good afternoon or good morning wherever you are today I'm going to do a review
on the DJI mavic probe this is going to be a 15 minute review on every little
intricate detail of the mavic it's purely going to be a quick overview of
the mavic and if you think it might be see you that's it so the digi automatic
club had this for about three months give or take so the big reason everyone
like something is because it folds up through this big it really is timing
probably having this I had a DJI phantom 3 standard or or the 4k version and I
loved it was a great drive it just was too big anytime I wanted to bring up
somewhere I have to bring this big bag and it it just just wasn't practical so
I'm going to break this down into different categories design but those
things honestly tiny that's the big reason the most people want it it really
is small it folds up into this little tiny design and that's it it really is
very very small let's go four arms legs lady on a column and essentially that's
it very very well built although it's made of plastic it doesn't feel cheap
the plastic on this is definitely a lot more solid than Maddog phantom 3 well
it's plastic it's not like even with the battery off it's still got a little bit
of weight to it so it does so i just made as well as you can see you've got
the gimbal so the gimbal fit right at the front of the camera biggest
difference between this and the Phantom or any of the other phantoms I guess is
they fit the law in the middle and this one through the fuck so a little bit of
a different design there quick release propellers so you don't have to screw
them on or off or anything like that battery slots in really sounds like it
goes in while and click nice so no problems with that it feels way better
in the hand and when you see in person versus any other
but yeah I pretty much take it anywhere I take my camera now there's an
opportunity to film with the drawn I'm going to get it out so small so
convenient that's the biggest reason you want to get the moment its size it's
convenient you can take it anywhere you can film just like you would take your
camera to film video that's the biggest reason honestly that you want to get
this convenient I'm going to cut through a different clip now and show you the
design on the mavic up close so here is the underneath of the mavic with the
gimbal cover there that's clear you can fly with it on but it pops off and the
gimbal protector as well this is the view from the top and as you can see the
legs the arms sure you want to call them a fold-out so for extended it looks just
like this this is a close-up of the quick-release propellers you just push
down town they come off and put them back on just push down and turn the
opposite way
here's the battery we've actually clicks in and out really does feel follow when
it's in there and it clicks really nicely pushing that just shows you how
much battery life is left none of you from the front here so you can see the
gimbal and then the underneath with the senses and when you fold it back up
together this is how it looks so the propellers do obviously move around a
little bit you can fold them in just like that and there it is the camera
where first came out there was a lot of problems with people focusing and not
understanding how to focus it that's all been addressed now everyone knows it's a
manually focusable camera you can tap the focus when you're controlling it or
you can even now as an update you can set it through it's completely automatic
continuous focus so it kind of focuses the same now as any of the other
phantoms did before so the camera is obviously a 4k camera it's a little bit
of a different sensor to any of the other phantoms a smaller sensor which is
evident from the size of the camera and obviously a smaller camera too and a
smaller gimbal as well so I do use this primarily for video but I take the
bitches too if you want to check out my Instagram just below you'll see a lot of
my more recent pictures are taken with somatic and there were pretty good
quality and you'd be surprised how how good some of the photos can be one
recommendation is always take the photos and set the mattock to take a roar that
way you have full availability to do what you want in Photoshop a lighter and
now after you've taken a video quality is the 4k camera does it fall in 2k and
some other ones as well I would recommend filming you need a 4k or two
quesadilla maximum resolution up that quality is with me than four of the 2k
some people seem to think the 2k is better than the 4k because of the
bitrate I can't really tell that much of a difference so I just got 4k it gives
me more to play with and toast if I need to move the shot around or crop it a
little bit so i use 4k i do use it for professional work mainly weddings
and I think if you look at some of the work I've done you will seal it those
was very high quality and completely acceptable I'm going to post a short
film I made just for this video at the end and you can kind of get an idea of
what you think the quality is like with it pretty sure you'll be happy with it
that's realize we don't need to talk about the battery too much if you're not
happy with the battery of it there's an easier to fix that get another one or
get two or three or however many you want but yeah you're not happy the
batteries get more it's 25-minute battery really is not for me if I go
somewhere I need to be able users more I just bring the second battery pretty
straightforward so problems with the mavic are there any and yes honestly
there's a few when I first got this thing actually wasn't too happy with it
took me about a month to realize that the issues I were having were problems
that needed to be fixed so I actually send it away to California and it was
repaired well at keeping in looks sending me a brand new one in the end
but when it came back super happy with it that being said the issues that I
have with it the droid of soft blue okay I had some issues with is the downward
senses in that anytime I've hit the down button it would start the land the
camera footage was really shaky and you would have lines it would come across it
it's commonly referred to as a gel effect here's the clip if you want to
see it
so yeah that was the jello effort that has done all my clips and driving me
nuts they searched around trying to figure out what the solution lies and it
ended up just being it needed to be done away and repaired it came back and the
issue was gone so that was something that needed to be repaired if you have
that gel effect just send it away it'll come back and all who be good in the
world the other problem you might find this it's not so much of a problem more
of a hindrance it's it's very close to the ground so the gimbal on the camera
and uni touching the ground when it is on the ground so you have to kind of
watch where you take off a new land but there's an easy fix to that it involves
you buying something but it's like ten bucks you want to get these things
they're landing seats leg extenders I don't know what they call it but I got
them off ebay they're pretty cool they just clip on and once they're on it
looks like this so it gives you a lot more height from the ground to be able
to take off from but that's an easy fix for ten dollars just i'll put a link
below to amazon or ebay or wherever I find an insulting but i got mine they're
like ten dollars they're really cheap emails they're just 3d printers that
clip on and off but they work really well for they are very happy with those
and easy way to fix this is the other thing as well the low-light performance
because it is a little bit of a smaller sensor the low-light performance isn't
great again you'll see on the little filming of the folks at the end it's
acceptable for professional work I wouldn't regard the lowlights being okay
but for just taking pictures or something like that it's not too bad but
yes take a lot of the film and hope you enjoy it and that's it
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