Mr Steele's FPV Camera Settings

What camera do you use? What are your cam settings? What lens do you use? I get asked the questions all of the time so here is the answer to all of them :)
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[@cenabitednbfpv587]

what are the settings on the mustache?

[@phoenixfpv9391]

Thank you Steele. Once again it's really nice that you are taking the time to show this. Anyone can google the best settings, but we look up to you and your ways of doing things. I appreciate it.

[@LIFEOFSTUFFEDANIMALS]

Extremely helpful, thank you steele! This is becoming my favorite youtube channel by far.

[@ericmaggard6182]

I finally got around to putting these settings on my hs1177 and WOW the difference was night and day. Thanks man!!!

[@bradearl16]

Brilliant Mr Steele, thanks for sharing those settings!

[@codyw7554]

Short, sweet and to the point... Thanks as always!!

[@vertigo5828]

Another awesome, informative video! I'd really like to see a video about tips for the different settings, what they mean and do, etc. Maybe a Rotor Riot episode? Thanks for the info!

[@StacemanFPV]

Love watching all your videos, and I see that you do this nose-in orbit around things better than anyone I have watched, and wanted to ask if you could do a short tutorial on how to pull that off so smoothly? Keep up the great videos!

[@drwtrex]

Thanks mr steel always good to hear setup tips from you .......

[@ChadBennettSr]

Thanks, Steele. Very informative for those that didn't know.

[@PeterDeWinter]

Hey, thanks for sharing Steele! Much appreciated!

[@kurtjohnson6464]

You could probably do a complete build and settings video every few months as fast as tech is changing, some basics are there for awhile but so many variables that unless you do a complete or focus on one aspect like this video it will be outdated by Christmas.... This is very much a DIY hobby and I for one can use all of the help I can get. THANK YOU!!! I love the Vlog and your willingness to take us along.

[@DanWolnerisme]

this is super helpful, thank you! ive been having trouble recently with this and im interested in the other fpv hardware and strategies for extending range or quality of transmission. maybe dos and donts? keep on keeping on!

[@CWood081965]

Thanks! I learn a lot from your videos.

[@adolforosado]

Thanks, I needed exactly this bit of information!

[@Luke-M]

Love the music during the settings :P hahahahaha. Not only good during information but entertainingly funny.

[@michaelallensteele]

Thanks a lot. I been meaning to tweak this camera. I have had some long shadows where I fly and I hope to make changeover quicker.

[@QuadView]

Thanks. I was wondering the easiest way to connect that toggle thingy. Perfect video.

[@slinkytreekreeper]

So many unanswered questions in these comments, way to go steele

[@rubberneckfpv9665]

awesome I was just wondering about this thanks Steele!

[@jester3265]

Fantastic. Thanks for sharing those settings 😉

[@jderickt]

Simple and straight forward. Nice.

[@Rccrazed]

The HS1177 we have in stock no longer have the BNC plug, they have an RCA so you should be able to hook the camera straight to your goggles. MUCH EASIER then before for sure! But before I just bought a BNC to RCA adapter and still hooked it to my goggles or a screen. Thanks for sharing your settings Steele! You da man!

[@lionwolf8438]

Great video as always. Question when building quadcopter said do you bother with getting both CW and CCW motor threads or just get CW motors.

[@ficusnipe]

Dude loved your guide on FPV cam, read my mind. The only gap would be some more great suggestions about anything different you do for making a decent recording cam setup. (even though we know it's gopro cam and Chad knows the settings for exactly what to upload formatting wise to youtube for the cleanest videos) I'd also love to hear about any gimbal usage in your experience and do's and don't to think about that made your gimbal-less videos so clean and perfect even as a freestylist since that's not exactly something someone could gimbal for so to speak. I may end up picking up this FPV cam you mentined and give the 2.5 a try just from the great responses on why you picked this setup.

[@jadzia1128]

Hello Mr Steele and thanks for the tip you Rock!

