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This is the Air 2S.
It dropped the Mavic naming, it's just the Air 2S now
and this is the whole package.
It comes with the batteries, the charger,
it's got a bag now.
I got to say,
this is a huge improvement on the Air 2.
Maybe not huge huge, but it's good.
It takes all of the shortcomings of the Air 2
and it brings it up to a whole 'nother level
but let's first show you what we got in the bag.
There's some nice die cut foam pieces,
and here she be.
You can see some initial upgrades.
It's got a much, much larger sensor
and it's got upward facing cameras.
We have battery number one, battery number two,
and the charger.
If I remember correctly,
this is the handiest thing
that I didn't get in the old package.
It gives you USB ports
by plugging in one of your spare batteries
or if you're like me and you fly half a battery
and then you can use it to charge your devices
while you're doing other things.
Like so.
Neat.
We have the DJI remote.
It's very similar to the old remote
and actually the FCC IDs on both of these are the same,
which tells me they're the same remote.
But the difference here is this one says Tripod
and this one says Cine.
And if that tells you anything,
it means this is for making videos.
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We're first going to look at the sensor
which is the big change here.
Look at the size, absolute units.
So this has a 1/2-inch sensor and it does pretty well.
It's a 48 megapixel sensor
but it can only receive so much light
on a little 1/2-inch size sensor.
This guy is 20 megapixels
but that's not the important part.
This is a 1-inch sensor and the bigger the sensor
on the camera is the more light it can receive.
In lower light situations, say you're flying where
there's a shadow on one side of a mountain and sun
on the other side, you have more dynamic range
meaning you can see everything without losing the highlights
or the low lights.
A quick start guide which,
not that I haven't read it.
I know you guys got cranky last time
I threw away manuals so I did read it.
Safety advice, follow safety regulations.
That's a FAA Part 107,
if you're in the U.S.
We've got prompts
and these appear to be the same prompts that came
with the Air 2.
I thought they were lower noise prompts
but they're just really quiet prompts.
There is a USB-C
the USB-C if you're an Android user
or USB-C to USB Micro
but DJI really markets these devices towards iOS users.
So it comes with a lightning cable in the controller.
We have a USB-C to USB-A cable for charging your remote
or you can read directly off the drone
but you have to have it turned on.
The best thing about this drone,
this thing is so tiny for the quality of footage
it gives you.
And when we got the Air,
it was just a drone, a charger, and one battery
which was a little difficult to deal with.
Because these are coming as full packages,
this has a set of, look at this
four lovely ND filters.
It comes with ND filters.
- [Brandon] That's amazing!
- This killed Brandon when we were shooting
the first DJI video
that we, we couldn't find ND filters.
DJI didn't have them in stock yet.
We had to get 'em third party.
It was a nightmare.
Grab the gimbal gently, twist.
Off that comes, and then you can check on
any of the filters.
In fact, if you're recording high FPS
or high resolution stuff off of this drone,
you can't use all of the features all the time.
Things like ActiveTrack, or I think spotlight also.
You can't use if you're recording
and say 5.4K, which this one can do.
The old drone was down to
or the Air2 was down to 4K/60.
This one would do 4K/60 and 5.4K/30
which is more cinematic in the sense
that you can record a larger image.
And then if you want to punch in digitally
you're still above 4K
and it makes your filming experience a little bit nicer
on the editing side of things.
Underneath,
we have a spotlight.
So at night or in twilight, you can land
with your light and you can see what you're doing.
We have two sensors at the bottom, two sensors at the back
and then we have four sensors up front.
So two front facing, two upwards facing where
if I had those upwards facing sensors,
it would have prevented this.
(grumbles)
The obstacle avoidance in-flight
or APAS 4.0 with this drone indicates
that there are four directions that is sensing.
The higher spec drones will have more obstacle detection
but four directions is more than enough.
I actually had a couple instances where I came in
really really close to some irrigation piping
in a farm that I was on this weekend.
And the drone stopped itself from crashing.
And I'm grateful because I brought it back
in one piece and it's not mine.
I'm sure Linus is very happy with that.
(laughs)
Orange tips, very LTT.
Approved.
As far as flight time is concerned,
it did decrease a little.
There's a 3-minute decrease in flight time
but that's still 31 minutes.
31 minutes is more than long enough to make
like time-lapses, which is something I can't do
with the drones that I make and fly.
This thing is so stable in the air
that I, I did some hyper lapses this weekend
of cows moving across a field.
It is inspiring how stable the footage is.
And these batteries are fancy,
they have a little computer board in them
that if you keep a light bulb battery charged too high,
it's kind of like filling up a balloon beyond its limit.
It starts to stretch out after a while
These batteries are intelligent
meaning they will decharge themselves
if they're just sitting in a bag for too long
and they'll bring them back down to a safe capacity
to save your battery time.
Oh, hello?
