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DJI Innovations, the maker of the popular Phantom quadcopter, has been unable to ship product to its dealer network as of January 22, 2014, because Colin Guinn (of Dajiang North America, who was frequently and erroneously referred to as “CEO of DJI”) has filed and won a temporary injunction against the company. 31 dealers that ...

FPV from Ricoh GR APS-C camera mounted on DJI Phantom 2? Check!

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 ...

OK, I like aerial APS-C. Shot at 1/800 second. Crisp, even without vibration isolation.

I’ve been enjoying shooting raw DNG with the DJI Phantom 2 Vision (beta, unavailable to the public). The resulting files have a ton of detail in them. They also show quite a bit of noise, but after noise removal in Adobe Lightroom, they look good for images image captured by a tiny sensor. Many shots from the ...

Photographer Thomas O’Brien managed to stuff his DJI Phantom 2 Vision into a Lowepro Photo Trekker Classic backpack. He removed 2 of the 4 props, and can fit the Phantom, 4 batteries, radio, charger, Nexus 7, and a bunch of AA batteries the main compartment, leaving the front two pockets empty. Putting the quad into ...

I installed the private beta DNG raw update for the DJI Phantom 2 Vision tonight, and it shows huge promise. I took only a single picture while holding the Vision in my hand, and the camera generated a 28.8 MB DNG file and 3.3 MB JPG. Side by side, there is way more content in ...

DJI is now shipping the Phantom 2, which is the product many aerial imagers have been waiting for. The Phantom 2 Vision is a great aerial platform for still pictures, but the lack of a brushless gimbal makes it less than ideal for video. The Vision’s built-in telemetry and smart-phone support is very cool, but ...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKeb2_kX9dk?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] Trey Ratcliff hosted #87 of his Variety Hour show today, which was about DRONES (in a photography context), or “the D-word,” as Russell Preston Brown refers to the term. The Google+ Hangout event included Trey, me, Colin Guinn (DJI North America), Thomas Hawk, Frederick Van Johnson, Barry Blanchard, Dave Veffer, and Peter Giordano. Russell ...