Hey everybody, I'm Tom and today we are going to be doing another look in 2019
at the GoPro karma drone and comparing it to the Maverick pro let's jump into
it I'm gonna keep the Mavic Pro off to the side for a little bit because the
first thing we're gonna do is test the Karma with the new GoPro Hero 7 you guys
all know that the GoPro 7 has some really exceptional base stabilization
inside it's color grade is a little bit better and I'm super curious to see how
it's gonna look hanging out of the GoPro Karma if you
guys are into this you want to know I'm gonna also do a video in the near future
about the GoPro karma grip in the GoPro seven so if you're into that stuff make
sure you guys subscribe so let's set this guy up and take it in the air so if
you guys aren't new chances are you've seen my video featuring the GoPro karma
drone and me using this guy right here this is the GoPro Hero 5 black me let's
just say the review wasn't stellar but today we're gonna be using this guy
right here which not gonna lie I'm pretty excited about because as a camera
goes and you guys might know hopefully you already have one and you're looking
at this video because you're planning on maybe buying this guy right here this is
an exceptional camera GoPro really knocked it out of the park with this one
and I'm stoked to see how it does in this guy so once our cameras in let's
take this guy out so I might have drilled at home on the last video but
the GoPro karma has one main issue as far as I'm concerned and that is its
sheer size this guy measures let's even give you the benefit of the doubt and
turn these guys sideways this guy measures about 16 inches 16 by 9 so he's
huge where I know I don't need to say this and drill it into you guys over and
over again but the Mavericks pros significantly smaller coming in at 8 by
4 both standing approximately 3 and 1/2 this guy's just better for travel
not a bad drone ignore the previous videos thumbnail I got you guys to click
it you definitely watched it as far as controller goes
we're roughing I mean about the same in the last video I described how much I
liked this guy right here this little clamshell comes with its own screen its
battery seems to last a lot better than that of even a newer iPhone or Android
especially pulling so much signal to send it to or from the Mavic Pro this
clamshell comes in in about seven by five by two-and-a-half or this little
controller not with a phone comes in by six by three and a half by two so is
what it is dual sticks buttons pans same as this
guy I actually like this guy a lot better lastly let's look at batteries
the DJI Matic Pro is about two of the same lengths where the Karma drone is
about eight by three about three by four so literally two of these batteries one
of these batteries a little bit longer length for flight time not a big deal
you're dealing with a little bit of older tech but still quality so here we
go we're just gonna pop this guy in the drone pulled out our legs get the gimbal
set and there we go and fully extended drones about 17 by 15
by 5 it's a big drone it's a heavy drone and that's actually a pro in this case
what I've noticed even using my Matic pro over the past couple of years is
that on a super windy day it just can't handle itself I'm fighting air current
to even get it back to a home base to land if I'm doing a return to home it
barely works so it's one of those things where a drone with a little bit more
girth is gonna handle itself a hundred times better so let's throw this guy up
in the air and start recording some footage with the new GoPro seven just
starting this guy up right now automatically paired st. beautiful pump
to get this guy up in the air okay so right now it's saying no cameras
found install the camera before flying one of those things I assume we have to
do with the new GoPro seven let's make sure that we're doing this right hoist
alerts on auto bright so we have no idea where to go
Karma's paired swipe up install the camera maybe the camera on display is
what needs to be touched okay so it looks like it looks like
there is a dot-com update that I have to do even before flying so we're gonna
shut this down and I'll be right back once the once the Cameron drone are all
paired and updated and ready to go alright so I just wanted to update you
guys I had an update to my camera the stabilizer the drone and the controller
so I do believe that with all of these updates the the karma drone is now able
to do a follow-me mode and hopefully a little better stabilization and
recognize the GoPro Hero seven so that's all I really wanted to be able to share
in this process it took about 25 minutes to kind of get everything up to date but
um we're gonna be back on it outside flying this guy in no time so here we go
okay so are our updates are done the GoPro seven hero black GoPro seven hero
black the new camera is completely tied in and updated with the kata with the
drone the gimbal was also updated and the clamshell was updated so let's let's
just swipe up you know show you guys what's going on I'm super hard to do
sorry guys alright swiping up so we have our picture what we're gonna do right
off the bat is just start recording all right so we're on and here we go let's
just do liftoff
ready to fly and we are going up there we go
okay so this is gonna be our landing pad right here just so we keep the camera
out of the grass and wet because it turns out that it's just it's never
hiring so let's let's just take this guy for a spin
so what I've noticed already is there's a little bit of a delay with with
joystick to just screen and does seem to be going a little bit slower than the
Mavic Pro which isn't a terrible thing not a terrible thing the color seems to
be a little bit better coming through my screen than what originally happened the
last time that we use the GoPro Hero 5 black it looks nice man everything's
kind of sharp clear I'm stoked for you guys to see it you know what I'm gonna
do right now is we're gonna test some of the modes cuz I don't want to let this
guy out of my eye shot you know because it's illegal I'm going to return to
launch and maybe we can cancel this as soon as so it does go higher than I
originally launched it and it's going to come right back to the table we're gonna
see how close that hits meanwhile on its way back I'm gonna kind of browse some
of the features on on the new update and we're gonna see we're gonna see how the
follow me works and and I'm kind of stoked this is more just sorry guys i'm
definitely out of focus this is definitely more just of like a
video comparison because I'm interested in seeing how the seven functions on the
