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all right winter is here and also the update to the dji mavic 3
now if you watched my review previously you know that that i had my issues with this product being
released prematurely and it was basically half baked but let's see if this update
changes our opinion and justifies the steep price tag let's get right into it
look at this backdrop i mean it's a little bit chilly and windy but
i can't think of a better place to fly fly the drone and test out this update
let's get a takeoff spot ready here look is it made for for a drone to take off in fact actually
there has been already an update in december i have not updated it since so this massive update
is really promising especially from a filmmaker's perspective i had a few issues that impeded
me using the drone properly i also got my nd filters now let's see what this new update brings
so one major issue that i had when it came out the drone had lock profile but it didn't have
the color display assist which basically puts a lot on top of the lock footage that you see
on on your controller so it was basically very difficult to use the lock profile when you're
flying in order to see if you're sharp if you're properly exposed that is has changed you can just
easily enable it here as the color display assist and can use d-lock without any issues so really
excited about that another thing that they changed is around the zoom so you see me here standing and
now we're shooting 5.1 k and if i hit the function button and the wheel i can zoom in slowly to 2x
zoom now that's a digital zoom but with the 5.1 k footage it actually i mean i have to look it up
on the on the bigger display but from what i can see here in the first place it looks
quite good and another piece i updated around the zoom is actually on this explorer mode the
the 7x zoom camera that the drone comes with now i was actually actually excited about this feature
but didn't see like too many uh applications in the professional space around it because
it is still a soft image now they they added more sharpening to it now adding sharpening in camera
is always a little bit dodgy but let's figure out and let's see if this uh new upgraded seven times
zoom looks better i'm gonna film myself now for a little bit uh we have the two times zoom here
then we go into four times this is all still digital but now it switches over into uh the the
7x zoom and it's a little underexposed actually now you still don't have too many of the manual
changes it still only shoots in the standard color profile not log but by the looks of it
it looks quite decent let's fly it over there over to lakeshore drive and see if it gets some nicer
shots also my hands are absolutely freezing but look at this frozen lake i mean that's
that's only what you get when you have cold temperatures and freeze your hands off
all right here we have some traffic let's zoom in here we can press the function button and use the
zoom button now let's see if i can hit it to focus all right keep searching the focus i don't know
all right i have to have to check it out in post to me it looks decent let's let's let's check
out some of the skyscrapers if this looks better because i i had some soft issues with those before
let's do like a little bit of a parallax shot here see this searching of the focus that i don't like
um you would have to swap into manual focus if you want to keep it i guess
okay the windshield is too crazy i'm gonna get inside warm up a little and shoot another time
okay another day and even colder to do it's minus 10 degrees feels like -21 or so with the windchill
but we have a beautiful sunset waiting for us over there let's get up the drone and see what we get
definitely want to test the new master shots and quick shots as well as the hyperlines
oh one thing that is definitely upgrade is the advanced settings that you can now easily access
when you want to change the aperture exposure time etc etc that's a big win
for filmmakers certainly a photographer so let's get this thingy up in the air
it's beautiful i mean the colors but again people are people are telling me that like everyone has
experienced the same thing since the update the gps signals seem to be weaker and it takes longer
for the drone to connect so that's definitely something to consider i'm out here with my
buddy doug who is flying the mavic 3 as well our friends the seagulls are around us all the time
okay so they have added master shots which is basically giving you
it just does it automatically a bunch of different kinds of shots
based on where the subject is uh i don't know if i try if i do i trust it enough to do it here i mean
we're half on the over the water will it fly over to the connection wait master shots only works in
4k 30 and not in lock footage either okay so that disqualifies it for me already because i want to
shoot log in 24 frames per second okay good to know update you know uh that's a limitation here
another ad features added are on the photography side finally they added panorama
which is something that i use actually quite a lot at the volcano and also i'm a big fan of
these photo spheres i upload them actually to google maps i will take one now and then
upload it to google maps and leave the link down in the description so you can check it
out but let's get the drone up a little bit higher and take a panorama of photosphere
great opportunity to warm your hands it just takes these photos now in all directions you can
give it a little great in photoshop afterwards in lightroom that's what i do and then you can
just upload it to google maps and boom done it's actually way faster than it used to do
it it took way longer before it's done already what else what else what else so the quick shots
those are the modes where you can just like steadily it locks on to your point of interest
and then can do what they call a droney uh which is basically a
selfie where you kind of just let it go and it goes out in the distance and it reveals to you
as uh if it reveals you in your environment they have like a satellite no what's it called like a
rocket rocket they have rocket which is like top down goes up and then asteroid let's try asteroid
because that's that's a fun thing to do come on over here duck you're gonna be in the photo
two one i think now so it goes up and now it takes i think it's actually photo sphere that it takes
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let's go back to siberia focus track is something that i also finally added and that i wanted to try
because you can now also adjust the angle it films you at apparently it's not available
when you shoot at 5.1 k at 24 frames per second but if you dial it down to 4k it is enabled i'm
going to try it out now give it over to duck as a safety precaution is it following me
oh it's following both of us come on ah here we go
it's always beautiful to shoot this chicago skyline it's just gorgeous buildings beautiful
architecture nice reflections with the colors especially around sunset the light is
bouncing back and forth between the buildings
another thing they added for the mavic 3 cna is that hyper speed super fast data download uh if
you record in prores and onto the one terabyte onboard hard drive you definitely benefit now from
a faster data transfer to your hard drive to your computer certainly benefit if you're one of the
lucky ones with the cena version i'm also happy to report that the battery life doesn't seem to be
too much impeded by the minus 15 degrees celsius that we have right now so good on you good on
you i've never had issues honestly i've tried it last year as well and despite the fact that these
drones are up in the air where it's even colder and you have the wind chill as well i'm impressed
all right day number three another day it's actually even colder minus
20 degrees feels like -25 but the lake is steaming so let's get up the drone again
and just get a few more shots and see how it looks
you know let's try another hyperlapse yesterday i wasn't really happy with
it uh let's let's get one up here and let's look at this sunrise here beautiful
all right we're taking the next hyperlapse now so i can also warm up my hands
it's really the fingers that are going really fast if you have just these thin gloves on
it's a very jittery hyperlapse but you will get the idea
all right has the upgrade changed my opinion about the mavic 3 yes it's certainly now a well-rounded
drone especially as a filmmaker the addition of color assist on the log profile the [ __ ] that
you put on as well as the addition to access the settings a little bit easier is definitely
an improvement the addition of all these quick shots master shots and and so on and so forth
it's not super important to me do i wish that the zoom camera the 7x zoom camera has log profile and
can shoot in 24 frames per second yes my feature request to dji would be to also manipulate the
function button so that i can actually click the function button and adjust the aperture with the
wheel instead of the zooming in if you have a mavic mini s air 2 or whatever they call the
smaller ones it would be certainly an upgrade going to the mavic 3 especially on the camera
front if you have the mavic 2 pro image wise i don't see a huge improvement but certainly and
this is very important obviously as as filmmakers as well is the flight time it's clearly improved
even in this very crazy conditions it doesn't make much of a difference to the battery life so
definitely a huge improvement but as always thanks so much for watching if you enjoyed it
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morning have a good night whenever and wherever you are around this beautiful planet bye bye
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