Some of the clips from my Iceland video below will be featured in the first episode of ‘Iceland with Alexander Armstrong’ airing this Wednesday 6 Oct on Ch 5 at 9pm.
All from a chance meeting in a hotel restaurant at breakfast when I got chatting to Alexander and then ended up showing the production team what I had been filming 2 days earlier
Anyway, here’s the full set of clips I filmed; they’re using a few of these for when he’s flying around in a helicopter and lands on a hill near the crater.
All filmed with the M2Pro, which was indeed a little warm to say the least when I got it back…
Back when it first erupted, and it was sub-zero and surrounded in snow, an Icelandic I follow (ooops “followed”) on Instagram slept over several night by being close enough to keep warm. The Goldilocks Zone.
Amazing footage Ian. I have set the prog to record tonight and hope you get due recognition. How did you judge how close you could fly? I don’t know what the DJI melting point is!! Were you prepared to sacrifice your M2Pro?
I was guessing a lot as it was hard to gauge the size of the crater so that made it hard to gauge the distance from the lava, but either way, it was a huge furnace and the drone did shudder and misbehave a bit when o was close over it…
The underside was nice and warm when it got back… Ultimately, yes, I was prepared for damage, hence swapping SD card each time I swapped battery… And of course, using the 2 Pro instead of the Air 2 S…
Great to see your brilliant footage being featured so prominently. Can’t imagine why they didn’t want to get the helicopter as close as your M2P for those shots…
How far away from it were you?
