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DroneXLDronesDJI Neo 3 Box Lists Nine Items. The Neo 2's Transceiver Isn't One New DJI Neo 3 box photos show a Fly More Combo with no Digital Transceiver and China's new Remote ID standards, shot beside a Neo 2 display in a store.

DroneXLDronesAmazon Plans Portland Drone Hub in a State That Fought FAA Review Amazon asked Portland, Oregon to review a Prime Air drone hub at its Schmeer Road warehouse for early 2027, under a national FAA review Oregon's AG fought.

DroneXLDronesDJI Avata 360 After 3 Months: The Best and Worst of Flying 360 Pilot Institute spent three months flying and editing the DJI Avata 360. Here is what is great, what is frustrating, and who DJI's first 360 drone is really for.

DroneXLDronesNeros Makes Both Pentagon Gauntlet II Boards As Skycutter Falls To 4th Neros is the only company on both Gauntlet II leaderboards, Perennial Autonomy wins deep strike, and March champion Skycutter drops to fourth.

DroneXLDronesBoston Police Drone Wrecks a Parked Car Six Days Into Its DFR Pilot A BRINC Responder flown by Boston police fell onto a Mazda in Brighton on September 3, less than a week after BPD sold the program on safety.

DroneXLDronesNASA Kennedy Drone Case: Chinese Tourist Pleads Guilty, Faces a Year Xiaodong He pleaded guilty over a 12-minute drone flight near Kennedy Space Center. Two earlier cases show what sentencing could look like.

DroneXLDronesUpstate Medical Hires FAA Veteran Behind The First BVLOS Approvals Upstate Medical named Cliff Sweatte director of UAS operations, months after an FAA waiver opened 50 miles of Central New York airspace to its drones.

DroneXLDronesJoby Flew 3,199 Miles With Zero Pilot Input, in a Cessna Caravan Joby flew a converted Cessna Caravan 3,199 miles across the US with zero pilot inputs, supervised remotely from California and Shaw Air Force Base.

DroneXLDronesDJI Mic Mini Drops to $79 While DJI's Own US Store Is Empty DJI Mic Mini is $79 at Amazon, $20 off list. DJI's own US store shows every configuration out of stock, and the Mic Mini 2 and 2S both skipped America.

DroneXLDronesBoston Police Drone Crashes on a Car Days After Its DFR Launch Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have four stories for you this week: a Boston police drone crashes, DJI Neo 3 leaks, Wingcopter unveils a new recon drone, and a search and rescue team in…

DroneXLDronesZipline Seeks $20 Billion Valuation With Part 108 Still Unsigned Zipline is in talks to raise $1 billion at a $20 billion valuation, nearly triple its January price. The FAA rule its US plan needs is still unpublished.

DroneXLDronesDJI Prices SDR Transmission 2 at €349. The US Isn't On The List DJI launched the SDR Transmission 2 worldwide at £309 and €349. The FCC Covered List keeps it off American sets, where the 2024 model sold for $549.

DroneXLDronesZipline Answers Safety Questions on the Record. Amazon and Wing Don't DroneXL sent Amazon, Wing and Zipline the same drone delivery safety questions on one deadline. One company answered. Its answers are published in full.

DroneXLDronesJapan's $110M Global Hawk Drone Crashes on Undisclosed Mission Japan's first RQ-4B Global Hawk loss: the $110M drone crashed off Tottori three minutes after its link failed. The ASDF won't say what it was doing.

DroneXLDronesKorean Drug Lord's Drone Jailbreak Undone by a Viral Test Flight Park Wang-yeol planned to fly out of a Philippine prison hanging from a 165-pound-capacity drone. A viral rehearsal clip killed the plot.

DroneXLDronesFlytrex Puts Drones on Roofs Before You Order, Cutting Costs 60% Flytrex will preposition delivery drones on restaurant rooftops using predictive AI, claiming a 60% cut in cost per delivery and half the wait time.

DroneXLDronesDJI Osmo 360 II Review: 1-Inch Sensors, 8K60 and User-Replaceable Lenses Put to the Test Jake Sloan takes the DJI Osmo 360 II into the forests and rocks to test its new 1-inch type sensors, 8K60 video, Spotlight Follow, low light and swappable lenses.

DroneXLDronesDJI Neo 3 Box Leaks With an RC Mini the FCC Already Approved A leaked DJI Neo 3 box shows full prop guards and a DJI RC Mini, a controller name that cleared the FCC before the Covered List cutoff.

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The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo