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Eric Cheng

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I met up with a friend at a park in the Marina and shot this panorama of San Francisco using a DJI Phantom 3 Professional quadcopter. The wind was blowing really hard, but it was no problem: sent the thing up, took 6 pictures in Adobe DNG raw with approximately 50% overlap in each, and ...

I spent the weekend at the 9th annual e.g., a special conference I look forward to going to every year. I spoke in the “air” session about my specific definition of the intersection between art and technology, and even though I was slotted into the “air” category, my talk also included water and fire. 😉 Eventually, the ...

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 ...

Foothills fog at 70x speed, taken from DJI Phantom 3 Professional hovering for around 13 minutes 400’ over a canyon in the San Mateo Highlands in California. Video was fairly stable out of the camera, but was further stabilized using Adobe Warp Stabilizer. (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

Greg McNeal has announced a new airspace evaluation app called AirMap.IO that looks like the most useful web app out there for analysis of where you can and can’t (or shouldn’t) fly. It looks extremely useful—congratulations, Greg, for releasing such a useful tool!

My first photo taken from a DJI Phantom! Feb 1, 2013. I know—it’s very exciting. I couldn’t have imagined where this would lead.

Abandoned naval barracks at Treasure Island, San Francisco. Shot with DJI Phantom 3. Download some hi-res pictures from Phantom 3 Pro here: http://ech.cc/p3samplepics

DJI Phantom 3 Professional 4K Dronie with Norm Chan and Joey Fameli from Tested.com, at Bliss Dance. Uploaded raw file from pre-production P3 Pro shot at 4K / 30p. Download some hi-res pictures from Phantom 3 Pro here: http://ech.cc/p3samplepics (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEerwSY_0TM?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] Fooling the DJI Phantom 3 Visual Positioning System (VPS) by dragging something underneath it. Fun! 😉 (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)