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The FreeFly EMBER Highspeed Camera is Here!

Apr 19th, 2024

Written By | Tom Comet We are super excited that we have the Freefly EMBER highspeed camera in our ever expanding gear inventory.  Finally we have a high performance, high frame rate camera that has a small form factor, is… read more »

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The FPV Cinema Drone Revolution

Aug 10th, 2020

Written By  |  Tom Comet In the eight years that I have been working with drones for filming I have seen huge changes as the technology improves, becomes smaller, lighter, less expensive and all around easier to work with.  All… read more »

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Making Movies in the Himalayas Part #1 – Flying Large Camera Drones at High Altitude

Jan 15th, 2020

Written By  |  Tom Comet DroneBoy recently had the fantastic opportunity to be part of a large-scale documentary project where we provided all the aerial cinematography, Ops Team, equipment and drone services for a very high altitude, big-screen film project… read more »

DroneBoy Tech Log – Freefly Systems & Redrock Gear

Apr 23rd, 2019

Written By |  Matt Joniec It’s no secret that in recent years DroneBoy’s service offering has expanded a great deal. We no longer offer just aerial cinematography and industrial drone services, but now a whole suite of start-to-finish production services as… read more »

Subaru Crosstrek – A Commercial With Staying Power

Mar 11th, 2019

Written by | Tom Comet Every year the DroneBoy team works on at least couple dozen car commercials.  Drone based aerial cinematography has become an absolute necessity for many genres but nowhere is this more prevalent than in car commercials.  The… read more »

Time-Lapse & Flying Hyper-Lapse Video Fun

Dec 6th, 2017

Written by | Tom Comet Like a lot of the stuff that we get up to here at DroneBoy, something that started out as a fun, one-off project for a single client turned out so well that we have decided to… read more »

Announcing The Awesome DJI Zenmuse X7 Camera

Nov 28th, 2017

Written by | Tom Comet We are very excited to announce that we have added the all new DJI Zenmuse X7 camera and integrated gimbal system to our product offerings here at DroneBoy. The Zenmuse X7 is a compact super 35, 6K RAW… read more »

Flying Drones in Busy Downtown Locations

Aug 9th, 2017

Written by | Tom Comet Almost daily we have film and TV producers call us asking “how long does it take for you guys to pull a permit to fly drones in downtown Toronto (Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, Halifax…)?”  The answer is… read more »

Our DJI Inspire 2 Is Here – A Celebration and a Quick History Lesson

Apr 30th, 2017

By Tom Comet   We are happy to announce that we have added the DJI Inspire 2 to our ever-evolving fleet of drones here at DroneBoy.  I thought this would be a good time to reflect on how far this… read more »

Four Camera Drone Fireworks Live Stream with Wirecast Software

Apr 21st, 2017

Written by | Tom Comet I have written about this awesome project that we completed last summer in previous posts but THIS article was just published on the Telestream Wirecast web site  so I thought it would be a good idea to revisit… read more »

Professional Camera Drones Can Fly Indoors!

Feb 22nd, 2017

Written by | Tom Comet Folks usually associate drone use with high flying outdoor applications.  Missions such as photo and video capture, 3D mapping, inspections and more but all in wide open outdoor spaces. Yes, drones do work great outdoors but today’s drone technology can be… read more »

“Al Purdy Was Here” Documentary

Dec 5th, 2016

Written by | Tom Comet Back in 2014, we shot with director Brian Johnson for his recently released documentary entitled “Al Purdy Was Here.“  Al Purdy was a very well known Canadian poet who spent most of his life living… read more »