alrighty we're talking about the best drones for 2022 so we're gonna jump right into it let me
just make my screen a little bigger here okay so obviously everyone's pumped up about the mavic 3
but that may not be the best drone for you so let's talk about it so an overview for today's
video is that i'm going to show you the best drones for 2022 in five different categories
so these are the categories i made up which are hobbyists richie rich digging for dinero sub 250
gram under 0.55 pounds and the pro category all right so i thought that'd be fun to do and this
pretty much covers most people i'd say this is it you know this is 95 percent of people right here
all right so hobbyist so we're going to get into hobbyists right now and my top three picks what
i'll do for each category is i'm going to give you my top three picks okay and my top three picks
for the hobbyist category are the dji air 2s the autel evo light plus just which is available for
pre-order right now and at the time this recording anyway and the dji mavic air 2 okay so why did i
pick those well a lot of people may be saying hey why didn't you you know people the phantom 4 pro
or the mavic 2 pro is not that expensive what uh now why why didn't you pick those well you
know i think it's always best to have the latest technology because the newest app is the dji fly
app whereas the dji go 4 app is a little outdated not outdated it's a really good app actually
but it's just that's not where the technology is going so dji is investing all
its resources and energy and technology into the newer drones and the newer app so
i would say if you're gonna buy and you're gonna start out a you're going to probably save a little
more money buying the air 2s and rather than mavic 2 pro and you have that new technology
so the mavic air 2 also has that newer technology now the autel evo light plus is a great drone one
inch drone one inch sensor um has great specs 20 megapixel photos but the thing about the evo light
plus evo light plus is that it's a little it's much more expensive than the air 2s
at least at the time of this recording so i would say you know these two are very similar
so you might as well go with the air 2s because you're in the dgi ecosystem which you could always
upgrade at a later point to something like the mavic 3 so i think learning the dji drone first is
always your best option also i think dji is better color than autel but we'll have to see how this
light plays out okay so let's talk about the best drone in this category the air 2s
shoots up to 5.4 k up to 30 frames per second okay that 5.4 k so it's a little slightly cropped in
the 4k shoots up to 60 frames per second or or i should say the 4k sorry the 4k 60 frames per
second is slightly cropped in whereas the 5.4k is a little wider i like the um i like both of
them i shoot both of them i usually go with the 4k 60 frames per second because i can slow that
down in post-production and you have it's still plenty good for me now it's got a one-inch sensor
however the image quality is not going to be as good as the mavic 2 pro or the mavic 3
but it does shoot but for this price and the fact that it has 12.6 stops of dynamic range
you also have the 5.4k ability and the 4k 60 frames per second which the mavic 2 pro doesn't
and it has a one inch sensor and a very tiny package it's very light very small and it flies
up to 7.5 mile range so all those factors make it a great choice now phantom 4 pro is discontinued
and still a great drone but you know it's big and it's older so i would rather go this
save a lot of money and you get all of this okay so let's move on richie rich all right richie rich
so this is for the person who's got all the money in the world money's no object what drone should
you get well i would probably get the dji matrice 300 which i call the swiss army knife of drones
because it kind of does everything really well and you can put up to three payloads on it as you can
see in this image right here and it does things like mapping you can put on thermal cameras you
can put on you can see here there's there's this camera that has there's an a newer camera where
you can put four cameras on at once it's four cameras in one so you can zoom you got a zoom
camera you got a normal great camera then you got a thermal camera so for inspections for mapping uh
this drone is really a great drone also just for normal shooting and it can handle winds up to 50
miles per hour and it can fly or i should say 40 but 50 you can still probably fly it
but handle winds up to 40 miles per hour and get smooth footage and it also can fly in
semi-rainy condition i wouldn't say downpour but if it's raining you can still fly it uh
now the dji inspire 2 is my second choice and the dji mavic 3 cine is my third choice
okay so inspire 2 still get a little better image quality than mavic 3 city even though
cine probably has better features the overall image quality of the inspire 2 because you can
use the x7 is going to be a little better and let me talk about that in a sec so money is no object
while the matrice is great okay i would still probably get the inspire too because there's
some more geared for cinematographers filmmakers and i assume that's most people out there whereas
if you want to do mapping or inspections then i'd probably get the matrice 300 whereas if i want to
do filmmaking i'll go to inspire 2 because it fly up to 65 miles per hour you can use the x7 camera
which is a super 35 sensor so it's a crib equivalent of a 1.5 crop so it comes with
those four prime lenses the four prime lenses the dji lenses that it comes with are the 16 the 24
the 35 and the 50 which on the crop factor is equivalent to about 24 35 50 and about
75 or 80. so you get a good range from wide angle to normal to portrait mode so all those are great
uh great choices right there it can fly in winds up to about 40 miles per hour maybe even a little
faster than that and of course it has pro res and cine dng so the prores you shoot 5.2 k
and the cine dng should you shoot up to 6k in raw okay and obviously that's going to be
super expensive uh a lot more expensive than the mavic 3 city but you're richie rich so that's no
big deal for you all right so on to the next one and links are below for all these drones
so after done with this video if you want to check them out go for it all right digging for dinero so
you don't have much money you're on a budget uh or you just you know you don't want to spend a
lot of money on a drone you just want to get it get into it have fun or you know someone you want
to give it to a gift you don't want to spend a fortune you know you could go with them i would
go with the dji mini 2 or the dji mini okay both those drones are also under 249 grams but the
main reason i go for the mini 2 is because it can fly well in wind and it has better resolution than
the mini the windy the mini can't really handle wind that well you might get a fly away and the
mini 2 can handle winds up to 19 to 24 miles per hour so that's pretty good for a 249 gram drone a
