DJI Inspire 2: Power Beyond Imagination

About the product

The world leader in the pro­duc­tion of drones, DJI Inno­va­tion, is try­ing to take a lead­ing posi­tion in the pro­fes­sion­al mar­ket. In Novem­ber 2014, the Inspire 1 was intro­duced. At that time, DJI said they want­ed to close the huge gap between ama­teur and pro­fes­sion­al drones. For the aver­age wal­let, the Inspire 1 was expen­sive, but its price was much more afford­able than the prices that are asked for com­mer­cial UAVs.

Now DJI has sev­er­al absolute lead­ers that cost less than the Inspire. The Mav­ic Pro and Phan­tom 4 series drones can do every­thing, but their arse­nal is not enough to work in the pro­fes­sion­al pho­tog­ra­phy and film indus­try. Two years after the release of Inspire 1, the devel­op­er announces an improved ver­sion of the drone — Inspire 2. The drone is intend­ed pri­mar­i­ly for peo­ple who shoot pro­fes­sion­al films and pho­to reports.

Peculiarities

• Mag­ne­sium alu­minum alloy body
• Vari­able posi­tion car­bon arms (Flight/Landing)
• Weight with bat­ter­ies and props (with­out cam­era) — 3440g
• Max. take­off weight 4250g
• Pow­er­ful brush­less pow­er plant pro­vid­ing 2kg of thrust from each motor
• 15″ quick release rotors
• 4‑Way Envi­ron­ment Visu­al­iza­tion (Forward/Back/Up/Down)
• Frontal FPV cam­era for sep­a­rate con­trol of the drone (Pilot / Video­g­ra­ph­er)
• A range of sup­port­ed cam­eras on a 3‑axis high-pre­ci­sion gim­bal with 320-degree swiv­el range
• Video Pro­cess­ing and Stor­age: RAW 6K @ 4.44Gbps
• Sup­port­ed video codecs: H.265/H.264
• 4K at 100 Mbps
• CineCore 2.1 Image Pro­cess­ing Sys­tem
• Sup­port­ed file sys­tem FAT32/exFAT
• Sup­port­ed video for­mats: Adobe Cin­e­maD­NG 6K/AppleProRes 5.2K
• Adapt­ed to work with DJI CINESSD dri­ve 240GB / 480GB (depend­ing on con­fig­u­ra­tion)
• Auto­mat­ic flight and shoot­ing modes
• Max. flight time 27 min­utes
• Max. take­off speed 21 km/h
• Max. descent speed 36 km/h
• Max. hor­i­zon­tal flight speed 94 km/h
• Dupli­cate iner­tial nav­i­ga­tion sys­tem com­plex 2 × EMU + 2 × Barom­e­ters
• Pow­ered by two bat­ter­ies with heat­ing func­tion (works at ‑20 ° C) and per­for­mance mon­i­tor­ing (the drone will con­tin­ue to fly even if one bat­tery fails)
• New sen­si­tive con­trol sticks
• 2.4GHz/5.8GHz switch­able Light­Bridge dig­i­tal video link
• Max. FPV removal dis­tance 7 km
• Video stream qual­i­ty: 1080p/720p
• Abil­i­ty to con­nect mul­ti­ple con­trol equip­ment
• Abil­i­ty to work at an alti­tude of 2500 — 5000 meters (above sea lev­el, sub­ject to retro­fitting with spe­cial rotors)
• A num­ber of pro­fes­sion­al acces­sories

Equipment

The devel­op­er offers the drone in 4 trim lev­els:

*Dif­fer­ent set.

