- What a day.
Today, was my very first collab with the one and only Jessy
(bell rings) (glass breaks)
- Drive, drive, drive.
Hurry up, go! (car revving)
- What did you do?
- Alright, this is what I did buddy.
I've got us, Casey Neistat's new, what is this?
Mavic 2!, these aren't even out yet.
Look I've got two of them.
- Yeah, I think it went well.
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- Yo, yo, Josh, I am taking you guys on a deep dive
into the new Mavic Pro 2 and Mavic zoom.
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- Damn you DJI, just when I bought my Mavic Air
you gotta do this, what the (bleep).
We got these two drones, so what's the difference?
First and most impressive to me is the new Mavic Pro 2
with the Hasselblad camera, for those of you who don't know,
Hasselblad, is the camera company that NASA uses
for man space missions dating all the way back
to the Apollo moon landing.
Those impressive, crispy lunar landing photos, Hasselblad.
Funny thing is conserving rocket fuel
and like cutting down on weight,
the astronauts just took the film out of the cameras
and left the cameras on the surface of the moon.
So there's like 12 of them stuck on there.
Kinda interesting, why am I telling you all of this?.
Because in 2015 DJI acquired a minority share of Hasselblad
and it's a rumored that in 2017 they
then acquired a majority share.
So this is like normal practice
for companies to strategically buy up other companies
and absorb their Research & Development,
and Hasselblad has a ton of it.
Not only in cameras and the mechanics of it
but also color science.
So this was a great move by DJI.
So now you know what it means to have a Hasselblad drone.
The biggest game changer about this drone,
is the ability to shoot 4K 10-bit.
My Sony A73 doesn't even shoot 10-bit, it shoots 8-bit.
8-bit, 10-bit what's the difference.
With 8-bit, you have 256 colors in this box of crayons
that you can draw your 4K image with.
10-bit, you now have 1024 colors of crayons
that you can draw the same 4K image with.
In a small drone that's unheard of.
Now, most people won't really notice the difference
between 8-bit and 10-bit,
but where 10-bit really starts pulling ahead
is when you start doing color grading or video effects,
keying, green screen, or what I like to do,
creative color manipulation AKA, my destroyer leds.
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Right, Game changer!
To enable 10-bit, it's super easy.
Go to your video menu settings,
camera coding, you want H.265
and our color as D-Log, 10-bit enabled.
That's not all that this monster has,
this thing also has aperture control so you can open it up
to 2.8 or close it all the way down to F11.
It also has a front plate, with swappable NDS
ND4, eight, 16 or 32.
So now you can shoot shallow depth
of field in broad day light
which is pretty freaking awesome.
And it has H.265 encoding.
It's a whole episode on itself.
H.265 is the reason why Netflix will be able to stream 6K
and 8K in the future.
So, the 1 inch sensor is
also gonna perform better in low light,
also has 14 stops of dynamic range.
Dynamic range is a measurement
in which you can see definition in highlights
and in shadows.
The more stops of DR that you have,
the better the picture is gonna be.
That's why everyone is so crazy about REDS
because RED cameras can shoot
like 16 and a half stops of dynamic range.
This is a hard contender.
we have this guy too.
This is like the Michael Bay drone,
Michael Bay has like one move, ad it's normally done
with a long lens and it's orbiting around,
you know, the hero
and it gives this really cool parallax shot.
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This drone has a 24 to 48 millimeter lens
so the longer the lens
generally, the more cinematic the quality is gonna be.
To zoom on the camera super easy,
little control wheel right here.
You want 24, Boom.
You want 48, Boom.
Only I had a test subject, that I could orbit around.
- [Man In White Shirt] I can't do it
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No dude, you think is funny?
I am literally shaking.
Bro, please be careful.
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- So I touched on this
on my next level cinematography episode right here.
Parallax, is most easily noticed by the speed
in which things passed by the screen.
So orbiting around somebody,
the background is gonna be compressed
and it's gonna be moving at a lot faster rate
than the object in the foreground.
Simple right, super cinematic.
- Go through that window, I'm gonna go right
through that window, you got faith in me?
I think I got it.
- That crazy zolly effect
which also known as the vertigo effect,
the drone flies forward while the lens pulls back.
you'd no longer have to do it in post.
It's all done in camera. (sighs)
This drone has super res photo mode.
In a nutshell, it's very similar to like,
panorama mode where the drone is taking a series of photos
and stitching them together.
The only difference is it's doing it
when it's zoomed in to 48 millimeters
like a regular composed photo but it's but this level
of detail that's the equivalent to a 48 mega pixel camera.
That's like, billboard level of megapixels, this little guy.
So when comparing these new monsters
to the Mavic Pro platinum, they're about the same size,
they're a few ounces heavier,
but they pack way more fire power.
It's like night and day difference.
These are now equipped
with omni directional obstacle avoiding sensors,
top-bottom, forward-back, left-right.
Like if you crash this,
you must have really really (bleep) up.
So the million dollar question, Who are these for?
Mostly, I think people who appreciate color
and know how to tweak colors in post,
you are going to find this more valuable,
have an easier time matching skin tones
to high-end production cameras,
green screen, or add video FX, all of that
while still having a super portable travel size drone.
The Mavic Zoom, I think it's gonna be more helpful
for ordinary consumers, travel bloggers,
people who want to add an extra layer
of cinematic quality to their wedding videos.
I mean the color straight off
of this camera looks incredible.
You don't even need to do any tweaking at all.
Plus that zolly effect is super rad,
I mean all of that packed into this tiny little.
DJI, please for the love of god,
stop making drones.
Just, stop now, you are already king in the market.
Stop taking my money.
Anyway, this is Josh.
Thank you very much, stay creative and now go make some art.
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