DJI Mavic Air: All information about the new drone

DJI presented its new drone, the DJI Mavic Air, on 23.01.2018. With the new model, the Chinese manufacturer wants to follow the successes of the last Copter. In this article, I’ll explain what the DJI Mavic Air can do and whether it’s worth buying.

There has long been a trend towards small and light drones that are easy to transport and still deliver first-class recordings. DJI continues this path with the Mavic Air. The new DJI Mavic Air is only half the size of the popular DJI Mavic Pro and weighs just once 430 grams. Thus the Mavic Air can be taken anywhere without any problems.

Currently best price for the DJI Mavic Air in the Fly More Combo package

Mavic Air convinces with improved gesture control

Already with the Spark DJI has introduced the gesture control. But with the Mavic Air, this technology is now once again improved. As usual, the DJI Mavic Air can be started with just the palm of your hand and also determine the position of the drone without further aids. In addition, it is possible to influence the distance of the drone. I can steplessly change the distance between the drone and myself by pulling my two palms apart or moving towards each other. This gives you even more creative freedom in the design of your drone selfies.

Further control possibilities and range of the DJI Mavic Air

Gesture control is a very helpful feature, but it only works in a limited radius and makes sense if you want to perpetuate yourself. You can also operate your Mavic Air with your smartphone or a remote control.

By using your smartphones The DJI Mavic Air can be controlled within a radius of 80 meters and up to a height of 50 meters. With the DJI app you can adjust the camera settings and use many helpful features.

If you use the Mavic Air in combination with the remote control, the drone even creates a range of several kilometers. Remember, please, that you have to operate your drone according to the drone regulation in Germany always within sight.

The camera of the DJI Mavic Air

On 3-axis gimbal Balances all movements with the DJI Mavic Air, and the camera shoots videos without any camera shake. The Mavic Air can watch videos with one 4K resolution (3,840 x 2,160 pixels) at a maximum of 30 frames per second. FullHD recordings are even possible at 120 frames per second, so you can incorporate beautiful slow motion effects into your videos. Images are photographed with 12 megapixels.

In addition to the proven photo settings, the Mavic Air has one HDR function for detailed pictures even in difficult light conditions. For large differences in brightness details are lost in normal photos. The HDR function takes multiple photos with different exposure settings and then superimposes them. This creates high-contrast images without additional image processing.

Your videos and photos are stored on an 8GB internal memory. You can expand the storage space but easily with a 16 GB microSD card. All recordings can be pulled from the drone to your computer with a USB-C port.

The internal memory is a great innovation because you can now take pictures if you forget your memory card at home.

New on board: the panorama function

In the past, DJI drones have been missing a feature to capture different panoramas. Such photos were only possible with much effort or with an external app. But with the Mavic Air this is about to change, because the new quadrocopter can take up to 25 frames in just one minute and put them together in a single panorama photo with 32 megapixels. We are particularly pleased about the new panorama function of the DJI Mavic Air!

Complicated maneuvers with just one click

The drones of DJI have been equipped with intelligent maneuvers for a long time to help you realize complicated camera movements. In particular, that Active track we find very useful, with which the drone can independently pursue a previously defined object. ActiveTrack has been further improved for the Mavic Air. Now the drone recognizes several objects that move at the same time. Thus, it can no longer happen that an actor disappears from the picture while a group is being filmed.

The intelligent flight maneuvers include the Quick shots. The QuickShots have now been enhanced for the Mavic Air and there are two more functions available:

With asteroid In a beginning scene, a spherical panorama is created and then the Mavic Air flies to the ground to highlight the main theme.
With boomerang a certain motif is orbited (similar to point of interest) and the altitude is first increased and then lowered.

I personally like the Boomerang feature pretty well. But I’m also curious how other creatives will use the Asteorid QuickShot.

More security with FlightAutonomy 2.0

DJI continues to work to increase safety during the drone flight. So the DJI Mavic Air has seven cameras, which serve to detect obstacles. Additional infrared sensors help to more accurately determine the position of the drone. With all the data collected, the DJI Mavic Air can create a 3D map and better orient in space. Obstacles are detected up to a distance of 30 meters. Thanks to the innovative Advanced Pilot Assistance Systems (APAS) Dodge the DJI Mavic Air on its own obstacles without the drone pilot having to react.

Flight characteristics of the DJI Mavic Air

The Mavic Air reaches a flight time of about 21 minutes. That’s enough to capture the best memories.

The Mavic Air has a sport mode that allows the drone to reach 68.4 km / h.

Scope of delivery of the DJI Mavic Air

The DJI Mavic Air is available in three different colors: polar white, onyx (black) and fire red. In addition to the DJI Mavic Air, the delivery includes a battery, remote control, propeller, carrying case and all necessary cables.

As with other models DJI also offers for the Mavic Air Fly More Combo Package in which there are two spare batteries, more propellers, a battery charging station and a travel bag. So that you have everything with me, I would recommend you to grab the Fly More package right away. Current prices for the Fly More package can be compared in the following table.

Delivery of all orders will start on January 28, 2018. If you want to buy Mavic Air, you should order quickly, because in the past there were massive delivery delays. Who orders first, has the best chance to quickly hold his Mavic Air in his hand.

My conclusion to the DJI Mavic Air

The Mavic Air combines the advantages of the two top sellers Spark and Mavic Pro in one device. With its small size and sophisticated camera, the Mavic Air is the perfect companion for your next adventurer. Let me make it short: we can warmly recommend the purchase of this drone to you. The camera leaves nothing to be desired and you will not regret the purchase of the drone.

Do you still have questions about Mavic Air? Then please leave us a comment! Or did you even have your own experience with the drone? Then we look forward to your rating below the article!

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