- What's going on everybody, check this out.
(fingers snapping)
Uh-huh, and now we are the overhead cam, and then,
(fingers snapping)
now we are back here.
I'm trying out a few new things on this set up out here.
I put a microphone up here so
it's no longer in the frame with me.
And I also have a camera on here
which is mounted with one of those mic stands.
So I'm not sure if this is the best solution yet
because the camera is mounted onto the table
meaning every time I do this it just like, uh oh!
(crash)
All hell just broke loose there.
Take two, you can't shake the table.
Actually it's not terrible, how bad is that?
This is my original Mavic and I love this thing
because of how nicely it folds up.
I've traveled with it all over the place,
it has a long battery life, it's awesome.
My biggest complaint was the image quality,
it just seemed way too over-sharpened.
And when I say over-sharpened, I mean,
when a camera is just not that high performance,
but then you take like, an image that's not that fantastic,
and then just sharpen it, and sharpen it digitally,
it just looks so artificial to me.
It looks kind of gross.
I also have the Inspire 1 Pro, with the X5 camera,
I mean that thing, whenever you pull it out
in front of clients, they're like,
"Whoa, holy crap that's legit."
But that thing was a pain,
I hated traveling with that thing,
I hated setting it up and breaking it down,
and I was not super impressed with
the image quality in general, especially when
I put it side by side against the Mavic.
The coolest part about the Inspire series
is when you go from pick up mode to flight mode,
that made it all worth it.
The Inspire 2 looks awesome, but it's a little bit
out of my price range, and by a little bit,
I mean by like $6,000.
And of course, there's the Phantom 4 Pro,
which Chris Rollins has, I hate that guy,
and I wish terrible things upon him.
But he showed me some of the footage, and it looks great.
But even just the exercise of the fixed arms
and the legs, that made it big enough
to where it wasn't convenient enough for me.
I do a lot of traveling, I want to throw this
in a backpack, so this is the maximum size I want.
So I am really, really hoping that this
is gonna be, don't look at my address.
Where is my address?
So hopefully this Mavic 2 is so awesome
that I can sell every fine object that I own
and replace it with this.
Oh by the way, I actually paid my own money for this,
don't show my address, come on, DJI,
I'm trying to an unboxing here.
I paid my own money for this, which means I'm allowed
to talk as much crap as I want about this.
Oh, yeah.
I love how these knobs are removable now.
Tables, old remote, new remote.
Pretty much the same exact size and everything,
but I love how you can remove these knobs.
These old ones don't come off, and every time
you try to pack it away nicely,
it just like. (buzzer noise)
They have these nicely tucked away right in here,
which is awesome.
I don't know which camera I'm supposed to show now,
do I show this one, do I show this one?
I'm not used to this two-camera setup.
Propellers, charger, and of course,
some documentation, "Do not fly this into people's faces.
Do not use this to smuggle drugs into prison."
This charger's a little bit sleeker than
the old one, so that's cool.
Oh what? (gasp)
Look at that, that is awesome.
It's the little things, the remote charger
is built into this, as opposed to the old one,
where you have to plug it in to the USB here,
so you have to have a separate cable for the remote.
They do give you an extra set of propellors
in the box, so thank you DJI, I will be needing this.
It's a tiny bit taller than the original one, but not much.
To get this camera on here, they probably just had
to expand it a little bit that way,
but it's barely noticeable.
So why am I spending the money to upgrade from this to this?
Well, three things, one, I'm addicted to new tech,
and I can't stop spending money.
Two, image quality, I was very dissatisfied
with the image quality coming out of this.
I'm really hoping on the Mavic 2 we're going to get
better actual sharpness, not artificial sharpening,
but actual sharpness out of this camera.
I want that better dynamic range,
the color, just every aspect of this camera
needed improvement, so I'm hoping
that this is going to answer that.
Finally, the fact that it has all these sensors,
the Mavic only had front-facing sensors,
but every time you fly this thing reverse,
or to the side, it can pretty much hit whatever.
Trust me, I know this from experience.
But on this one, look how many sensors there are.
They're all over the place.
Is this actually a much better drone
or did they just do a really good job in marketing?
Like when the Ronin-MX came out,
it looked so good, I bought one immediately.
I got it, and it was terrible.
So their marketing team is good, almost a little too good.
