Oscar Liang

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Oscar LiangDronesHow to Use LiPo Batteries for FPV Drones: Beginner’s Guide and Recommendations How to Use LiPo Batteries for FPV Drones: Beginner’s Guide and Recommendations LiPo batteries are one of the reasons FPV drones can be so powerful.

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Oscar LiangDronesReview: HGLRC RC3 Soldering Iron – Is This the Best Portable Soldering Iron in 2026? Review: HGLRC RC3 Soldering Iron – Is This the Best Portable Soldering Iron in 2026? I absolutely loved the HGLRC RC2 soldering iron.

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Oscar LiangDronesFlight Controller Explained: How to Choose the Best FC for FPV Drones Flight Controller Explained: How to Choose the Best FC for FPV Drones Choosing the right flight controller is important, but with so many options available, it can be confusing, especially for…

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Oscar LiangDronesHow to Charge FPV Drone LiPo Batteries Step-by-Step Guide How to Charge FPV Drone LiPo Batteries Step-by-Step Guide I realized I’ve written lots of guides about LiPo batteries on this blog, but somehow I’ve never written a step-by-step tutorial on how to…

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Oscar LiangDronesReview: GEPRC Tern40 LR V2 – Is It Better Than the Flywoo Explorer V2? Review: GEPRC Tern40 LR V2 – Is It Better Than the Flywoo Explorer V2? The GEPRC Tern40 LR V2 looks like a really solid 4-inch FPV drone.

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Oscar LiangDronesBest Cinewhoops in 2026: Top FPV Drones for Indoor and Outdoor Cinematic Shots Best Cinewhoops in 2026: Top FPV Drones for Indoor and Outdoor Cinematic Shots Cinewhoops are exceptional small FPV drones, perfect for capturing professional-grade commercials and real estate…

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Oscar LiangDronesWhich FPV System Should You Buy in 2026? Analog, DJI, HDZero, Walksnail, Ascent, Artlynk, OpenIPC Which FPV System Should You Buy in 2026? Analog, DJI, HDZero, Walksnail, Ascent, Artlynk, OpenIPC FPV (First Person View) systems are generally incompatible with each other.

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Oscar LiangDronesI Don’t Fly 5inch Anymore: Why I’m Downsizing My FPV Drones, What I Recommend I Don’t Fly 5inch Anymore: Why I’m Downsizing My FPV Drones, What I Recommend Looking back at the last few years, I’ve noticed something interesting: I’m barely flying 5-inch quads anymore.

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Oscar LiangDronesFPV System Latency: Test Results and How to Measure It Yourself FPV System Latency: Test Results and How to Measure It Yourself Back in 2015, I started measuring the latency of various analog FPV cameras, and I was surprised by how much their performance varied.

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Oscar LiangDronesBuild an FPV Track at Home Using PVC Pipes: RaceGOW Tiny Whoop Racing Gates Build an FPV Track at Home Using PVC Pipes: RaceGOW Tiny Whoop Racing Gates Winter is coming, which means we will spend more time flying indoors with tiny whoops.

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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