if you would have told me a couple of years ago the Drone that fits in my backpack was
capable of producing this [Music]
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I would have called you crazy but now the mavic 3 has been out for a while it's time
for a long-term review and we're going to jump straight into it starting with image
quality the four thirds inch sensor out of this drone gives you some fantastic 5.1 K
up to 50 frames a second footage especially when you shoot in the d-log 10-bit color profile
which means you get a huge amount of room to be able to color grade this footage in
post but not only that it also gives you a lot of dynamic range out of a drone this size
which again just gives you a lot more room to be able to work with the footage in post
and make the footage look the way you want it to look of course the cine model has prores
which gives you a whole nother level of ability to edit and color grade but the footage had
come straight out of this drone even the Standard Version and even honestly in normal color
profile is absolutely fantastic and really great to work with when you're trying to match
it up with other cameras in fact I've used this drone to shoot entire seasons of TV shows
and a couple of movies and nobody has complained about the footage quality that this drone
has produced but another thing that makes this drone really great for me is the 4K 120.
now that's not something you want to film everything in but if you have something a
subject that is really fast moving or ordinarily fast moving like waterfalls helicopters anything
like that that ordinarily is much faster than that being able to shoot it and film it in
4k 120 means that you get this really beautiful dreamy smooth fantastic looking footage that's
slow motion which it really gives you a lot of options for how you want to capture and
film the subject material that you're capturing filming and except for the mavic 3 classic
which I think is a great drone the mavic 3 and the mavic 3 cine have the telephoto camera
which means you get a 7x or 161 162 millimeter camera which is really different and really
unique at first I didn't like it but then when DJI gave us the manual mode to be able
to control all the settings of this camera I have fallen in love with this camera and
love the types of shots that you are able to compose with it and get with it now the
footage is still not the best it's not the greatest I wish that they would give us at
least a d cine light color profile so we can push it and utilize it a little more in post
but that being said I do use this camera way more than I ever thought I would because it
just allows me to compose and get a feeling from the shot that you're not able to get
with any other drone on the market that I'm aware of currently and one of my favorite
things that DJI gave us a few months ago is night mode out of this drone which means you
can go shoot an incredibly low light and yes aside from filming in cities and other things
that I was doing to test out low light I was able to go out and even film the Aurora now
the Aurora is really hard to film no matter what kind of camera you're using but the fact
that I was able to capture it at all on a drone that fits in my backpack is really saying
something although I have to say the best results I got were using hyperlapse mode to
be able to capture the Aurora and then put them together in hyperlapses and that leads
us into the photo quality coming out this because the way I shoot hyperlapses is going
and filming or shooting the hyperlapses and then taking all the Raw photos and editing
them then putting them together in my editor and the photos coming out of this are absolutely
fantastic they're 20 megapixels so it'd be nice to have a little higher megapixels but
20 is great and they do have a lot of dynamic range it gives you a lot of room to be able
to edit them in post and in fact I've even filmed or taken photos of the stars with this
drone which I never thought would be possible now they're not the best and it's not something
I would do a lot of but the fact that it can capture stars at all is pretty dang impressive
and before we get to some of the other creators and their thoughts about long-term use so
the mavic 3 I've gotta talk about the durability I have used this drone in all kinds of situations
and all kinds of conditions I even used it to film a documentary going up to the North
Slope of Alaska in February in the dead of winter which is like the coldest possible
time to go up there and I flew this drone at 55 below zero in 35 to 36 mile an hour
winds and the Drone handled it fine now yes my battery life my flight time was shortened
but the fact that it even flew at all in those temperatures for any length of time is really
incredible and a testament to how durable this is I've also flown it in some incredibly
heavy snow and the Drone is handled it just fine now there are precautions you can take
and I do have videos about how to fly drones in the winter on my channel but the fact that
this drone has handled any of that those types of conditions and still going strong is really
a testament to how well this drone was designed and how well it has been built and sort of
