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NAB Video: CineChopper on Modifying the DJI Phantom

Joe Marine — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 01:55:15 +0000

If you thought you were safe from more NAB videos, well, you were wrong, as we’ve got a few additional interviews from our friends over at FreshDV. The DJI Phantom has certainly brought down the cost of entry for getting great-looking aerial footage — especially with cameras like the GoPro HERO3 — but right out of the box, there are some modifications that can be done to improve the steadiness. Here is Chris Newman from CineChopper on his modifications: (more…)

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NAB Video: DJI Phantom for Flying GoPro Cameras

Micah Van Hove — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 22:14:18 +0000

The DJI Phantom is DJI‘s first consumer product, a small helicopter unit designed for GoPro cameras, guided by GPS (from space!) for capturing aerial photography at an accessible consumer level. Hit the jump for the video coverage from our floor partners at FreshDV: (more…)

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Watch the Entrancing Hacked GH2 and JamCopter-Shot Aerial Nocturne 'FIREFLY'

Dave Kendricken — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:46:00 +0000

We’ve posted about minicopter-mounted cinematography before by the companies Helicam and omstudios — both of which created some spectacular RED EPIC aerial shorts — thought they require a rental/operation package. This is more simply to say that you can’t purchase the minicopters directly from these companies. Recently, another impressive aerially-shot short has surfaced — that’s a bird’s eye night view of a traffic circle (or rotary, or round-about, depending where you’re reading from) at left. This time, the company supplying the minicopter — czech manufacturer JamCopters — actually has their quadrocopter, hexacopter, and octocopter for sale. Read on for some details and the beautiful and quieting FIREFLY short. (more…)

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Flying RED Epic Drone and Fighting Ninjas Make for Epic Footage [Update: Now in Real(ish) Time]

E.M. Taboada — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:54:40 +0000

We’ve posted about cameras attached to RC helicopters before, but unlike that fraudulent Kickstarter campaign, there are legitimate companies pursuing the marriage of camera and RC helicopter. So, here’s the lowdown — folks in Germany and Finland have attached RED Epic cameras to remote controlled octocopters in a devious attempt to blow our minds. I’ve embedded two videos below. One shows the RED Epic being epically flown whilst attached to an octocopter. The second has ninjas. To be honest, the only thing that would have made this more internetishly savory would been if the ninjas revealed they were actually cats. All goofing aside, the stability and smoothness of the footage is pretty remarkable: (more…)

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