 Morning Rotorat, I'm Lidrib. Today, we're looking at the Mavic 3. Now normally, we're flying FPV drones here. That means we're doing freestyle, racing, fast chasing, very dynamic shots. The Mavic 3 is a whole different animal, but we love all drones here. So we wanted to see where does this fit in if you want to get into drones, if you're already flying FPV drones. Who is the Mavic 3-4, right? So this is everything you get in the box. You get the drone itself, you get a radio, you get this cool little cover thing, some spare props, cords, charger, everything that you need to fly. Many people buy a Mavic as their first drone. It's very beginner friendly, but also has professional capability. We've seen a lot of people start with a Mavic and then maybe they graduate to FPV. It really all depends on what your goals are in doing drones. If you want to get some great real estate photography or videos, this is badass. If you want to fly in the smoke of a drift car, you're gonna need something a little bit quicker and a little bit more dynamic. You're gonna need one of our FPV quads, right? The Mavic 3 is covered with more sensors than any other Mavic. I mean, it's got the front sensors. It's got the back sensors. It's got bottom sensors. It's even got top sensors. How many Christmases have we seen the news article about how many people crash their drones the first day they get it? And I think DJI is trying to cut down on that number a little bit. But this drone isn't just for beginners. It has professional capability. The camera on here, this hustle blog camera is, I mean, it's a fourth, third sensor size. The image quality is incredible. It can do 4K up to 120 frames per second. The bit rate is bananas. I mean, it's just, it's a really sweet camera. And you'll see, it has actually got two. Smaller camera above it is actually for zooming in. 28 times total zoom. I think eight of it's digital. So you can get right up on your subject, kind of get that news chopper sort of look. So we're gonna take this Mavic out along with one of our FPV drones and kind of see what are the different types of shots that you can get with each different drone. We got Reese behind the camera. Now he's got a lot more experience flying this style of drone. So we're gonna put him in command of the Mavic. I'm gonna break out one of my free stock quads. And we're gonna go fly and film something that can be both dynamic and fast, as well as slow and predictable. Really put both the FPV drone and the Mavic through their paces and see where does each one shine? So being a cinematographer, I try to be on location earlier than everyone else. So I figured that this would be a great time to test out the low light capabilities. Shooting this in 4K, 24 frames per second at f2.8, I'm allowing the most amount of light into the sensor. For a drone, this is absolutely incredible. There's hardly any light in the sky and the Mavic 3 is picking up a great deal of information. I also use this time to check the weather app as the winds today feel stronger than usual and the windy app confirms it. Eight knots gusting 13 predicted throughout the day. It wasn't very long before Sean showed up with his boat and we were ready to test out the unique camera that this Mavic 3 drone has. Bottom lens is the Hasselblad Forster. Look at that, when you change the aperture, it closes the iris. What? Oh my gosh, it's got a baby iris. So is that a Micro Four Thirds camera? I'm thinking so. That's crazy. That's what that is. Yeah, same as that camera. That's so cool. Just look at the colors. That CMOS sensor is freaking nuts. If it's Micro Four Thirds truly, like look at the dynamic range. That is just some prudu. 12.8 stops of dynamic range. I know that just sounds like a bunch of jargon but that's what a lot of cinema cameras have. And then above it is like, optically, it looks optically but they call it hybrid 28x zoom. Well the thing about it is though, if you're on a vibrating flying drone though and you've got like 28x zoom, is it actually gonna be stable or is it gonna be like this? When you're zoomed in, every little movement, like you pick up a lot. So I'll be really curious to see like how well can that gimbal stabilize for 28x zoom. Yeah. So I was looking at it. The top camera has some kind of optical, like it's doing its own thing inside the gimbal. So the camera, this whole thing is stabilized with the gimbal and then the zoom lens in there also has some kind of. It kind of, it kind of was wobbling. I was shining some light, just trying to see what was going on in there. Yeah. And it was kind of doing its own little thing inside. Yeah, that's cool. Let's see if you can track it with like some significant zoom. All right. A quick note, while we were really excited about the zoom feature when looking at the phone screen, once we reviewed the footage on a larger screen, it's clear that there's a drop in quality when zooming in. That's to be expected with any digital zoom and it could probably be managed a bit better by not zooming in so far. But no matter what, you just shouldn't expect the image off of the zoom camera to look anywhere near as good as the full size camera. That being said, it's still a pretty nifty feature and DJI does call it an explore feature to set the expectation that it's for looking around and having fun and not necessarily getting the highest quality image. Okay, here, while we're going slow, while we're going to catch up to him, see if you can do an active track orbit. All the boats. I'm gonna go way slower, yeah, just on the boat. Boats and frames, draw the picture over the boat. We're gonna do an orbit, so point of interest and set it up and hit go. Oh, that's good. Okay, now I'm just gonna slowly cut over the shot. Yeah, now she's down. Okay, so now let's do it. So that's what it's supposed to be doing. Right. And I mean, we are moving. We're only going about two miles an hour, two, we're going about three miles an hour and now it's able to keep up with us. That is crazy, that fully autonomously, it's orbiting around us and tracking. The app is an amazing tool that helps dial in any setting you may need for the camera. DJI also has ample flight modes like the active track or my personal favorite, the point of interest. To help beginners create cinematic moves out the box. However, I rarely use the active track mode and while testing it, I was struggling to get the app to lock on a subject. So fully autonomous, it was tracking and orbiting That