 Hey what's up everybody in this video I want to talk about why the DJI Mavic Mini is the perfect gateway drone for me and now I'm already looking at other drones for next year and wanting to take the test to get my permit for bigger drones with better cameras and I'm going to tell you why this is a great drone. All right so I've been interested in drones for a long time but I've really held off. Last year about this time I came really really close to getting a Mavic Air did a lot of research looked at a spark and air at a pro other things I thought the air was about right. It came so close to pulling the trigger on one just wondered how much I would actually use it so around that time they implemented these new regulations here in the U.S. where you had to pass this test and get the certification in order to fly these drones they were over a certain weight limit so that really kind of turned me off to the whole thing. The last thing I need to do right now is study for some tests I've got lots of other stuff going on so I thought if I need a drone I'll just use some stock footage or I will hire one of my friends to do it that actually has a nicer drone but then they came out with this Mavic Mini and this thing is just under the weight limit and so it allows me to not have to take that test which is great. Once I saw that this came out I watched lots of reviews I thought well the footage is pretty good it's pretty limited right now in your video settings but DJI is usually pretty good about releasing new firmware after it's been out for a few months that enhances the functionality of their of their camera so I expect that after lots of people have this drone already that they will release this new firmware that will unlock the 24p that will unlock the the manual settings for the video that will maybe even unlock 4k abilities this really looks like the same camera that's on my Osmo pocket so I would be surprised if this couldn't actually do 4k inside I guess we'll find out so and the slow motion is pretty cool too it does 60 frames per second at HD so it's not quite the 120 frames per second that you get out of the pocket but like I said I suspect that they probably will release that maybe in January or so if I had to guess so I'm hopeful for that so overall this drone is great I've never really flown one before I was able to get up and flying in no time with the DJ fly app everything connected pretty well I do only have the one battery I probably will have to buy a few more batteries for it and I'm not gonna lie it is super nerve-wracking the first time you take it up to where you can barely see it anymore and it is up at the very top of its range I'm just at any moment I'm expecting it just to just zip and fly away and for it just to be gone so I'm just gonna have to get over that and just get used to flying it with the camera so that I can actually use it to its full potential so I'm sure that I'll get over that with some more experience and I will just trust the screen and trust the drone to stay in the air so overall I'm super excited about this drone I can't wait to get some more hours behind it and get some more experience to where I'm much more comfortable flying it around so I think I'll be making some more videos about this to show some of the cinematic qualities and I'll certainly involve it in some of my short films so I hope that this was helpful for someone out there to make a decision on whether or not this is the right drone for you certainly is for me I expect a lot of people to be getting this drone for Christmas and some new firmware updates will make it just perfect I think maybe a year from now or so I'll look at upgrading to a Mavic Air but this is perfect for me for now so thanks DJI for coming out with such a great drone for a great price at such a low weight so that I can fly it without having to take that test so I did a quick test as the sun was going down just to see what it would look like with the exposure here and as you can see it's it's pretty unusable this would be better obviously with some manual settings you could set the exposure for the ground and maybe use an ND filter or something for the sky so I've had this drone for three or four weeks now I haven't crashed it yet it hasn't flown away I have certainly lost connection with it a few times you know as it's been way up there but it's always come back and I'm getting much more comfortable with it now I think that I will experiment more over the next few weeks and hopefully make a few more videos so here's the point of the video where I say subscribe if you like this type of content you want to see more I make videos at least weekly if not more frequently than that so subscribe and you'll see some fun stuff