This right here is the original, the OG DJI Mavic Pro.
It was my first drone.
The first video on my YouTube channel was all about how to get your drone license.
I studied for a long time, and when I passed that test
I bought myself this drone, since I knew how to use it responsibly. 🤓
And it actually still works perfectly.
I used it when I proposed to my wife even, which is pretty amazing.
So no matter what, I'm never getting rid of this because it's super sentimental,
but those sentiments aside, it is five and a half years old,
six years old at this point that these originally came out and I don't find
myself using it as much as I would like to because it's just kind of a hassle.
It's incredibly well built.
The remote is super nice, but then you've got to like hook your
phone up and open the apps.
And I app-solutely
don't like having to use apps with things.
So I've been wanting to upgrade for a while, but I've been holding off.
But it really kind of only makes sense to go with a DJI drone.
This video is definitely not sponsored,
and probably no video ever will be sponsored by DJI because,
while I do think that their products in terms of engineering are pretty much some
of the best in the world, in terms of engineering and design they're some of the
most usable just well made/smartly designed products in the world.
The part I don't like about DJI is the part where whenever they do
product releases, they essentially entirely ignore
female creators 100%.
I shouldn't say a hundred percent..99.9%.
Sometimes there will be like one female creator
maybe if it's like a gimbal or maybe a drone. For the most part, just a bunch of dudes.
And I'm a dude talking about DJI, and I've been pretty vocal about
this, but for years you can go back and look at their product releases
and they just do not include women.
Some people of color kind of, and that's about it. And it sucks.
They should really not do that.
But if you're going to buy a drone, it also like doesn't make sense to spend
your money on something else, unless you're like building it yourself from
scratch, which I don't want to do.
I want something that's good, usable.
So let's separate marketing DJI, which is not good with the engineering and
development DJI, which is very good.
I just got this box here from Las Vegas because
it's hard to find these in stock.
So I'm glad once again, to the rescue, just like with this microphone here,
B&C Camera in Las Vegas! Not like sending it for free or anything,
but just having stuff in stock.
And I ordered this yesterday and it's here today.
Wow! This is so small.
Here we go.
This is crazy how tiny this is!
I know I've been watching tons of videos where people are like, "This drone is
super small," but like, this is the–
this is my entire other "compact" drone.
Pretty crazy how far these things have come.
So this is the DJI Mini 3 Pro.
The reason I wanted this one, there's a bunch of reasons I wanted this one,
it's not the least expensive drone out there.
And I know a lot of people have complained about the price, but compared
to this one, which cost about $1,200
when I got it, this really wasn't that bad.
This was $900, plus I actually ended up getting this yesterday,
but this was the Fly More kit.
So total of this came out to like $1050, so still less expensive than
the Fly More combo of this one,
and it's significantly more capable.
The Fly More kit comes with this little bag, and I actually do like having
these little cases for drones.
I think they're handy. It comes with two batteries, battery charger,
and some cables and some extra propellers– just all the stuff you
need in the Fly More kit to...fly more.
The fun part here is that I have actually not used a new DJI drone
since I got my original Mavic.
So this is the 249 gram thing, which means depending on which country you're in,
you don't have to register it officially.
However, that does depend on where you're at.
And if you're using drone footage commercially, especially in the
United States, you do still technically need a Part 107 commercial drone license.
And just for the sake of clarity, "commercial" means receiving anything
in return for your drone footage.
Even if someone's like,
"Come take pictures of this and
I'll buy you lunch afterwards."
That's commercial use.
If you put it on your YouTube channel, which is monetized, that's commercial use.
So a lot of things count as commercial drone usage.
This is a very tiny one.
Wow.
It's so...
cool!
So you've got a significantly improved camera and then sensors everywhere.
These two things here are not cameras.
They are sensors.
There are sensors on the bottom.
There's sensors on the back.
And these sensors here also are supposed to have a pretty wide field of view,
meaning even though there's not sensors on the side, it should
be able to sense at least some things on the side of the drone.
Wow.
This is cool.
This is very cool.
So I made sure to get the one that has the fancy remote with a screen
built in which means, in theory, you don't need anything else.
You just turn this on, turn this on, all your info's right here, and then you fly.
