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FILM DRONES

Heavy-lift, DJI Inspire 3, DJI Mavic 3, FPV professional drone film crew based in Queenstown New Zealand

10 Years Experience

Our Commercial Drone Filming Credit List is vast with clients including Coca Cola, Samsung, Lloyds, Toyota, Mitsubishi Motors, Subaru, Hyundai, Isuzu, Tag Heuer, Asics, Sony, Subway, Shiseido, Jaguar

Our Drama and TV Drone Filming Credits include 'Forgive us All', 'A Remarkable Place to Die', 'Don't Make Me Go', 'The Royal Treatment', 'One Lane Bridge', 'Dark City - The Cleaner', 'The Summit', 'She-Hulk', 'The Power of the Dog', 'SAS', 'The Summit'

As an experienced CAA Part 102 drone operator based in Queenstown we can handle any drone filming requirements for all production sizes.

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FREEFLY ALTA X DRONE

Maximum payload 15kg


Multiple camera and lens options

Maximum ground speed 60kph

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Heavy Lift Drone

Arri Alexa Mini LF, Sony Venice, Red

 

Anamorphic or Spherical lenses

Full FIZ control

3 Man Team

Ronin 2 or MoVI Pro Gimbal

LARGE PAYLOAD

Alta X is the go-to drone when we need to carry a cine camera for commercials or feature films.

DJI INSPIRE 3 DRONE

X9 Camera

8K Full Frame Sensor

Maximum ground speed 94kph

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Medium Lift Drone

18mm 24mm 35mm 50mm 75mm lenses

Dual Op or Single Op

PRECISE WORKHORSE

Inspire 3 has it all, great quality in a mid sized affordable package. This is our favourite drone for high speed car commercials and TV Drama.

Excellent quality RAW stills photographs from the Full Frame 45 megapixel sensor.

DJI MAVIC 3 PRO CINE DRONE

Hasselblad Camera

5.1K 4/3 Sensor

Maximum ground speed is 68kph

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Lightweight Drone

24mm Lens

70mm Lens

Single Op

AFFORDABLE QUALITY

Mavic 3 packs a lot of quality into a very small package. Perfect for smaller productions.

FPV CINELIFTER DRONE

Fuji X-2HS Camera

6.2K Super 35mm Sensor

Maximum ground speed is 130kph

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FPV Drone

9mm, 14mm Lenses

Single Op

Red Komodo & Freefly Ember capable

FPV PERSPECTIVE

FPV Cinelifter is incredibly fast and agile for dynamic chase and immersive action.

FILM CREW

Our Queenstown drone pilots and operators all have extensive film set experience with backgrounds in camera, grip or lighting department

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Aerial Cinematographer

Ben Ruffell is an award winning Aerial Cinematographer and Photographer. He is a full member of The New Zealand Cinematographers Society (NZCS) and also a member of the Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS).

Ben is a CAA Part 102 certified drone pilot.

He also holds a RPA remote operator accreditation in Australia.

 

AERIAL CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARDS

ACS - Silver - 'NIO: Winter' 2023 
ACS - Silver  - 'Ricki Lee: On my Own' 2023
NZCS - Bronze - 'Dawn Flight' 2021 

NZCS - Gold -  'Mitsubishi' 2019
NZCS - Silver - 'Telunsu' 2019
NZCS - Gold - 'Flying South' 2016

Chief Pilot

Joshua Dunn is one of New Zealand's most sought after cinema drone pilots. He has over 500 hours of flight time logged including 50 hours of night operations.

Joshua is a CAA Part 102 certified drone pilot.

He is also holds a RePL remote pilots license in Australia.


A former dolly grip, Joshua understands camera movement and he achieves shots that have the 'wow' factor.

 

GIMBALS

We are the original stabilised gimbal rental company based in Queenstown

Freefly MoVI XL

DJI Ronin 2

Freefly MoVI Pro

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Support Equipment

Camera Equipment

- MoVI Wheels

- Master Wheels

- Alpha Wheels

- MoVI Controllers

- Force Pro

- Black Arm

- Easy-Rig
- Ready Rig GS 

 

- Eartec Wireless Intercoms

- Honda Generators

- EcoFlow Battery Generators

- HD Monitors

- Wireless Video 

- Wireless Follow Focus


- Red Dragon Cameras

- Tokina Cinema Vista prime set

- Angenieux Optimo Style 25-250 zoom

- Fujinon 19-90 zoom

- Matteboxes 

- Filters
- Sprayoff Milli Rain Deflector

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