Tag: Travel - Eric Cheng
Eric Cheng

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Booking Japan rail travel from the USA

tl;dr Visitors looking to pre-book local travel in Japan know that it isn’t always straightforward. We needed to book travel to visit our friends, Kozyndan, which can luckily be done by booking a single local express train from Shinjuku that doesn’t involve any transfers. We heard that Japan Bullet Train was a service that some ...

Sloths in Panama, presented immersive VR / 3D-180

In February, I accompanied sloth scientist Bryson Voirin to Panama in search of sloths. Armed with a stereoscopic 180 camera and an ambisonic audio recorder, my goal was to capture footage of sloths in the most immersive way possible.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwVbqveNe6c?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] The wonderful folks at Tested have put up the video of my talk from the Tested Live Show, which took place at the Castro Theater in San Francisco on October 23, 2015. The talk is about our Good Morning America trip to Iceland to broadcast live from the Holuhraun volcano eruption. I gave ...

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

How to bring both an Inspire 1 and Phantom 3 onboard during travel. The stock Inspire 1 case will fit in the bag size checker, but will stick out of the top of it. It also fits in overhead on most airplanes, but only sideways. Some airline folks will let you through, especially if you ...

I brought the new DJI Phantom 3 on a plane today in my Thinktank backpack (with padded dividers I customized myself). Although the landing skids are a bit longer on the P3 than they are on the P2, it still fits well.

Many folks have been asking how to carry an Inspire 1 without using a bulky case. Here’s a post from Facebook that shows a backpack that seems to work well. A quick search for “Airwheel Backpack” yields the official (Chinese) site that sells them for around $34, each. They are also available on eBay for $60. ...

My photo travel gear is featured over at Shotkit! The feature includes all of the photography gear I took with me on a recent trip to Cape Town to do both aerial and underwater imaging. Check it out, here: http://shotkit.com/eric-cheng

When I travel with my DJI Phantom, I usually use a Nanuk 940 case with pick ‘n pluck foam. It comes full of foam cubes that are partly stuck together, and you just rip out cubes to make space for whatever you want to put in the case. The Nanuk fits into overhead bin space in most airplanes, ...