Wow.. apparently this guy was able to buy the
Mini 2 before the official release date!? He was even unable to activate it with DJI, seemingly because it hasn’t been officially released yet! From what we know so far:
Pros:
? 4K of course! The most requested feature!
? Occusync 2.0! Big upgrade from the
Mini 1.
? Panorama mode? The box shown on the video mentions “Panorama”, I suppose it’s the same panorama feature that the Air/Pro series have, which takes a series of shots automatically to assemble a spherical 360 panoramic image. Many pilots missed this feature on the
Mini 1, including myself, I did a 360 spherical panorama manually with the
Mini 1 and wrote a thread here about it. Even the Litchi app added auto panorama support to the
Mini 1, so no doubt this was one of the most requested features for the Mini.
? Better wind resistance, as someone mentioned before. A welcome upgrade, I found the
Mini 1 struggled with even a light wind. The more powerful motors make possible to fight the wind with more force.
? New controller like the
Air 2. More ergonomic and better mechanism to attach a phone. (Although some will find the bigger size to be a downgrade).
? Weight of 249g still maintained. So yeah, it was indeed possible to make a sub-250g drone with 4K capture! This was a hot topic here, because it was believed that technical limitations prevented the
Mini 1 from capturing 4K, it was thought that 4K capture needed a more powerful processor that required a cooling fan, therefore increasing the weight to more than 250g. Well, now we can see that such technical limitations were either overcame or didn’t exist at all!
Now the Cons:
No mention of RAW capture. So it’ll likely not have RAW support? Well, it’s expected that something will be missing from the Mini to separate it from the
Air 2, I suppose DJI won’t want the Mini to cannibalize the
Air 2. Still, if it would have at least HDR, bracketing and burst modes, the lack of RAW will be somewhat compensated.
Different battery. So if you are upgrading from the
Mini 1 and have spare batteries for the
M1, they won’t work with the new Mini. No surprise here however, since every model of DJI drones use a different battery each, even in the same series.