All right, so I'm gonna start off
with a mini test flight, just to see
how it hovers and handles indoors.
I don't recommend flying indoors,
unless you're an expert, like me.
So check this out, I've got my crash test set up ready.
Chris Rollins here, and he's set up here with
paper tape, so just in case the sensors don't detect it,
it should just cut right through and continue to fly
without any damage.
Just in case it gets tangled up and
decides to do a little dive, it'll land right here,
on this queen-sized air mattress.
I realize to get the most amount of views,
I have to take this and fly this
straight on to a cement wall, but I paid
my own money for this, I'm not ready to lose
this guy yet.
I'm going to start off by having it go straight on,
and then I'm going to try again going sideways.
(drone whirring)
Okay, so I'm going to go sideways now.
Uh, okay, get away from it, get away from it.
Okay, that's its blind spot, right there.
So as you can see the obstacle avoidance on the front
and back was really good, but there were
some blind spots on the side.
- [Chris] Um, excuse me, potato jet.
- [Host] Chris is that you?
- [Chris] Yeah, the only reason you're able
to cut my chin is that side sensors only work
in active track and tripod mode.
- But wait, how come they don't just turn on
the side sensors all the time?
So you don't have to worry about going sideways
into a tree or something?
- [Chris] I'm really not sure, but dude,
you're apartment's disgusting, clean it up.
(grunting)
- All right, so now I've got a sheet of plexiglass
right here and I want to know if the Mavic 2
will detect it as an object and avoid it.
(drone whirring)
The answer is no, it does not detect
something that's clear, so be careful of windows.
So basically what I'm saying is that
there are a lot of improvements on the Mavic 2 sensors
but don't go around flying it,
assuming you can't hit anything.
Know where all the power lines are,
and obstacles like trees and all that.
Because even with all these sensors,
you can still hit stuff.
By the way, it's really awesome that
you can now adjust the aperture of the camera.
Because before you used to only really
be able to adjust the shutter speed,
so sometimes you would have to really, really
crank up that shutter speed, but now
you can adjust your aperture, and get
that shutter speed generally to where you want it.
But the aperture only goes to 11,
so if the sun is still right above you
you still will be needing some ND filters
to balance things out.
If you want your shutter to be at like 1/50 of a second.
I can already see a huge improvement
in the quality of footage, just from this phone.
So I'm so excited for this first test flight.
Oh my god, it's looking so good.
(slow music)
First flight felt really, really good,
very similar and familiar to the Mavic 1 in terms of flight.
But just the image that comes out of it is so much better.
Just so we have something to compare it to,
I'm going to take off the original Mavic,
so you guys can see side by side.
So here we go for take two with the original Mavic.
Here we go, still looks epic, but you know,
it's just not the same.
(slow music)
I just lost signal.
I lost signal for a little bit,
at a spot that the Mavic 2 had no issues with.
I think they actually improved the signal strength
on the Mavic 2 as well, so sweet.
All right, so now we're going to make
it nice and dark in here, and test out
the low-light capabilities of these two drones.
All right, so now we're on the original Mavic,
this is at 1,600 ISO, pretty much what I'm expecting.
It's definitely looking pretty dark and kind of murky.
You really start noticing a decrease in quality
even in you're in a shady place, during a sunny day.
All right, so now we're recording on the Mavic 2.
And holy crap, the quality looks so much better.
Still at 1,600 ISO, but you see way, way more details.
The colors look richer, more truer.
This warning sensor is really putting in
the work right now, so I'm pretty excited about this.
This is such an improvement over the original Mavic Pro.
So I am excited about this one.
So I'm actually going to bump this ISO all the way
up 6,400, I'm going to see what this looks like.
Of course, it still works as a pretty nice
gimble in itself, I mean I could hold this thing,
and just throw it around, and it looks pretty good.
All right, so after spending a entire day
with the Mavic 2 Pro, all I have to say is,
this is awesome.
I'm really excited about the improvements they've made.
I'm super happy with how the images
are coming out of this thing already.
I am going to be doing a full, in-depth review
but that's going to take me a little bit to make,
probably a week or so.
But I'm going to be testing out
all the little functions and features
and really get to know this drone, so stay tuned for that.
And oh my god, I'm past 10 minutes now,
I can end this video, what am I still doing here?
All right, I'm out, see you guys later.
(upbeat music)