Leaked DJI Mavic 3 specs and more

[mschaffer66]

I intend to get one as soon as I can. I've been waiting since I lost my mavic in December 2018.
No other drone has a 7x zoom. Good for getting close up's of girls with them being too suspicious.
45 minute battery is really good. That will make for 35 minute flights.
Great range too. In my urban area I start losing signal at 2,000 feet. I'd be happy with a 8,000 foot range in the city.
Maybe 5 miles in certain areas.
I don't really care that much about the price.

I started typing out a response. A long one actually. But then I re-thought things. I guess in a way most of this makes sense. I was looking at it as being an upgrade for someone who has an Air2 or an Air2S. I was having a hard time rectifying that because in some ways some of its aspects are a lateral move from an A2S. But I guess the way to really look at it as an upgrade for someone's aging Mavic or Mavic 2. Thinking about it like that it makes more sense. It's an upgrade that gets DJI back on par with some of the features of the Evo2.

The one thing I don't understand, and I don't seem to see many complaints in comments on articles, what is the deal with the fixed aperture?

 

[Drone_Pilot]

And I still have my mavic pro !

I started typing out a response. A long one actually. But then I re-thought things. I guess in a way most of this makes sense. I was looking at it as being an upgrade for someone who has an Air2 or an Air2S. I was having a hard time rectifying that because in some ways some of its aspects are a lateral move from an A2S. But I guess the way to really look at it as an upgrade for someone's aging Mavic or Mavic 2. Thinking about it like that it makes more sense. It's an upgrade that gets DJI back on par with some of the features of the Evo2.

The one thing I don't understand, and I don't seem to see many complaints in comments on articles, what is the deal with the fixed aperture?

Stepping down to the f/2.8 – often provides adequate depth of field for most subjects and yields superb sharpness. Such apertures are great for travel, sports, wildlife, as well as other types of photography. f/5.6 – f/8 – this is the ideal range for landscape and architecture photography

I started typing out a response. A long one actually. But then I re-thought things. I guess in a way most of this makes sense. I was looking at it as being an upgrade for someone who has an Air2 or an Air2S. I was having a hard time rectifying that because in some ways some of its aspects are a lateral move from an A2S. But I guess the way to really look at it as an upgrade for someone's aging Mavic or Mavic 2. Thinking about it like that it makes more sense. It's an upgrade that gets DJI back on par with some of the features of the Evo2.

The one thing I don't understand, and I don't seem to see many complaints in comments on articles, what is the deal with the fixed aperture?

Stepping down to the f/2.8 – f/4 range often provides adequate depth of field for most subjects and yields superb sharpness.

Such apertures are great for travel, sports, wildlife, as well as other types of photography. f/5.6 – f/8 – this is the ideal range for landscape and architecture photography.

 

[wco81]

I guess in a way that makes sense if it really is marketed towards professionals. I personally wouldn't want to plug my drone into my laptop every time I need to take a video off of it. But I record a few minutes here and there...not 8hrs a day.

I still don't see the point of this thing, if the leaks are true. Maybe I'm ignorant, but I don't see how any of those specs make it worth the price point they are probably going to target.

Yeah I wouldn't be for too much storage on board.

Seems like that would add weight too, unless 1 TB in NAND is comparable to whatever internal storage is in the Mavic 2.

But one thing to consider is that microSD is SLOWWW.

I get 15-20 GB of data per battery/per flight on my M2P. So after doing 3 flights per excursion without recharging, I have 50-60 GB of data to pull off and it takes awhile to copy that data from card to hard drive on my MacBook Pro.

For comparison, on my Nikon full-frame camera, where I don't take too many videos, I would pull off 5-15 GB from a day of shooting and the Nikon uses XQD cards.

Those things are very fast, only a couple of minutes to copy 5-15 GB of data. Though XQD cards are very expensive, well over $100 for like 64 GB.

The XQD cards are large too, much larger than even SD cards, so they wouldn't work on drones.

So built-in storage if it gives you much faster transfer speeds, it may be worth the hassle. Like if they had a USB-C port and I can plug that in to connect the Mavic 3 to a laptop.

