"Get a mini 5 Pro, sell the mini 3 Pro?" Revisited with my own situation

[Dale D]

I wanted to be careful as to not hijack another person's recent thread so I am starting my own related but personal question. I do photography and videos of my travels for my family.

I have a Mini 4 Pro fly more , and my treasured original M3. Both work just fine, and the batteries are still good.

At my recent 87th year old birthday in September, I asked myself, should I sell both of them, to take advantage of the better existing valuations, and get a Mavic Mini 5 pro for the 1 inch sensor. Never do night flying (ergo no Lidar needed). My big travels just ended with a fabulous trip to Zimbabwe (I elected not to take a drone after a year of writing for a permit to the Zimbabwe CAA). I am still in good health, but I need to start thinking about not saddling my wife with my used drones. My future use of drones will only be for travels within the US in legal locations. I do not need the money. I just want to have a single and better drone.

Thoughts anybody?

Dale

 

[FLDave]

Seems simple if you look at the data.
Finances are not the issue.
Will newer technology serve you better than what your have? If yes, then get the latest and most appropriate for your needs.
Want not to saddle wife with burden of your stuff? Then dump your excess stuff now; it has outlived its usefulness. Plan to make life simple for surviving spouse, but you have no control which spouse survives the other

 

[Dale D]

Seems simple if you look at the data.
Finances are not the issue.
Will newer technology serve you better than what your have? If yes, then get the latest and most appropriate for your needs.
Want not to saddle wife with burden of your stuff? Then dump your excess stuff now; it has outlived its usefulness. Plan to make life simple for surviving spouse, but you have no control which spouse survives the other

Thank you for your wise advice.
Dale

 

[Dronecation]

I wanted to be careful as to not hijack another person's recent thread so I am starting my own related but personal question. I do photography and videos of my travels for my family.

I have a Mini 4 Pro fly more , and my treasured original M3. Both work just fine, and the batteries are still good.

At my recent 87th year old birthday in September, I asked myself, should I sell both of them, to take advantage of the better existing valuations, and get a Mavic Mini 5 pro for the 1 inch sensor. Never do night flying (ergo no Lidar needed). My big travels just ended with a fabulous trip to Zimbabwe (I elected not to take a drone after a year of writing for a permit to the Zimbabwe CAA). I am still in good health, but I need to start thinking about not saddling my wife with my used drones. My future use of drones will only be for travels within the US in legal locations. I do not need the money. I just want to have a single and better drone.

Thoughts anybody?

Dale

If money isn't an issue, keep one of them as a backup just in case.

 

[Dale D]

If money isn't an issue, keep one of them as a backup just in case.

Thanks for your input.
Dale

 

[GeorgiaPI]

If in the US, one may want to wait until the outcome of the standoff on the DJI ban or not. If there is a ban or some kind of halt the current listed drones will still be OK for a time, but the Mini 5 Pro is not listed due to being released after the list was compiled. So if there is a ban it will be unlawful to fly one. As for the ones listed, firmware updates would most likely fizzle after a time. Just a possible scenario. Fla Senator Rick Scott is aggressively pursuing DJI's interests.
As for waiting, its possible there may be extensions but not holding my breath here. Write your Senator with the concern.

 

[GadgetGuy]

If in the US, one may want to wait until the outcome of the standoff on the DJI ban or not. If there is a ban or some kind of halt the current listed drones will still be OK for a time, but the Mini 5 Pro is not listed due to being released after the list was compiled. So if there is a ban it will be unlawful to fly one. As for the ones listed, firmware updates would most likely fizzle after a time. Just a possible scenario. Fla Senator Rick Scott is aggressively pursuing DJI's interests.
As for waiting, its possible there may be extensions but not holding my breath here. Write your Senator with the concern.

The so called "ban" only prevents sales of new drones by DJI into the U.S. it wouldn’t make flying a currently owned DJI drone, even if imported, unlawful.
Nor would FW updates over the internet be prevented. DJI isn't going out of business. They still have an international market to support with FW updates to all their drones, past and future, available to anyone worldwide.

 

[KAOS Imagery]

Happy B Day, Dale! If you are having fun with your drones, as it appears you are, I say hang on to them and keep flying! I have a Mavic 3 and a Mavic 2 Pro, still fly both regularly. Like you, I'm considering upgrading to a newer drone, but will likely wait for the hopeful DJI / US sales issue to be rectified. I don't *need* the upgrade, just want it.

With the case of you having a few used drones, do you have any grand kids that might be interested in learning how to fly and photograph? A well kept earlier model would be a great way to start!

Cheers!