A drone that's more portable than in DJI Spark that you don't have to register
with the FAA. The DJI Mavic Mini that's what we're gonna talk about in the video
coming up all right guys if you're new to my channel my name is Brett Garamella
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so you get regular videos when I release them today we're going to talk about the
Mavic mini okay now this drone is not officially announced yet so everything
that I'm going to talk about in this video is just speculations but I thought
we'd have fun with it and I give you my input on what I'd like to see from a DJI
drone now for my regular subscribers I apologize I haven't been releasing
videos on a regular basis because I traveled all the way from Florida up to
Vermont I did a lot of camping a lot of shooting so I was kind of off the grid
for a while and you can see some of the footage I got here with my Mavic 2
Pro so that was a lot of fun but now I'm back and I'm gonna be in Vermont for a
little while staying in Vermont and doing a lot of tutorials and videos so I
have a lot of new exciting videos that we'll be releasing in the next couple
weeks now talking about the Mavic mini so this drone was supposed to be the
successor some people say - the spark or to the Mavic air I see it more like a
successor to the spark I thought we wouldn't see a major drone coming out
this year and unless it was something like the spark - so this maverick mini
makes sense so before we get into the specs and all the details about this
maverick mini I just want to talk about what DGI is planning to do for 2020 a
lot of you have heard of this thing called fly safe or air sense and
basically what it is if you haven't heard of it it's a transmission that all
DJI drones are gonna have by the year 2020 and they're gonna be able to pick
up a location of helicopters and airplanes so any airplanes that are in
your way you're gonna be able to see it on in the application and then you're
gonna be able to avoid it making your drone safer so because of this I don't
think we're gonna see any major consumer drones released this year the Mavic mini
obviously if they it's not really a major consumer drone
I'll tell you why in this video but another thing as well is that some new
drone laws are going into effect in October in Europe so the combination of
this air sense in the United States being official in 2020 and with the new
DJI drones and then the laws in Europe going to effect in October I think DJI
is postponing all its major drones releases to next year I think we will
see this Mavic mini or spark - whatever you want to call it I think we're gonna
see it before the holiday season because it kind of be stupid for DJI not to
release a drone for consumers this entire year especially with the holiday
season coming up they can make a lot of profits so that's what I think is gonna
happen so with all that said we're gonna get into this video we're gonna into the
specs all the details of the proposed Mavic mini or spark - whatever you want
to call it I think it's more like a spark - because the size of this Mavic
mini what we're seeing now online the specs that were leaked were saying that
it's going to be 140 millimeters by 140 millimeters by 53 millimeters which is
almost identical to the body of the spark so the body wise it's the same
size as a spark basically but the legs it's like the other maddox the arms and
the legs can fold up so that's gonna make it more of the size like a telo
so it's gonna be much smaller than the spark as a spark the legs don't collapse
and a lot of people kind of complain about that so that would make sense
people like the design of the Mavic the Mavic drones so that would make sense
for DJI to make an X spark with legs that are foldable and you could call
them avoc mini but for all intents and purposes it's a spark - and it's also
smaller than the Mavic air so in terms of design I think DJI hit a homerun by
using the Mavic design I think everyone seems to like that the phantom people
liked but it's kind of like an outdated model and it's too big people want
something small and this is super portable so now let's talk about the
weight and the proposed weight is 245 grams the reason why 245 and not too
50 in the United States 250 grams is the minimum weight that you need to register
your drone with the FAA so is 245 that means hobbyists wouldn't have to
register the drone with the FAA so the spark way is basically nothing and it
weighs 300 grams so 245 is really really light and this drone the Maverick mini
is supposed to shoot 4k so to have a 4k drone a drone that's gonna be upgrades
from the spark that you don't have to register with the FAA seems to be a
workaround for DJI for this year so it doesn't have to put air sense or fly
safe into the drone and it could still release it and not have to worry about
any of the regulations and so forth so I think that was a really smart idea if
they make it to 45 if they make it to 50 or above like 300 grams the same weight
as a spark then there might be some issues down the road especially if they
release it close to the year 2020 to me it would make sense that they make it
under 250 that way they don't have to worry about having air sense and fly
safe in the actual drone especially with a drone and especially to release it so
soon and a drone this size that would be my guess now the rumor is the drone will
be released in either October or November but definitely before the
