Very simple but effective install of a 0.5X magnetic lens on the Hubsan X4 FPV (h170d)
Click through for pictures and step-by-step.
Screen capture from video WITH and WITHOUT 0.5x wideangle lens.
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UPDATE: Frederic of the French blog Helicomicro posted a french translation of my post.
Materials required:
Doubleside tape.. I used the monster strong black 3M industrial tape for this. mostly becuase I wanted to have a monster grib on the little magnetic ring thingie.
Magnetic smartphone wideangle lens 0.5X (avoid the 180deg Fisheye which is far too big)
This is type the lens I used Here is another small compact lens
Cut a hole in the doubleside tape with a hole-punch of sorts. I got stuck in the punch, so it may be worth using a piece of backing on both sides of the tape for the punch part.
Trim the tape so it fit on front of the X4 and wrap a little around. push the tape INTO the front hole to get a snug fit ON the front of the camera (not the lens) that will block the blue light from inside the X4 to avoid blue "glare" reflections in the back of the lens. don't ask how I figured that out.
Then peel the backing from the magnetic mounting ring and attach it a little high on the exposed black tape. bam. that stuff is not going anywhere. you can now attach the magnetic lens. keep it a little high to avoid vignetting in the top corners.. this is becuase the camera inside is angled up more than the elegant front of the X4 is.
Notice I wrapped the tape back around the body a little to make sure I have a good grip on the X4. its a little sticky, but thats fixed easyly by rubbing fingers on it a little after installing. ;-)
Thats it.. Go Fly.
Hey Doug, tape in pace seems like a perfect solution. I have seen a couple guys using epoxy, but Im always worried that it will frost the lens ha ha.
Posted by: Bo Lorentzen | 12/16/2015 at 05:33 PM
so yeah... I did this mod, but me being too excited to fly it around outside forgot the lens falls off very easily during a crash and lost the lens in a bunch of leaves in my backyard haha go figure... it made indoor flight amazing though and worked just fine; so I def want the wide angle, I'm going to do it up the way my friend did though, he basically electrical taped just the lens in place; barely affects the center of gravity and works very well.
Posted by: doug | 12/15/2015 at 02:23 PM
Hey Brian, I just left the magnetic ring in place on the lens.. there is also a LOOSE magnetic ring in the kit, intended to be attached to the phone with double side tape.. thats the one I attached to the X4
Posted by: Bo Lorentzen | 05/31/2015 at 01:48 PM
I'm slightly confused because the one I have I can not take out the magnetic ring its stuck in back. Any thoughts? Help?!
Posted by: Brian | 05/29/2015 at 09:19 AM
@ kartik you can't really balance it, as we don't want to add more weight, but you can let the battery stick out a bit more in the back. ;-)
Posted by: Bo Lorentzen | 07/16/2014 at 08:35 AM
do i have to balance the centre of gravity after placing wide angle lens on the front
how it performs after lens is placed
i mean does flight characteristics change
Posted by: kartik | 07/16/2014 at 08:28 AM
@Duhaut
Yes the Hubsan X4H107C have quite limited video quality, unfortunately the little aircraft do not have enough power to fly a Mobius, it was simply not made for that, if you want to fly a bigger camera, check out something larger, I fly the Walkera FPV100 with a naked mobius and it works fine. and I also fly a naked mobius on the Hoten-X
Posted by: Bo Lorentzen | 02/06/2014 at 07:02 PM
Hello,
Very interesting your articles.
On Hubsan X4H107C the video is poor. We could replace the current target by that of "MOBIUS, who owns a better definition
Thank you for the kindness to answer me
Posted by: DUHAUT | 02/06/2014 at 12:21 PM
Hey Garry, I used my FatShark goggles, have not done any more with the plug out. they are wired up though, I had the TX cracked open and the jacks looks like they are for real OK.
Posted by: Bo Lorentzen | 11/28/2013 at 03:03 PM
Did you figure out which jack on the Tx is for video out ? I purchased the Hubsan video glasses & tried them in both connection jacks on the left side of the Tx but did not get a signal from either of them. did you get your FPV goggles to work on this controller ?
Posted by: Garry B | 11/27/2013 at 06:31 PM
Hey Fred, Ah YES.. good point, I will add some pictures with/without the wide-angle lens tonight.
Posted by: Bo Lorentzen | 11/14/2013 at 05:58 PM
Excellent!
Would you post a couple of video captured pictures with and without the lens?
Posted by: Fred | 11/14/2013 at 03:44 PM