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Sample 100% crop from Ricoh GR APS-C camera mounted on Phantom 2 quadcopter. View the above example at 1280 pixels to see a 100% crop from the camera. I was out playing with Tom Gruber and John Markoff this morning in Santa Cruz, and took some sample shots with a Ricoh GR camera mounted on ...

DJI Innovations, the maker of the popular Phantom quadcopter, has been unable to ship product to its dealer network as of January 22, 2014, because Colin Guinn (of Dajiang North America, who was frequently and erroneously referred to as “CEO of DJI”) has filed and won a temporary injunction against the company. 31 dealers that ...

FPV from Ricoh GR APS-C camera mounted on DJI Phantom 2? Check!

I wrote a long post over at the Make Magazine blog called Drowned Drones: When a Multicopter Hits the Water. There are tons of hero videos of aerial exploits over the ocean out there, but rarely is the story told about what it takes to get that sort of footage.

MAKE Magazine held a “Drone Fly-In” meetup today, which took place in American Canyon, California. Over 200 people showed up to socialize and fly both home-made and DIY drones of all kinds. I finally met, in person, Mike Senese (MAKE Magazine’s Executive Editor), which was a treat because we had been corresponding for so long about ...

Raw DNG support for the DJI Phantom 2 Vision is finally public! This is huge. If you take still images with your DJI Phantom 2 Vision, you need to go grab this update right now. It’s on the Phantom 2 Vision downloads page, and what you are looking for is the “Phantom 2 Vision FC200 ...

How to make killer videos from your multicopter or drone. I wrote an article awhile ago for Make Magazine about getting started in aerial video, and it just made issue 37, which is all about drones. It was before the DJI Phantom 2 came out, so take every instance of “Phantom” you see in the article and replace ...

OK, I like aerial APS-C. Shot at 1/800 second. Crisp, even without vibration isolation.

Can you put a large-sensor camera on a DJI Phantom? Hobbyists have been trying to bolt large cameras onto DJI Phantom quadcopters since it came out. Mostly, the efforts have been fruitless, with flying times of just a few minutes and a lot of risk involved in putting such a heavy payload on a quadcopter ...