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For the recent Tested Live Show at the Castro Theater, I put together a short behind-the-scenes cut from the Good Morning America trip to Iceland (live broadcast from the Holuhraun volcano eruption using DJI Inspire 1 quadcopters). All of this footage was shot with a Sony RX100 II, and has been just sitting on my ...

Hello, everyone! I’m super excited to announce that my first book, Aerial Photography and Videography Using Drones, is now available for pre-order at Amazon for $26.52. It will also be available as a physical book and/or e-book directly from Peachpit, the publisher, on October 29, 2015, and will ship from Amazon and other retailers in early to mid ...

Colorado 360º Spherical Panorama, Inspire 1 Pro, Zenmuse X5

One morning, Thomas O’Brien and I drove to Little Annie’s Basin outside of Aspen, Colorado, to wait for the sun to come up and illuminate the valley. I flew a DJI Inspire 1 Pro and Zenmuze X5 camera w/Olympus 12mm f/2.0 lens out a bit and shot a 48-image, 360º, spherical panorama, which I processed ...

We are having our pool filled in this week, so I went out with the DJI Inspire 1 and preproduction Zenmuse X5 camera and made an aerial 3D map of our house (processed using both Pix4DMapper Pro and DroneDeploy’s new—and free—Map Engine beta).  I decided that I wanted to measure the volume of the empty pool ...

I tried to take a spherical panorama inside 16th Street Station in Oakland, today. The prototype DJI Inspire 1 w/Zenmuse X5′s Visual Positioning System wasn’t working, so I had to pilot manually the whole time in ATTI, which was challenging for aerial panorama movements.  There were a couple major issues with my attemps: 1) I ...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KzA5ZWKlr0?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] I spent part of the day hanging out at 16th Street Station in Oakland with a few mapping people from Autodesk, 3DR, Leica, and others, and it was a great opportunity to capture some mapping source data using a DJI Inspire 1 and prototype DJI Zenmuse X5 Micro Four Thirds camera.  In typical fashion, ...

Last week, I went to Thomas Fogarty Winery to do some aerial mapping with a beta DJI Zenmuse X5 Micro Four Thirds camera (and DJI MFT 15mm f/1.7 ASPH prime lens). I flew the map manually, taking about 600 pictures (both nadir and oblique), and Antoine and the folks at Pix4D were nice enough to do ...

Congratulations to the hard-working team at DJI for the release of the Zenmuse X5 and X5R, the first integrated aerial Micro Four Thirds camera system! More info at http://www.dji.com/product/zenmuse-x5s.

Here’s the full version of the DJI Inspire 1 beach flight with Feiyu Tech rear gimbal (side by side, with Inspire view). The gimbal is a Feiyu Tech FY-WG 3-Axis wearable gimbal for GoPro, and I’m using a GoPro HERO4 Black to record the rear video. I’ve mounted it to the Inspire 1 using a ...