Tag: quadcopter - Eric Cheng
Eric Cheng

Tag: quadcopter

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 ...

Behold, the Air Hogs Star Wars Remote Control Ultimate Millenium Falcon Quad! Walmart is selling it online for $88.84, and Amazon currently has it starting at $120. That is $20 for a cheap foam quadcopter, and between $68.84 and $100 for the Star Wars branding. What an amazing franchise!

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 ...

Aerial live broadcast, 1 year ago

One year ago today, I did my first aerial live broadcast from a quadcopter, using a Phantom 2, GoPro, Lightbridge, and a computer broadcasting to Google Hangouts on Air over LTE.   .@djiglobal Phantom 2 w/Lightbridge and @Atomos_News Ninja Blade, recording 720p in ProRes, and live broadcast to Google Hangouts on Air. A photo posted ...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qiqr8xeVClE?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] The DJI Phantom 3’s position hold and camera gimbal are impressive. Here’s a Phantom 3 Professional hovering, hands off, in gusting 20-knot winds. A short video of the Phantom 3 hovering (on the same day, in the same conditions), taken with an iPhone 6, is over at Instagram. (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 ...

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

DJI Phantom 3 Professional 4K Dronie with Norm Chan and Joey Fameli from Tested.com, at Bliss Dance. Uploaded raw file from pre-production P3 Pro shot at 4K / 30p. Download some hi-res pictures from Phantom 3 Pro here: http://ech.cc/p3samplepics (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IklXmQkynXM?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] Some of the aerial volcano footage shot by me and Ferdinand Wolf in Iceland during the Good Morning America trip was used in the DJI “Fire & Ice” video. A lot of the footage we captured was taken using a prototype Phantom 3. One of the main benefits in using the Phantom 3 was ...