Drones and Action Cams
Another New Budget Drone From DJI
DJI has released yet another drone, this time a cut down version of the Mini 3 Pro. So, what do you get for your AUD$829? Well, you get the base Mini 3 drone and the […]
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Review: GoPro Hero 11 Black
If you line up a GoPro 9, 10 and 11 side by side, I challenge anyone to see an immediate difference, because as far as I can tell, there isn’t one. Resolution and Other Techie […]
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DJI Introduces The O3 Air Unit
The O3 Air Unit a compact is a lightweight FPV camera and transmission module system that delivers an robust and reliable image to empower users to reach new heights of their immersive flight. A 1/1.7-inch […]
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Expensive! And you thought losing your drone was bad… have a thought for this!
No cause is yet apparent as to what befell the casualties, but today divers are attempting to salvage as many as they can to try and ascertain what went wrong. […]
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Which drone should you buy, the Mavic 3 Classic or the Air2S? That depends on a few things.
When DJI posted the announcement of the Mavic 3 Classic, I posed the question: with this release, should you buy this new drone or the older Air2S? I have an Air2S along with an AVATA, […]
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More Information: DJI Mavic 3 Classic
We got some more more info from DJI this afternoon. Here it is … (slightly edited) DJI says the world’s best camera drone is now more accessible with the Mavic 3 Classic, giving creators a […]
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New DJI Drone. Another Mavic.
To be fair, it was pretty much expected. A Classic version of the Mavic 3 – still with a lot of bells and whistles, but without the stratospheric price tag the top of the range […]
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Drone Footage Too Dark or Too Light?
If your drone footage or photos are too dark or too light, you may need to fix the exposure setting. Here is a quick 2 minute tutorial.
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40 mins of work for a pretty good 2 minute drone shoot final result.
I post this video for no other reason than to show what can be achieved with 15 minutes to spare for a quick shoot, about the same for editing and adding titles, and 6 minutes […]
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Video – DJI MAVIC 3 Flies Over Everest
The environment of Mt Everest is complex and changes fast. DJI engineers made the theoretical calculations about what it would take to fly from the summit and adapted a Mavic 3 to be able to […]
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New Australian Government Drone Website
With the explosion in drone use – both recreational and commercial – over the last few years has come a lot of challenges. In the past, the only Government based information on usage came from […]
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Build a Drone with a Raspberry Pi
This is a little left of field I know, but if you have some programming smarts and a 3D printer, you can become your own DJI. In theory, you could put a GoPro 11 Mini […]
Action Cam Tutorials and Techniques
Slo-Mo Footage from a DJI Pocket 2
This happened by sort of accident today, and I have to say I am impressed. The subject is a metal sculpture in the park at Koombana, here in Bunbury. I simply took the DJI Pocket […]
Action Cam Tutorials and Techniques
With its stabilisation can a GoPro benefit from a gimbal? Absolutely. Here’s why.
There was a question in one of the Facebook GoPro forums today. Someone asked which gimbal they should / could get that would suit a GoPro 10. Various options were mentioned (my recommendation having tried […]
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Released: DJI Osmo Mobile 6
Those DJI engineers – and their factories for that matter – have been working overtime of late. In the last few weeks we have seen the release of the new AVATA FPV drone (which just […]
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Initial Impressions: DJI AVATA
The first thing that struck me after opening the packaging for the DJI AVATA is how tiny it was compared to say my Air2S or the FPV! The attached photo shows this next to my […]
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DJI Flight Sim Now Available for Windows and Android. Yay!
I reckon they kept this quiet … For quite some time if you had a DJI drone, specifically the FPV or now the AVATA, and wanted to learn to fly without the risk of crashing, […]
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Not one but THREE new GoPros
Not to be outdone by DJI announcing the OSMO Action 3, GoPro has countered with not one but three versions of the GoPro 11 – the Hero11 Black, Hero11 Creator Edition and Black Mini. According […]
Action Cam Tutorials and Techniques
New DJI OSMO Action3
It appears that DJI has discarded the design used in the Action 2 with its modular magnetic clamping system and reverted to the “standard” action cam design of old. All we have seen is photographs, […]
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Tutorial: The Camera Does NOT Create the Image. Or Going Beyond “A” for Auto.
If you are new to shooting your new GoPro or DJI drone and want to learn how to get those fantastic shots you see from experienced usres, here is a starting point that is very […]