- [Jono] It's like a computer.
Yeah, it is a computer,
there's active cooling in here.
Drone's set up is the same.
You can pull the two sticks
out of the bottom,
screw them in,
plug it in and power it on.
Oh, they did improve some things.
Oh, yes.
I don't know if you can see that
but they had a digital zoom right on here.
If you tap and hold
you can change where the gimbal is pointing.
We can point it at our lovely Brandon or maybe Jono.
Oh, wait, wait.
We can, we can punch in more.
So we're at 4K/30 right now, we can change to
1080p/30
and
there, there's 8X.
That is quite the zoom.
It's wild.
Like, it's truly incredible to fly this thing.
And I, flying here in the city,
doesn't do it any justice.
We're going to throw up some clips of a,
of a cattle ranch I was on this weekend
and I'm very excited to show it off.
And you'll see the dynamic performance when we're flying
like in mountain, where there's shade on one side
and sun on the other, this thing performs way better
than the tiny little sensor on the Air2 does.
Okay. So, just the drone, one battery
and a charger is a thousand dollars.
And then the combo kit
which has three batteries, the bag, ND filters.
I don't know why anyone wouldn't buy that for an extra $250.
If I were you, I would buy the bag.
So, some changes to the software
include adding the Pro button
in the bottom right corner.
So you can adjust all your white balance, your resolution
in FPS, check your storage and change storing from the
on the SD card or storing on the drone.
There is 8GB of storage on the drone,
just in case you forget an SD card
and you need the shot.
And you can try.
So, I usually leave it Auto.
But if you're say coming out
of a shaded area into a light area,
it's good to lock that down
and your EV
and bop it up or down.
This is where the DJI side of things
really shows its worth,
is good hardware is nothing without good software.
The whole package here is, is what you're buying.
You're buying into the software that works,
even if it does update a lot.
I mean, they're always adding new features
and it's continually getting better.
When I fly the drones that I build myself,
they are bare-boned.
It's like throwing a V8
in a tiny car and it's, it's a handful.
Flying this is so easy.
I could put this in the hands of anyone,
I could put this in the hands of my mom and say, you know
pull the sticks together and then put it
up in the air and it will fly itself,
it will land itself.
It is so easy and that's where the DJI wins,
for me.
And there are a variety of other settings in here too.
And one of them is Color
so we can switch to filming in D-Log.
So, if you're grading your footage down the line,
D-Log provides a better dynamic range,
better gradation in your highlights in the shadows.
There's also HLG and MP4 or MOV for your formats.
Oh, one other thing is this has OcuSync 4.0
or I think it's just called OC 4.0 now.
It's a improvement on their OcuSync technology
which is their digital transmission.
So they've added two more antennas
and they've extended the range
to about 12 kilometers on this drone.
And I took it out
- (laughs)
Yeah. I took it about 6K out and I was still getting
like full frame rate, full resolution.
And I also took it beyond the limit.
I flew beyond line of sight,
down a cliff
and the GPS like, auto-returned to home,
kicked in and it flew up to 120 meters
and returned back to home,
and it came back into GPS range.
If that was on my drone, it would have fallen
out of the sky and down into the Columbia river.
This is neat.
I haven't seen this before.
So, it dynamically switches channels, radio channels.
And you can see it's picking
up all the RF interference that's
around us and picking the best channel to broadcast on.
So if you fly near a cell tower or power lines,
you'll get RF interference, even big steel buildings.
That is so neat.
Down the bottom, we have ActiveTrack.
Can't use it cause we're not flying.
So, ActiveTrack will actively follow you.
And if you run down a hill,
it'll follow you down.
Spotlight,
I can grab onto a thing.
And if I move the drone, it stays fixed on that thing.
You can see the gimbal doing work right here.
If you follow DJI on Twitter, you might've seen their
April Fool's joke about MasterShots,
where you could rent a DJI team with a camera and
and they'd come out for 24 hours to 7 days.
Well, that was a joke
but there are MasterShots on this drone.
So they're pre-built cinematic shots that you
can just apply to your scene.
You pick whichever one you want
and it will automatically do the, do the flight
whether you're waypoint to waypoint, or tracking an object.
Essentially, MasterShots take the hard part
of taking the video off the drone,
does it all for you,
plops it on your phone
and you can throw it to whatever social media you want.
And that is the sort of feature
that could get my mom to fly drones.
I should get my mom to fly this.
It would be hilarious, but she could do it.
And that I think is the key feature here.
With all that said,
if I took this drone and handed it
to someone completely inexperienced,
they would do fine.
Maybe read the quick start guide.
You know, it's all on the remote anyway,
it'll guide you through the basics.
You could go and make top quality,
beautiful cinematic footage with this and add it
to whatever you want to do with it.
Whether it's post on social media
or you want to make car reviews.
I would recommend it to anyone who wants to go
and make videos easily.
This is the drone.
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