related to that but the battery life out of this while DJI says 46 minutes I typically
see around 30 to 35 minutes depending on how I'm flying the more sport mode I fly in which
I do a lot the less time you get obviously but the Drone does have incredibly good flight
time and gives you a ton of time to be able to compose and capture footage and capture
shots and also the max speed being 46 to 47 miles an hour depending on conditions really
gives you a lot of ability to do way more than you could with drones like this before
because I'm actually able to somewhat track with a car say like this my car driving down
the road now I may not be driving 70 or 80 miles an hour but being able to keep up with
cars at all and actually get some usable footage while they're going 55 60 miles an hour is
really really excellent and also because it has such a high top speed it means I can get
the Drone into position much faster and ready to film much quicker but you don't have to
just take my word for it I've asked a few other creators to give you their thoughts
and opinions on the mavic 3 since it was released and we're going to start off with Jeb and
dovey the mavic 3 is a perfect tool for storytelling and the reason I say that is the amount of
flexibility you have in this drone and the fact that you can use it in so many different
scenarios and be able to use it to basically capture anything you need from a drone the
main camera is obviously great but that secondary camera even though it's not the best camera
gives you such a unique perspective that you really can't get on other drones and personally
I like the ability to have both cameras in this one drone and for me doing outdoor and
adventure videos it's nice to be able to have this drone that's small and compact that fits
in your backpack alongside all of the other gear overall it's just a solid drone whether
I'm using it for my YouTube videos or I'm using it for some of my client work thanks
jevin next up we've got Aldrin estacio from flight path kind of hard to believe that the
DJI mavic 3 and a mavic 3 cine have been out for almost like a year and a half now now
my thoughts on the Maverick 3 since they released and since I came out with my review video
are still really really positive with this drone I am glad of course that DJI kind of
caught up with the firmware when this thing first released they were missing a bunch of
functions that did take them a few months to get updated the mavic 3 seemed to be one
of the ones that took a little bit longer than some of their other drones but nonetheless
it is on there a lot of the features are now on there that people expected and this is
still my go-to drone whenever I have the space the time to get the mavic 3 up in the air
now for me because of the fact I normally am a photography first flyer because I like
to do large format prints I like to opt for the biggest and highest quality camera and
right now as far as portability wise that's what we have here on the mavic 3. now for
the majority people out there that do not do large format prints the mini lineup the
mini three the air air 2s lineup is going to be more than enough for all those flyers
but I'm happy that DJI came out with the mavic 3 classic just because it gives a lot of people
more opportunity to get into this higher quality camera at a more affordable price but overall
with all the updates on it super happy with the mavic 3 and what comes out of this camera
kind of curious what DJI is going to come up with now for the next round the DJI mavic
4. thank you Aldrin now we're gonna go to Russ from 51 drones so I'm not sure if I can
pack in all of my thoughts about about the mavic 3 to 60 seconds or less but I'll do
my best Jake there's one word that I regularly use to describe the mavic 3 after using it
for nearly a year and a half and it's Dependable never has a drone given me more confidence
in getting the shot nailing the colors keeping it steady navigating safely and flying well
beyond any amount of time that I actually need it to for the prosumer it's the only
drone that I would consider right now because of the quality of content that it produces
with hardly any work required for the pilot the firmware upgrades continue to make it
better and better and with the recent addition of waypoints I can create so much more Dynamic
content that really impresses my clients there was this realtor one time when he saw me take
my mavic 3 out of the case and it was the first job that I had done for him he looked
at it and he's like that's it something that small can take professional looking photos
I was thinking you had something in the back of your truck like the size of a suitcase
case and then a couple days later when I submitted the images to him he was like amazed he no
longer questioned the abilities of this compact little Workhorse and now he calls me for nearly
every aerial project that he needs the mavic 3 is the ultimate tool for anyone that wants
to begin a career in aerial content creation and if you're considering it but or maybe
looking at some less expensive options just know that this drone will be the best of the
best for Years yet to come and your investment will pay off in no time thanks a lot Russ
