Richard Haynes
Junior Member
FPV lenses, being tiny, cause an exaggeration of distance, an elongation of it, like looking through the wrong end of a telescope. I noticed this because the paddock next door to my house became huge; and the village 2 miles away almost invisible, although perfectly visible to the naked eye. Annoying really because the church spire could have been a good landmark.
However, objects close up seem more or less what you would expect. It seems to me therefore that if one were flying towards a tree, at a constant speed, its approach will seem to accelerate as one draws closer to it, and that this acceleration is VIRTUAL not REAL. Has anyone else noticed this?
This effect might be a contributing factor to the frequency with which David W, following with his Tricopter, ends up getting too close: and the good-humoured, crazy-David explanation for mid-air contact wrong.
However, objects close up seem more or less what you would expect. It seems to me therefore that if one were flying towards a tree, at a constant speed, its approach will seem to accelerate as one draws closer to it, and that this acceleration is VIRTUAL not REAL. Has anyone else noticed this?
This effect might be a contributing factor to the frequency with which David W, following with his Tricopter, ends up getting too close: and the good-humoured, crazy-David explanation for mid-air contact wrong.