DJI Mavic Mini — New Quadcopter

You may have noticed that 2019 brought lit­tle news about the lat­est in the field of unmanned aer­i­al vehi­cles. As a rule, if there was news, it con­cerned the indus­tri­al and cor­po­rate areas. In addi­tion, DJI intro­duced the first action cam­era, as well as a new gen­er­a­tion of sta­bi­liz­er. How­ev­er, every­thing changed at the end of Octo­ber, because the com­pa­ny pre­sent­ed its new prod­uct to the whole world, equipped with the lat­est tech­nolo­gies. As you already under­stood, we are talk­ing about the DJI Mav­ic Mini.

Remem­ber that a law was intro­duced that all quad­copters weigh­ing over 250 grams must be reg­is­tered? So, the drone weighs exact­ly 249 grams, which means it does not need to be reg­is­tered. In addi­tion, the unmanned aer­i­al vehi­cle has a small size. If you fold the device, then its length will be only 14 cm. The drone has a 12-megapix­el cam­era and can fly up to half an hour. In addi­tion, the device has many shoot­ing modes. And now let’s talk more about the new prod­uct.

Small design and high quality camera

If you fold the device, it will be no longer than a reg­u­lar smart­phone, that is, 14 cm. The width and height are 0.57 cm and 0.82 cm. You can sim­ply put the device in your pock­et and you can eas­i­ly car­ry it with you . The fly­ing drone is suit­able for trav­el­ing.

Although the new prod­uct from DJI is sim­i­lar to the Mav­ic 2, there are a few dif­fer­ences. Many con­nec­tors were on the back of the device. There are few­er visu­al sen­sors. In addi­tion, the design of the pro­pellers has now become dif­fer­ent. The charg­ing indi­ca­tor, as well as the pow­er but­ton, are now on the bel­ly of the quad­copter.

Now you know the dif­fer­ences. As for every­thing else, the new quad­copter mod­el is real­ly sim­i­lar to its pre­de­ces­sor. The design of the unmanned aer­i­al vehi­cle is made in such a way as to sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduce air resis­tance.

Let’s take a clos­er look at the spec­i­fi­ca­tions of the quad­copter cam­era. The 12 megapix­el cam­era is mount­ed on a high-qual­i­ty mod­ern sta­bi­liz­er. This allows you to make incred­i­bly smooth videos. The cam­era lens has a field of view of 83 degrees and a focal length of 24mm. As for the aper­ture size, it is f/2.8. Max. 2.7K video shoot­ing res­o­lu­tion. The shut­ter speed is 4–1/8000 sec. The sen­si­tiv­i­ty of the matrix in the region of 100 to 3200 ISO.

Now let’s talk a lit­tle about the sta­bi­liz­er. As usu­al, DJI is pleased with the sen­si­tiv­i­ty of the gim­bal. The tilt range is ‑90 — +20 degrees. And there is also a spe­cial pro­tec­tive case that allows you to safe­ly car­ry the drone.

You can pre­pare the assem­bled device for flight in a cou­ple of sec­onds. You only need to expand the beams and pro­pellers, and then press the pow­er but­ton. Now you can take pho­tos and shoot videos.

It is worth not­ing that the drone does not have built-in mem­o­ry, but all footage can be saved to a microSD card.

You can set up the cam­era and gim­bal just the way you want. This will allow you to com­fort­ably use the quad­copter.

Quadcopter flight and shooting modes

As already men­tioned, the device is light­weight and small in size, so it can reach a speed of 47 km / h. So that you can safe­ly land devices, there are visu­al sen­sors. There are IR sen­sors near the slots for cool­ing the device, as well as a stereo­scop­ic cam­era. The unmanned vehi­cle has a GPS + GLONASS sys­tem, which allows you to find the most suit­able land­ing site with­in 0.5–10 meters. In addi­tion, there is a Return to Home mode that allows the drone to return to its take-off point.

The unmanned aer­i­al vehi­cle is capa­ble of fly­ing for 30 min­utes. You can charge the bat­tery of the device in just an hour and a half.

You can install the DJI Fly app on your smart­phone, in which you can fine-tune your quad­copter. There you can con­trol the device, as well as broad­cast videos. This appli­ca­tion is made spe­cial for this nov­el­ty. For begin­ners, there is a spe­cial tuto­r­i­al.

In the appli­ca­tion, you will find many use­ful modes that will make it eas­i­er to shoot video. And there is a spe­cial mode that will allow you to shoot the smoothest videos. Just exper­i­ment with the modes, and you can learn how to shoot amaz­ing videos that your fam­i­ly or friends will def­i­nite­ly like.

Remote control and accessories

The unmanned aer­i­al vehi­cle comes with a remote con­trol that allows you to con­ve­nient­ly con­trol the device. An expe­ri­enced user, as well as any begin­ner, will cope with the con­trols. All but­tons are in the same place where they are on the con­trol pan­els of oth­er quad­copters. You will not find just a few but­tons here, but this is just done for greater con­ve­nience in man­ag­ing the device. You can eas­i­ly oper­ate the device and take beau­ti­ful pho­tos and videos.

You will be able to observe a sta­ble con­nec­tion of the remote con­trol with an unmanned aer­i­al vehi­cle even at a dis­tance of up to 4 km. You can stream HD video at 30 fps if you use the app.

The remote con­trol bat­tery has a capac­i­ty of 260 mAh. This means that the remote will work sta­bly for 2–6 hours — it all depends on the OS of your smart­phone.

DJI offers not only a stan­dard pack­age, but also an advanced ver­sion, which includes extras. acces­sories. In the Mav­ic Mini Fly More Com­bo, you’ll find spe­cial pro­peller guards, a total of three bat­ter­ies, and sev­er­al oth­er handy acces­sories you’ll love.

In addi­tion, some acces­sories can be pur­chased sep­a­rate­ly. DJI plans to release some nice lit­tle things that fans of quad­copters will love. For exam­ple, they will soon release a dock­ing sta­tion that allows you to charge the device in the short­est pos­si­ble time. And the pro­peller hold­er will allow you to safe­ly trans­port the unmanned aer­i­al vehi­cle. There is also an adapter with but­tons — it will allow you to attach addi­tion­al. acces­sories. You can also per­son­al­ize your quad­copter with var­i­ous stick­ers and mark­ers. Thus, your drone will become unique and unlike any oth­er device.