Hi, I'm Brett Garamella and I'm super excited because today I'm going to do a
comparison between DJI Mavic 2 pro and the DJI Mavic air 2 now I don't know how
you could tell the first few clips of this video which drone was which I mixed
them together mixed the clips and if you could tell the difference between both
of these drones you certainly will be able to by the end of this video because
we're gonna talk about the different characteristics different styles
different settings about both of these drones so we're gonna get right into it
first of all the Mavic air 2 we're gonna start with this drone because it's DG is
newest drone obviously the advantage of having the Mavic air 2 is that it's so
portable I mean so is the Mavic 2 pro but this is even more portable the main
thing I didn't like about the Mavic air 2 is the controller it's just a lot
bigger so if we look at the Mavic air 2 controller compared to the DJI Mavic 2
pro controller thematic 2 Pro just feels better
ok this one right here this one just feels better the Mavic air to it just
felt too big not natural and it could be that I just flown the Mavic 2 pro a lot
more so for me the Maverick tube pro just felt a little easier to fly a
little smoother and again I just am not fond of this controller I don't mind
having the screen up here I use a tablet holder with it but it just felt too big
and not as comfortable in my hand no Mavic 2 Pro with these this grip right
here and using the tablet holder it just feels right now I don't have really big
hands so if you have really big hands maybe the Mavic air 2 controller will
feel more natural but for me the size and the field the design the Mavic 2 pro
controller it just felt a lot better a lot more natural a lot easier to fly now
controllers decide let's get into the drones alright so we're gonna start with
the good qualities of the Mavic air 2 so the things I really liked about the
Mavic air to wear that it was really good from edge to edge so the sharpness
was much better than the Mavic 2 Pro from edge to edge
now you can manipulate that with the Mavic 2 pro by changing the aperture
however with the Mavic air - you can only shoot
f 2.8 so for this entire video I always shot it at 2.8 just to make it a fair
comparison side-by-side but the Mavic air too was sharp from edge to edge it
produced some amazing Sun flare both these drones did that's what I was
really happy about and the overall video quality looked really good now with that
said there were a few cons that I notice right away that the magnitude Pro does
better that this guy was having issues with so one thing I've noticed that a
lot of other people haven't noticed about the Mavic air 2 is if you look
closely it's really over sharpened so we can't adjust the sharpening in the DJI
fly up with the DJI go for app you can so that's a big advantage of having the
Mavic tube pro with the Mavic air 2 to me the footage looks a little too
sharpened and this creates some artifacting and it just doesn't look as
natural and another thing that the Mavic air 2 doesn't do quite as well is the
fact that from the overexposed parts or where it's a little too bright in like
let's say the sky to where the shadows are the overexposed parts don't maintain
their color so what I noticed was look fine in the shadows and mid-tones but
then the sky was just overexposed in white whereas in the same sort of
properly exposed image the Mavic tube Pro maintained that blue sky so
maintaining the colors and the details in the overexposed or the higher exposed
and bright areas with a Mavic air - it kind of had difficulty with that and I
guess that's sort of be expected because the Navigator - has a smaller sensor
than the Matic - Pro so that's one thing to be aware of alright so looking at the
Mavic tube Pro this shot great in Sun flare so looking right into the Sun
shooting into the Sun produce great Sun flare just like the Mavic air - so both
of them are great shooting into the Sun which I often like to do especially
around Golden Hour which you'll see in the video coming up now one thing that
really bothers me about the Mavic - Pro especially since I shot at F 2.8 is the
fact that if you shoot wide open at 2.8 with a Mavic - Pro you're gonna have
really soft edges so the edges of the Mavic to pro it
really bothered me because it was so soft and the sharpness was fine in the
center but on the on the edges it was really soft
whereas I didn't see that with the Mavic air to now you could change the aperture
to about f4 or f5 point six and it's gonna look better on the edges with the
Mavic tube Pro I say between f4 to five point six is a sweet spot but again
because the Mavic air too only shoots at f/2 point eight I kept it at f/2 point
eight for both these drones just so it'd be a fair comparison so in this video
you're about to watch the settings I used where I shot in 4k at 24 frames per
second because I wanted that nice cinematic look and of course I kept my
shutter speed double my frame rate so I was shooting at 24 frames per second so
I used one fiftieth of a second shutter speed now I shot with normal color
profile for both of these in this upcoming video later in this video I
change the settings around but we'll talk about that later but for now I just
use normal color just for this upcoming video shot in h.264 and an aperture of
f28 and I shot right before sunset so I didn't have to use an ND filter so this
upcoming video I used no filter this is just the settings auto white balance and
didn't change the contrast saturation or anything so it's right out of the box
this is what you're going to get so let's get right into that video