1. Inspire 2 Stan­dard (drone, stan­dard con­trol equip­ment, cam­era Zen­muse X4S, 10 × rotors (5CW/5CCW), 6 × bat­terymem­o­ryCharg­ing sta­tion for charg­ing four bat­ter­ies, charg­er pow­er cable, A‑A USB cable, 16GB microSD, imag­ing sys­tem cal­i­bra­tion board, 3 × damp­en­ers for gim­bal, Pair of mount­ing plates for rotors, Flight case, 4 × bat­tery insu­la­tion stick­ers)
2. Inspire 2 Pro­fes­sion­al (drone, 2 × con­trol equip­ment (Standard/cen­dence), cam­era Zen­muse X5S, Licensed Apple ProRes soft­ware, 2 × ultra-bright 7.85″ Crys­tal­Sky 1000 cd/m mon­i­tors², 2 × CINESSD 240GB dri­ves, CINESSD USB 3.0 sta­tion, Device for iris con­trol DJI Focus Hand­wheel, DJI Focus Hand­wheel Hold­er on Cen­dence Con­trol Gear, 10 × rotors (5CW/5CCW), 8 × bat­ter­ies, charg­er, 4‑battery charg­ing sta­tion, charg­er pow­er cable, A‑A USB cable, 16GB microSD, imag­ing sys­tem cal­i­bra­tion board, 3 × gim­bal dampers, Pair of mount­ing plates rotors, flight case, 4 × bat­tery insu­lat­ing stick­ers)
3. Inspire 2 Pre­mi­um (drone, 2 × con­trol equip­ment Cen­denceZen­muse X5S, Licensed Cin­e­maD­NG + Apple ProRes soft­ware, 2 × ultra-bright 7.85″ Crys­tal­Sky mon­i­tors 2000 cd/m²; 2 × CINESDD 480GB dri­vesCINESSD USB 3.0 Sta­tion, Device for DJI Focus Hand­wheel aper­ture con­trol, DJI Focus Hand­wheel hold­er on Cen­dence con­trol equip­ment, 10 × rotors (5CW/5CCW), 8 × bat­ter­ies, charg­er, 4‑battery charg­ing sta­tion, charg­er pow­er cable, A‑A USB cable, 16GB microSD, imag­ing sys­tem cal­i­bra­tion board, 3 × gim­bal dampers, Pair of mount­ing plates rotors, flight case, 4 × bat­tery insu­lat­ing stick­ers)
4. Inspire 2 Cin­e­ma Pre­mi­um (drone, 2 × con­trol equip­ment Cen­dence, Zen­muse X7 + lens­es (DL‑S 16mm F2.8 ND ASPH; DL 24mm F2.8 LS ASPH; DL 50mm F2.8 LS ASPH)Licensed Cin­e­maD­NG + Apple ProRes soft­ware, 2 × ultra-bright 7.85-inch Crys­tal­Sky mon­i­tors 2000 cd/m²; 5 × 480GB CINESDD dri­vesCINESSD USB 3.0 Sta­tion, Device for DJI Focus Hand­wheel aper­ture con­trol, DJI Focus Hand­wheel hold­er on Cen­dence con­trol equip­ment, 12 × rotors (6CW/6CCW), 10 × bat­terycharg­er, 4‑battery charg­ing sta­tion, charg­er pow­er cable, A‑A USB cable, 16GB microSD, imag­ing sys­tem cal­i­bra­tion board, 3 × sus­pen­sion dampers, Pair of rotor mount­ing plates, Trans­port case, 4 × bat­tery insu­la­tion stick­ers)

Specification

Drone

Exe­cu­tion mate­r­i­al:

alloy of mag­ne­sium and alu­minum

Weight (with 2 × bat­ter­ies and props with­out gim­bal and cam­era):

3440 gr

Diag­o­nal size (exclud­ing pro­pellers):

605 mm

Max. take­off weight:

4250 gr

Hov­er­ing accu­ra­cy with satel­lite posi­tion­ing:

Ver­ti­cal: ±0.5 m (0.1 m togeth­er with bot­tom sen­sor sys­tem)
Hor­i­zon­tal: ±1.5 m (0.3 m togeth­er with bot­tom sen­sor sys­tem)

Max. angu­lar veloc­i­ty:

Pitch: 300°/s
Yaw: 150°/s

Max. tilt angle:

P‑mode: 35° (with active front sen­sor sys­tem: 25°)
A‑mode: 35°
S‑mode: 40°

Max. take­off speed:

P‑mode/A‑mode: 18 km/h
S‑mode: 21 km/h

Max. sink rate:

Ver­ti­cal: 14 km/h
Angled: 14–32km/h

Max. flight speed:

94 km/h

Max. height above sea lev­el:

