DJI Air 3 drone, new remote controllers hit the FCC database

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DJI Air 3 drone, new remote controllers hit the FCC database

The highly anticipated DJI Air 3 drone showed up in regulatory filings today along with DJI RC 2 and DJI RC-N2 remote controllers.

dronedj.com

This stands out...
"Interestingly, none of the cameras bear a Hasselblad marking, indicating that this could be the key distinction between the Mavic lineup and the Air series."

 

[PepperBird]

From @Quadro_News:
And here's a detailed image of the DJI Air 3's camera and lenses. It's getting closer and closer

 

[solidhouse]

Any idea what the maximum zoom will be?

 

[bkushner]

From @Quadro_News:
And here's a detailed image of the DJI Air 3's camera and lenses. It's getting closer and closer

Yeah I'm underwhelmed by the sensors. They are going backwards from 1" in the Air 2S. I get they put two camera but for me I'd rather have single camera larger sensor. Save the multi camera stuff for the Pro and Mavic 3 line.

 

[thispilothere]

At this point, we have gimbals easily supporting 2, or even 3, whole cameras. I'd be happier with one sensor and decent optical zoom.

 

[Droning on and on...]

Yeah I'm underwhelmed by the sensors. They are going backwards from 1" in the Air 2S. I get they put two camera but for me I'd rather have single camera larger sensor. Save the multi camera stuff for the Pro and Mavic 3 line.

Werd, brutha!

Put the state of the art 4/3 100MP sensor in with full 8k capable resolution, then crop to zoom at FHD and UHD resolutions, no loss of resolution for the target format. I.e. no bicubic or other lossy blowing up pixels.

 

[Droning on and on...]

At this point, we have gimbals easily supporting 2, or even 3, whole cameras. I'd be happier with one sensor and decent optical zoom.

Optical zoom is a very tough engineering challenge in the short space available for a drone camera gimbal.

Think of 35mm camera zoom lenses... there's a reason they're so long.