Mavic Air 2 From DJI, Introducing the New Drone

April 28, 2020 — DJI unveiled the new Mav­ic Air 2 drone, mark­ing a new era of cre­ative aer­i­al pho­tog­ra­phy. This drone com­bines high qual­i­ty shoot­ing, intu­itive oper­a­tion, high-tech flight per­for­mance and rev­o­lu­tion­ary intel­li­gent tech­nol­o­gy.

Showreel filmed with DJI Mavic Air 2

Easy and safe to use, Mav­ic Air 2 is designed to cre­ate unique and high qual­i­ty mate­r­i­al. This fold­able drone is com­pact and easy to use, yet comes with 8K shoot­ing capa­bil­i­ty. The cam­er­a’s 1/2‑inch sen­sor deliv­ers high-res­o­lu­tion pho­tos and videos, while high-tech flight modes and smart fea­tures make it effort­less to cap­ture like the pros. The max­i­mum flight time has been increased, so pilots can now fly the drone for longer while cap­tur­ing qual­i­ty images and using upgrad­ed autonomous capa­bil­i­ties. Then they can process the received mate­r­i­al in the appli­ca­tion.

“Mav­ic Air 2 is a mile­stone for DJI as it proves that our most intel­li­gent hob­by­ist drone to date, DJI, can be quite com­pact,” said DJI Pres­i­dent Roger Luo. “While the Mav­ic Air 2 has all the hall­marks of the Mav­ic series, we have com­plete­ly over­hauled its design and devel­op­ment process. Our goal was to cre­ate a drone that is as easy to use as pos­si­ble, even for novice pilots. We hope that our drones will inspire peo­ple to become more cre­ative, gain new knowl­edge and have some fun even at this unprece­dent­ed moment in our his­to­ry.”

Shooting reliability for any user

The new Mav­ic Air 2 intro­duces a new take on cre­at­ing qual­i­ty con­tent with a com­pact, fold­able drone. The fea­tures and tech­nolo­gies of the Mav­ic Air 2 are sure to please any cre­ative per­son, whether you’re an expe­ri­enced pilot or not. Mav­ic Air 2 is the first drone in the Mav­ic series to offer 4K video at 60fps and 120Mbps bitrate. Users can record unique HDR footage in 4x slow motion at 1080p at 120fps or 8x at 1080p at 240fps.

Pilots can cap­ture images in 12 megapix­els or take advan­tage of the new 48 megapix­el high-res­o­lu­tion fea­ture that cap­tures qual­i­ty shots, while the 3‑axis sta­bi­liz­er elim­i­nates cam­era shake for smooth, sta­ble footage even in unpre­dictable con­di­tions. With a 1/2‑inch Bay­er fil­ter and intel­li­gent shoot­ing modes, Mav­ic Air 2 takes your cre­ativ­i­ty to the next lev­el.

New Smart­Pho­to Mod­eal­lows you to take pho­tos at 12 megapix­els, using advanced scene analy­sis and machine learn­ing to auto­mat­i­cal­ly select one of three shoot­ing options.

• HDR Pho­to: Mav­ic Air 2 auto­mat­i­cal­ly cap­tures 7 dif­fer­ent expo­sures of the same pho­to and com­bines them into a high dynam­ic range image.
• Hyper­Light: Hyper­Light tech­nol­o­gy is designed for shoot­ing in low light con­di­tions. Sev­er­al shots are com­bined into one high-qual­i­ty image, while the lev­el of noise that usu­al­ly appears in low-light scenes is reduced.
• Scene Recog­ni­tion: When shoot­ing in this mode, Mav­ic Air 2 rec­og­nizes 5 cat­e­gories: sun­set, sky, grass, snow, and trees. The drone opti­mizes set­tings to cre­ate pho­tos with rich col­ors, mid­tones and high detail.

Unrivaled flight performance

With Mav­ic Air 2, every drone lover will be able to expe­ri­ence fly­ing in a whole new way. Despite being as light as a bot­tle of water (570 grams), Mav­ic Air 2 fea­tures new motors, new elec­tron­ic speed con­trollers (ESC), improved bat­tery and aero­dy­nam­ic design for a max­i­mum flight time of up to 34 min­utes.

DJI’s patent­ed Ocu­Sync 2.0 image trans­mis­sion tech­nol­o­gy has been enhanced to pro­vide ultra-reli­able HD video trans­mis­sion from a drone up to 10 km (up to 6 km in Rus­sia). Ocu­Sync 2.0 sup­ports both 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz fre­quen­cies and fea­tures auto-switch­ing between them based on sig­nal strength, while anti-inter­fer­ence tech­nol­o­gy blocks unwant­ed sig­nals for a clear video stream.

