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I spent the last 2 weeks diving the southern part of Komodo, Indonesia, leading an underwater photography expedition for Wetpixel. We spent quite a bit of time in Horseshoe Bay photographing marine life at famous dive sites like Cannibal Rock, but whenever the wind died down, I flew my modified DJI Phantom 2 and took ...

Version 3 of the Ricoh GR APS-C camera mount for DJI Phantom 2 is done! It’s ready for some serious field testing.

My Ricoh GR camera mount for the DJI Phantom 2 continues to evolve. The first version used the top vibration dampener plate of the Phantom 2 Vision (the dampener assembly is available for $10 from dealers), a bottom plate laser cut for me by Keri Wilk, and an inexpensive Giotto mini-ballhead. I wrote about the ...

FPV and H3-2D gimbal installation on DJI Phantom 2

This post is an evolution of my old FPV Deconstruction post. Yesterday, I installed a DJI Zenmuse H3-2D brushless gimbal for the Phantom 2 quadcopter along with a Boscam TS-353 5.8Ghz FPV video transmitter. The gimbal installation took less than 10 minutes, and the FPV transmitter installation, not much longer. Here’s how to do it. ...

Here are some aerial shots taken this morning in Santa Cruz with Tom Gruber and John Markoff. The aerial shots were taken with a Ricoh GR APS-C compact camera mounted to a Phantom 2 (with FPV and remote shutter release). Land shots taken with a Sony RX1R. The technical post about how to do this ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...