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Eric Cheng

Tag: phantom 2

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 ...

Pictures! 3D Robotics Iris with GoPro HERO3 and prototype gimbal, DJI Phantom 2 Vision prototype, and 3D Robotics Y6 running APM 2.6 (love this thing!). Pablo Lema and I unboxed the RTF Y6, attached the props, added a receiver, did some light configuration in Mission Planner and on my Spektrum DX8 transmitter, and it flew beautifully. ...

Today, I put a pre-production DJI Phantom 2 Vision up in the air, and got around 20 minutes of flight time. It is super-responsive, as you’d imagine it should be—more responsive than is the original Phantom. The camera’s pitch-axis gimbal is servo-driven, so it lags behind aggressive pitch changes from the aircraft, but that is ...