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Eric Cheng

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Every once in awhile, I try to fly a quadcopter in a place with really strange magnetic interference. Earlier this month, this happened in Scoble’s studio—I couldn’t sustain a magnetometer / compass calibration in the studio, so we had to go into Rackspace’s main work area. Today, the same thing happened at the end of ...

I had a fun day flying the Phantom 2 Vision+ with Gordon Laing, Jim Goldstein and Stu Maschwitz. San Francisco was rainy and windy in the morning, which proved to be challenging conditions for flying, but the clouds went away in the afternoon, and the light was pretty glorious (but it was still cold and windy!). ...

I was part of a great interview on Monday on some cliffs overlooking a beautiful Northern-Californian beach. The waves were breaking in tight sets, and the aerial view straight down was spectacular. Shot in Adobe DNG raw using a DJI Phantom 2 Vision+ quadcopter.

Here are a few sample raw Adobe DNG still pictures from the new Phantom 2 Vision+, for your evaluation. The download is good for 14 days. Photos were taken from right above the Wynn’s swimming pool, insured and with permission, during a media event.

Raw DNG support for the DJI Phantom 2 Vision is finally public! This is huge. If you take still images with your DJI Phantom 2 Vision, you need to go grab this update right now. It’s on the Phantom 2 Vision downloads page, and what you are looking for is the “Phantom 2 Vision FC200 ...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY5v0EFNs2w?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] DJI gave me an evaluation Phantom 2 Vision, and I absolutely love the new cartridge-style battery system and props with integrated nut. The battery is a 5200 mAH 3S battery, which is 2.36x greater in capacity than the old Phantom’s battery capacity. This thing will fly for 25 minutes straight, even with the ...

Barry Blanchard invited me to hang out at Google HQ today with the some of the folks from the Google+ / photos team (most of whom I already knew from other angles—it is a small world here in the valley). Along with a huge DJI S800 EVO hexacopter, Barry brought with him a DJI Phantom Vision ...