New Controller The new controller design marks a change for the Mavic series and puts the screen where it’s most useful. Close-up of the same shot shows plenty of detail. It might seem a little gloomy, but to be fair, it was gloomy and the detail is still stunning. DJI Mavic Mini in auto-exposure mode, 48 Megapixels. It now seems, however, that it is more of a re-styling, adopting a cleaner look, since the Mavic Air 2 is not short of high-end functionality. The app – first seen with the Mini – was seen as offering cut down features. The Air 2 is also very clearly defining itself as a consumer drone, by adopting DJI Fly, rather than the ‘Go 4’ app seen on other DJI drones. That is no longer true, making the Mavic Air 2 arguably the better choice from the whole line, depending on your likely shooting times and subject matter (the Mavic 2 Zoom or Pro offer varying focal lengths or a 1-inch sensor respectively, so each bring something to the table). Up until now, if you wanted to capture fast action for silky-smooth slow-mo, you needed to accept a dramatic cut in resolution (often jarringly processed), or step away from the Mavic series. The new Mavic Air 2 sits dead-centre in the Mavic range, size & price-wise, at least, though some of it’s features put it at the top. That’s 4K at 60fps, to be clear (though it drops to 30fps if you want HDR or to use the subject tracking features). It’s a Sony IMX586 sensor with a quad-bayer arrangement, so it might also be viewed as 12-megapixels by some, but whichever way you look at it the stand-out number for most drone customers is the 60fps after 4K. A look at the spec sheet suggests the Air 2 is closer to its senior sibling, though, with a new half-inch image sensor capable of 48-megapixel shots. What does the Mavic Air 2 bring to the party?Īt first glance, conformity! The Air 2 is about halfway between the Mavic 2 Pro and Mavic Mini in size, weight, and shade of grey. If you’re looking for something a bit more sporty, the PowerEgg X might draw your attention, with similar pricing, 60fps 4K video and the option to fly in rain and land on water. The Mini also has some of the cool QuickShots that the Air 1 sported, so the content creator’s ambitions can be fulfiled for less. Sure, it has 4K, but the Mini’s 2.7K is more than good enough for most purposes and the longer flight time is hugely beneficial. Two years on, the Air 1 looks like poor value compared to the Mavic Mini. When I first flew it, 4K at this price point was impressive enough, but it soon became apparent that the stated 21-minutes flight time was, in practice, little more than 15 useful minutes and if you were to risk flying even a few hundred meters you risked your video signal cutting out since it used a variant of Wi-Fi. Looks can be deceiving though the Mavic Air 1 (as it shall henceforth be known) suffered from disappointing battery life and a genuinely worrying range. The top of the line Mavic 2 Pro (dark grey) and the ultralight Mavic Mini (light grey) shared a lot of the same design cues while the Mavic Air, well, it looked awesome! You could even get it in Red! Until now, the Mavic Air was the outlier of the range. The Mavic Air 2 is shaking things up for DJI customers.
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