i know what you're thinking there's no way this is the best travel drone on the market
and you know what you're right it's not the best travel drone on the market in fact
it's not even the best mini drone on the market but what it is is the best option
for somebody who's never flown a drone before who's not a professional content creator and
you want to buy something that's affordable reliable and isn't going to break the budget
before i go any further i should mention that this video isn't sponsored by dji in fact i'm
not affiliated with them at all i don't care what sort of drone you buy i'm just making this video
to help you decide which drone is the best for you because if you're like me and you like to
do a lot of research before you buy something then this video will be super helpful because
i'm here to show you that this drone although it is the cheapest drone on the market made by dji
it's more than capable of creating really good content and it's more than enough if you're just
starting out as a content creator and you're traveling around the world you want something
that's light and compact then this drone is definitely for you but don't just take my word
for it have a look at this montage of footage i've gathered throughout the last six months
foreign
i should mention though before we go any further that we are going to give
away one of these drones when we hit 100k subscribers whenever that is hopefully it's
this year maybe it's next year we're not going to give away this exact drone because
that'd be a bit rude just giving away a secondhand drone we're going to give away a brand new drone
to one of our subscribers so if you're new here comment down below let us know that
you've subscribed and with that we'll get on with the video so about six months ago i decided that
in order to get to the next level for our channel and our content we needed either one of two things
we needed a drone to get aerial shots or a gopro to get underwater shots but i didn't have a very
big budget at all so i pretty much had to decide between one or the other after speaking with some
friends who are actually content creators they talked me into getting a drone so i started
doing a little bit of research so the biggest question really was which drone do i buy i knew
nothing about drones never flown a drone obviously never owned one i did a little bit of research
and it wasn't long till i figured out that dji is definitely the best company as far as it goes for
making drones the technology they use is second to none if you just jump on their website you
can tell as soon as you get on there that these guys are really professional and they make great
equipment so as i said i didn't have a big budget and i started looking at second-hand drones on
facebook marketplace but what i noticed pretty quick was that the price for a secondhand drone
really wasn't that much cheaper than a brand new drone and that's when i discovered the dji mini
series so dji makes a series of drones that are more than capable and pretty similar to their
mavic drones except that they're a miniature virgin and this is what i mean by miniature
it's tiny and probably the best thing about this drone apart from the fact that i mean you can
literally fit that in your pocket but it weighs only 249 grams and the reason that's so important
is if you own a drone that weighs 250 grams or more in a lot of countries you do actually
have to register it and get a license to fly that drone in that country which can take a lot of time
and money and energy and having a drone that only weighs 249 grams really gets you around a
lot of that so that's probably the biggest selling point as far as a dji mini goes the second biggest
reason i think the dji mini is so good is the price point and in particular this is the mini se
so this is the cheapest mini drone you can buy on the market right now and it starts at 299 dollars
but that's next to nothing like you can't get a camera or a smartphone for that much considering
the technology that's in this thing i think that's pretty good after i watched a lot of reviews on
the dji mini se the mini one and the mini 2 a lot of people were saying that the mini se was
more than capable and it was a really good drone but these reviews were from a year or two ago
and it got me thinking that just because there's a better drone out there that doesn't mean that this
drone still isn't good as i said the price point was probably the biggest thing for me because i'd
never flown a drone before and we're going to be taking it on lots of trips with us and going to
pretty extreme places um i didn't want to be worried about losing it or breaking it and to
be honest i've crashed this thing twice luckily it hasn't broken but if it did like i've already got
enough use out of it the last six months if you are worried about losing the drone it actually has
a feature on it which is return to home i've only had to use it once thankfully because sometimes if
you're flying around too far it will drop out and it can be quite scary because you don't have any
contact between the remote and the drone but literally if it doesn't get any contact for
about 20 seconds it'll automatically return to home which is a pretty cool feature to have
especially if you're somebody like me who's worried about losing your drone so one of the
best features of this drone is the quick shots feature and that allows you to take really good
shots without actually having to control the drone yourself it has a few options there one of them is
the zoomi which i use a lot it basically zooms out and you can put the remote down you can be
walking sitting down you get a really good field of view shot there's also the circle motion shot
i tend to use the quick shots function to create that tracking look so if we're riding a bike or
going for a walk or something and we want it to look like the drone's actually following us
you can use the quick shot option to make it look like that and it's pretty simple to set up and use
so just a quick piece of advice if you are going to purchase this drone i'd suggest getting the
fly more combo this is because it comes with extra batteries which you're definitely going to
need one battery just doesn't last long enough it's about 30 minutes which is enough time but
if you are going to be out for the day and you're going to be taking drone shots all day you're
definitely going to want the spare batteries with you it also comes with the case lots of spare
plugs spare cords spare rotors for your motor yeah it's going to cost you a little bit extra
so the fly more combo comes in at around 450. uh which is still pretty cheap for the whole setup so
450 you can be completely set up with a brand new drone comes with a one-year warranty and i
can tell you right now that you're gonna get a lot of bang for your buck with this drone
so i haven't really found too much wrong with this drone my only issue i'd say would be the
battery power i wish it would last a little bit longer but because i have the spare batteries
it's not a big deal and the second thing would be the tracking dji has just released a mini 3 which
does have tracking the battery power is about the same but i think the starting point for that drone
is about 650 to 700 and that's just for the drone itself it's probably something more like 900 to a
thousand dollars if you're gonna get the fly more combo so as i said like if you're somebody who's
worried about crashing your drone breaking your drone losing your drone then this is a really
good entry point and then once you get a little bit better at flying your drone you can always
upgrade to a mavic or a mini 3 or whatever it is more expensive i feel pretty confident with the
drone now i feel like i could upgrade but honestly this one's still doing the trick for me so i'm
probably going to wait a little bit longer this one's honestly more than capable so look as i said
this is just my opinion i have no affiliation at all i think this is the best budget travel option
for a beginner if you disagree let me know down below if you think this drone isn't very good and
maybe you should get a mini 2 or a mini 3 or maybe a mavic let me know this is just
my opinion i've only flown this drone but i think that it's more than capable of doing everything i
need it to do and um i would definitely recommend buying this drone if you're a beginner like me
you