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DJI Mini 4 Pro
- cush 3y agoLight drones are great, but how far away are we from quiet consumer drones? I'd love to not have every hike ruined by some wannabe videographer.
- ben7799 3y agoThe mini is pretty damn quiet. At 50ft of altitude people don't hear it. AT 100ft of altitude people don't even see it. I've flown one hundreds of times and other than other drone owners no one has ever said a thing or noticed. The drone owners notice and come over to talk drones.
- 4gotunameagain 3y agoThe others do not say a thing because they are polite probably :)
- enlyth 3y agoI got a proper bollocking when checking out some newly built houses with my drone, one of which I was thinking about buying. The lady thought I was trying to film her garden, probably warranted since I took off not far from her residential house. I've learned to stay further away from people while flying since, which the rules dictate anyway.
- loeg 3y agoI've been annoyed by drones lots of times and never talked to the operators. It's not because I didn't notice.
- bragr 3y agoPerhaps but I fly my Mini 2 regularly, and people have a hard time finding it in the sky even when I point it out to them at 100ft. At 200ft it might as well not exist. They are so small and light, they just don't put out the dBs like bigger drones.
- trust_bt_verify 3y agoBeing able to spot a small white object in the sky and hearing it are very different things. I put drone operators on the same level as those who hike with speakers blaring. No one is being hurt, no laws being broken. Just inconsiderate considering a large part of the experience for most in nature is the serenity.
- Cannabat 3y agoThe mini is undetectable over 100ft or so. other drones will interrupt the peace, but this one is far less likely to.
- IshKebab 3y agoNah they definitely aren't as bad. People using speakers in public are actively choosing to annoy people when they could have used headphones. There's no headphone equivalent for drones. Drones are also way way less common than shitty music players.
- ryantgtg 3y agoAlmost everyone I encounter who is carrying a speaker is not hiking by themselves. That is why they are not wearing headphones.
- ashton314 3y agoPeople who hike with speakers blaring are a strange breed that I’m likely to never understand. Like, why listen to music in the first place while hiking? I’m out here in the woods to get as far away from civilization as I can. I don’t need $latest_popstar dragging me back.
- jbm 3y agoI've never done this, but if I was trying to be charitable; in bear country, I assume making noise to avoid startling the animals is best practice.
- ben7799 3y agoIt's a question of what you got annoyed by, the point was a 100mph home built FPV drone is dramatically louder, and the way they get flown makes a lot more noise. I've been annoyed and not talked to people too, but it was never the noise, it was blatant violation of the law flying over crowds, etc..
- Foivos 3y agoI have noticed that it really depends on the wind direction. If the wind blows from the drone towards the people, you could hear it at 50 meters. Plus, when there is a lot of wind it makes much more noise in its struggle to fight it. Otherwise, unless it is directly next to you, you can hardly hear anything. My biggest crowd are children and pets. They always seem to be amused by the drone.
- photonbeam 3y agoLots of people avoid confrontation
- mitthrowaway2 3y agoDefinitely this. This summer a guy was flying a drone over a popular park area where lots of people were swimming in the river; it was extremely annoying. I'm pretty sure the drone was above the legal weight limit too, and as I have a UAV license, I'm well aware that it's illegal to operate a drone directly above other people. I spotted the guy with the drone controls but decided not to talk to him about it, because I couldn't be certain that someone as inconsiderate as that wouldn't necessarily react violently.
- nicbou 3y agoThere's the "if you're breaking this social convention, I'm not willing to figure out how many others you'll break" problem.
- okdood64 3y agoI like this one. Thanks.
- andersrs 3y agoOf course! Only drone owners have working ears. Could it be that everyone notices but they just don't want to speak with some rude drone dude.
- broguinn 3y agoI had the same thought seeing the hero videos on this page displaying beautiful mountain scapes and vistas - I wouldn't want to be the person disturbing this space with an intrusive drone.
- snoman 3y agoAre the hikers considered intrusive, or just the drones?
