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Jeff Foster from Pro Video Coalition brought over a loaner DSLRPros Nighthawk Thermal Phantom 2 Aerial Kit, which is a DJI Phantom 2 that has been accessorized with a gimbal-stabilized thermal infrared camera. The high-end configuration was super slick and had dual FPV monitors, each configured with a digital video recorder. The basic aerial kit is ...

Flying Inspire 1 into Iceland’s volcano with Good Morning America

(Written Feb 3, 2015) Hello, everyone! DJI has just returned (to the remote hut where we are staying) from making history with Good Morning America. We took meteorologist Ginger Zee on a tour of the inside of the erupting volcano at Holuhraun (in the Bardarbunga volcanic system in Iceland) using two Inspire 1 quadcopters, broadcasting ...

Behind-the-scenes during the ABC / Good Morning America shoot. We used Android devices (Sony Experia Z2, in this picture) to run the DJI Pilot app because iOS devices do not tolerate cold environments (strangely, they complain about being too hot!). Those of you who are interested in aerial UAV stuff can look at the telemetry ...

A fun morning of flying DJI Inspire 1s with Tested.com’s Norman Chan and Joey Fameli, Mythbuster’s Adam Savage, and volcano-diver Sam Cossman.

Expedition prep (otherwise known as drone porn).

What a lovely view this morning from Hunter’s Point in San Francisco. Shot on DJI Inspire 1.

I am fascinated by what waves and surge against rocks look like from the aerial perspective. Scale is often deceptive, and footage shot in real time can look like it is slowed down. In this case, I slowed down the footage even more by shooting with a DJI Inspire 1 quadcopter at 1080/60p (60 frames ...

Here is raw, aerial, behind-the-scenes footage from the CBS This Morning live broadcast at CES, during which I flew a DJI Inspire 1 quadcopter around behind the anchor. Note that we did three different live segments: a teaser, the main segment, and a web segment, each involving a take off and flight / hover around the hall. ...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMBpSY5IXdQ?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] Hello, everyone. TTI/Vanguard, who run the most amazing conference series ever, has posted my on-stage conversation with Michael Hawley about aerial imaging. TTI/Vanguard [next] conference in San Francisco, (December 4). It was one of the most fun presentations I’ve done because the audience was so totally engaged. Thank you for the opportunity, Lisa McErlane ...