holiday season I would love to see that I think we all love to see a new drone
it's not a phantom 5 or something we can get super excited about but a 4k drone
that's very very small that's like the size of Otello
that's pretty awesome because sometimes you just want to carry your phone and
something really small that you could put in your pocket so if you're just
going for a hike or traveling somewhere or just going taking a walk somewhere
and you don't want to carry a backpack and a bunch of things this could be a
drone that you just put in inside and the remote controller I imagine will be
very small as well I'll put all the specs right here so you can see them
now I heard that it's gonna have enhanced Wi-Fi when I hear enhanced
Wi-Fi I'm like oh no this is not good if I live in the city I'm not gonna be able
to fly it somewhere if I'm in the country that's okay but a lot of people
live in cities they want to fly it close to areas with a lot of frequency and
things going on so enhance Wi-Fi DJI says it's going to be able to fly up
to 3.1 miles or five kilometers this new drone with enhanced Wi-Fi not light
bridge or a key sync 2.0 but I am always a little skeptical but DJI is very
innovative well as technology and every time they come out with something new
I'm very impressed with what they come out with so I believe this enhanced
Wi-Fi will be very good I would have liked to see a key sync but for the
price they say it's gonna be around 399 about half the price of the Mavic air
which would kind of make sense for that price to have occu think 2.0 it wouldn't
make really too much sense so enhanced Wi-Fi definitely makes sense to me but
personally I would rather pay more I would even pay the same amount as a
maverick air if it had a kissing 2.0 and a few other specs maybe a little longer
flying time the flying time they say is up to 18 minutes but as we all know
that's in ideal conditions and conditions there's winds and the way you
fly you're not gonna fly it nice and steady the whole time so you're only
gonna probably get 14 15 minutes out of the drone which is good but it's not
great still better than the spark because a spark I usually got about 10
minutes so this is gonna be a few extra minutes but when you're in the air every
minute counts so the 18 minutes is uh I wish it was a little longer because even
the Mavic air is kind of short so that was kind of a bummer to me to hear that
another thing I heard that kind of disappointed me was that the Maverick
mini is only gonna shoot JPEG not raw so for photographers we like to see the raw
we like to manipulate the image obviously it's a small image sensor so
you try to get everything right in camera it's not a huge deal breaker but
I just would have liked to see raw the fact that's only JPEG is kind of
knowing now here's one SPECT that a lot of people don't talk about but for me
being a filmmaker is really important is the bitrate
now the proposed bitrate is 60 megabits per second which to me is great
anything 50 and above I'm fine with that so the spark has 24 megabits per second
the Mavic air has a hundred megabits per second as does the Mavic too so a
hundred obviously is tremendous and in case you don't know the bitrate is
basically how fast it transfers that video file how fast the drone is able to
process that information so 24 megabits is kind of slow so with the spark it's
not really that great 50 megabits or higher is good so 60 megabits is really
good I think with that and the fact that she's gonna shoot 4k you're not gonna
see a major difference between this maverick mini and the Mavic air okay 60
to 100 megabits I don't think is as big a difference as 24 megabits to 60
megabits so I was really happy to hear that 60 up to 60 megabits per second now
I had one question I'm sure you guys have the same question if the drone only
weighs 245 grams or about 0.5 four pounds basically half a pound how is it
gonna be in wind alright how's this gonna is it gonna be too light is it
gonna just go everywhere well the fact is they put a 3-axis gimbal so a 3-axis
gimbal really makes this drone much better than spark the spark had a two
axis gimbal so I was like like the fact that DJI would put a 3 axis gimbal that
makes perfect sense it can also tilt down okay so you can go up and and you
can go down down to I believe 85 degrees so that's pretty good by having flown
every single DJI consumer drone I will say that I think this drone will be able
to handle win with a 3 axis gimbal and that weight I think it can handle win up
to about 20 miles per hour the Mavic 2 can handle win up to about
25 miles per hour or so and still be steady and actually I was flying it this
weekend in really windy conditions I climbed up a mountain I was surprised at
how good the Mavic 2 Pro is with that 3-axis gimbal even the
Mavic air I've been surprised at how good it is and they say the Mavic air is
about 20 mile-per-hour winds and actually the wind is picking up
right now ironically so I don't think that's going to be something to worry
about with the weight I think it's going to handle a lot better than people think
even with a 245 grams if it is at 245 grams I think a 3-axis gimbal will take
care of that and I think we're gonna get nice steady footage up to about 20 miles
per hour over that I wouldn't fly it now it's time to show you all the specs you
can see them side by side with the spark I'm also going to show you the other
drones in a second let's just go down this list real quick as you can see the