[@kleverprop]

Great vid quick and dirty! Very easy to fallow keep putting video"s out!

[@thomasmilissen1742]

Thanks for the perfect informational video

[@LeviMaston]

Cool rig, great idea, thanks! Also, I've found the Lighttrax courses look best when you turn the b&w off, so you get the nice, pretty color hoops, imho.

[@d-maefpv381]

Thanks for this, Steele.

[@rebeloftheskyfpv6947]

Thanks for sharing mr Steele

[@khelawanb]

Great video !!!

[@davemiller8530]

excellent just excellent what more can be said

[@DroneDFPV]

Hey Steele, Can you explain in another video how did you install the mic to hear the sound of the quad ? Kind regards.

[@blackmennewstyle]

No need, lot of the video TXs on the market has a built-in microphone...

[@JCQuadcopters]

Do you use your HS1177 on 4s? I plugged my HS1177 directly into 4s and it went grey. It wasn't the VTX, so I'm wondering if you use a power filter to power your Camera? Also, do you know a solution to this problem? Cheers

[@LifeLatitudes]

Hey Steele, how do you get the voltage (osd) into your picture? is it possible with the kiss v2? Or do I need an external OSD?

[@zenkinsw]

many thanks it's super helpful.

[@n0toriousfpv99]

I use my fatshark dom v3 battery to power my camera when changing OSD. Just waiting for my VTX and frame to come in and my next build will be underway, using a Runcam Owl Plus which has a 2.5mm lens so I'm excited to see the difference from 2.8mm.

[@mindlessmark07]

Very helpful. Thx!

[@anthonywelch6963]

very good mr steele

[@bigguy78246]

Keep up the tips. (Insert just the tip joke) newbs need to learn (as in me) and this gets me to go searching for answers on what are good camera settings for me.

[@greenscreenproductions2459]

I think I'm going to try the 2.5 mm lens. I'm also running a 2.8 and thought about trying a wider angle lens but didn't want to end up with that nasty fish eye effect. Most of those camera settings are close to what I run so I guess I'll see if they would need to be tweaked at all if I use the 2.5 lens. Thanks for the vid, it was interesting to watch and done well.

[@Dropoff510]

Nice video. So do you still have to take the camera out of the quad to adjust it?

[@AlbertKimTV]

Thanks for sharing!

[@danlehman2721]

Great Vid, Thanks I like seeing different settings from different people. This helps me understand what i might possibly like for my setup. Can you do a simple switch set-up on your Taranis? I still do not understand the whole throttle switch thing, to much information on use it, don't use it, set it this way, no don't. I fly with thumbs normally and after watching RR vid on pinch vs thumbs, I am now trying the pinch method. it is going to take time on that however, good stuff keep it it up.

[@ishmaelagius4135]

Nice work on the vlogs man...Make a build video on the tiny whoop ;)

[@smittythedevildog]

your a rad dude man thx

[@MicroRCFiend]

There's other sony style button input units that allow you to just plug it in and use it, way more compact too. It even seems to work on non sony cams for me.

[@wolffair1119]

Steele do you have a way to change the settings while the camera is in the alien. Kind of a PITA to pull the top off and camera out in the field. Can u explain if you do or make a quick video?

[@ItsWizki9d]

Do you fly with oneshot enabled? It makes my motors sound weird however my quad flies better with it.

[@brag93]

you should try the runcan swift... only for easy access to osd

[@RCG73]

Can you make a new one with youre newcam the Runcam MRsteele swift 2 please??

[@ndcapper]

I like the customized OSD cable. I'll be making that next

[@pabz06]

what's the module you have attached to the back of your taranis? some kind of range extender?