As I was busy being proactive,
I also got some glass screen protectors.
I always like if I can to put
screen protectors on things before ever touching them.
There it goes, we are protected. 👍
Oh, there's a video. (royalty free music plays intensely)
There's speakers.
Another one of the fun things I found with drones, kind of like with phones,
I'm not personally someone who gets a new phone every year,
and obviously I don't get a new drone every year, but that's kind of
cool because the longer you wait
in between updates
then the bigger the change really is.
If you go from one to the next, to the next, if you're somebody who uses it
like on a daily basis, you'll notice all the small improvements and changes.
But if you're not somebody uses it that way, you might not notice those things.
But if you go like three, five or more years in between updates, when you get
something new, it's like, "Wow! This is totally different than what I had before!"
It's so nice.
And then you've got your mode switch here, return to home,
power, your sticks,
you've got your same buttons up at the top that you've always had
your same dials you always had.
And you've got triggers down on the bottom here.
Unlike any other drone I've used, the gimbal can actually
point upwards a little bit.
Actually alotta bit.
Oh my God.
That's like way far up.
And it'll definitely be interesting because even though both of these
drones are 4k, they are definitely going to be different quality.
I'll be doing a more full on in-depth review for this after
I've had it and used it for a while.
It's always weird to just get something and like, "Ah, here's my review of it!
I've never used it!"
So we'll wait a while on that, but I'm excited for this
so I wanted to share that with you.
So here we go.
The one on the right is the original Mavic.
The one on the left is the Mini 3 Pro, and we're not outdoors
but at least you can kind of see okay, here's everything here.
All right.
So here are the controllers,
there's the Rodecaster,
here's the wall.
Let's turn these off out here and go try them outside.
So turning it on again, everything connected without me having to
do anything, it took 30 seconds.
And now it's ready to go.
Okay, here we go.
(take off noises commence)
That's so quiet.
It's so quiet!
Oh my God.
It's also super windy, but it seems to be pretty stable.
Ben doesn't seem to care that much.
There he is.
Where you going?
Oh, you're going right here.
Hello.
Actually if I go like, all right, tilt this
gimbal up,
look at that.
Whoa.
Oh, wait. It's landing.
No don't land.
This is going up to the sky here.
I think it makes sounds if I'm getting close to something.
(beeping intensifies) Oh, cool.
It's like a car backing up.
I go near this tree (beeping intensifies again)
Actually it won't let me go any further.
That's cool.
Look, I can zoom in on the palm tree.
I can't believe how quiet this thing is.
The zoom's actually pretty sweet.
Look at that.
Wow.
This flies really well.
I like it so much.
Look, this here comes blowing in the wind.
Hello 👋
And now we'll basically do the same thing with the original.
There we go.
So much louder.
Not nearly as many sensors on this one.
So I could just fly it into something if I wanted to, which I don't want to do.
Back towards me.
Well, wow.
I remember this used to be like the "quiet" drone and it's
so not the quiet drone.
It's crazy
how things change.
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As I'm about to go do some test drone shots.
I also forgot to mention how I even got this drone, which was kind of different.
I used a website called mpb.com
I always think it's MBP, like MacBook Pro, but it's M P B.
This sounds like a commercial, but honestly it was just,
if I'm buying something new, I just don't want
other stuff that I don't use.
So I had like my Ronin S gimbal that I never really use.
I had some like Canon lens adapters and stuff.
eBay works, but you have to deal with like all the seller fees and then a
website I really like is GearFocus.
So if you have the time and the patience to put something up for
sale and wait for it to sell,
GearFocus is great because you'll probably be able to get
more for what you're selling.
But MPB was one of those things where it's like, they give you an instant quote, they
give you a shipping label to print out and then you just send it in and you're done.
So that covered more than half the cost of this drone here just with
stuff that I had sitting around.
And now I'm like, "I wanna go through everything and be like, what, what do I
get rid of? Or what can I get rid of that I don't need anymore?!"
So I just wanted to throw that out there as an idea if you're
trying to get new or upgraded gear, potentially selling, finding ways
to sell your old gear to finance, that could be a really smart idea.
And speaking of smart ideas, thank you to everyone who helps
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