 

[Kilrah]

But one thing to consider is that microSD is SLOWWW.

I get 15-20 GB of data per battery/per flight on my M2P. So after doing 3 flights per excursion without recharging, I have 50-60 GB of data to pull off and it takes awhile to copy that data from card to hard drive on my MacBook Pro.

Copying 50GB off a microSD takes <10 minutes. If it's not the case for you either you've got a slow card or slow/USB2 reader.

 

[wco81]

OK I will shop for a new microSD reader.

 

[Drone_Pilot]

So much connecting and disconnecting the micro USB eventually will break inside the drone and it's going to give you a headache because you will have to replace it if you need to download any data from the SD card.

Just my two sense that's all

 

[joeywestside]

I agree with all of the points you mentioned! I thought to myself to why the heck would they put a 1 TB internal storage when it’s so much more beneficial to have removable media cards?

The Inspire 2 has large removable SSD's because when recording at ProRes, typical memory cards can't keep up - their recording speeds are too low. This is likely the thinking behind what they're saying for the Mavic 3.

 

[wco81]

Assuming there is huge, fast internal storage, I hope you don't have to power on the drone to copy data off of it.

 

[VenomXts]

Assuming there is huge, fast internal storage, I hope you don't have to power on the drone to copy data off of it.

its so annoying when I go to use the 8 gigs on my air2 and have to power the drone on lol. Teach me to forget the microsd card.

 

[ckoerner]

The Inspire 2 has large removable SSD's because when recording at ProRes, typical memory cards can't keep up - their recording speeds are too low. This is likely the thinking behind what they're saying for the Mavic 3.

Yep. I also imagine that if this rumored set of specs is true you’ll be able to record from both cameras at the same time. That requires a lot of fast storage - both in volume and speed.

Small niggle from the original article. Those aren’t drawings. Even if the author says they are. They are photos of something run through an “art” filter to make them look like drawings.

 

[VenomXts]

Pulled off a facebook group... looks credible.. possibly.

 

[CanadaDrone]

Stepping down to the f/2.8 – often provides adequate depth of field for most subjects and yields superb sharpness. Such apertures are great for travel, sports, wildlife, as well as other types of photography. f/5.6 – f/8 – this is the ideal range for landscape and architecture photography

Stepping down to the f/2.8 – f/4 range often provides adequate depth of field for most subjects and yields superb sharpness.

Such apertures are great for travel, sports, wildlife, as well as other types of photography. f/5.6 – f/8 – this is the ideal range for landscape and architecture photography.

Your DOF comments are generally correct when broadly applied to full frame/large sensor photography, however the main caveat when applied to drones (or any small sensor imaging tool) is that the sensors are so small that everything is in focus anyway unless you are flying just a few feet from the subject. F2.8 on a 1" sensor (M2P) is equivalent to F8 on a full-frame/35mm camera in terms of DOF. A 1/2" sensor like on the rumored M3P secondary camera with seemingly a fixed F4.4 aperture would give it a DOF equivalent of F24 on a full-frame camera. At any normal flight altitude, beyond about 3 feet or so, everything will always be in focus even at F2.8 with a 1" sensor. This is amplified further with the wide angle lens.

Regarding sharpness, again sensor size and resolution comes into play when determining the sharpest aperture. For example, a 1" sensor with a resolution of 20MP will be sharpest at F4, all else equal. Beyond that, diffraction begins to degrade the image, but it's not something that becomes detrimental to the image until F8-F11 or so. Basically what that means is the information intended for a single pixel on the sensor starts to "spill" over onto the other pixels above F4, creating an ever increasing blur as the aperture increases beyond that point (circle of confusion).

The takeaway is that with all these small-sensor drones, really you only need to worry about aperture in terms of controlling exposure rather than DOF unless you are going to be flying incredibly close to your subject, and try not to use the extreme apertures like F11 as the image will be very soft due to diffraction.

 

[dirkclod]

No need in multiple threads

No Need in 3 threads. Here it is.

https://dronedj.com/2021/09/23/dji-mavic-3-pro-specs-features-price-release/

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