Air 3 Release date Wed. June 28?

[mavic3usa]

That was an educated guess based upon stuff floating on the internet.

Now that DJI has a sale, including the Air2S until the 30th, it doesn't make sense that they would steal sales from the Air 2S by making an announcement/release until AFTER the sale.

BTW, to those worried about upgrading, with drones it's no different than cameras.
I have two digital Nikons, a D800E and a D850. Both take excellent photos. Still.
Would I like to upgrade? Yes.
Does it make sense to spend a few thousand dollars for an incremental upgrade? Not for me.
The same goes for drones.
The latest and greatest may or may not be worth it to you.
Digital technology hasn't gotten to the point where you can drive a car for ten years and it still you where you are going.
Drone technology is still in the leap frog stage.

Unfortunately the Air2s is not the star of this promotion and I doubt DJI is relying on this sale to move a bunch of Air2s drones; if anything it's just a part of the big show and no one is worried about how it comes off. Primary, it is likely DJI cannot walk and chew gum at the same time, you don't launch *anything* in the middle of your annual sale because you don't want to overburden the support, impact the logistics, affect the supply chain, confused the DJI workers, store people, etc. If DJI is like most companies, they have launch windows or blocks of dates where you launch new product since you don't want new stuff to show up any time of the year, any time of the month. Everyone can plan around it. During the planning, the promotion don't go on top of the launch windows. All of this is irrespective of the drone models or the contents of the promotion. ie. you wouldn't want to launch FPV2 this week either. That would be my take on why it's likely you won't see Air3 until next week. Doesn't DJI launch on Tuesdays I thought?

 

[Deleted member 170519]

That was an educated guess based upon stuff floating on the internet.

Now that DJI has a sale, including the Air2S until the 30th, it doesn't make sense that they would steal sales from the Air 2S by making an announcement/release until AFTER the sale.

BTW, to those worried about upgrading, with drones it's no different than cameras.
I have two digital Nikons, a D800E and a D850. Both take excellent photos. Still.
Would I like to upgrade? Yes.
Does it make sense to spend a few thousand dollars for an incremental upgrade? Not for me.
The same goes for drones.
The latest and greatest may or may not be worth it to you.
Digital technology hasn't gotten to the point where you can drive a car for ten years and it still you where you are going.
Drone technology is still in the leap frog stage.

It would take a substantial upgrade in camera for me to want to upgrade. The Air2S, which is not the best camera on DJI drones, is good enough for what I do. Now if it were a micro 4/3 sensor with interchangeable lenses... I might look at it. I am interested in the new tech to see what they come up with next, just not that interested in purchasing it.
Like you, I have a Nikon camera. I upgraded to the Z6ii from a D700. Sold all F lenses and bought the Z14-30, Z24-120, and am waiting on the Z180-600. That will more than likely be my last camera outfit I own. I'll see how long I can keep the air2s airborne. I presume as long as batteries are available, it should fly until I do something stupid and crash it, or DJI just stops supporting it and allowing me to log in with it. When that happens, I will probably give up the drone hobby completely.

 

[old man mavic]

well if we can believe the latest geeksvana video released today on YT ,the new Air 3 is just around the corner ,but for us in the UK, it will have to be under 500g to be worth buying ,or even with an A2 C of C it will still have the same A2 classification in the open category,

 

[Wreckhunter]

Well the photos I quoted distinctly show both a two-camera gimbal and a single-camera gimbal.

The single camera model you are looking at is a possible Mini 4 in testing.
The two camera drone is the new air 3 that should be released anytime now.
So no single camera model for a while yet.

 

[chong67]

Alarming to see another new drone is coming out with more new controller.

I remember buying my Mavic 3 last year and for the same price, I can get it in 3 lens.

The drop in value of your old drone is amazing.

 

[AroundTheWorld]

Alarming to see another new drone is coming out with more new controller.

I remember buying my Mavic 3 last year and for the same price, I can get it in 3 lens.

The drop in value of your old drone is amazing.

Wait to see the price of the Air 3 and your Mavic 3 will loose half of his value.

The first DJI Air 3 price leak is in and it's actually pretty reasonable

While it is unlikely that DJI will announce the Air 3 this week, leaks regarding the new drone continue to...

dronedj.com

 

[karlblessing]

Wait to see the price of the Air 3 and your Mavic 3 will loose half of his value.

The first DJI Air 3 price leak is in and it's actually pretty reasonable

While it is unlikely that DJI will announce the Air 3 this week, leaks regarding the new drone continue to...

dronedj.com

If you mean the original Mavic 3, it still has the upper hand on being a micro-4/3rd sensor, also depending on where they cripple the Air 3 in terms of software features.

 

[Rilot]

Mavic 3 has a variable aperture. Air 3 will not. That’s the key differentiator.

 

[AroundTheWorld]

If you mean the original Mavic 3, it still has the upper hand on being a micro-4/3rd sensor, also depending on where they cripple the Air 3 in terms of software features.

Yeah, but honestly the difference between a micro 4/3 rd sensor and a good 1 inch sensor is almost invisible.

 

[AroundTheWorld]

Mavic 3 has a variable aperture. Air 3 will not. That’s the key differentiator.

I don't think it will worth the price difference between the Mavic 3 and the Air 3.

