GoPro MISSION 1 PRO ILS compact cinema camera fitted with a Laowa 6mm T2.1 cine lens and variable ND filter, clamped to a blue-and-chrome speed-rail rig under a metal roof.

5 min read · FPV · August 26, 2026

GoPro's 197-Gram 8K Cinema Camera Takes MFT Lenses For $699.99, Manual Focus Only

GoPro's MISSION 1 PRO ILS is a 197-gram 8K cinema camera with a Micro Four Thirds mount at $699.99, no autofocus, and a real FPV cinelifter angle.

Haye Kesteloo Editor-in-Chief August 26, 2026

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DJI Mini 5 Pro Drops To $683 As The FCC Targets Its LiDAR Sensor

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TECH

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UKR

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DJI

DJI Opens Heritage 3D Contest. US National Parks Are Off-Limits.

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DJI

DJI Sets September 3 Osmo 360 II Launch, No US Price Announced

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Washington Commercial Drone Fees Jump 10x to $150 After Jet Tax Repeal

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DJI

DJI Osmo Action 6 Rides LandSpace Rocket From Liftoff to Landing

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TECH

Rainmaker Says Its Drones Made 143M Gallons of Rain. Florida Calls Cloud Seeding a Felony

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DJI Mini 5 Pro hovering in front of blooming goldenrod with its forward-facing LiDAR and vision sensors pointed at the camera

Deep Dive · Deal

DJI Mini 5 Pro Drops To $683 As The FCC Targets Its LiDAR Sensor

The DJI Mini 5 Pro is $683 at Amazon. Its LiDAR sits inside the FCC category that closes September 2, and a 25% drone tariff lands September 3.

Haye Kesteloo · Aug 26 · 6 min read

A DJI enterprise drone hovers beside the ornate green-tiled eaves of a multi-story wooden Chinese heritage tower, with the gray-roofed old town spread out below.

DJI

DJI Opens Heritage 3D Contest. US National Parks Are Off-Limits.

Haye Kesteloo · Aug 25

DJI teaser image showing a dome-shaped 360 camera lens in dim light with the date September 3, 2026 at 7 AM EDT

DJI Rumors

DJI Sets September 3 Osmo 360 II Launch, No US Price Announced

Haye Kesteloo · Aug 25

Onboard camera view looking down the red-and-silver body of a rocket high above the ground, with Earth's curved blue horizon and dark sky beyond

Osmo Action 6

DJI Osmo Action 6 Rides LandSpace Rocket From Liftoff to Landing

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Drones for Good

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Technology

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WHOLE BLOOD

Everdrone AED Drone Beats the Ambulance in Sweden, and a Bystander Restarts a Man's Heart

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FAA

The FCC's 'Military-Grade' Drone Definition Is Broad Enough to Catch Your DJI Neo 2

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DJI

DJI Scores Its Biggest Legal Win in Years, New Drone Tariffs Hit 100%, and the HOVERAir Versa Clears the FCC

Greg Reverdiau · Aug 21

Video

DARPA Hands Out Half Prizes, A Drone Saves A Life In Sweden, And The FCC Weighs Banning Your DJI Drone

Greg Reverdiau · Aug 14

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Commercial UAV Expo Opens As FCC And Tariff Deadlines Hit Mid-Show

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EVENT

Wisk Builds Hollister Vertiport to Write FAA Rules That Don't Exist Yet

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eVTOL

Washington Commercial Drone Fees Jump 10x to $150 After Jet Tax Repeal

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State Law

Air Photography

DJI

DJI Lito X1 vs. Mini 5 Pro: Which Drone Should Beginners Buy?

Shawn Air Photography · Jul 25

Air Photography

GoPro Wireless Mic Overview And Audio Tests: What Shawn Found

Shawn Air Photography · Jul 14

Insta360

Insta360 Luna Ultra Head Tracker Accessory: How It Works In Real Use

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Drone Delivery

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Michigan Ford Dealer Flies Auto Parts By Drone On $740,000 Grant

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Drone Delivery

Amazon's Pool Drop Shows Why Zipline Is Winning Drone Delivery

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Drone Delivery

Amazon Prime Air Promises 500 Cities This Year, One 15-Mile Circle At A Time

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Amazon

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US Government

I Used To Call The Trump Jr. DJI Theory A Conspiracy. The Tariffs Changed My Mind

Russ 51 Drones · Aug 16

DJI

Top 11 Tips for New Drone Pilots After 8 Years of Flying

Russ 51 Drones · Aug 3

FCC Ban

FCC Opens Comment on Blocking Sales of 9 DJI-Linked Brands, and Russ Says U.S. Buyers Are Running Out of Options

Russ 51 Drones · Jul 24

Police, DFRDFR · Patrol · Evidence

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BRINC Ships Free Wildfire Layers In Days, On NOAA Data That Comes With Warnings

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Wildfire

ThinkOn And AVSS Put Canadian Drone Data On Canadian Soil, Off The Hyperscalers

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Police

FAA Cleared Over 1,000 Agencies for Drone First Responder Flights in 10 Months, and the Full List Is Now Public

Haye Kesteloo Aug 7

DFR

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The DJI Osmo Pocket 4 Accessories I Actually Use: Protection, ND Filters, Mics, Batteries, and Car Rigs

Jake Sloan · Aug 21

Insta360

Insta360 X6 Review: I Took It Into an Alaska Glacier Ice Cave, and the Color Is the Real Upgrade

Jake Sloan · Aug 16

Reviews

DJI Osmo Pocket 4P vs Insta360 Luna Ultra: The Differences That Actually Matter

Jake Sloan · Aug 10

Counter Drone

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STRATCOM Calls Ukraine's Spiderweb Raid 'Utterly Eye-Opening' as Drones Circle US Nuclear Bases

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Department of Defense

Northcom Cannot Stop A Homeland Drone Swarm. Its Deputy Commander Said So.