New drone safety standards

The Mav­ic Air 2 is equipped with fea­tures that help ensure max­i­mum flight safe­ty. Obsta­cle sen­sors ahead and behind the air­craft alert pilots if the air­craft is too close to an object. They can be set to stop the drone in order to avoid a col­li­sion. Addi­tion­al sen­sors and an aux­il­iary light on the bot­tom of Mav­ic Air 2 ensure fea­tures such as auto-land­ing work even in low-light con­di­tions. Mav­ic Air 2 is also equipped with the GEO geofenc­ing sys­tem, which helps keep drones away from dan­ger­ous places like air­ports.

Advanced Autopi­lot (APAS) 3.0 brings a new lev­el of auton­o­my to DJI drones. With APAS 3.0 enabled, as obsta­cles appear in the flight path, Mav­ic Air 2 cre­ates a new path around, under, or above the object to avoid col­li­sion. This gives users the con­fi­dence to fly in dif­fi­cult sit­u­a­tions and allows them to con­cen­trate on cap­tur­ing per­fect images. Through the use of 3D maps, the updat­ed ver­sion helps to pro­vide smooth tran­si­tions and smooth out jerky move­ments around objects, even in dif­fi­cult con­di­tions.

Accord­ing to DJI’s indus­try-lead­ing Top 10 Safe­ty Ele­ments released last year, the Mav­ic Air 2 is DJI’s first hob­by drone to fea­ture AirSense tech­nol­o­gy, which pro­vides enhanced air­craft safe­ty by alert­ing the pilot to near­by oth­er air­craft. AirSense uses ADS‑B avi­a­tion tech­nol­o­gy to receive sig­nals from near­by air­craft and heli­copters and show their loca­tion on the drone con­trol screen. When oth­er air­craft approach the air­craft, AirSense alerts the pilot through mes­sages, sounds, and vibra­tions, draw­ing the pilot’s atten­tion and keep­ing the air­craft safe to fly.

“DJI’s goal is to cre­ate tech­nolo­gies to increase the safe­ty of drones. The Mav­ic Air 2 is anoth­er tool for the safe­ty of drone oper­a­tions,” said Bren­dan Schul­man, Vice Pres­i­dent of Pol­i­cy and Legal at DJI. “Our deci­sion to install ADS‑B on the new mod­els means that Mav­ic Air 2 will be the world’s largest deploy­ment of ADS‑B tech­nol­o­gy, con­firm­ing our sta­tus as the indus­try leader in secu­ri­ty.”

Powerful Smart Features

Mav­ic Air 2 is equipped with opti­mized smart fea­tures that allow users to quick­ly and eas­i­ly cap­ture high-qual­i­ty images and videos. Focus­Track is DJI’s most advanced drone track­ing fea­ture and offers three shoot­ing modes:

• Active­Track 3.0: Select an Object to Auto-Fol­low Mav­ic Air 2. The third ver­sion of Active­Track uses the lat­est tech­nol­o­gy and new route guid­ance algo­rithms to pro­vide improved object fol­low­ing, col­li­sion avoid­ance, and the abil­i­ty to quick­ly focus on an object if it is tem­porar­i­ly hid­den behind an obsta­cle.
• Point of Inter­est 3.0: Auto­mat­ic flight path to fly around objects. The new ver­sion pro­vides improved sur­face recog­ni­tion for bet­ter dynam­ic object track­ing.
• Track­ing Mode 2.0 (Spot­light 2.0): Typ­i­cal­ly, this func­tion is used in DJI pro­fes­sion­al drones. The fol­low mode cap­tures the sub­ject in the frame, while the oper­a­tor has com­plete free­dom to con­trol the move­ment of the drone.

The hyper­lapse fea­ture com­bines the visu­al appeal of time­lapse with the added ele­ment of the drone’s phys­i­cal move­ment. For the first time, hyper­lapse can be used to shoot at max­i­mum 8K res­o­lu­tion, and pilots can choose from four flight modes: Free move­ment, Cir­cle, Course Lock, and Way­points. » (Way­points). Pilots also have a choice of pre-pro­grammed flight maneu­vers called “Quick Shot” using the 3‑axis gim­bal for unsur­passed video qual­i­ty. Just press a but­ton and Mav­ic Air 2 will auto­mat­i­cal­ly cre­ate great videos. The fol­low­ing modes are avail­able to pilots: “Rock­et”, “Cir­cle”, “Drone”, “Spi­ral”, “Boomerang” and “Aster­oid”.

Intuitive app, easy editing, wide range of accessories

The updat­ed ver­sion of the DJI Fly app brings addi­tion­al fea­tures to the Mav­ic Air 2 while main­tain­ing a user-friend­ly expe­ri­ence. New guides help users quick­ly become famil­iar with the drone, get it in the air and start cap­tur­ing amaz­ing footage. Easy-to-use edit­ing fea­tures make DJI Fly the ide­al tool for edit­ing and cor­rect­ing footage. Addi­tion­al use­ful acces­sories are avail­able with the Mav­ic Air 2, includ­ing a shoul­der bag, ND fil­ter kits, pro­peller guards, pro­tec­tive case, remote con­trol tablet hold­er, and mon­i­tor visor.