next up we've got none other than Billy Kyle so over the past year I've made it a point
to travel more and every time I go somewhere I of course like to bring my drone with me
and capture as much aerial photos and videos as possible so last year in 2022 when I sat
down to kind of create my drone reel for the year all of my best clips from all the places
I traveled I noticed that basically every single shot that was going into my video was
captured on the mavic 3. now this is no coincidence this is because the mavic 3 classic mavic
3 and mavic 3 cine makeup the best lineup of drones that you can purchase right now
from an aerial photography and videography aspect the airframe is super well built it's
very dependable giving you great specs a nice fast top speed and an advertised 47 minutes
of flight time the camera of course is amazing giving you tack Sharp Images a ton of dynamic
range and the colors are always on point and it also packs a lot of great features inside
of it like active track 5.0 which allows the Drone to track a moving subject and Dodge
obstacles on its own and it's gotten so good over the years to the point where I'd say
that it's now on skydio's level of tracking for me the mavic 3 has been an absolute Workhorse
I bounce back and forth between the mavic 3 cine and the mavic 3 classic in fact my
mavic 3 classic right now is like basically coded in a film of salt from the sea because
I was chasing Surfers over the weekend but nonetheless these two drones are my apps salute
go to for any aerial photography or videography whether it's for myself traveling or if it's
for a client so if you're looking for one of the best drones to purchase right now I
would look at the mavic 3 classic because this is a bargain of a deal at around 1600
depending on which remote you want it gets you in in an awesome airframe with an awesome
camera really is hard to beat right now thanks a lot Billy and and now we've got Mike from
drone Supremacy hey everyone this is Mike from drone Supremacy and thank you so much
Jake for including me in your video so I've always said that the mavic 3 is my absolute
favorite drone that I've ever used and I've ever owned and that's still the case initially
when this drone was first announced it lacked some features that we've seen previously on
other DJI Flagship drones so I was kind of bummed out but since then a lot has happened
and we've seen some major updates being added to the mavic 3 lineup which is great because
those updates are not only available for the more expensive models such as the mavic 3
and the mavic 3 cine but also for the more affordable mavic 3 classic so features such
as waypoints night mode and all these little tweaks that have been slowly but surely improving
our general flying experience are definitely the way to go and I'm so much happier flying
this drone nowadays and it's still rock solid as my number one drone that I've ever flown
I want to thank all those creators for giving you their thoughts that it takes a lot of
time to put those videos together and so I really appreciate it I hope you appreciate
she did it too then we come to the question of which model of the mavic 3 should you purchase
if you're going to buy one personally for me I own two I own the mavic 3 standard and
I own the mavic 3 cine most of my client work I do with the cine because the prores is a
much more acceptable format for most editing houses that I send the footage to I use this
for a lot of my backpacking adventures in a lot of my Alaska stuff because it's a little
less expensive and the footage coming out of it is still fantastic but if you're in
the market and you don't quite want to spend the money for the mavic 3 standard then I
would get the classic because you still get the same fantastic image quality out of the
main sensor and really the only thing that you're missing is the telephoto camera which
if you don't use it a lot or if you don't think you're going to use it a lot you probably
don't need it in my case I use it more than I thought but I could definitely get away
without using it and on the controller side if you're going to buy a controller I would
definitely get this the DJI RC because it's so much nicer having a screen built in not
having to mess with your phone and I found that the battery life on this actually lasts
quite a while and in fact I've gotten so spoiled by the image quality and the flight time and
the capability coming out of the mavic 3 that I've pretty much gotten rid of all of my other
drones and I don't use any of the ones that I still have the mavic 3 has become the Drone
that I take with me everywhere for everything that I do whether it's for YouTube for me
personally or for clients it's just absolutely a fantastic drone that performs way above
its weight class in drones but you're going to want to watch this video right here to
see ways that you can improve your drone videos as always if you have questions you can ask
me in the comments below or join my live stream Wednesday nights at 4 pm Alaska time 8 PM
eastern most of the time unless I'm out doing something in the wilderness I'll see you again
soon in the next video cheers