DroneLife

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DroneLifeDronesBeyond the Drone and Dock: Building a System for Autonomous Operations SkyfireAI, DBOX, Drone Nerds and XTI Aerospace combine infrastructure, software and integration expertise for U.S.

September 25

DroneLifeDronesCounter-Drone Optics Maker Opens US Headquarters, Plans Detroit Factory UK company helps operators detect, track and classify airborne threats; US manufacturing is planned for 2026 OpenWorks Engineering has opened a US regional headquarters in Ashburn, Virginia.

September 25

DroneLifeDronesSkyeBrowse Adds Crash Analysis Tools and Drone-Based Crowd Counts New features bring vehicle damage measurements, collision review and estimated headcounts into the company’s mapping platform.

September 25

DroneLifeDronesHelping Drones Navigate without GPS Massachusetts company Skyline Nav AI uses cameras and sensors to guide aircraft when GPS signals are blocked or disrupted By DRONELIFE Features Editor Jim Magill Since it first began to be widely…

September 25

DroneLifeDronesGuest Post: Why Drones May Change How We Operate in the Atmosphere Commercial drones have made their name by observing the world below. Now a new class of missions is moving the aircraft up into the atmosphere itself.

September 24

DroneLifeDronesFire Foresight Wins $500,000 XPRIZE Wildfire Award The Australian-British team met the competition’s 10-minute detection gate during Finals Testing near Nenana, Alaska, linking fixed cameras, AI and drone swarms into a single detect, verify and act…

September 24

DroneLifeDronesRincell Debuts New Drone Battery Cell at DroneX The Fremont cell maker makes its European debut in London with an NDAA-compliant tabless 21700 cell rated for 100A continuous discharge and already shipping to drone manufacturers. Rincell, a U.S.

September 24

DroneLifeDronesArmy Drone Magnet Deal Raises a Bigger Question: When Can the Supply Chain Be Fully Domestic? Vulcan Elements already makes rare earth magnets in North Carolina and is building a larger plant. Public figures do not yet show when supply could match the Army’s production goal. The U.S.

September 23

DroneLifeDronesBill Would Require Drone Operators to Acknowledge Safety Rules Before Their First Flight House committee advances a proposal to put safety information in front of operators when they set up a new drone.

September 23

The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

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