OK, if you look around the form a little bit you might find some people who are having some issues with it. I think you must live a charmed life. [emoji6]
For most professionals who shoot aerial video for for a living, they have no choice but to have a backup drone. If a drone crashes during filming, they go to their backup drone. If something happens to their 1st string drone, they go to the backup drone. It's really a no brainer.
If a professional aerial photographer is in the middle of a shoot and something goes wrong, the last thing hes going to want to do is try to find a DJI store, go by a drone, get it all set up, and then hope he can finish the shoot.
I have never said people didn't have issues, nor did I ever say that it is 100% reliable - your reply suggests that is how you interpreted my post, so my apologies if it was unclear. What I said was that to say that the
majority of users are having issues
guaranteed to not be user error without a large amount of objective data (most of which we will probably never see since we'd probably need DJI's help) is a huge stretch, especially when that would go against the norm for virtually every other product out there. I would assume that most users probably aren't even forum members, and are probably having no major issues. There will absolutely be a certain percentage of users who have legitimate issues (self induced or otherwise) who seek replacement or take to enthusiast forums to discuss it. To come to the conclusion based on that and other extremely limited and mostly subjective data that having no issues somehow puts me in a minority is unlikely, not to mention virtually impossible.
Lets say DJI has sold 200,000
SC's so far, just for the sake of the discussion. Even if 10% of people had issues unrelated to user error (which would be unusually high in the electronics world), that is still a big number - more than enough to flood forums an repair shops with unhappy customers, but nowhere even remotely close to a majority. If more than 50% of
SC's were plagued with issues, there would be much bigger problems and DJI would probably be doing mass recalls.
It's like camera equipment (or any other major electronic really). You will find guys who buy one camera and have nothing but problems with it, and they will be all over every forum they can find talking about it. Who you don't hear from as often is the guys making a living with 4 of those same cameras who haven't had an issue in years and years of daily professional usage. I am not saying this is necessarily the case with the
SC, but you get what I am saying. For any product, for the
majority of users to have issues is incredibly rare, and I wouldn't be telling people that having a trouble-free
SC somehow puts you in a minority without the appropriate amount of objective data to back it up.
My vacation videos are certainly not how I make my living, and a backup drone would be less than 24 hours away at any time regardless
I don't think many professional aerial photographers are using a
M2P either - much more likely to be on the Inspire or Matrice platform for proper camera support, or something non-DJI. Obviously on a paid shoot you would want backups even if you had to rent them, especially if you did not have the option of a re-shoot, for example with a wedding (same with traditional photography). You can get sued if something like that causes you to botch a shoot. You'd have to be a fool to hire anyone who did not show up with backups to your once in a lifetime event, but unfortunately I think it happens a lot with all the 'professionals' who get an expensive camera (or drone) for Christmas and think that they can now do professional work.
Not having to fiddle with phone/cables every time the GF was waiting for me to fly was worth it right there. The M2P compass on the other hand, would not calibrate under any circumstances, but it stayed accurate/true so that too was a non-issue thankfully.
I'll check in with my local drone store again (services all of Canada) when I have time to see if they have had any customers return or complain about the SC yet. About a month ago the answer was no, but I'll get an update out of curiosity.