2500 m (stan­dard pro­pellers)
5000 m (with spe­cial­ly designed pro­pellers)

Max. wind resis­tance:

10 m/s

Max. flight time:

about 27 min (with Zen­muse X4S cam­era)
about 23 min (with Zen­muse X7 cam­era)
(in hov­er mode in calm weath­er)

Motor mod­el:

DJI 3512

pro­peller mod­el:

DJI 1550T

Pos­si­bil­i­ty of hov­er­ing indoors:

avail­able by default

Image Pro­cess­ing Sys­tem:

Cin­e­ma Core 2.0

Pho­to for­mat:

DNG/RAW

Video com­pres­sion for­mats:

CinemaDNG/Apple ProRes

Max. FPV Removal Dis­tance:

7 km

The qual­i­ty of the trans­mit­ted video stream:

1080p@50fps/720p@60fps

Work­ing tem­per­a­ture range:

-20° to 40°C

suspension

Angu­lar Vibra­tion Range:

±0.01°

Con­trolled range:

pitch: ‑130° to +40°
Roll: ±20°
pan: ±320°

Max. con­trol speed:

pitch: 180°/s
Roll: 180°/s
pan: 270°/s

inter­face type:

remov­able

Mechan­i­cal range:

pitch: ‑140° to +50°
Roll: ‑50° to +90°
pan: ±330°

Camera

Sup­port­ed Mod­els:

DJI Zen­muse X7 (option­al)
DJI Zen­muse X5S (option­al)
DJI Zen­muse X4S (option­al)

Drone power

Capac­i­ty:

4280 mAh

Volt­age:

22.8 V

Bat­tery type:

LiPo 6S

Pow­er:

97.58 Wh

Weight:

515 gr

Remote controller

Mod­el:

GL6D10A

Oper­at­ing fre­quen­cy range:

2.400–2.483 GHz
5.725–5.850 GHz

Max. sig­nal trans­mis­sion dis­tance:

EIIM (EIRP):

2.4GHz: 26 dBm (FCC); 17 dBm (CE); 20 dBm (SRRC)

Video out­put ports:

USB, HDMI

Source of pow­er:

built-in bat­tery

Battery/Type:

6000 mAh, 2S, lithi­um poly­mer

Charg­ing method:

DJI charg­er

Dual remote con­trol (drone/camera):

Host-and-slave con­nec­tion

Mob hold­er. devices:

for smartphone/tablet

Max. mobile device width:

170 mm

Out­put pow­er:

9 W (with­out pow­er­ing the smart device)

Stor­age tem­per­a­ture:

Charg­ing tem­per­a­ture:

0° to 40°C

Work­ing tem­per­a­ture range:

-20° to 40°C

Appearance

Drone flight status

Drone landing status

Execution materials

The DJI Inspire 2 is stronger and more pow­er­ful than its pre­de­ces­sor. It has received a new mag­ne­sium-alu­minum alloy body that DJI claims to reduce the weight of the drone while increas­ing its strength.

Motors

The drone is equipped with a pow­er­ful brush­less pow­er plant (4 × DJI 3512 motors) pro­vid­ing 2kg of thrust from each motor. Allows you to reach the max­i­mum speed of hor­i­zon­tal flight — 94 km / h (80 km / h for Inspire 1), max. take­off speed — 21 km / h, max. descent speed 36 km/h. Accel­er­a­tion to 80 km / h is real­ized in 5 sec­onds and all this with incom­pa­ra­ble han­dling.

Food

The Inspire 2 has two intel­li­gent TB50 Lithi­um Poly­mer bat­ter­ies. Per­for­mance of each: 6S 22.8V 4280mAh 97.58Wh. Weight of one bat­tery: 515 grams. Pro­vides a max­i­mum flight time of 23 min­utes with the Zen­muse X7 cam­era and 27 min­utes with the Zen­muse X4S cam­era (above sea lev­el, in calm). DJI Inspire 2 can fly very high up to 5 kilo­me­ters above sea lev­el (pro­vid­ed that spe­cial pro­pellers are used). And also the drone is equipped with a self-heat­ing bat­tery sys­tem, which allows you to oper­ate the drone at tem­per­a­tures down to ‑20°C.

