
When iot comes to flight modes, there are three – C for cinema, N for Normal, and S for Sport. Other switches at your fingertips control the camera's direction and take photo / start recording to the onboard Micro SD card which is located on the back of the drone. It really is as simple as up down / rotate on axis Left and Right / Forward Backward / Roll Left Right. The drone is also incredibly stable in flight. It should only take 10 minutes to master flight controls and find yourself zipping around the sky. If you have ever played PlayStation then you will have no problem adapting very quickly to the controls. Good bye drone!Īll this means the controls are almost idiot proof. A friend’s associate used ‘return to home’ while fishing and the drone landed correctly from where it took off – about 20 meters away from the boat and into the water because the boat had drifted. WHATEVER YOU DO – DO NOT choose ‘original takeoff place’ if you are on a boat. To land you have two options – either land on the current spot you are hovering over, or ‘return to home’ i.e. It takes off and hovers at approximately 1 metre waiting patiently for you to take over the controls. With the Mini 3 Pro, this is completely automatic at the press of a button. One of the most nailbiting parts of any drone flight is taking off and landing.
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Also, the touch screen is quite bright, but it would be good to have some sort of hood around it or an anti-reflective coating as it can be tricky to see in full sunlight. You probably won’t lose them, but it would be nice to have a bonus stick in case you did. If I was to offer a criticism, it's that the detachable joysticks slot into wells in the bottom of the controller. Initially I couldn't quite grasp why you would want to shoot vertically, but in conversations with a pro-level drone operator he told me he now shoots everything exclusively in vertical format as the majority of his work is shown on phones and social media.įinally, the dedicated controller is close to perfect and feels very responsive and sturdy.
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The DJI Mavic 3 Pro packs tidily and very compactly away in its carry case. The 24mm (35mm SLR format equivalent) f1.7 camera is housed in an omni-directional housing that is quite ingenious, and allows it to be controlled in both horizontal or vertical formats, as well as pan up / down and shoot directly down. Onboard, DJI packs in its Tri-Directional Obstacle Sensing cameras which, as the name suggests, sense obstacles in front, behind and underneath the drone. Maintenance wise, I had to swap out one of the eight blades and that required a small (included) screwdriver and only two minutes of time. The way the rotor arms fold out is brilliant. Image: Tim Levy Build QualityĪs you can see in the photos – the Mini 3 Pro is super compact, yet it still feels very high quality and strong. Should I throw my 45MP Canon R5 away and just hand hold a drone and shoot everything on that? Well, let's take a look, and more on the all important image quality later. However, the new DJI Mini 3 Pro has completely changed my opinion on the viability of doing my own drone work. To solve the problem, I’d end up hiring a drone person (who would also have to do all the CASA form filling), or I’d stick my camera on the end of a fully extended monopod with a long cable release to get a bit more height. The drone offerings on the market at the time were OK – but to get really decent images you’d need to purchase the expensive higher end machines that were rapidly being superseded by the next generation. A few years back I was considering purchasing a done as I’d occasionally get requests from clients for aerial images to accompany my more traditional err.