- greycol 3y agoYou'll hear plenty of hikers complain about hikers if they are also creating unwanted noise (usually from portable bluetooth speaker).
- palata 3y agoEven sometimes it's annoying to be near hikers who just speak loudly. Sometimes you just want to be in the nature and enjoy it quietly :-).
- __MatrixMan__ 3y agoSome places you have to apply for a permit (few of which are issued) to make sure there aren't too many hikers at once. So I think it's both.
- mk_stjames 3y agoI'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks this. I read over their product page and, like always, I'm absolutely amazed that these things exist now and can capture such amazing video and photography at their price point. I'd love to get one to use. But I won't buy one, because every time I go out now to the beach or on a hike, I see people with things like these and I just cannot stand them. I hate the ridiculous noise, I hate the fact that these people are filming things in the middle of streets and sidewalks and trails and generally putting themselves in the center of everything and inconveniencing everyone else just to 'get their shot'. I hate the idea that I am potentially being filmed by some random kids with a high speed camera on the drone hovering out over the park bench I'm resting on. And because I hate these things, I will not buy one, because I do not want to turn into the annoyances that I feel, no matter how cool the tech looks. That... or... I'm secretly afraid that I'd buy it and not actually have anything cool to film and it'd sit in a closet and be another $800 paperweight device. But let's go with not wanting to be an another annoying 'Main Character Syndrome' person and just be quiet and peaceful when out and about.
- mrtksn 3y agoShould't be too far away, the commercial drones of Zipline are supposed to be super quiet. Here is video demonstrating the tech: https://youtu.be/DOWDNBu9DkU?si=_x9vSAygUSHq4ZQw&t=832 https://youtu.be/DOWDNBu9DkU?si=_x9vSAygUSHq4ZQw&t=832
- amelius 3y agoEven if they are 10x more quiet, then if there are 10 of these drones flying around we're back at square one.
- jacquesm 3y agoBoth fortunately and unfortunately that's not how sound works. If the drones are far enough away from each other that you don't get interference between them soundwise it doesn't matter if there are more of them. But if they do then two quiet ones may re-inforce to the point that they sound much worse than a single larger one.
- amelius 3y agoAre you saying that sound conduction doesn't behave linearly?
- doix 3y agoWikipedia is actually a pretty good source for this [0]. tl;dr it's not as simple as one drone makes X noise, so 2 drones make 2x noise. For that to happen, the drones need to be making noise at the same frequency and be perfectly in phase. Also, if they were perfectly out of phase, they could cancel the noise from each other out (this is how noise cancelling headphones work). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_interference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_interference
- amelius 3y agoThat's a long article. My intuition says that if a sound source produces a number of Watts per square meter, then those numbers should add up. In fact that's what it says here: https://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/richard.baker/BasicAcoustics/5_addition_of_sound_intensities.html https://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/richard.baker/B... Of course assuming uncorrelated noise, as a crude approximation.
- dylan604 3y agoI'd love to have my photoshoot not ruined by some wannabe hiker. it plays both ways
- __MatrixMan__ 3y agoActually, we're authentic hikers. We're wannabe drone hunters.
- cush 3y agoIf you’re looking for somewhere outdoors without people may I suggest you not choose a hiking trail…
- bunabhucan 3y agohttps://www.ll.mit.edu/sites/default/files/other/doc/2022-09/TVO_Technology_Highlight_41_Toroidal_Propeller.pdf https://www.ll.mit.edu/sites/default/files/other/doc/2022-09...
- q87b 3y agoAt least then you know that you are being watched and recorded by some creep with a drone. It is disturbing how society tolerates these pretty-secret surveillance devices just because they can take videos that look like those documentaries on TV, yay...
- stefan_ 3y agoWhere is the US or EU competitor to DJI? They are running away with it. Oh right, we instead pioneered regulation and legislation, all those deaths from drones falling down and drones hitting planes.
- asynchronous 3y agoReally telling when all the drone deaths thus far have been from DJI drones being weaponized in the Ukraine-Russia war.
