SX Drones Ltd

Essex Drone Services

About SX Drones

Here at SX Drones, we're a professional drone service company that are BBC approved, with an awesome team of experienced and qualified pilots, we're a traditional family business - the Founder Stephen first picked up a camera when he was 5 years old and loved it ever since. Stephen has 40 years experience in air to ground photography, initially from fixed and rotary wing Civil and Military aircraft, more recently from drones. His daughter, Sophie who has a BA (Hons) Degree in Photography is also one of the few, female commercial drone pilots with CAA/EASA Operational Authorisation in the 'Specific Category'. We use the DJI Inspire 2 RAW with Zenmuse X7 Super 35mm camera & the new DJI Mavic 3 Cine, shooting in 4K, 5.1K, 5.2K & 6K, Apple ProRes & Cinema DNG. We have £10 million Public Liability Insurance.


Stephen is also a multi award-winning broadcast TV Lighting Cameraman/DoP shooting from the ground with his Netflix approved 6K, Sony FX-9 & Sony A7 IV 7K full frame 35mm sensor cameras & cine lenses. He is a member of the Guild of Television Camera Professionals, BECTU and an Associate of The Royal Photographic Society. He has worked on documentaries, features, commercials and news, working for many international broadcasters including TVNZ & TV3 New Zealand, CNN, Discovery, APTV News, Granada USA, ABC, Sky & Reuters.

UK clients include, BBC, ITV, Anglia, ITV Studios, Ch4, CH5, ITN, Granada, LWT, GMTV, YTV, Meridian, LNN, HTV & Tyne Tees.

Programmes include; 

I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here, Airline, Ibiza Uncovered, Ibiza Uncovered Reunion, Big Brother, BBC Breakfast, Blue Peter, Countryfile, Watchdog, Panorama, Newsnight, Natural History Unit, Jimmy's Farm, Songs of Praise, Matter of Fact, Inside Out, Poms Down Under, Computers Don't Byte, Crime Monthly, Temptation Island, Holiday Airline, Britain's Best Dish, Pride of Britain Awards, Real Footballers Wives, Soapstars, World in Action, The London Programme, Tonight with Trevor McDonald, Bad Lads Army Officer Class, Missing, Strange but True, The Real Good Life, House of Horrors, A Good Life Down Under, Gun Law, Nannies 911, Beware Pickpockets, Beware Car Thieves, Dentists, Traffic Jams & Drivers from Hell, Dates from Hell, Children's ITV Awards, Fame Game, This Morning, Travel Guide, It Shouldn't Happen on a TV Makeover Show, Healthwatch Live, Sex on the Job, Mad Motorists, Dosh, BBC Newsround, Predictions, What Will They Think of Next, Behaving Badly 2, Katie Price and Trinny & Susannah.


Our professional stills work includes the national press with Stephen, Sophie and Scott all having pictures published.


Information About SX Drones' Services

All of our services are carried out by professionals who are fully qualified and trained, the services we carry out are:


  • Aerial Photography & Videography
  • Photography from the ground, both video for Broadcast TV and stills for the national Press
  • Surveying
  • Thermal Imaging

If there is a service you want to done but it's not on the list above, contact us and maybe we can arrange something if it's possible or not.

Thermal Imaging With SX Drones

Great for identifying overloaded of overheating circuits, we know exactly what we're doing when it comes down to thermal imaging and specialise in this, let us know if you're interested in working with us to help you regarding this!

Contacting SX Drones

Feel free to contact us about anything you want to regarding our work and services, we will try and reply as soon as possible always.

When contacting us please make sure to state that you found us via Drone Safe Register, the UK's largest commercial drone operator network.

Essex/Suffolk Drone Services

4K Filming from the Ground

Award winning TV Cameraman

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