is really cool. All on its own. I wish I could do that at speed though. It just can't do it at speed. But there is this new active track 5.0 that's gonna be coming out in a future update because we have a pre-release drone. Being able to track and orbit something at three, I still think it's really impressive but if we could have a little bit more speed to be able to track you when you're doing your thing. I'm interested to see how you're gonna land your FPV drone. I'll just plop it in the boat. Yeah, good luck. This is not a beginner friendly operation to fly FPV over water like this. Like you gotta know what you're doing. Like the Mavic, aside from your sketchy takeoff and landing, I'd fly over water all day, no problem. But I would say like, you should really be taking off and landing from land, from a dock. When you fly too long, the Mavic will just take over and be like, I'm going home, I'm gonna land. FPV drones, this is all manual. Like you gotta be pretty skilled. So who's this drone for? I mean, it's really easy to fly so like a beginner can get into this, right? Absolutely, yeah. It's a beginner friendly drone with a lot of features. So even the advanced aerial cinematography pilot would love this platform. With the Micro Four Third Sensor and 12 stops of dynamic range, I mean, it is a dream to fly. If you're gonna get into it, you're gonna be looking at over $2,000. That's over $2,000. I feel like that's a little up there for a beginner then. Yeah, yeah, it's a, it's a, like, a lot of true, like if man, if you know you're gonna get into this, this is the way to go. This drone is badass, but that's a lot of money. It has a lot of features. Cause I mean the air, what you can get an air for like five, 600. Fly more packages at $1,000? Yeah, so for a lot less, you can get in the air and doing it, get your feet wet. If you want more, more power, more flight time, more capabilities, you're gonna wanna lean towards this. And on top, we didn't even get to test it. The CineMavic 3 has a one terabyte solid state drive built in and it allows you to shoot pro res. How much is that one? Oh, like five grand. Yes. Yeah. Better be shelling out those big dollars. I mean, but that's for pro grade stuff, right? If you're gonna be on a movie set, why not, right? I guess so. I mean, I do think that this comes at a steep price, but you're gonna be able to day one, fly this, get pretty good shots. There's so much head room with this drone. It can really grow with you. However, ultimately, if you wanna get in the action, gotta say FPV drone is the way to go. You're gonna win it every time. But then, I mean, your skill level's really gotta be up there, right? No. And the skills that you develop on this don't even necessarily translate. It's a much different skill operating a throttle stick instead of an altitude stick, not having auto-leveling. It's a whole different beast. We have seen a lot of people start on Mavic and eventually come over to FPV. And I think we've also seen pilots start on FPV and get a Mavic to add to their tool bag. Even though I've been flying FPV drones for years, I still love having a Mavic. There are certain shots that FPV drones just aren't good for. Out on the boat, you're doing that bird's eye view, looking straight down at the boat. You just can't do that with an FPV drone. There's all sorts of different types of shots that you can get on a platform where the camera can move a little bit more independently of the drone. That just opens up a lot of things. And I would say just the portability is a huge, huge part of drones in general for me. Because the fact that you can start folding this thing down and putting it in a backpack, along with all your other cameras, you're able to bring this on so many different trips. Someone told me once. That's pretty nice. The best camera is the one that you have. Yeah. So if you have this thing in your backpack, it's available. It's the best drone. This folds up so tight and then this little carrying pouch. I know you don't even like to bother with it. Can I call it a muzzle? It's a muzzle. Can I call it a muzzle? You got a muzzle, the beast. It looks like a shark and that looks like now the shark can't bite you. All right, you're out in the field. Three. Action's about to happen. Two, one, go. Come on, Michael Bay is calling action. The ambulance is moving down. Oh man. Ready to go. It's pretty quick. Although the button being on the back is kind of weird. That does aggravate me that it's trying to run away from you rather than be on top where it's just not. Yeah, the older ones, they used to have the button up top, which I think was nice. Putting it on the back, I don't know. It's just, it's kind of weird. It's cute. If you want to charge this drone, it comes with a 65 watt charger and it plugs into the rear. So it's the only way to charge this through the drone. Correct. Right there. That seems kind of weird to me that you can't charge the battery separately from the drone. I guess if you buy like one of the Flymore combos then you get a dock with it. That's correct. But if you started with the drone and then just bought another battery, Fly, you can't charge while you're flying. That's kind of like. Yeah, it is. So I didn't even get to fly this thing. I want to shot at this. So you're going to put a phone on it, right? This pops up and then there's a cord in there. You just pull out one thing. This is going to plug into my phone. Correct. All right, that's on. It's a new chirp. I like the chirp. All right, let's back it up. What are we doing? We're just backing it up. Okay. I'll keep, I'm safety. Okay. I'm captain safety. So already the sensors are beeping at you. All right. It won't let me flat at all. Hey, hey, hey, hey, look at that. That's crazy obstacle avoidance. Let me go up. Look at this. Can you guys see this? I'm pulling full up. Yeah. It's actually sensing the ceiling. Sensing the ceiling. They're going to tell you on the app like how many feet. Oh yeah. I'm holding full back. It's smart. But I can turn this off, right? Yeah. All right. I go in here. Yeah. I don't want any of that obstacle avoidance. I can kind of, oh, I'm moving it. Yep. Now you can control it. I'm moving it. Oh yeah. That is a nice looking sensor. That is. What do you guys think? Is this the ultimate Mavic ever made? That's the new Mavic 3. We hope you enjoyed the video. I'm Reese Dawkins. I'm the drip. We'll see you next time on Rotorite. Like and subscribe, Rotorite, baby. Woohoo!