[@Mex0w]

What i want to see is your OSD. What do you use, How do you plug it, etc... Love you btw

[@ohmyqwad8705]

Your fatshark battery will plug rite into the connection that no one ever has. I didn't have to mod any cables, worked fine as long as you have the correct AV cable It's a bit moe difficult to setup than the swift but it's worth it. 2.5mm lens is the shit Thanks for your time Steele, good stuff, keep up

[@Maorifpv]

Hi, i bought one of these cameras in rotor riot store, im having a problem with this camera sometimes it change to black and white and back for a while and back to normal, im testing indoor with artificial light? Maybe thats happening because of low light condition? I also tryed your settings but the colors look very diferent from reality. Thank you

[@jamesmanderson5311]

bro your awesome bro smart as ever thats so frappin cool thanks scott aka demoliition

[@christianzoubir7924]

great settings for sure !!! thx a lot, someone had problem with dvr recording ? today i've test those setting but when i've record it seem's that my vids is completely moved .... like one part of my vids is on the bottom and the other in the top bottom :/

[@MIKEYDREADFPV]

Thanks Steele .

[@skwerl13]

Would be great if you could do a PNP50 menu settings vid, as I have the pnp50 connected to my ''rotorriot'' alien build and don't see any on screen display at all. Even when I press the menu button I dont see the osd displayed. Vid quality is perfect though and the rest works fine except that there is no OSD shown.

[@pitotoy07]

Thanks for sharing. 👍

[@ironwolffpv3214]

awesome vid

[@BumpierDrake960]

How about recommended setting changes for night flying? You almost went there but then didn't.

[@urbanfpv3852]

thank you for sharing :)

[@badmofo350]

Have these settings changed for you at all since this upload? I just used them and it's pretty damn good. Thanks

[@russellbaker7914]

Yes, please show your radio settings. I'm curios what logical switches you have set up.

[@jjooyycc33]

why 110°fov ?? is it enough ? I think something like 150° especialy for acro is beter or not ? why ? thanks ;)

[@hooivork81]

I get black screen (no image) in mid flight most of the time during a punchout.Got in in my vortex 250 how to solve this?

[@leon00107]

if i i put my white ballance the same as steel it turns orange my screen what could it be ? the conditions im in right now is in a room with no daylight but with the lights turned on

[@angusauchincloss8520]

what is the range (distance from you) that your current setup will fly without falling out of rf range?

[@MrStevegibb]

In my quad getting the camera out to adjust the settings is a PITA. I am actually thinking about wiring the osd joystick pin to a separate connector that can be more accessible from the outside of the quad. I am guessing the joystick needs powering also so perhaps a passthrough xt60 connector to connect inline with the quads battery for powering the joystick and a little connector for the OSD joystick signal.

[@bryanmiles1353]

i did this on my alien, they way steele did it in the video is the hard way to do it... cut off the tip of the joysick and use that for your drone that plugs into the camera as a permanent solution... on the white wire connect that to a female servo lead(white wire) and tie the black wires together as well from the camera pigtail to the female servo lead... then just mount the female servo lead on the drone where its convenient... on the joystick do the same but with the male servo lead with the black and white wire... plug it in and you have a in your pocket camera settings adapter at all times... flying at night/dusk... no prob... i have not seen a video on it but until today i barely saw a link on the comment below where a similar wiring job was posted on rc group, was gonna make a video on the build but no point now... thought i had something original but guess not... i was just tired of taking 30 min to adj settings(teardown) and knew i could make a better way...

[@kylerickert1654]

So I'm also making the stupid wire harness and on the video side there is also a ground wire, should this be spliced in with the ground from the power wire or just be last disconnected

[@RcFox_FPV]

i like runcam swift more... easy to use osd... realy the best cam i ever had on my gear

[@BillSheley]

Same here

[@markybuddie]

Spot on man I appreciate the vid. Huge fan. Here's a question for you have you ever tried FPV wings or any fixed wing FPV?

[@MrSteeleFPV]

Yup there's videos in my channel :)

[@sierra7534]

you didn't go through your "Reset" settings. Come on, man. Don't leave us hanging. In all seriousness, thank you. You're my inspiration and I want to be as big as you one day. Also, I had this profile pic first bro.

