autel Nano+ The sensor is just amazing on my Nano+ as you have this drone as well. I just wish they stayed in consumer space and improved on the Autel Sky app and features. Amazing coverage - looks like a great place to take the Nano+ !
That Nano+ would be great at this location! 😄
Always nice flight!
Thank you! I appreciate that!
Great one Marcus thank you
Thank you Charles!
Don't miss flying out to Tillamook Rock Lighthouse from Ecola State Park, about 1 1/2 miles off shore. Also Hay Stack Rock from Cannon Beach. At the time my Phantom 3 Standard wasn't up to either one.
Yes, the Air 3 was easily up to the task and returned from Terrible Tilly with 50% battery. 🙂
hi Marcus, neat video of the Pacific coast, thanks for sharing. Looks like a nice vacation spot. That drone has precision landing, but may need a round pad.
Ha! You are correct Richard. The Fimis do look for a round pad. A friend of mine sent me one! 😄
Nice flight Marcus , You did the drone a good turn. Of course I would have loved you to fly that beach with the air2s.
I flew that beach with the Mini 4, does that count? 😄 Thank you John.
great area and flight Marcus! Tillamook lighthouse (Terrible Tilly) is a great flight about 1.5 miles offshore you can do with most drones these days--best to start from Tillamook Rock Lighthouse viewpoint off the Clatsop loop trail in Ecola State park--issues are parking at Indian Beach though in the summer as you gotta go well before 8am to get a good spot and guarantee a nice hike and flight.
Thank you Joseph! Yes, terrible Tilly is so interesting. You're right, you need to get to Ecola early, or anywhere near Cannon Beach for that matter. 😀
Beautiful area, great flights. Regards.
Thank you!
Marcus another awsome video.
Thank you Henry! I appreciate your support of my channel!
Marcus, I have to say, this was an outstanding video! Nice drone, beautiful scenery, incredible location and great flying. That neighborhood community looks like the types of neighborhoods you sometimes see in movies and think..."Such a wonderful place, where is that at?". The view @15:00 is stunning with the sun reflection on those surf waves and the blue Pacific Ocean. I notice details like this from my years of sailing and kayaking. I'd love to see more of Seaside Oregon. Also, Coos Bay Oregon is another pretty location on the Oregon coast, i've never been but saw a lot of videos and pics. Last, that drone got some incredible footage, i was looking hard to see if there may have been sharks in that surf somewhere. Drones have been capturing footage of sharks lately in different places. Enjoy the rest of your vacation, i'm sure it'll be a good one. Oh and btw, i been looking to get a new drone so if i buy one (probably mini 3 or 4) i'll be sure to use your link.
Thank you! I agree, I really like the Coos Bay and Bandon areas too!
As usual, a great video with some beautiful scenery. As a follow up, how about some shots of you on your surfboard, riding those waves? Or would that be followed by you and your ride in the ambulance?
I've found the problem with water is that you cannot breath that stuff! 😄
I've seen a few videos on this new version, and it looks great and also packed of features, so i think for the money, it's a bargain i think ill be getting one great video Marcus have a great vacation 👍 👌 😀 🇬🇧
It packs a lot of features for the money! 👍
I wanna buy a fimi x 8 now our it's just the cool video!
I was pretty happy with it. 👍
I found the salt making very interesting. Thanks for sharing! You should introduce your Camera Lady,
Yes, that salt cairn is pretty cool, and they did it over 200 years ago!
Hey Marcus! Great video! Looks like a decent little 250 gram drone. Here's the big question: where does one buy this same exact drone? Couldn't find any v3 listed, only v2.
Ali express is where I found it. www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806660276623.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.11.341c1802aYMpSN&gatewayAdapt=glo2usa
4K 30 jitters on the turns. We are so spoiled about cameras these days.
Yes, it will shoot in 4K 60. I need to try that.
It is the CPU on the FIMI mini 3 that is too weak for that camera.
Yours look much better than mine. Unfortunately on the fimi mini 3 I received videos look OK on the tiny phone camera, very saturated or colorful if you like. Once you get to the big screen there is a very pronounced lack of definition. I did a controlled comparison frames isolated from the videos with the potensic atom and DJI Mini 4k. The fimi mini 3 indeed lacks definition. Many experts point out they tunned the camera down while saturating the crap out of image to hide lack of definition caused by the weak CPU on the drone. I am not sure what to believe and all I know do hate my FIMI mini 3: Controls have no precision, camera lacks, range is bad.
Thank you for sharing your experience. I appreciate your comment.
Nice Video! Can anyone tell me how to set POI’s like for instance while in waypoints I would like the camera to focus on specific landmark -! THANK YOU
I know you can do that in waypoints. I need to try it on a later video.
No hay nada mejor que ir al Pacífico para tener becario
It was a beautiful day!
👌🏿🛫🧑🏻✈️🌊
Thank you David!
Yours seems to work better than mine.
Try 48mp pictures next time and see what happens.
PS. Change the name in your title to Fimi Mini 3. That's what it's called.
Yes, I see they dropped the X8 on the v3.
The 48MP preview is improved in the last update, you can have a try. 4K video is 8Mp resolution, 6K video is 19.4Mp, 8K video is 35Mp, so if you need to get a 48MP/30fps preview, you need a very powerful chip with more then 8K video processing ability. But I think there should be some way to improve it, for example, the first stream work in 48M in low framerate, the preview second stream works in 720P/1080P 30fps, just my thought:)
Mine is also a really crap drone and I really hate it right now. It can't do anything right !
@@shapethefuturetech6005 I refuse to do the update for now. My drone is working better after the previous update.
IMPORTANT QUESTION: When I do compass calibration I turn hundred times horizontal and it won't move to vertical calibration.
I have to do a DOLPHIN CALIBRATION where I turn around and move the drone up and down.
Why is this? Same thing with my Fimi a3 and x8 se 2022.
@@gimpman1357 I'm not sure. I can say this. I never calibrate unless the drone asks for a calibration.