Best entry-level UAV DJI Mavic air experience

IT 168 experience drones are like a door to a new world for photographers. Reach a shooting high point that has never been seen before and experience the real "God's perspective", so that everyone who loves photography can't refuse. With the development of science and technology, entry-level drones have become smaller, lighter and easier to use. 2065438+August 65438+1October "Royal" Mavic Air released DJI DJI Innovation Company is the most representative product among the entry-level UAVs at present. Is DJI Mavic Air friendly to photographers who have never used drones? Can you meet the photographer's demand for flying cameras? This is a question that we must answer.

Advantages:

1, fly as soon as you get started, the App automatically generates videos, and you can easily make blockbusters without editing experience;

2. Excellent image quality, which fully meets the photographer's requirements for image quality;

3, exquisite workmanship and reasonable design, no sense of toys.

Regret:

There is no obstacle avoidance on both sides and above the fuselage, so be careful when flying around.

Test summary:

Generally speaking, DJI Mavic Air almost meets all my requirements for the first UAV as a photographer: First, exquisite workmanship and no sense of cheapness; Second, it is simple to get started, and it supports the automatic generation of movies as soon as you get started; Third, sex can be used. In terms of image quality and function, DJI has no intention of "squeezing toothpaste". Finally, it is important that Mavic Air itself is not very expensive. The price of 4999 yuan, even if the novice has any accidents due to improper operation, the loss is relatively more acceptable.

Solid workmanship and exquisite design Mavic Air design review

"Yu" Mavic Air is a product between "Xiao”Spark and" Yu "Mavic Pro, which provides the same performance as Mavic Pro in a smaller size. The flight duration is 2 1 min, the maximum speed is 68.4km/h, it is equipped with binocular vision sensors in three directions, and its weight is only 430 grams. The camera adopts 1/2.3 inch,120,000 pixel CMOS sensor. It supports recording 4K/30fps video and 1080p/ 120fps slow-motion video at 100Mbps.

The fuselage is designed in a folding way, and its length and width (not counting the thickness) are roughly equivalent to an iPhone 8 Plus, which is roughly equivalent to the volume and weight of a Quan Huafu pullover 24- 105.

The blades of "Royal" Mavic Air adopt a simple disassembly design, which can be easily disassembled and replaced by pressing down and rotating.

The landing gear under Mavic Air propeller not only supports the fuselage to protect the camera, but also serves as the communication antenna of UAV.

At the front of the fuselage, a pair of cameras with the same eyes above constitute the visual obstacle avoidance system at the front of the fuselage.

Mavic Air uses the same 3-axis pan/tilt as Mavic Pro, and the stability of the shooting picture is undoubtedly stronger than Spark's 2-axis pan/tilt. In terms of camera specifications, Mavic Air uses a lens equivalent to 24mm F2.8, with a slightly smaller aperture than Mavic Pro(F2.2), but a wider viewing angle (the equivalent focal length of Mavic Pro is about 28mm).

Compared with Spark, two cameras for visual obstacle avoidance are added at the rear of the fuselage. The middle button can be used for remote pairing.

Open the protective cover at the back of the fuselage, which contains the Type-C data interface and TF card slot. It is worth mentioning that this time Mavic Air has built-in 8G storage space, which avoids the embarrassment that we went to the place and found that there was no card.

Active cooling air outlet at the top of the fuselage. Because of the large amount of heat generated by unmanned aerial vehicles in the working process, most of them adopt the design of active fan to dissipate heat.

In addition to two visual obstacle avoidance cameras at the bottom of the fuselage, there are two rangefinders. In this way, the hovering and landing of the drone will become more stable.

The battery can be detached from the bottom of the fuselage. Double-button design can effectively prevent the battery from accidentally falling off.

The battery voltage is 1 1.55v, 2375mAh, or 27.43Wh Click the button on the back to check the power, which is well received.

Next, let's look at the remote control. It is slightly smaller than Mavic Air when folded, but much lighter.