 

[karlblessing]

Mavic 3 has a variable aperture. Air 3 will not. That’s the key differentiator.

Not the only one, but is a significant one (aside from being a micro-4/3 sensor vs 1")

Seems if they come out with a Phantom 5, the main difference on that to the Mavic 3 Pro (or any of the non-enterprise models) is that it'll have a mechanical shutter while the Mavic won't.

 

[Droning on and on...]

Only worrisome thing with DJI is that because almost every model currently is required to be tied to an account, DJI could just simply drop support for older models after x number of years where you can't even get them to launch of the app won't even let you open it. Like what if their server went down or got blocked, drone would be unable to fly after a certain amount of time when the app forces you to try to login again.

I'm no lawyer, but I suspect if your perfectly well-working drone suddenly became completely unable to fly because of something DJI did you'd have a pretty strong tort case in most countries.

Problem is, the prospect of success in a lawsuit isn't enough. Has to be worth it. The opportunity cost in pursuing such a case IMO isn't – by quite a big margin.

What to do? Flip DJI off, come here and complain mightily, then go buy a new DJI drone. Before you get the DT's from not flying

 

[Droning on and on...]

Yeah, but honestly the difference between a micro 4/3 rd sensor and a good 1 inch sensor is almost invisible.

Is a micro 4/3 (1.33") different in some other ways from the 1" sensor, or is "micro" meaningless in the above statement?

And I disagree... assuming the same pixel density, 33% larger pixels will gather 33% more light, which is a large difference in noise and Dynamic Range.

Resolution ain't everything. In fact at the resolutions we're working with these days, noise, low-light performance and DR are of much greater interest to many of us.

for the 4/3" sensor

 

[chong67]

Wait to see the price of the Air 3 and your Mavic 3 will loose half of his value.

The first DJI Air 3 price leak is in and it's actually pretty reasonable

While it is unlikely that DJI will announce the Air 3 this week, leaks regarding the new drone continue to...

dronedj.com

I sold my Mavic 3 last week(the 2 lens one). Bought for $2100, sold for $1400 and ebay got $200 off it.

 

[Deleted member 170519]

I sold my Mavic 3 last week(the 2 lens one). Bought for $2100, sold for $1400 and ebay got $200 off it.

Thats why I cancelled my eBay sellers account.

 

[karlblessing]

I'm no lawyer, but I suspect if your perfectly well-working drone suddenly became completely unable to fly because of something DJI did you'd have a pretty strong tort case in most countries.

Problem is, the prospect of success in a lawsuit isn't enough. Has to be worth it. The opportunity cost in pursuing such a case IMO isn't – by quite a big margin.

What to do? Flip DJI off, come here and complain mightily, then go buy a new DJI drone. Before you get the DT's from not flying

Here in the US it's more likely that US ISPs would block DJI servers due to sanctions or such, before DJI themselves shut them down.

 

[AroundTheWorld]

Is a micro 4/3 (1.33") different in some other ways from the 1" sensor, or is "micro" meaningless in the above statement?

And I disagree... assuming the same pixel density, 33% larger pixels will gather 33% more light, which is a large difference in noise and Dynamic Range.

Resolution ain't everything. In fact at the resolutions we're working with these days, noise, low-light performance and DR are of much greater interest to many of us.

for the 4/3" sensor

Look at a side by side comparison between the Mini 3 Pro / Air 2S and the Mavic 3. It's sometimes hard to tell a difference, even in low light. We will see that when the Air 3 will come out but I bet that the image quality will be as good if not better as on the Mavic 3 and in any type of situation. It was already the case between the Air 2S and the Mavic 2 Pro.

 

[vandemonian]

Yeah, but honestly the difference between a micro 4/3 rd sensor and a good 1 inch sensor is almost invisible.

Really.. a 1" sensor is 116mm2 and a 4/3 is 225mm2! a nearly 100% increase in sensor area might be invisible to a blind person.

 

[AroundTheWorld]

I sold my Mavic 3 last week(the 2 lens one). Bought for $2100, sold for $1400 and ebay got $200 off it.

And the Air 3 is not even out. I guess that the drones that will be the most affected by a sudden drop in value once the Air is released will be the old Mavic 3 and the Classic.

 

[vandemonian]

Is a micro 4/3 (1.33") different in some other ways from the 1" sensor, or is "micro" meaningless in the above statement?

And I disagree... assuming the same pixel density, 33% larger pixels will gather 33% more light, which is a large difference in noise and Dynamic Range.

Resolution ain't everything. In fact at the resolutions we're working with these days, noise, low-light performance and DR are of much greater interest to many of us.

for the 4/3" sensor

as mentioned above 1" sensor area is 116 sq mm. 4/3s have 225 sq mm.

The "Micro" part is meaningless WRT the sensor - 4/3rds is the sensor size developed by Olympus and a couple of other DSLR camera companies that had penta prism (reflex) and moving mirror shutter systems..

When Olympus and Panasonic developed their mirrorless digital cameras the lenses and mounts were able to be shrunk to a much smaller size (because the sensor is much closer to the lens system without a mirror-box) which they called Micro 4/3 and created the M4/3 standard which distinguished the mounts and lenses from the 4/3 mount lenses which were much larger.