Another Newby in Oxfordshire

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Hi everyone. Just passed my licence quiz and paid the fee. Ready to go flying with a 2nd user DJI mini2. I’m mainly hoping to use it as a flying camera to increase my viewpoint of places your allowed to fly. Using JPEG and Raw files into a commercially available software package for cropping and enhancing. I’ve added a 256 SD card to the drone. What’s the best way of transferring, I see you can turn the drone into a wifi spot, or do your veterans pop the card out and download to PC via a reader? Happy flying :slight_smile:

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Hi @SCFlyer and welcome to Grey Arrows :wave:t2:

This :point_up:t2:

It’s way faster for data transfer, it saves you wasting any drone battery power, and stops your drone overheating - not all models have cooling fans in them :blush:

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Hi @SCFlyer and welcome to GADC :+1: :+1:

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Hi @SCFlyer - welcome to GADC :+1: :+1: :+1:

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This

Or fast transfer to my iPhone then same to Mac

Horses for courses, just do the same as you do with other camera gear

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Good point about not using up valuable flying battery. Cheers.

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Thanks for the info. I guess I’ll run out of 3 batteries before I fill up my 256 SD card, so yes wait until I get home and pop it into a reader. I also use iPhone & mac like you. I use PhotoScape X to fettle the DNG photos it free for the basic version does all I need to.