[@MrSteeleFPV]

Lol. Did you now ;)

[@romanfernandez9350]

Thanks STEELE

[@gbgbelectroweb7184]

Hi. Thanks for your videos and especially sharing your settings on this camera ! It looks like we did the same mod on this stupid harness, I never used it as delivered and immediately customized it :-) There is one submenu you have not shown : what is the setting you use for wide dynamic range (EXPOSURE / DWDR) ? Probably 63, but if you could confirm...

[@Maorifpv]

Hi can you update ThE website to buy 2.5 mm lens pls ?

[@IchHabRechtUndDuNich]

Thanks for your introduction, but is that camera with audio? How do you get your Sound down to the ground station? Thanks in advance

[@DrewLittleFPV]

In the past he used the pnp50 mic, now he uses the mic on the steele pdb, alot of cameras have a built in mic now too you could use such as foxeer arrow v3 or the runcam swift 2

[@kitesurfjerry]

Can you please do a video on your radio settings? Like how you do the idle up, etc.

[@danrulz01]

I agree

[@kittykuntteam6766]

agree

[@MrCarter24]

agree

[@Jolopy8000]

+1 on this

[@dancook6322]

I asked Chad the other night if he (or RR) could elaborate on the Taranis/KISS FC settings... especially min _ throttle / min _ command and the idle-up/airmode settings.

[@021dfred]

I just used these settings and everything looked to have and orange tent. Is that normal?

[@sf2372]

Whats the bet 2.5mm lens sales pick up suddenly. Once again thanks for your efforts. love your vids. ripping ballz..... (tm) that sht haha

[@allennickles3970]

I know this video is old as hell! But did this camera show your battery voltage in your osd?...I have a few quads that are old F3 boards no Betaflight Osd or anything like that...And i can get a deal on a few HS1177 and was wondering if this camera showed voltage on the osd...thanks in advance

[@cooperstukel5176]

What setting are you running on your go pro?

[@TschingisTube]

Hi, you can actually connect the osd cable rather simple. What you need is the AV-In/Out cable (jack to cinch cable) delivered with your fatshark googles and a secondary googles battery (which should normally be available in the field). You can connect the battery to the dc jack of the osd cable and the AV-In/Out with the yellow cinch to your googles AV in port. Thats it, the camera is powered by the battery und the image ist directly shown in the googles. The only thing you might not have in the field is the AV cable, but i do so, since i fly most the time with external receiver.

[@DimaIns]

Turned out, the FatShark bulky cable that comes with the goggles (at least true for my Dom v2) works pretty well with no mods to send video from the cam to the goggles with no fuss. And for power any "barrel" plug with 5-12V like one you would use to charge Taranis or smth similar. Just in case you have that on hand and don't want/need portable DIY solution :)

[@johnnieyaz]

Thanks!

[@Florgoth]

Mr Steele... what do you think about osdoge?

[@Hermy21]

Thanks for the settings! Good thing that a/c unit didn't kick on in the middle of your filming! LoL.

[@wrichards123]

good info :) Hawaii Drone Racing

[@minimalbensn]

Thx alot man

[@buffythesaint]

Just add an RCA jack to the OSD controller and plug directly to your monitor. The OSD cable comes with a power barrel connector, just plug in a fatshark battery to power the camera, no need for modding, just the RCA jack.

[@DashzRight]

Nstc or Pal mr steele?

[@GDLutz]

What screen is that that you have in the video?

[@usmcculp]

Mr. Steel, do you fly with an OSD. Why / Why not?

[@NunoFlyer]

Hi Steele, you forgot to show the font color settings, but for me this is not a problem :) Good idea, cut osd control wires. Best regards

[@dapru]

try the fatshark 2.1mm lens its awesome

[@umocwazy1]

I notice from your Video Logs that you always plug in a single headphone and was wondering where the audio signal comes from since i don't see an audio out wire on the FPV Cam, thanks in advance.

[@pizzyfpv]

VTX's can have a built in mic also

[@obelixer9751]

Look at the size of that drone he's sitting on! amazing!