you
all right so that video was shot right before sunset but in the next video I'm
gonna shoot a few hours before a sunset so the lights gonna be brighter it's
gonna be different shooting situations both with the Sun both at a siding over
the Sun both into the Sun so you get to see a variety of different shots and
we're also going to use a variety of different settings so because it was
brighter out I needed to use nd filters now for the Mavic air 2 I used these
filters that came with the combo so comes with three filters the filters I
have are ND 16 64 and 256 I use the nd 16 filter and one thing I noticed was
that the Matic 2 Pro is just brighter so if we use the same exact settings the
exposure is brighter than the Mavic air 2 which is obviously due to the sensor
because I was shooting an F 2.8 and F 2.8 so I don't think it was because of
the camera lens I think it was due to the sensor being bigger and made
differently and I use these f-stop labs and D 16 with the Mavic tube Pro now I
had to use these ND filters because we're shooting at F 2.8 and like I said
before because the Mavic air 2 only shoots at F 2.8 you can't change the
aperture I wanted to make it a fair comparison so I put F 2.8 with the Mavic
2 pro as well and then use the ND filter to properly expose it which is in most
cases ND 16 these aren't the greatest and d filters but they do get the job
done and side by side I don't think one had it advantage over the other so nd
filters really aren't going to change the color of the look of the image too
much they're gonna make sure that you have the proper shutter speed at least
in this comparison for what I was doing that was my purpose so where you see
that videos of these two drones side-by-side you're gonna see the Mavic
air to a shot first with that and then with the Mavic 2 pro right next to it so
it's gonna be labeled just like the original video but I'm also gonna label
de cine like and D log em a shot with D log M with the Mavic 2 Pro which is a
log mode which is very flat color profile
and the de cine like mode looked very similar to the d log m in the Matic to
Pro so decent alike is available with the Mavic air 2 but it's not available
with the Mavic tube Pro now shot with decently liked and it looks great on
other drones just out of camera so in the Phantom 4 Pro on the Mavic Pro and
the Mavic to zoom you can use de cine like and it's gonna look great right out
of camera however that's not the case with the Mavic air - ok the Mavic air -
it looks just too flat so you're gonna have to color grade it or color correct
it at least and that's what I did now using a video codec of h.265 to shoot in
de cine like with the Mavic air 2 and d log M when the Mavic tube pro the
footage looks similar but the way you can adjust it is much different okay
you're gonna have much more leniency and freedom with the Mavic tube pro and the
Mavic air 2 is already sharpened so you're not gonna be able to sharpen it
in post it looks a little too sharp and in that decent alike mode it's just like
shooting normal whereas the Mavic tube pro it kind of flattens everything
including the sharpening so you're gonna have to add sharpening in
post-production and it's gonna look better when you sharpen in
post-production whereas you can't add sharpening with the Mavic air - so the
mattock tube pro shooting in D log is gonna be far superior to the Mavic air
to shooting and decent like even though right out of the box they look very
similar and if you want to learn how to color grade your footage from both of
these drones D & D log and de cine like mode you're gonna want to get my DJI
drone pro course you can access that in the links in the description below it's
the best DJI drone course on the Internet and I'll save you a ton of time
and frustration so you can check that out down below so the only things I
changed in this next video where the fact that when you see it very dull
colors or flat colors I shot in h.265 using d log m and using de cine like
mode otherwise I just shot in normal mode so normal mode I just use h.264 and
shot a normal color profile as you'll see in the next video when
shot in a real flat color profile with D log M and D Sydney like mode I then
color grade it so you can see the color grading going over it so when you see
that you know what it is now the other settings are the same for K 24 frames
per second F 2.8 at 150th of a second shutter speed auto white balance and no
changing of the contrast sharpening or saturation with the Mavic tube Pro last
thing I want to point out before we get into the video is that shooting with the
Mavic air 2 is that if you use the auto white balance it seems to be warmer than
the auto white balance from the Mavic tube pro so you may need to use custom
white balance especially shooting during golden hour or around sunrise and sunset
because it just seems a little too warm so you might want to make the Mavic air
2 a little cooler it's just gonna look a little more natural so that's one thing
to keep in mind and now let's get into the video
all right so that's the Mavic to pro the Mavic air two we saw them side by side
was there something I didn't talk about or something you notice in the video
that I didn't mention leave it in the comment below I reply to all my comments
and also if you want to watch the drone footage only from these two drones side
by side you can click on the video over there and if you want to save time and
frustration and really master your Mavic check out my DJI course right up there
I'm Brett Garamella "The Drone Pilot Pro" and remember, Fly Like a Pro!