karma is the seven paired with the Karma a better drone to buy an all-inclusive
drone with a camera than even spending I don't know the now 300-400 dollars for
300 $400 for a Matic Pro sorry I just want to make sure I'm not hitting in
table
it's fighting me to land so can I cancel a land I think I can cancel it there we
go and now we're hovering the joysticks a lot smoother to move I haven't really
played with ping yet but I really like the joysticks on this so much better so
the only way we're really going to be able to see the quality of the video
that's coming out of this camera is to take it back look at it post and you
guys are gonna get a little bit more in-depth analysis of how the video looks
stabilization which I'm not worried about the video was always stabilized
even using the GoPro Hero 5 but I mean I can only imagine that the 7 is gonna be
that much better and it's it the color alone just looks exceptional compared to
5 which we shot I believe in log but even if it wasn't the lots that I was
putting on it just they weren't doing it you couldn't pull out color on this guy
so I'm gonna fly this guy a little bit more and then I'm gonna record not even
on camera but I'm gonna record a little bit with the Mavic Pro just so you guys
can see like a force flight how fast we're going you know oh I'll check back
to you guys in studio and we'll talk a little bit more about the drone
yeah
okay so so Oh God here's the thing about this drone is it's bet I need to I'm
gonna end up crashing this thing it like force lands even when there's adequate
time
super unfortunate it's ridiculous it's literally how a drone crashes so
here's a here's a super unfortunate thing is even in follow-me mode as soon
as the battery as soon as the battery hits a level where there's like three
and a half four minutes left it forces it forced stops and it follows back to
you to the controller once the controller is within its range you have
to physically cancel the follow and then figure out how you're going to get your
drone to a safe spot stupid terrible terrible and then as soon as it hits one
minute it forced lands wherever you are so regardless of where you are you have
to fight it to keep it up in the air you have 60 seconds to figure out so what I
was gonna do in turn was get it to real and on there and I had plenty of time
but as soon as it hit that one minute it tried landing on like the corner of it
so
kind of kind of stupid not gonna lie a little bit a little bit disappointed
with with how that turned out so here's another thing we're still actually
recording even though the battery on this guy is and I don't know if you guys
can see this but I figured out that the delay actually comes from the camera to
the system so if I was to pick up on one two three just picked up its got like a
good like one-second delay on and that's important when the flying I'm gonna turn
this guy off super important when when flying and I can't figure out why
there's such a delay it made me even nervous flying in an open field because
even when I'm turning even turning to move around trees and and try to get
pans and sweeps and stuff made me super nervous because I wasn't actually sure
how close I was though it really makes getting a calculated shot that much more
difficult that's it I think I got plenty of footage to be able to cut up show you
guys kind of kind of stoked to get into this so the next time you see me we'll
be in the studio and we'll be cutting up some of this video alright guys so I
just got done cutting up that video putting together the follow me mode that
rail mode showing you guys the issues with the lag between the camera and the
controller and a couple other things every video that came from that karma
drone was totally unedited I didn't do any other color correction on so what
you're seeing is directly what was captured via the camera and I gotta say
it was pretty awesome I'm also gonna be throwing up some DJI drone Matic pro
footage for you guys do testing prepare everything again is going to be unedited
directly from camera the only issue with that was the video that came from that
DJI drone was had I ended up having to send it directly to my phone via a mini
SD card so there might be a little bit of cut out because of how that data was
transferred but regardless I hope this video helps you guys make a better
decision on in 2019 is investing in the Karma drone is it worth buying as an
all-inclusive gimbal drone camera combo versus just spending that money on a DJI
product or any other drone for that matter I highly recommend you guys take
into consideration the sizes that I outlined for you there take out a ruler
and look at it it's it's pretty big so just to touch on some of the DJI Mavic
pro footage really quick the footage to me compared to the Karma pretty similar
I feel like the GoPro Hero 7 obviously captured a lot more dynamic range the
color was a little bit more on point and maybe it's even smoother the thing about
the drone in particular is the Mavic Pro is substantially faster there's no lag
delay between controllers and screen what you see is what you get and that's
a super important thing when flying I guess the only way to say is you don't
realize how much of a delay there is until you fly the Karma I'd be curious
if somebody watches this also as the Karma also has that problem if you
notice a substantial delay between controllers and screen let me know or if
there is a curb to fix it let me know that too now granted I didn't get a
chance to play with the different picture size on the GoPro 7 so
everything that was recorded was filmed in super wide hence the fisheye bulb
look but I do like that with GoPro sometimes it feels faster more fun less
cinematic so compared to the DJI definitely on par if not a better camera
at this point in time in 2019 the controllers themselves I said it once
I'll say it again the GoPro Karma clam shell is leaps and bounds ahead of the
DJI Matic pro controller with the cellphone it's all there is to it but
thank you guys for sticking around checking out another video if you got
anything out of this video I highly recommend you subscribing I'm doing a
lot more tech savvy forward stuff and I'm having a
time doing it and if you can get on board for all the other storytelling
stuff that I do I think you'll like the channel if you guys have any questions
about the DJI Mavic pro or the gopro Karma
hit me up in the comments below I do my best to answer any and all questions and
take constructive criticism pretty well so thank you guys again for watching I
hope to see you in the next video peace