Camera Comparisons
- Thread starter Wreckhunter
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If you’re going with the Mavic 3, wait a little longer. I just returned mine due to some technical issues as well as firmware complaints. I also have the Air 2S. The M3 is definitely the better drone, but not twice as good ($$$). If you lean more towards the hobby side, Air 2S all day. If you must do low light work, Mavic 3. For web work, I don’t see much of a difference in daylight shots until you really blow up the image to see stuff in the background. My 2 cents.
Thank you much for the reply.
I have the mavic air 2 fly more combo.wondering if getting the air2s standard package makes any
kind of sense.Then I would have 4 batteries to swap from one to the other.
I would not do anything until summer anyway.The battery life on the M3,is the eye catcher for me
along with the camera. This will be a tough call.
Have yourself a great day
-MavicMiniPilot
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Chrislaf
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@Wreckhunter, I finally decided to take the plunge and get a Mavic 3 despite all the complaints I have been reading about it and some misgivings I had. So far I am very pleased, particularly with the dual camera system and the battery life. I also find it very stable in the air compared to my previous drones. Here are a few shots of a building foundation from an early settlement in the early 1900s in the area near where I live. The first shot is from the main MFT camera, the second is from the tele camera at 7X with spot focus, and the third is a pano from the tele at 7X (3 rows, 6 shots per row for 18 shots total). All shots were taken from the same height.
Chris
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Chris
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Uhh, am I the only one getting second image, which looks like it has been overcompressed to hell and back?
Current 2017 Mavic Pro Platinum being plain dated on camera and also otherwise starting to need replacing and while Air 2S would improve camera lot, Mavic 3's endurance and that tele camera is sure interesting. (can't always get closer because of VLOS requirement)
Find out how fast you can crash the drones?
-MavicMiniPilot
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Chrislaf
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Yes, the images are over compressed. The original second JPEG you are referring to was 9.10MB but I exported it out of Lightroom at 50% further compressing and reducing it to a 2MB file for upload here. Also, I was wrong when I said the 7X image was from the Tele camera, it was a crop from the Hasselblad camera @92mm equivalent. The Pano image was shot from the Tele camera (FC4170) @161mm f/4.4.
I have only had my Mavic 3 for about a month so I have not had a lot of time to do a lot of testing of all of its features and capabilities and my original intention was to show the OP some of the possibilities of the dual camera system and to highlight the long battery life as he has an interest in finding shipwrecks. The long battery life and dual camera system on the Mavic 3 might be an advantage over existing drones like the Air 2s that he has been considering. One other consideration too that might be advantageous to the OP is the adjustable aperture that may come in handy in tricky lighting situations when trying to photograph wrecks in water.
For me, I did not purchase the Mavic 3 for its Tele camera but having the Tele camera was a bonus as one of my interests is in trying to locate hard to find ruins and being able to 'zoom' in and search and explore from the sky has been a game changer for me.
Chris
That explains it.
Upscaling would certainly cause such artefacts.
On that note there should always be option for disabling any digital zoom steps, because there's never any extra details stored over native/non-cropped.
Longer battery life is also clear advantage for cold weather:
The less time you spend doing something else than flying, the less time there's for fingers to freeze.
And battery swap is one of those things cooling fingers lot, unless it's doable easily while wearing gloves.
Sure would be nice if designers of products sold globally would be themselves always forced to test those also in cold environment.
Well, guess we could exclude ships to avoid getting more shipwrecks...
Most ships wouldn't like meeting 10+ metres thick pressure ridges.
Chrislaf
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That was one of the other major reasons why I went with the Mavic 3. It is rated to fly in temps down to -10ºC. The temperatures are warming up now but I often fly in much colder weather so the temp rating and battery life are a big consideration. The coldest I have flown the Mavic 3 so far has been around -9ºC and I had no problems other than my hands getting cold. Instead of having to land to swap a battery, I could just hover, warm my hands and then continue to do my shooting.
I am also considering getting the RC Pro as well as I often fly in strong sunlight but also have had my iPhone shut down prematurely in the cold weather so its rating of -10ºC as well should help with the cold weather flying.
Chris
Sounds like so far so good with your new M3.Not sure what I am going to get when I upgrade
from my air 2.New leaked photos of the mini 3 pro came out today.If this mini 3 has a larger
sensor than my air 2,that will really add to,what do I get.
Have a good one.
That's still warmer than the warmest temperature I flew my Mavic Pro Platinum in January.
Most frosty weather was -25ºC...
Actually got this kind of spiky ice growing onto propeller leading edges:
Icing Research - Glenn Research Center | NASA
Wasn't nice weather to mess with both phone and remote...
With standard RC being now even telemetry displayless dumbmote despite of increased carrying bulk myself leaning toward RC Pro.
Though it has further size penalty.
For the price of M3 DJI should have introduced at least smaller display remote like Autel has bundled with Evo.
Don't know if RC Pro has LCD or OLED screen (brightness is such high that it's propably LCD) but don't remember having issues with previous LCD screen phone in -20ºC.
(iExpensive products aren't meant to be used outside showroom)
Anyway no matter the controller/drone, having neck strap for RC is very usefull to give both hands free when necessary without setting remote on ground/losing it into snow etc.
Neck strap works also as super convenient place to attach key chain stylus for using touch screens.
I live in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada where we get some really cold temperatures during the winter.
So far my Air 2S has flown at -10C with absolutely no problems at all.
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