point point uh 54 pound drone and it shoots 4k up to 30 frames per second which is great for a drone
this size uh you don't have to register it if you don't put any filters and like cage on it you just
fly it as it is it's under 250 grams so you don't have to register it as well at least here in the
united states um it flies up to 6.2 miles so it's got great range and it flies 36 miles per hour
and for up to 31 minutes so all that i mean in that size i believe it's now under it's under 500
i think it's a great deal personally i've had to buy the three drones i would probably buy right
now well that would be one of them certainly and i'll get on to the other ones that i buy
now this sub 250 gram category under 0.55 pounds which you don't have to register as i said before
i would go with the autel evo nano plus then i'll tell evo nano now i know these drones
haven't are are just just released so they um if you're watching this video later they're
probably already out but um as of this recording they're just being released and these drones
are the specs are pretty crazy for what you get in a neono drone for a drone that you don't have
to register under 250 grams so light the nano the nano plus i mean you have a big sensor on it it's
up and you also as well as the nano the nano is a half inch sensor this one you know plus is a even
bigger sensor which i'll talk about whereas the dji mini 2 has a one slash 2.3 inch sensor which
is a little small smaller so the image quality will gradually get better as you go up this
list or you know better front to one to three gets the best to the worst so that's why the nano plus
has great image quality and also shoots you know let's get into it all right it shoots 4k hdr video
up to 30 frames at 100 megabits per second now the mini 2 also shoots 100 megabits per second but
this is 4k hdr which will give you a little more dynamic range okay it also shoots 50 megapixels
for photos on a 1.9 uh f 1.9 aperture so that's that's that's incredible so you're going to get a
lot of light in there so that'll be good in low light with hdr for video and then the 1.9 lens
for photography now 50 megapixels usually isn't very good in photography the fewer megapixels the
better in low light i should say the 50 megapixels in daylight is great but in low light it's
normally not good however we have the f 1.9 lens which lens lets in a lot of light and you have
the the shutter speed all the way from 1 8 000 of a second to 8 seconds so with those factors
you're gonna get amazing images and i would say even in low light okay i normally wouldn't shoot
photos past about four seconds i find they get a little blurry on drones but you can test that out
now flies up to 7.4 mile range and which is incredible and wins up to 19 to 24 miles per
hour just like the mini 2 and it flies up to 33 miles per hour and up to 30 minutes now the mini
mini 2 flies up to 31 minutes but you know we're picking splitting hairs here it's basically the
same but the big thing is got that big sensor nice megapixels nice lens good shutter speed
great video i mean yeah all these stats is it's incredible for nano jones a little more
expensive so if you're on a budget go with the mini two uh but between the nano and the nano plus
i would just get the nano plus it's 10 more megapixels and it's also a bigger sensor so
that's my thoughts on that and you don't have to register it and it comes in all these cool
colors which is pretty kind of cool obviously my my channel is red so i probably get the red one
um and when that comes out i probably will get it and so if you haven't done so please subscribe
to get more videos about that and we're moving on to the pro category so for the pro category
really the mavic 3 cine is the way to go okay you could go with the inspire 2. all right it's
kind of kind of a debate but the inspire 2 to me it's just so big also the flight time's not
that great realistically i know it says like 23 to 27 minutes but realistically you're
only going to get about 20 minutes of flight time whereas the mavic 3 cine you're gonna get
almost double the flight time okay so the flight time that's a huge factor and it's portable
and it and it shoots pro the city version okay now the mavic 3 normal it doesn't shoot uh pro res but
you still get d log and still get great features so uh that would be my order right there okay
and this is me and my first shoot with it just got it a couple days ago the mavic 3 cine so
i'm super pumped up about it and i have a bunch of videos i'm gonna come out with in the next couple
weeks so if you want to check those out make sure you subscribe hit the bell notification for that
and so it's portable and shoots pro res all right now it's bigger than the mavic 2 pro but you know
it's still very portable the the the combo comes with a really nice bag that i i liked i was very
impressed with that and it comes with filters as well the combo so you got all your nd filters so
basically everything you need and with three three batteries i ordered some extra batteries for for
a trip trip i'm gonna take but just with three batteries alone that's plenty of flight time you
get over an hour and a half of flight time more like an hour and 40 45 minutes hour 45 minutes
of flight time which is great um shoots with three batteries shoots 5.1 k up to 50 frames per second
and it wasn't exactly the normal um like the 4k resolution we're used to uh the the 16x9 diameter
it's 5120 by 2700 so if you want to put that into photoshop or premiere pro or wherever you
go you can you can check out those dimensions but that was the dimensions of the image after i was
flying with it which is a little different it's a little more i would say on the cinematic side
uh but it also gives you a little more leniency on the sides so on the width and the left and the
right side gives you more leniency so i like that at 50 frames per second you can slow it
down in post-production now it's got optical and digital zoom up to 28 times i find realistically
the optical zoom was really the only thing i use because the digital zoom degrades the image and so
any anywhere past seven times zoom to me was not usable on a professional level so i and it
also kind of goes into the second camera for that whereas the first camera is used for the optical
zoom so personally i would use all the way from one time to four times zoom because you can slowly
zoom in and zoom out and that's what i probably use it for so between one to four was my sweet
spot but that's for another video and it shoots up and it flies up to 46 minutes of flight time
though realistically you're going to probably get like mid 30s okay depends on the wind and stuff
i probably got about 35 minutes of flight time i didn't really keep track of that but
just guessing off a feel from flying for some so long i would say anywhere from 33 to 37 minutes
i was getting and that was with wind with some wind but just on a normal day and um
that's it that's my uh that's my best drones for 2022 looking forward to the new year so
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