If your use case is professional or semi professional, possibly. This is a Flagship product from the leader in canera drones- its not designed for first time drone owners as there is a lot going on. You will not get the type of video or photography images professional pilots are showing you until you learn to fly well, though the autonomous modes are useful for getting shots as you manage learning. Most folks won't spend $3k (4600 in Australia) on a product category they have never experienced. Mini 3 Pro, while appearing toy like -one of it's superpowers - has every filght mode and 90% of the features this one has, is nearly silent, and captures 10 bit Log footage. Probably a more risk averse choice for the first year experience. Same for Air 2S.
I shoot raw Timelapse’s on my air2s- of course they need to be stabilised in post- every second one doesnt work out. Do you think the m3 pro will have more positional accuracy on a waypoint mission? If raw hyperlapses are doable on the 70mm the results will be BONKERZZZ!
Yes raw Hyperlapse frames are possible- though the longer focal length is challenging. I shot one last night when exploring just what i can do and I'm super impressed. I like full focus Track on the 70mm as well, POI, Spotlight, Active Track. You get 2 of those on the 7x -no active track, but thats reasonable, considering the physics involved. And yes, it's more stable, by an order of magnitude, even though all DJI Specs on camera drones show the same positional accuracy. Mini 3 Pro gets moved around by a gentle breeze, lol! Hovering Accuracy Range Vertical: ±0.1 m (with vision positioning) ±0.5 m (with GNSS positioning) Horizontal: ±0.3 m (with vision positioning) ±0.5 m (with high-precision positioning system)
I fully agree about the technical specs and that the 70mm may be great! But the M3Pro has 1 big issue for me here in EU: It is C2 labeled instead of C1 which was available for M3 and M3Classic. This is a dealbreaker for me because it makes so many shots way more complicated because you have to keep safety distances to uninvolved persons with a C2 drone. Just flying around in urban area in normal or sports mode is not possible because you need a safety distance at least your flight height (1:1 rule) and at least 30m. I will keep my M3 with C1 label and be happy I got my hands on one before it was out or stock.
@@wl1501 Same airframe, but not same weight! For C1 you need to be below 900g, and thats exactly what happened to M3Pro and also the Enterprise series: they are above 900 whereas M3 and M3Classic are below! Thats why I don't understand why they discontinued M3 - it is still something that may have a market in EU due to the C1 and at least 1 Tele compared to Classic without any Tele... And it already exists... Its already certified... They just need to still sell it... 🤷🏻
Mine arrived yesterday, and yep - almost the first thing I did was whipping the drone around me with the 70mm capturing the now Mavic 3 Pro trademark "poor mans Helicopter shot" improvements to the 7x lens are good, but its still the weakest of the bunch.
You can do photogametry work with a Mini 3 pro these days, assuming you get enough frames and correct angular positions. The software is the big expense, not the drone - assuming you can manage to collection phase.
Great video as usual guys. Thanks. After seeing this though, it's made me pretty upset/mad. I bought a normal Mavic3, because DJI had it on their public roadmap that there was going to be an SDK available for it in August last year, and now, it's just been delayed and said 'nno plans currently', and now it's being discontinued. Surely this is an ACCC related matter, as it was bought under the guise of using this promised SDK. Anyway, it's not you guys. It's just so frustrating by DJIs actions.
