Eachine E58 Quadcopter Review

Today we will review the drone from the man­u­fac­tur­er Eachine — E58.

Package:

Equipment:

The set includes two pairs of addi­tion­al blades, as well as pro­tec­tion for the pro­pellers. The only down­side is the lack of a secure case for trans­porta­tion.

The instruc­tion is mul­ti­lin­gual (of the most under­stand­able lan­guage — Eng­lish) and detailed.

Characteristics:

flight time: 10 min­utes
charg­ing time: 90 min­utes
fre­quen­cy: 2.4GHz
remote con­trol bat­ter­ies: 3 AA
remote con­trol radius: 150 meters
pho­to res­o­lu­tion: 4096×2160
video res­o­lu­tion: 1920×1080 (25fps)
image trans­mis­sion radius: 50–80 meters

The body of the drone and the remote con­trol are made of plas­tic.

The drone and remote con­trol are com­pact and can eas­i­ly fit into a small pocket/compartment of a back­pack.

The drone has a back­light that can glow or blink (can­not be turned off).

The remote con­trol runs on 3 AA bat­ter­ies.

The max­i­mum size of a smart­phone that fits in the hold­er is 5.5 inch­es (my Xiao­mi Mi Max 3 did not fit, unlike Asus Zen­fone 4).

The drone can be con­trolled by both the remote con­trol and the smart­phone in the Eachine TEC app (con­nect­ing to the drone via Wi-Fi). Also in the appli­ca­tion, you can start / stop shoot­ing a video and take a pho­to (the remote con­trol does not have such func­tion­al­i­ty).

Appli­ca­tion screen­shots:

When the drone is launched, it auto­mat­i­cal­ly ris­es to a height of about 1.5 meters. Land­ing is also auto­mat­ic and is car­ried out by press­ing one but­ton (after land­ing, the rota­tion of the pro­pellers stops). There is also an emer­gency shut­down mode for the pro­pellers (you can see its oper­a­tion in the video review from 1:59).

There is an auto return mode, the mean­ing of which is for the drone to auto­mat­i­cal­ly return to the remote con­trol and land at a dis­tance of about 3 meters. In fact, this func­tion does not work, the drone just flies to no one knows where.

In gen­er­al, the drone is well con­trolled from the remote con­trol. It has 3 speeds (you can see the dif­fer­ence in the video review, from 2:03), at the third speed it is the most frisky and I rec­om­mend using this speed in windy weath­er.

If the drone tends to any direc­tion, it can be eas­i­ly cal­i­brat­ed with the but­tons on the remote con­trol.

If you con­trol the drone from your smart­phone, it is not as respon­sive, there is a slight delay. What is the delay in trans­fer­ring an image from a drone to a smart­phone — you can see in the video review, from 3:21.

The drone can do flips (you can watch from 2:38). There is also a “head­less” mode (works cor­rect­ly).

The drone’s cam­era has two posi­tions that are man­u­al­ly adjustable.

You can take pho­tos and shoot videos in HD res­o­lu­tion (1280×720). The video is writ­ten with­out sound. Video exam­ples can be viewed in the video review, start­ing at 2:59.

Pho­to exam­ples:

autonomy

In terms of auton­o­my, one bat­tery charge is enough for an aver­age of 7–8 min­utes of flight, so I strong­ly rec­om­mend order­ing a kit with 2–3 bat­ter­ies.

It takes 2 hours to ful­ly charge. Dur­ing charg­ing, the diode on the bat­tery lights up red, and when com­plet­ed it goes out.

I liked the fact that the bat­ter­ies are charged via the Micro-USB con­nec­tor, so you can charge all the bat­ter­ies at the same time (if you have cables).

Video review:

Results

• com­pact size and light weight;
• you can con­trol both remote con­trol and smart­phone;
• “head­less” mode, flips;
• bat­tery charg­ing with Micro-USB cable;

! the auto return func­tion does not work cor­rect­ly.

You can buy the drone here:

• Bang­good (Coupon BG20cb34 reduces the price of the 3 bat­tery ver­sion to $50, valid until Sep­tem­ber 30th)
• AliEx­press