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Eric Cheng

Tag: aerial photography

Sample 100% crop from Ricoh GR APS-C camera mounted on Phantom 2 quadcopter. View the above example at 1280 pixels to see a 100% crop from the camera. I was out playing with Tom Gruber and John Markoff this morning in Santa Cruz, and took some sample shots with a Ricoh GR camera mounted on ...

I wrote a long post over at the Make Magazine blog called Drowned Drones: When a Multicopter Hits the Water. There are tons of hero videos of aerial exploits over the ocean out there, but rarely is the story told about what it takes to get that sort of footage.

Raw DNG support for the DJI Phantom 2 Vision is finally public! This is huge. If you take still images with your DJI Phantom 2 Vision, you need to go grab this update right now. It’s on the Phantom 2 Vision downloads page, and what you are looking for is the “Phantom 2 Vision FC200 ...

How to make killer videos from your multicopter or drone. I wrote an article awhile ago for Make Magazine about getting started in aerial video, and it just made issue 37, which is all about drones. It was before the DJI Phantom 2 came out, so take every instance of “Phantom” you see in the article and replace ...

Can you put a large-sensor camera on a DJI Phantom? Hobbyists have been trying to bolt large cameras onto DJI Phantom quadcopters since it came out. Mostly, the efforts have been fruitless, with flying times of just a few minutes and a lot of risk involved in putting such a heavy payload on a quadcopter ...

As I’ve become more proficient in flying multirotors with attached cameras, I’ve started to write articles and give talks about aerial imaging. Each time I do something in public, photographers comment that they learned a lot, and RC hobbyists complain in RC forums and groups, asking who I think I am, and where I was ...

Get Above It All | OutdoorPhotographer

Get Above It All | OutdoorPhotographer I wrote an article about aerial imaging for Outdoor Photographer in this month’s issue (December 2013), and it’s about how beginners can get a camera up in the air. The article is the first in a three-part series, so you can expect more in the coming months!

Bliss Dance, by Marco Cochrane, is a 40’-tall metal sculpture located on the Great Lawn, near 9th and Avenue of the Palms on Treasure Island, San Francisco. Shot with 3D Robotics Y6, Rotorpixel GoPro gimbal, DJI Phantom quadcopter, Zenmuse H3-2D gimbal, GoPro HERO3 Black, ImmersionRC 600mW video transmitter. Captured in GoPro Protune and converted using GoPro Studio and edited in FCPx. ...

I did 13 FPV flights in the past few days using Fat Shark Dominator Goggles. After previously having done over a hundred flights using an inexpensive, 7" LCD (I’m still using my starter FPV kit), it was really cool to be effectively projected into a flying virtual camera. When there is something like an Oculus Rift available for ...