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Eric Cheng

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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TznaDRRC_lw?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] DJI launched the Inspire 1 today at Treasure Island! It was a great event, with nearly 200 press and friends in attendance. We announced both the new DJI SDK for Phantom and the Inspire 1, and had Mythbusters Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman as special guests on stage. Thanks to everyone who came ...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCCnJshxjKM?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] DJI Inspire 1: 6 days, and counting… (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0_9le2NnFo?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] Last week, I met up with Norman Chan, Will Smith and Adam Savage to do a Tested.com podcast episode about my time flying DJI Global Phantoms at the Holuhraun eruption (Bardarbunga Volcano – Bárðarbunga Volcano) for the first “DJI Feat.” It was the first time I was able to tell the whole story. ...

A short aerial film showing the beauty of Cape Town and its surrounding area, including Lion’s Head, Table Mountain, Cape Point, Hout Bay, Simon’s Town, and Seal Island. Footage includes great white sharks from above at Seal Island, an aggregation of spotted gully sharks / sharptooth houndshark (Triakis megalopterus) in the surf near Cape Point ...

Are you interested in how we captured some of the aerial driving b-roll during the Iceland trip? We didn’t end up using much of it in the video, but it was fun to capture, anyway (video is below). The roads were unpaved and rough, so I spread a tripod out in the passenger seat footwell ...

Flying a DJI Phantom 2 at Bardarbunga volcano in Iceland. About 10 days ago, I had the great fortune of spending a day close to the Holuhraun eruption at the Bardarbunga volcanic system in Iceland. The eruption sits right up top of the largest glacier in Iceland, and has been spewing out lava in large ...

This Instagram post by skyhighmedia explains how to use the DJI Zenmuse H3-3D gimbal with the new GoPro 4. To balance it in your H3-3D you will need to attach a penny to the tilt motor. You will also need to grind down a little of the frame to avoid contacting the settings button on the ...

Getting started with drones

Getting started with drones I re-discovered Paul Stamatiou’s excellent getting-started article about drones. If you are totally new to aerial imaging, check out Paul’s super in-depth article, and with the one I wrote.

I went to see the Holuhraun eruption in the Bardarbunga volcanic system in Iceland. I brought Phantoms, and it was awesome.