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I was out getting some nice sunset/twilight shots of my home town when I noticed on my phone's display some flickering in the video with some sort of color shifting. I could only hope it was something related to the signal being fed, or the connection between my phone and controller, etc. Not so. Indeed my video was corrupted and plagued with ugly flickering and color shifts. I ran a test in my kitchen and it was worse. Here is a 12 second sample clip. The first five seconds are from the flight. It may not be very obvious, but keep watching - you'll have no problem seeing it in the kitchen (no, I didn't attempt to white balance):
So from past experience building computers, one troubleshooting trick when things went sideways was to remove and reseat components hoping to improve the contact and connections. I figured after six months of ownership and all the vibration over that time, maybe there's a chance. With that in mind, I disassembled the camera so I could get to the ribbon cable. I unplugged it and then reseated it. I later thought maybe I should have blown it out with compressed air, but sometimes that can work against you by blowing debris deeper into crevices and contact points. Either way, the following tests did produce solid video again, but it was one test in the kitchen and one quick flight outdoors, so I'm not ready to say I have permanently solved the problem. I will follow up especially if it starts again. Anyone else have this happen to you? Any advice? Thanks!!
[By the way, I was shooting in h.265 10 bit log both before and after the problem]
So from past experience building computers, one troubleshooting trick when things went sideways was to remove and reseat components hoping to improve the contact and connections. I figured after six months of ownership and all the vibration over that time, maybe there's a chance. With that in mind, I disassembled the camera so I could get to the ribbon cable. I unplugged it and then reseated it. I later thought maybe I should have blown it out with compressed air, but sometimes that can work against you by blowing debris deeper into crevices and contact points. Either way, the following tests did produce solid video again, but it was one test in the kitchen and one quick flight outdoors, so I'm not ready to say I have permanently solved the problem. I will follow up especially if it starts again. Anyone else have this happen to you? Any advice? Thanks!!
[By the way, I was shooting in h.265 10 bit log both before and after the problem]