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UPDATE – Crowdfunding Report: Why the FlyBi Drone is Set Up For Failure

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The FlyBi drone is a crowdfunding project on IndiGoGo. At first I ignored this concept when I saw it about a month ago and I still don’t understand who exactly FlyBi is trying to market to, which is a little off-putting. The company is using flashy words like “VR” and “Autonomous” to gain traction while sporting a very high promise of features […]

Using LUTS to grade Inspire 1 / Phantom 3 / Osmo Footage with Final Cut Pro X

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“I really wish my footage looked worse” – No one ever said… Of course we want our footage to look as good as possible but sometimes achieving what we want seems more difficult than it should be. Camera features like “LOG” style promise to give us more latitude when editing, but it can sometimes make […]

DJI’s Zenmuse X5 Camera Takes Aerial Video To New Levels

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This week brought a long-await announcement from DJI that finally brings a new camera option to the DJI Inspire 1 platform. The question is, is this really the “game changer” some people are calling it, or will it really make any difference. We will dissect some of the features and see what this will really […]

Drone Coalition writers presenting at InterDrone 2015

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On the week of the official launch of Drone Coalition, InterDrone 2015 (Sept 9-11, Las Vegas) will be featuring several of our staff writers, including Lisa Ellman, Mike Fortin, Sally French, Kerry Garrison, Gretchen West and myself.

Optimizing the video settings on the DJI Phantom 3, Phantom 4, Mavic Pro and Inspire models

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There are two ways to get really good video out of an Inspire 1 or Phantom 2. The “easy” way is to simply use some of the presets such as Vivid or Film. The downside to using the presets is that you are letting someone else decide what your video should look like. The other way is to […]

Part 2 – Under The Hood of 3DR SOLO

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Continuing from my last post “Under The Hood – 3DR SOLO – Part I, I will begin taking you through the steps I took to disassemble my SOLO.   To begin remove the battery pack from the SOLO.  Underneath there a four phillips-head screws.  Using a basic screw driver these four screws can be easily removed.  […]