max range is 5 kilometers or 3.1 miles a lot further than the spark so it's going
to be a enhanced Wi-Fi spark add enhanced Wi-Fi so I imagine they're
coming up with a new type of enhanced Wi-Fi that seems really far to me 5
kilometers or 3.1 miles in the city I don't see this as possible sometimes DJI
likes to exaggerate but in the country I think you probably could get something
close to that now maximum flight time 18 minutes I
already talked about that versus 60 minutes it's still not enough flight
time for me I'm kind of bummed out but to get have a drone that you can just
carry like a cellphone just carry around with you and get some footage it's great
especially 4k now to the max speed 31 miles per hour this is the same speed as
the spark I would have liked to have seen a lot more than that I would have
liked to see up to 40 miles an hour 31 seems a little slow but to me it's not a
deal-breaker because I like to shoot nice and smooth cinematic footage so for
me it's okay but if you like going really fast that could be a deal-breaker
there now the camera is basically the same as the spark you know you have a 12
megapixel 1/2 point 3-inch CMOS sensor the video capability is gonna be much
better not only do you have that say 60 megabits first the 24 megabits per
second but you also have it's gonna shoot 40 K up to 30 frames per second
then 2.7 K up to 60 frames per second and the spark only does 1080 up to 30
frames per second now we're looking at 1080 up to 120 frames per second so
that's really cool personally I don't use those high frame rates that
often but if you have a client that needs it 2.7 K and 4 K there's not a
huge difference so if you want to shoot 60 frames per second slow it down in
post that's pretty awesome stabilization 3 axis gimbal versus a two
axis gimbal obviously a 3 axis gimbal I said before that kills a 2 axis gimbal
so it's gonna be good in high wind and have good stabilization for you get a
nice smooth professional looking footage obstacle avoiding sensors you have it on
the front and down I would have liked to see more maybe in the back too but the
fact that we get obstacle avoiding sensors in the front and down that's
okay the weight we're talking point 5 4 pounds versus point 6 6 pounds with the
spark and then the size basically the same thing but we can fold it up the
lens is gonna be the same as the spark 25 millimeters 2.6 I would have liked to
have seen 24 millimeters kind of like the phantom 4 pro nice and wider but you
know 25 millimeters is still good I would have liked to see it lens @f 2.0
just a faster lens would have been you know just better optics but I can take a
fixed lens at 2.6 any day now in case you're wondering the Mavic air does have
an F 2.8 lens but it's 24 millimeters so 25 or 24 is a huge difference no but
every little inch counts may get a little less Distortion 25 verse 24 but
we're pulling hairs right there so there really is basically no difference now
the big thing is the range compared to the Mavic air the Mavic air right now is
still in the u.s. the price is always changed in the u.s. it's $800 799 so if
this drone is 399 basically you buy two of these drones for one Mavic air and to
be able to fly farther than the Mavic air that's really a huge selling point
to me so with all that said we're gonna see the specs next to the other Mavic
drones the Mavic air and then Mavic to both the zoom and the pro you can see
all the specs right there compared to the Mavic mini now again take this all
with a grain of salt this is just the proposed specs that have been released
online by various sources so it hasn't been officially released yet so we're
still not positive those specs could change to me I would have liked to see
4k up to 60 frames but 4k up to 30 frames is gray
the main thing I'm really disappointed about is the flight time 18 minutes I
would have liked to have seen at least 21 minutes like the Mavic air okay that
met 21 minutes is doable 18 is just too short because we're only gonna get 14 15
minutes realistically now let's wrap up this video by talking about who this
Mavic mini is for obviously if you're a DJI fanatic and you have to have every
drone you're gonna want to get it but someone who doesn't want to spend a lot
of money but wants a really good drone wants to shoot 4k wants an upgrade from
the spark I think this drone is going to be very
appealing especially those who like to travel a lot of vloggers and people who
like to travel light don't have a lot of stuff backpackers this is gonna be a
great drone for them and it could be an alternative to your regular drone one
thing I saw the Mavic air as an alternative to the Mavic too is that you
can do some cool shots going between tight spaces and things like that so I
think you're gonna be able to do that with the mavica mini because of its size
so being able to take risks and if you crash the drone it's only $400 that's
not gonna be like crashing am out of gear which is double the price or
crashing crashing of Mavic 2 which is nearly 4 times the price so having a
drone this size I think I would use it just put it in my bag I have an extra
drone and I can take some chances if I want to fly close to trees or do things
I normally went to my normal drone I could use this drone and get those
really cool shots that I normally wouldn't get alright guys that's it for
today hope you enjoyed this video if you have
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