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Jeff Foster from Pro Video Coalition brought over a loaner DSLRPros Nighthawk Thermal Phantom 2 Aerial Kit, which is a DJI Phantom 2 that has been accessorized with a gimbal-stabilized thermal infrared camera. The high-end configuration was super slick and had dual FPV monitors, each configured with a digital video recorder. The basic aerial kit is ...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0_9le2NnFo?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] Last week, I met up with Norman Chan, Will Smith and Adam Savage to do a Tested.com podcast episode about my time flying DJI Global Phantoms at the Holuhraun eruption (Bardarbunga Volcano – Bárðarbunga Volcano) for the first “DJI Feat.” It was the first time I was able to tell the whole story. ...

A short aerial film showing the beauty of Cape Town and its surrounding area, including Lion’s Head, Table Mountain, Cape Point, Hout Bay, Simon’s Town, and Seal Island. Footage includes great white sharks from above at Seal Island, an aggregation of spotted gully sharks / sharptooth houndshark (Triakis megalopterus) in the surf near Cape Point ...

Flying a DJI Phantom 2 at Bardarbunga volcano in Iceland. About 10 days ago, I had the great fortune of spending a day close to the Holuhraun eruption at the Bardarbunga volcanic system in Iceland. The eruption sits right up top of the largest glacier in Iceland, and has been spewing out lava in large ...

Aerial footage of Burning Man 2014. Shot with DJI Phantom 2 quadcopter, Zenmuse H3-3D gimbal, GoPro HERO 3+ Black, with DJI Lightbridge and Lilliput monitor as FPV and livestreaming solution. Some of this footage was streamed live to Burning Man’s Ustream live webcast during the event. If you’re interested in what it was like to ...

The flying of drones at Burning Man was highly-regulated in 2014. I was told by Firefly, the main organizer of drones this year, that a big reason for the new regulations was that some idiot flew over the Temple last year during the moment of silence before it burned. This prompted hundreds of complaints from ...

Aerial footage of ~70,000 people watching The Burn at Burning Man 2014 at around 9:30pm on Saturday, August 30, 2014. Shot with DJI Phantom 2, GoPro 3+ Black, and DJI Lightbridge wireless HD transmission. Black Rock City, Nevada. A lot of my flights were live-streamed to the Burning Man webcast, which was very cool. DJI’s Lightbridge ...

A shark aggregation in the surf near Cape Point in Table Mountain National Park, Cape Town, South Africa. Shot by DJI Global Phantom 2, Zenmuse H3-3D gimbal and GoPro HERO3+ Black. The real Shark Week is seeing sharks in the wild! There is a cape fur seal in the second picture (it’s in the lower-right ...

We hiked up Lion’s Head in Cape Town, South Africa, for sunrise, and arrived at the top for an absolutely-beautiful morning. Clouds rolled over Table Mountain just across the valley (locals call clouds like this the “table cloth”), and a slight haze made for warm, dramatic morning light. I popped a DJI Phantom 2 w/Zenmuse ...