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The DJI Phantom 3 Advanced is on sale at B&H Photo for $799 ($200 off), which is a ridiculously low price. The Amazon (Prime) price is $849 shipped, which is also a great deal. It’s likely that these sale prices are a result of the Phantom 3 4K being announced and a plan to phase ...

It’s hard to beat DJI’s Black Friday sale. Until November 30, a Phantom 3 Professional w/extra battery is on sale for $1,159, and Phantom 3 Standard is $599! The extra battery retails at $149, making a P3 Pro w/extra battery normally cost $1408. Meanwhile, Amazon is selling the P3 Pro for $1,129, and an extra battery ...

A month ago, at WSJ.D Live, seven autonomous DJI Phantom 3 quadcopters lifted off the ground and performed a drone ballet, arranging themselves in patterns to music. Spark Aerial were the technical wizards behind the show, using DJI’s SDK to control the small swarm of Phantoms. Swarming quadcopters isn’t new, but prior examples of drone swarming ...

Aerial panorama of the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Lake Como, Italy. Taken with DJI Phantom 3 Professional at 180′.

The Science of Drones with Eric Cheng | Inquiring Minds

A couple weeks ago, I spent a morning up on Mt. Davidson with Indre Viskontas and Kishore Hari recording a podcast about drones for Inquiring Minds. Today, Mother Jones posted an article about drones and science, and included a short video of our flights from up on the small mountain in San Francisco. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBBbG5fEYD0&w=560&h=315]

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zpz22VRoQw?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] Aerial bedlam during a Flite Test event on May 21, 2015. I’m flying a DJI Phantom 3, shooting at 4K / 30p. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

I met up with a friend at a park in the Marina and shot this panorama of San Francisco using a DJI Phantom 3 Professional quadcopter. The wind was blowing really hard, but it was no problem: sent the thing up, took 6 pictures in Adobe DNG raw with approximately 50% overlap in each, and ...

Foothills fog at 70x speed, taken from DJI Phantom 3 Professional hovering for around 13 minutes 400’ over a canyon in the San Mateo Highlands in California. Video was fairly stable out of the camera, but was further stabilized using Adobe Warp Stabilizer. (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

Abandoned naval barracks at Treasure Island, San Francisco. Shot with DJI Phantom 3. Download some hi-res pictures from Phantom 3 Pro here: http://ech.cc/p3samplepics