DJI Phantom 3 camera body sun shade hood

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Summary The body attached camera sun shade which don't affect to camera/gimbal balance, but only effective when altitude of the sun is enough high. I designed a hood for Phantom 3 camera lens http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:854297, but sometimes it causes jello (rolling shutter) effect. I guess the gimbal control is designed based on balance when the lens wears no filter, no hood. When using this shade, be careful high speed forward moving makes shadow at upper part of view. Read "Instructions" for detail. The picture is 45mm version, my P3 also wears handmade CFRP gimbal/cam protector (desgined using CAD), and inside camera UV filter is ND8 (3 steps) filter which reduces jello effect on sunny day. Designed using OpenSCAD. Instructions This shade can be fixed loosely by front legs with the notches, however FIX TIGHT using zip tie (cable tie) or vinyl tape, DO NOT DROP IT IN THE AIR. I'd prefer using tape - fixing using bond or zip tie makes hard to put in Phantom backpack, or hard to remove when shooting in high speed cruise. The 45mm just covers all part of the front left/right prop, that is, perfectly remove jitter effect by prop shuttering (still backlight effect remains when the sun is low altitude). However this easily makes shadow in FOV - almost over 10km/h or 3m/s forward cruise when camera is horizontal (anyway in that case, props will be in view). The 34mm version is better, however only effective when the sun altitude is high, 9-14 o'clock at N35 area in summer (Jun.-Sep.). If planning high speed cruise & horizontal shooting, do not use this shade. Cleaning lens (actually it's UV filter) & remove flicker (auto) in DJI Pilot app is certainly effective. Also this shade affects airflow (downwash pushes down the front). No significant effect in balance (thanks to the flight controller), but stabilizing balance MAY shorten flight time.

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hood22-45mm.stl
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hood22-34mm.stl
22.7 KB

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