After expanding the antenna, use the mobile phone as the following monitoring screen.

The left and right operating levers on the remote controller can be disassembled and stored in the remote controller, which can further reduce the carrying volume.

Generally speaking, the design work of DJI Mavic gives me a good feeling. Before I got it, I thought I would have a certain sense of toys, but at the moment I got it, this concern can be said to have completely vanished. Fine workmanship and high completion design will only make people feel that this is an affinity tool.

Easy to use and fun, Mavic Air has outstanding features.

Unlike DJI SPARK, which used to focus on gesture operation, Mavic Air focused on the convenience of operation this time. Even zero-based users can easily operate DJI Mavic Air.

First, the intelligent following mode.

DJI Mavic Air can achieve smarter intelligent follow-up. On the previous Mavic Pro, we wanted to follow an object intelligently with a drone, and we needed to manually "frame" the subject with our fingers. On Mavic Air, we can choose to follow the object by "clicking". The small change is actually due to the powerful computing performance behind Mavic Air and the support of upgrade algorithm. It is such a small change that has brought us an improvement in the overall experience.

Second, one-click short film function

Another function of Mavic Air is that it can automatically complete some actions that are difficult for professional flying hands, such as the newly added "asteroid mode" and "comet mode". Through the built-in program of the fuselage, the camera can shoot everywhere, fly far away, and then automatically generate video in the machine, turning the complicated process into a direct experience, which is really an experience upgrade for consumers.

Third, more intelligent intelligent beat function.

Of course, the gesture shooting function first launched on SPARK has also been continued on Mavic Air. Taking off, moving, composing, taking photos, returning and landing can all be done by gestures, and the whole process is simple and intuitive. Because Mavic AIr is equipped with rear-view obstacle avoidance function, it is undoubtedly safer and more reliable when using gestures to control the inverted flight of UAV.

The control is simple, and Mavic aerial shooting experience is excellent.

From design to function, it should be said that DJI Mavic Air has everything. So, is DJI Mavic Air friendly to photographers who have never used drones? Can you meet the photographer's demand for flying cameras?

First, the basic flight flow:

From the perspective of flight experience, Mavic AIr is really at your fingertips. Deploy four propellers, put down the landing gear and install a propeller protection frame for the novice, and the fuselage is ready before flight. Then follow the tips of the App. Calibrate sensors such as compass and gravity sensor, and start flying.

When taking off, in addition to rocker operation, you can also use the automatic take-off function. After automatic take-off, it will be lifted to a height of 3m for hovering, and then it is time for free play. After shooting, you can also use the automatic return function to return to the take-off point. However, since there were many trees near the takeoff point on the day of the test, I still used manual control to return and finally used automatic landing.

Second, the actual use experience

There are a few things I want to share with you during my flight experience.

1, control your intuition, and you will soon get out of the novice area.

The operation of DJI Mavic Air is very intuitive. For boys, the operation mode of double rocker is easier for players who are used to playing consoles such as PS4. For reference, it only took me 20 minutes to accelerate at the height of water 1m from the cautious novice mode to the final use of Sport mode.

2, the picture quality is very good, at least equivalent to iPhone.

DJI's Mavic Air adopts 1/2.3-inch CMOS sensor. The camera has a focal length of 24mm and an aperture of F2.8 It responds to 4K video, and the resolution should be completely acceptable. The overall color of the picture tends to be neutral, leaving a lot of space for the later period. In short, the imaging style is very similar to iPhone. In terms of imaging quality, DJI Mavic Air fully meets my requirements for entry-level drones.

3. The later experience is simple and easy to use

DJI has also done a good job in the user experience of post-processing materials.

▲ An application interface for automatically generating and sharing videos using DJI GO App.

Users can directly use the DJI GO 4 application to automatically generate a 30-second video using the shot materials. For small white users who have no experience in video processing, this undoubtedly reduces their difficulty in getting started and increases their desire to share. Later, the demo link was an automatically generated video using DJI GO 4.

Third, the real shot sample