http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showpost.php?p=34856537&postcount=18895
OK troops, here's the scoop.
The M2 is scheduled to be released for sale on the developer's two direct sale China eBay web sites (see post #2 here) this Thursday, May 26 for US $89!.
I will be populating a new thread (the one that's already been mentioned as "Under Construction") over the next several days. I will be keeping the thread closed except while I'm adding the new post info because many questions will be answered in those first handful of info posts when they are done, and I don't have time to field questions, many of which will be answered when I'm done. So please, do not try to squeeze in posts when I'm working until I change the thread title to show it's true colors.
Here is a quick peek at the camera's main differences from the Mobius a user will first see when the get the camera. This is a very long download, so just view this one on the host site. it's good enough for what this video intended to show. Much more info and details will be posted in my new thread over the next week off and on, so please monitor that thread for more info for the near term.
Until then,
here is a link to a clip you can download to view the camera's native video with the release FW. Do not view the clip on the file transfer page... you will be disappointed since it drastically degrades the native 1080p-60 fps video by it's severe compression of the native file's 42,000 mbps bit rate. You may not even be able to play this native clip smoothly on your PC hardware! On my new higher end system, WMP plays the clips smoothest, with MPV-HC player next (with an occasion skip that looks like a dropped file, but the video has no dropped files if you look at it frame by frame. VLC is the worse, and chokes frequently with blotched gray-scale images regularly occurring through the video.
You will also see the FW is still not perfected, with a nasty WB shift that comes and goes. This is still in the process of being controlled, but the developer felt it was time to get this out for more user experience and feedback since we've been working to make things right for about a year and a half now!
you will also notice in the first 10 seconds or so some dark vertical "waves" moving down the frame. These are NOT camera or electrical interference problems, but rather shadow or reflection artifacts of the props on the quad that was carrying the camera when it's pointing at just the right (wrong, actually) orientation relative to the sun. These disappear as the quad rotates away from the sun angle.
I hope you find the wait for the M2 to be worth while, even if you still have to wait a bit more for full functionality to be finished.
Last edited by Tom Frank; Today at 09:44 PM. Reason: added tip to view unboxing on the host site