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Counter-Drone

Germany Opens Counter-Drone Test Center After Leipzig Explosive Drone

Haye Kesteloo Aug 19

Leipzig Drone Bomb

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Insta360

Insta360 X6 In-Depth Review: What's Actually New — and Where It Falls Short

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Insta360

Insta360 Luna Ultra Vs. DJI Pocket 4: My Complete Footage Comparison

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DJI

GoPro Mission 1 Pro Review: 61 Things You Need to Know After Two Months of Shooting

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Conflict Watch Ukraine · Russia · Battlefield UAS

Three B-52H Stratofortress bombers parked in the open on the flight line at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana

Deep Dive · Department of Defense

STRATCOM Calls Ukraine's Spiderweb Raid 'Utterly Eye-Opening' as Drones Circle US Nuclear Bases

A STRATCOM official calls Ukraine's Operation Spiderweb 'utterly eye-opening' as the command running America's nuclear triad studies counter-drone defense.

Haye Kesteloo · Aug 26 · 6 min read

Ukrainian soldier raising a SHARK fixed-wing reconnaissance drone overhead before launch against a clear blue sky

Delta

US Army Can't Match Ukraine's Delta Drone Software, Secretary Says

Haye Kesteloo · Aug 26

Close-up of a scorched Nvidia Jetson Orin computer module soldered to a debris-covered circuit board recovered from a downed drone

AI Warfare

Nvidia Chip Guided the Russian AI Drone That Killed Three Ukrainians

Haye Kesteloo · Aug 24

US Army

US Army Kills the Drone Battalion It Created Just Seven Months Ago

Haye Kesteloo · Aug 20

FPV

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GoPro's 197-Gram 8K Cinema Camera Takes MFT Lenses For $699.99, Manual Focus Only

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FPV

1S Lithium-Ion FPV Build Flies 34 Minutes And 3 Miles On A Single Cell

Haye Kesteloo Aug 24

FPV

Neros Raises $250M At $2.5B As The Army Bets On A Million Drones

Haye Kesteloo Aug 18

DEFENSE FUNDING

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I Used The Antigravity A1 To Preserve A 1,000-Year-Old Bulgarian Fortress In 3D

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Insta360

These Insta360 Luna Ultra Settings Made My Footage Look More Cinematic

Mikhail Svilanov · Jul 21

Reviews

Why The iVANKY Fusion Dock Ultra Became Part Of My MacBook Workflow

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Drone Technology

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DJI Mini 5 Pro Drops To $683 As The FCC Targets Its LiDAR Sensor

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Deal

Wisk Builds Hollister Vertiport to Write FAA Rules That Don't Exist Yet

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eVTOL

US Army Can't Match Ukraine's Delta Drone Software, Secretary Says

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Delta

Wild Life, Nature

Wildlife

Drone Captures Humpback Whale Birth In a World First

Rafael Suárez · Aug 4

Drone Research

UH Drones Tag 22 Humpback Whales Off Maui Without Boats

Rafael Suárez · Aug 4

DJI

DJI Matrice 4 Series Drones Multiply German Fawn Rescues Twentyfold Before Mowing Season

Haye Kesteloo · Jul 1

Drone Industry, Research

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Commercial UAV Expo Opens As FCC And Tariff Deadlines Hit Mid-Show

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EVENT

Drone Nerds Moves ElevateUAV 2026 to Gulfstream Park for Live Demos

Haye Kesteloo Aug 24

Events

DJI Is 97% Of US Contractor Drone Fleets Despite FCC Ban, ABC Finds

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DJI

From the Newsroom

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Commercial UAV Expo Opens As FCC And Tariff Deadlines Hit Mid-Show

Commercial UAV Expo runs September 1-3 at Caesars Forum. The FCC import comment window closes on day two and Section 232 tariffs start on day three.

Haye Kesteloo Aug 26 6 min

EVENT

Render of a blue blueflite tiltrotor cargo drone with four rotors and fixed wings

Michigan Ford Dealer Flies Auto Parts By Drone On $740,000 Grant

Jack Demmer Ford launched a state-funded drone parts delivery network in metro Detroit, flown by an aircraft that cleared both the FAA and the FCC Covered List.

Haye Kesteloo Aug 26 7 min

Drone Delivery

STRATCOM Calls Ukraine's Spiderweb Raid 'Utterly Eye-Opening' as Drones Circle US Nuclear Bases

A STRATCOM official calls Ukraine's Operation Spiderweb 'utterly eye-opening' as the command running America's nuclear triad studies counter-drone defense.

Haye Kesteloo Aug 26 6 min

Department of Defense

DJI Mini 5 Pro Drops To $683 As The FCC Targets Its LiDAR Sensor

The DJI Mini 5 Pro is $683 at Amazon. Its LiDAR sits inside the FCC category that closes September 2, and a 25% drone tariff lands September 3.

Haye Kesteloo Aug 26 6 min

Deal

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