today I want to compare the 7x lens the telephoto camera from the mavic 3 to the 7x lens the
telephoto camera from the mavic 3 Pro and see how much of a difference there is and
maybe how much of an improvement there is in the latest drone from DJI so let's go out
and get some footage
[Music] first up we're going to start with the mavic 3 cine which is my main Workhorse
drone from last year until the mavic 3 Pro was released [Music]
all right
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next we're going to shoot with the mavic 3 Pro cine seems like a mouthful but the aperture
has changed from F 4.4 to F 3.4 so it gives you a little bit better low light performance
mostly I'm interested in seeing how much sharper how much better the image quality is but that
is definitely going to make a difference so I've matched up ND filters as close as I can
but we'll see what we end up with foreign [Music]
[Music] now there are some differences between these two drones in the specs and I will jump
into those later as far as the frame rates you can shoot the types of footage you can
shoot the f-stop and all that but first let's start looking at some of the footage the first
thing that stands out to me is the difference in colors the mavic 3 is quite a bit more
muted than the mavic 3 Pro I had to pull the saturation back anywhere from 30 to 40 percent
depending on the shot to get the same level of saturation and I shot these as close to
the same time periods as I possibly could to try and make sure there was no difference
in lighting or anything like that the differences don't seem that apparent until we start putting
the shots side by side and here you can start to see some difference now there's tons of
detail in these shots lots of little leaves gravel rocks all kinds of things but you can
definitely start to see where the three Pro lens is a little bit better and a little bit
sharper in most cases even when I was shooting just the h.265 files which is right here but
the big difference to me comes when I put my face side by side here there's a giant
difference in how the lens faux focus and even though they are slightly different telephoto
lengths 16162 and one's 166.
the difference in the detail and the amount of focus on the mavic 3 Pro compared to the
mavic 3 on a closed subject like that on my face is really substantial I mean yes you
can sharpen the mavic 3 up to about three and a half percent and get it closer but the
mavic 3 Pro just definitely has a better sharper overall image I do think it's partly because
of the new Optics but I also think it's maybe partly because DJI did a little work in the
in the software and they're doing a little bit more sharpening in camera or in in the
Drone before you get that off and I wish they would give us the opportunity to turn that
off or at least control the amount of it that we get in almost all cases the mavic 3 Pro
is a little bit better now in most cases when I'm doing landscape stuff and far off stuff
the difference is pretty negligible you don't see a massive amount of difference but when
you start getting close up to stuff and you start getting that real close Focus that's
when the mavic 3 Pro definitely pulls quite a ways ahead and looks quite a bit better
now there are some other differences that you need to be aware of for one this is a
fixed aperture of f 4.4 and it can only record up to 4K 50 frames a second which is weird
because I could have sworn that it recorded 4K 60 at some point but anyway it can only
record up to 4K 50 frames a second whereas the new mavic 3 pro has an f-stop of 3.4 which
means you'll get a little bit better performance in low light and it can record 4K up to 60
frames a second so if you like filming in 60 frames a second and then you're maybe slowing
it down to half speed for a 30 frame second timeline or something like that the mavic
3 Pro definitely a little bit better and one more difference is that since both of these
are the cine model they will shoot in prores but the mavic 3 will only shoot in prores
on the main camera it will only it will only shoot in h.264 h.265 on the telephoto camera
whereas the mavic 3 Pro will shoot in prores on all three cameras so we'll also shoot in
prores but to mitigate this I shot in h.265 and a couple of shots to make sure I wasn't
gaining anything extra from prores but most the shots are in prores in all these tests
I match exposure as best as I could I also had the same ND filters or in a lot of cases
no ND filters just to make sure that I had the same everything as close as I could I
made sure the white balance was the same and while I did shoot prores and some of the shots
on the mavic 3 Pro I also shot in h.265 to make sure that these tests came out as accurate
and as close to an Apples to Apples comparison as they possibly could there you go a pretty
clear difference in some cases the mavic 3 Pro definitely has better Optics better sharpness
a little bit better Clarity it also has a more open f-stop so it does a little better
I mean my just a minute better in low light where the mavic 3 is I mean obviously it was
their first deal on a 162 millimeter lens but I think they both do well the mavic 3
Pro definitely pulls ahead next you're going to watch this video right here to see how
I set my mavic 3 Pro up all the settings I'll walk you through everything I'll see over
there as always if you have questions ask me in the comments below or join my live stream
which happens most Wednesday nights at 4 pm Alaska time 8 PM Eastern I'll see you again
soon in the next video cheers