Camera

An impor­tant dif­fer­ence between the DJI Inspire 2 and all oth­er drones is the pres­ence of not one, but two cam­eras on board at once. Depend­ing on the con­fig­u­ra­tion, the drone can be equipped with one of the three avail­able cam­eras of the Zen­muse fam­i­ly — X4S / X5S / X7, imple­ment­ed in a 3‑axis 360-degree mechan­i­cal gim­bal with a quick release mech­a­nism. It is clas­si­cal­ly locat­ed at the bot­tom of the quadro­copter.

And also, regard­less of the select­ed kit, it is equipped with a FPV cam­era installed in the front of the Inspire 2 in a two-axis mechan­i­cal sus­pen­sion to ensure com­fort­able pilot­ing in a sep­a­rate mode of oper­a­tion “Pilot + Oper­a­tor”.

To ful­ly use the DJI Inspire 2, two peo­ple are required: a pilot who con­trols the drone and a cam­era oper­a­tor who con­trols the cam­era. The image from the front cam­era is trans­mit­ted to the pilot’s con­sole, and the image from the main cam­era is trans­mit­ted to the oper­a­tor. Both video streams do not inter­sect and do not inter­fere with each oth­er.

To meet the needs of pro­fes­sion­als, DJI has devel­oped a new image pro­cess­ing sys­tem for Inspire 2 — CineCore 2.1, which allows you to record video in qual­i­ty up to 6K at a bit rate of 4.4 Gbps. To ensure high data pro­cess­ing speed, the devel­op­ers had to move the SSD card slot from the cam­era to the body of the drone.

DJI Zenmuse X4S

Zen­muse X5S is built on a 4/3‑inch sen­sor and sup­ports up to 10 dif­fer­ent lens­es, includ­ing zoom lens­es. The sys­tem also sup­ports Cin­e­maD­NG and Apple ProRes video com­pres­sion for­mats, which are rel­e­vant for film pro­fes­sion­als.

DJI Zenmuse X5S

30-megapix­el images are cap­tured in DNG and RAW for­mats. In addi­tion, the Inspire 2 received a new ver­sion of the real-time video stream­ing sys­tem (stream­ing) with image qual­i­ty 1080p at 50 fps and 720p at 60 fps at a dis­tance of up to 7 kilo­me­ters. This option will be ful­ly appre­ci­at­ed by reporters and video blog­gers.

The Zen­muse X7, a top-of-the-line cin­e­mat­ic cam­era designed specif­i­cal­ly for the Inspire 2, will be unveiled by DJI a year after the drone’s release.

DJI Zenmuse X7

Sensors

If you’re fly­ing the Inspire 2 alone, the drone can help you cap­ture com­plex shots using com­put­er vision and autonomous nav­i­ga­tion. Like the Mav­ic Pro and Phan­tom 4 series drones, the Inspire 2 has sen­sors and cam­eras to detect and fly around obsta­cles.

Visu­al­iza­tion sen­sors are locat­ed in front and above, and ultra­son­ic and pho­to posi­tion­ing sen­sors are below. The Inspire 2 is able to autonomous­ly rec­og­nize and fly around objects, as well as track the select­ed object (intel­li­gent Active­Track mode) as well-known drones of the Phan­tom 4 and Mav­ic Pro series can do, allow­ing you to auto­mat­i­cal­ly aim the cam­era at the object for shoot­ing, regard­less of the direc­tion of the drone. There­fore, we can do with­out the sec­ond oper­a­tor.

Offline Modes

The pilot has 7 autonomous flight modes at his dis­pos­al:

1. Spot­light Pro — one of the best autonomous flight modes. Allows you to auto­mat­i­cal­ly track the select­ed object and keep it in the frame, regard­less of the dynam­ics of the flight. If the range of the cam­era sus­pen­sion reach­es its redis­tri­b­u­tion, then the drone itself will turn in the right direc­tion. More­over, this will not affect either the flight or the qual­i­ty of the mate­r­i­al being filmed. Includes two sub-modes: Quick Mode and Com­po­si­tion Mode. Suit­able for shoot­ing with­out a cam­era­man.
2. tapfly — tap a spot on the FPV dis­play with your fin­ger and the drone will autonomous­ly fly in its direc­tion. Well, the pilot will be able to focus sole­ly on shoot­ing.
3. active track – it is enough to select the nec­es­sary object for shoot­ing, make cor­rec­tive set­tings for recog­ni­tion accu­ra­cy, and the drone will fol­low it autonomous­ly.
4. Way­point — point your fin­ger on the FPV dis­play to the points through which the drone will have to fly, set the alti­tude and flight speed for each point sep­a­rate­ly, and the drone will per­form an autonomous flight in accor­dance with the spec­i­fied set­tings.
5. Point of inter­est – per­forms an autonomous cir­cu­lar flight over the select­ed object at a giv­en height, dis­tance and at a giv­en speed.
6. Quick­Spin — fast rota­tion mode, can be acti­vat­ed both auto­mat­i­cal­ly and man­u­al­ly. Allows the drone to rotate 360° when the gim­bal reach­es its max­i­mum rota­tion of 270°. Sub­modes: TapFly and Active­Track.
7. Return to Home — the drone will autonomous­ly return to the take-off point when the con­nec­tion is lost, or forcibly at the com­mand of the pilot, rely­ing on the flight map cre­at­ed by the drone in real time, choos­ing the short­est path to return.

Control

To con­trol the drone, the devel­op­er offers stan­dard DJI con­trol equip­ment and equip­ment with extend­ed func­tion­al­i­ty DJI Cen­dence.

Standard DJI Remote

DJI Cendence Remote

With holder for Smartphone/iPad

With holder for DJI monitors CrystalSky

Ultra-bright 7.85/5.5‑inch DJI CrystalSky monitors

Add. accessories

Price

Price DJI Inspire 2 depend­ing on the con­fig­u­ra­tion:

1. Inspire 2 Stan­dard — $3,299
2. Inspire 2 Pro­fes­sion­al — $11,000
3. Inspire 2 Pre­mi­um — $13,700
4. Inspire 2 Cin­e­ma Pre­mi­um — $20,579

Conclusion

DJI Inspire 2 from $3299

Func­tion­al­i­ty

10/10

Flight time

9/10

Flight qual­i­ties

10/10

com­pact­ness

5/10

Equip­ment

10/10

Reli­a­bil­i­ty

10/10

Price qual­i­ty

10/10

pros

• Qual­i­ty
• Design
• Reli­able (com­plex of redun­dant sen­sors + 2 bat­ter­ies)
• Flight qual­i­ties (han­dling / dynamism)
• Cin­e­mat­ic poten­tial of a pro­fes­sion­al lev­el
• Sup­port­ed cam­eras
• Pos­si­bil­i­ty of sep­a­rate con­trol (Drone/Shooting)
• Auto­mat­ic flight and shoot­ing modes
• Flight time
• Price

Minuses

• Dimen­sions
• Noisy

DJI Inno­va­tion nev­er ceas­es to amaze, and the DJI Inspire 2 drone is proof of that. With the Inspire 2, Pro lev­el shoot­ing is now more acces­si­ble. Its autonomous qual­i­ties will sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduce the time and effort spent on large projects. Despite the seri­ous­ness of the prod­uct, almost any user can mas­ter its capa­bil­i­ties, but unfor­tu­nate­ly, not every­one can afford these advanced tech­nolo­gies. The main pur­pose is pro­fes­sion­al pho­to and video shoot­ing. The main con­tin­gent of con­sumers are pro­fes­sion­als in the pho­to and film indus­try, the media, and vlog­gers. Ready to go out of the box. Age lim­it 18+.

A photo

Cam­era pho­to for DJI Inspire 2 quadro­copter.

Video

Video from the developer

Pre­sen­ta­tion of the drone DJI Inspire 2.

Film­mak­ing process with DJI Inspire 2 + DJI Zen­muse X5S.

A short film about the capa­bil­i­ties of the drone when oper­at­ing in con­di­tions of neg­a­tive tem­per­a­tures.

Short films about the capa­bil­i­ties of the drone to imple­ment the most cre­ative ideas.

DJI Inspire 2 + Zen­muse X5S film­ing Ral­ly Fin­land 2017.

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