Though Iceland ’s Bardarbunga vent is n’t the media sensationit was a month ago , it ’s still steadily erupt — as shown by this unbelievable video shoot with a DJI Phantom 2 drone and a GoPro Hero 3 , which did not come through the tripper ( though the memory notice did ! ) .
Brian Lam brings us news of the projectoverat Wired , which was express out by DJI’sEric Chengand an Icelandic photographer namedRagnar Th . Sigurdsson . The duo drove as closely as they could to the eruption — and when authorities stopped their car . Because DJI ’s Phantom 2 has a failsafe mechanism that directs the drone to come back to the user once it ’s beyond range , Cheng describes the process of walk even closer to the mouth of the eruption ( clad in a gas pedal masquerade , allot to Lam ) to get an even good shot .
Finally , after a particularly close whirl , Cheng earn the GoPro had actually begin to meld ; the credit card bubbling and the circular button slide to one side . We recently learned that a GoProcould defy the temperature of boiling piss , but this — this was too much :
Inside , the memory card was fully functional — hence the singular footage we see above . DJI has released a more in - depth behind the scenes seem at how it all went down , too , so find out that outhere , and thefull Wired accounting of the adventure here . [ Wired;DJI;Eric Cheng ]
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