When you are flying your drone and you wonder if there is an accessory to improve certain aspects of your machine, you will find that there are accessories for almost any situation you can imagine.
With the ease that 3D printers offer nowadays, anything you can imagine can easily be produced by capturing it on your PC and then printing it, so sometimes you will find very crazy accessories that are really useless, others that are very ingenious and fun, you will also find many accessories that will change the way you fly and have fun with your drone.
These essentials that we will show you below will make many things easier for you and will avoid disasters that can cost you a lot, so here are the 7 accessories that every drone must have.
1. Collapsible landing pad
A pad or landing pad is undoubtedly one of the most important accessories for your drone.
As you take off your drone from different places, you will realize that it is very easy when you have a flat surface, but if you are in a natural area where the ground is only dirt or plants, you will be in a very uncomfortable situation.
When you try to take off your Drone from dirt or a dusty surface, the propellers of your drone will lift the dirt and this will mainly stick on the camera lens and then on the rest of the drone, this can even scratch the lens if you are not careful.
In the situation in which you try to take off from a surface with plants or grass, if these are very high, the only thing you will achieve is entangling your rotors or motors with these plants.
On occasions, we have seen people take off successfully from an acceptable surface but when they try to land on the grass, they have been surprised by a terrible situation, in the place where they landed, someone had left nylon from a fishing rod and it got completely entangled inside the drone's rotors.
This was a DJI Mavic Pro that had just been released, so this little detail ended up costing this person a lot of money just because he landed at the wrong spot.
When you have a pad or landing pad you will not find yourself in these situations and since they are foldable they will not take up much space in the suitcase of your drone.
Also, when your drone has the automatic return home option, it is easier for its sensors to locate itself over the takeoff site if it is noticeable and has a strong color. When the drone begins to descend, it will be guided by this when calculating the landing and will be more accurate.
2.ND FILTERS
ND filters or neutral density filters are a very important accessory for your drone when you are going to take photos or make videos in bright conditions, if the day is sunny you will need these filters that act like the sunglasses that we all usually use.
These lenses come in different degrees, the idea is that the more light there is, the darker the lens will have to be so that it does not let as much light into your camera and thus the images are much sharper.
photo with lens and without lens
Normally you will find that these ND filters for your drone are sold in packages that contain various levels of filtration depending on what you need, and at first, you will not know what conditions each one is for, but here we leave you a table with the types of ND filter that you will need for each situation.
| ND Filter | Lens aperture | Light conditions |
| ND4 | 2 | Low light, sunrise or sunset |
| ND8 | 2 | Cloudy days or taking images above 100 ISO |
| ND16 | 2 | Counteracts midday light |
| ND32 | 2 | Extreme light, shots directly into the sun |
3. SD Cards
It is important to have at least one SD memory when you are going to fly your drone.
If you are going to take off and it appears on your screen that there is no SD memory inside your device and you left it at home, then you have lost the trip because you may be able to record your flight on your cell phone, but the image quality won't be the same.
When you record in high definition, the weight of the file is way larger and the writing speed of your SD card is what will allow you to edit the file in the best possible quality.
It is always recommended to have at least two memories in case you forget the one you normally use, you can have another backup SD memory in the suitcase of your drone and you will never have this problem.
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4. Extra batteries for your drone
If you are trying to create a unique and creative take, you are going to have to practice it many times before perfecting it.
That is why it is important that you don't support all your drone flights with a single battery.
You will realize that the shot you want to shoot, will take several attempts and you will need to land and analyze your next move before putting a new battery in your drone and thus achieving the shot.
It is advisable to plan the shot before you have your drone in the air because if you keep thinking about what you will do while your drone is running high on battery, you will not have much to practice when you want to create the perfect shot.
5. Propeller guards
When you have a shot in mind that will look great, but to achieve it you have to pass close to an object, it is advisable to use protectors for the propellers of your drone.
These propeller guards will save you a lot of money on replacement propellers and overall damage to your drone if you get too close to something.
Being close to an obstacle, the protectors will only throw your drone off course if you touch or crash it, but without the propeller protectors, the blades will touch the object and the drone will immediately lose control and crash.
6. Screen sunshade
On sunny days, in addition to your ND filters for your drone, you will need a sunshade for the screen of your controller.
With this accessory, you will eliminate the reflection of the sun on the screen where you are recording the flight of your drone.
It will make it easier for you to see precisely any shot you are going to take and the vast majority of these shades are foldable, so they will not take up much space in your drone's suitcase.
7. The most suitable drone suitcase
Speaking of drone cases, you will have to choose one that fulfills several purposes, but mainly that protects your drone.
The best ones you can get are waterproof and sealed to keep out sand and dirt.
On the other hand, since you know what all the accessories you will need will be, your drone's suitcase must have space for each of them and something extra in case you buy more accessories.
In conclusion, the number of accessories that exist today for drones is enormous.
You can get from bases that will allow your drone to float on water if you ever had to land there in an emergency, to propellers that have LED lights that make your night flights a lot more fun.
In case you are interested in other accessories apart from the special ones that we already mentioned, here are some very interesting ones that you can add to the arsenal of your drone.
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