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Eric Cheng

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We are having our pool filled in this week, so I went out with the DJI Inspire 1 and preproduction Zenmuse X5 camera and made an aerial 3D map of our house (processed using both Pix4DMapper Pro and DroneDeploy’s new—and free—Map Engine beta).  I decided that I wanted to measure the volume of the empty pool ...

I tried to take a spherical panorama inside 16th Street Station in Oakland, today. The prototype DJI Inspire 1 w/Zenmuse X5′s Visual Positioning System wasn’t working, so I had to pilot manually the whole time in ATTI, which was challenging for aerial panorama movements.  There were a couple major issues with my attemps: 1) I ...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KzA5ZWKlr0?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] I spent part of the day hanging out at 16th Street Station in Oakland with a few mapping people from Autodesk, 3DR, Leica, and others, and it was a great opportunity to capture some mapping source data using a DJI Inspire 1 and prototype DJI Zenmuse X5 Micro Four Thirds camera.  In typical fashion, ...

Last week, I went to Thomas Fogarty Winery to do some aerial mapping with a beta DJI Zenmuse X5 Micro Four Thirds camera (and DJI MFT 15mm f/1.7 ASPH prime lens). I flew the map manually, taking about 600 pictures (both nadir and oblique), and Antoine and the folks at Pix4D were nice enough to do ...

Congratulations to the hard-working team at DJI for the release of the Zenmuse X5 and X5R, the first integrated aerial Micro Four Thirds camera system! More info at http://www.dji.com/product/zenmuse-x5s.

Here’s the full version of the DJI Inspire 1 beach flight with Feiyu Tech rear gimbal (side by side, with Inspire view). The gimbal is a Feiyu Tech FY-WG 3-Axis wearable gimbal for GoPro, and I’m using a GoPro HERO4 Black to record the rear video. I’ve mounted it to the Inspire 1 using a ...

DJI​ Inspire 1 flying aggressively at the beach with a Feiyu Tech FY-WG 3-Axis Wearable Gimbal for GoPro​ attached to the rear via curved GoPro mount. Shot with GoPro HERO4 Black. Footage taken during the lynda.com​ documentary shoot with (Santa Cruz) Flight Club. (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

Aerial 360º spherical images

I’ve been enjoying taking aerial 360º shots using the DJI Inspire 1 and Phantom 3. They take only a couple of minutes to capture, and processing is easy using web-based services like 360cities. Here’s a shot I took earlier today in San Francisco with an Inspire 1. I can’t seem to embed the spherical version ...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYhINw-k0OA?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] I attached a Feiyu Tech FY-WG 3-Axis Wearable Gimbal for GoPro to a DJI Inspire 1 and went for a little flight. Wheee! The vibrations you see are coming from the shaking of the GoPro extension, which is attached to the Inspire a using a standard GoPro adhesive mount. It is not very rigid, ...