First day with Mini 4 Pro. Returning it tomorrow.

[DougMcC]

I heard a rumor that Dr. Phil is opening a new show about drone marriages. It appears his standard “what were you thinking?” Isn’t helping anymore. He’s going to need our help I believe.

 

[landmark orbiter]

Some lens flare is inevitable and a nice effect for the most part with any lens pointed towards a low-lying sun.

 

[projectarjun]

Keep us posted

 

[Skyreat]

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[Phantomrain.org]

This is reminds me of my entanglements with the Osirus.

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[PHZ]

I've never seen that kind of flare with my Mini 3 Pro. Maybe I was just lucky. If so this goes back. I have 5 other drones I can use. If this is "normal" I'm shocked and very sorry I sold my much better Mini 3 Pro.

Sorry your Mini 4 Pro is a disappointment. But, you can take the return money, buy the Mini 3 PRO (soon they will start discounting them), and get change back. Thank you for the heads up.

 

[davedrone 178]

I'm returning my 4 Pro because it's really terrible in the wind. It flies substantially slower than my mini 3 Pro, Mini 3, Air 3 and Mavic 3. I've tested it extensively, flying the same route at the exact same time with the plus battery. It can't cover nearly as much distance as all my other DJI drones. And I get this warning, "battery overcurrent" even in normal mode. Use to get that in my Mini 3 Pro, where DJI replaced that drone 3 times. But I do love the features in the 4.

 

[finity]

These kinds of posts make me unsure if I really want to sell my Mini 3 Pro and "upgrade" to the Mini 4.

But the problem is we don't know if these reports are anomalies or the norm. But how does one find out for sure if it's just one unfortunate user? Most times it's usually only those users who have problems that will report them here so the data will be skewed. Most people don't create threads just to say "I tested it and it works as expected".

Luckily I'm just in the talking phase of finding a buyer for my M3P so I can still back out of the sale.

The Air3 is still a viable option for me at this point. My plan was that I was going to keep my Mini 3 and get the Air3 so I had the updated features (360 OA, better camera, waypoints) but I also had a mini drone for traveling.

Now I have to decide to stick to the original plan or just get the mini 4 as my only drone.

 

[Meta4]

I'm returning my 4 Pro because it's really terrible in the wind. It flies substantially slower than my mini 3 Pro, Mini 3, Air 3 and Mavic 3. I've tested it extensively, flying the same route at the exact same time with the plus battery.

Unless there is a real problem with the example you bought, this sounds unlikely.
The specs for the Mini 4 show it flying faster in Normal mode and having a little longer battery life.

 

[davedrone 178]

Unless there is a real problem with the example you bought, this sounds unlikely.
The specs for the Mini 4 show it flying faster in Normal mode and having a little longer battery life.

But the "battery overcurrent" is a problem I had with my Mini 3 Pro in SPORT mode only. I'm getting that same warning in NORMAL mode with my 4. Don't have the patience with teething problems and don't really care about the weight since the plus batteries put you over the limit.

 

[Phantomrain.org]

But the "battery overcurrent" is a problem I had with my Mini 3 Pro in SPORT mode only. I'm getting that same warning in NORMAL mode with my 4. Don't have the patience with teething problems and don't really care about the weight since the plus batteries put you over the limit.

Being that I fly in the Worst weather conditions , that warning is not really essential in any way as I would go as far to say that this is a standard default , like somone saying be careful.

I know this because I get warning everytime I fly, and nothing ever happens but that your using some extra battery .

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[davedrone 178]

Being that I fly in the Worst weather conditions , that warning is not really essential in any way as I would go as far to say that this is a standard default , like somone saying be careful.

I know this because I get warning everytime I fly, and nothing ever happens but that your using some extra battery .

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What worries me is that DJI can't seem to explain what it means because they always pretend like they never heard about the problem before.

 

[Phantomrain.org]

I always thought it would be fixed by an update but than realized it just a warning for the sake of warning. We have seen that a few times with the Mavic Series Drones.

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[Meta4]

What worries me is that DJI can't seem to explain what it means because they always pretend like they never heard about the problem before.

DJI support people only work from scripts and aren't very good at providing support.
It means your drone is over-working, probably due to fighting a headwind.
(which might account for your 4 reportedly flying slower than a 3)?

 

[PepperBird]

I'm bummed. Already sold my Mini 3 pro. The Mini 4 Pro has (at least mine did) an unbelievable amount of flare when it is angled anywhere near the sun. I have the FPV, Avata, Mavic Air, Mavic 3 and Mavic 3 Pro and none of them exhibit the kind of extreme flare this does. I flew it and followed up with a flight with my Mavic 3 Pro and it was a world of difference. I am confident it would have been the same with my Mini 3 as I NEVER saw the kind of excessive flair I did with the Mini 4. So sad. Pics later perhaps but I won't keep this and if I asked for an exchange it would probably put me past the return time so it has to go back entirely.

I live in Arizona. I ALWAYS fly my Mini 3 Pro with an ND64 filter. I do not have a flare problem

 

[Jman13]

Huh. I didn't have any flare issues this morning shooting the sunrise with my Mini 4 Pro. I'm not saying there is no flare...there definitely is (you can see the reddish blob to the lower left of the sun in the second shot), but I didn't have what was shown in that video, and this is quite a bit better than the flare on my Air 2S, which is pretty bad in some circumstances.

Here was my Air 2S flare:

 

[akdrone]

Would have been nice to see the exact same footage withthe M3P. I feel like that angle of the sun and the direction in which you're facing is a difficult position in which not to get lens flare. It actually looks nice, kind of a cinematic effect.

I didn't shoot the exact same footage with my Mav3Pro but I shot a great deal of similar footage and panned across areas much the same. Any time you pan across the sun you can expect -some- flare but it was minimal as it has always been with my FPV, Avata, Mav3, Mav3Pro etc. I have contacted DJI and put in a request for a return and refund.

 

[akdrone]

I live in Arizona. I ALWAYS fly my Mini 3 Pro with an ND64 filter. I do not have a flare problem

If you HAD a flare problem it would show up with or without the ND Filter.

 

[akdrone]

Huh. I didn't have any flare issues this morning shooting the sunrise with my Mini 4 Pro. I'm not saying there is no flare...there definitely is (you can see the reddish blob to the lower left of the sun in the second shot), but I didn't have what was shown in that video, and this is quite a bit better than the flare on my Air 2S, which is pretty bad in some circumstances.

Here was my Air 2S flare:

Even that Air 2s flare would not be shocking to me. The shocking part was when I was 30deg away from the sun and still getting horrible flare. In my video at 35 to 38 sec the sun isn't even close to within my view and the extreme flare shows up throughout my video in various places. If all I got was the flare shown above when shooting right at the sun I would not complain.