- rad_gruchalski 3y agoFurthermore, their drones comply with our registration.
- ceejayoz 3y agoDo it before someone dies: "Regulation out of control!" Do it after someone dies: "Why didn't you do anything?!" It's not insane to get out in front of drone regulation; their numbers are likely to continue to increase. Lack of regulation certainly isn't DJI's advantage; they still have to comply with it to sell their product in a whole bunch of major markets. That's the exact reason this drone weighs 249 grams.
- dopamean 3y ago> It's not insane to get out in front of drone regulation Nor is it surprising. There are a lot of regulations around aviation (though perhaps not as many as there are in other places) and safety is the reason. Every flying object in the sky is sharing the space with commercial airliners, hobbyist pilots, logistics companies, government aircraft, etc. All of which share the same regulations or have specific ones depending on the industry. It makes sense that drones would be regulated as well.
- yetanotherloser 3y agoSolution: stop saying "why didn't you do anything", righteously slap people who do.
- htrp 3y ago>Take off whenever inspiration strikes. Weighing less than 249 g, Mini 4 Pro was designed for convenience on the go, [1] and the drone's weight means there's no need for training or examinations in most countries and regions. Wasn't this loophole basically closed by the US FAA a couple years back?
- ceejayoz 3y agohttps://www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/register_drone https://www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/register_drone still says "except those that weigh 0.55 pounds or less (less than 250 grams)".
- jstanley 3y agoIt's not a loophole, it's a deliberate exemption!
- pkdpic 3y agoMakes enough sense to me but curious why specifically? Are they quieter or less dangerous below that size / weight?
- antisthenes 3y ago> Are they quieter or less dangerous below that size / weight? F = m*v^2
- NovemberWhiskey 3y ago>F = mv^2* F is some number of joules equal to twice E_k?
- e12e 3y agoNot F (force, which is m*a), but Ki (kinetic energy): Ki = mv²/2
- somehnguy 3y agoThere isn’t much of an actual reason, the FAA has been all over the place without much logic when it comes to drone regulations.
- htatche 3y agoI got all excited thinking of the potential of keeping this at the bottom of someone's pack given it's low weight, until I remembered how much I despise people flying drones on top of my head whenever I'm out in the outdoors, looking for a peaceful place to connect with nature.
- baz00 3y agoYeah this. In the middle of bloody nowhere in Central Asia completely off any beaten track and there was wanker with a drone buzzing around.
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- elxr 3y agoExactly how I feel. For me, I think the best use case for drones, if I were to get one someday, is for shooting sports/events where the prop noise would be drowned out by an already noisy environment. Like motocross, or a basketball game, or a car meet. There's no way I'm taking out a buzzy drone when out on a quiet hike or at a typical campground. Just kills the calmness.
- macintosh-hd 3y agoYou’re not legally allowed to fly a drone over people without authorization.
- josefresco 3y agoThis looks just like my Mavic Mini (similar weight/size) which is no longer in production. I do like how the new DJI drones have their own integrated controller/screen. One of the biggest pain points with my Mavic is using my phone.
- xeromal 3y agoYeah, my phone is too big to fit in the little holster so it's always haphazardly put together.
- pb7 3y agoThe interactive 3D model at the end is really sick.
- nickthegreek 3y ago$759 for those wondering.
- SV_BubbleTime 3y agoI was, thanks.
- reustle 3y agoAnd if anyone is curious about getting into the hobby, I just picked up my first drone for quite cheap. The DJI Mini 2 SE is $339 at most stores.
- javchz 3y agoAs someone who is not familiar with drones, it's this a good bang for they buck deal?
- system2 3y agoFor the tech you are getting yes. Phantom 4 was $1700 3 years ago. You get more tech in a very tiny package and especially at toy class which is under 250 grams. This it 249 so you can fly nearly everywhere as long as you don't bug people with it.
- endisneigh 3y agoit would be neat to mount some sort of weather proof container on a tree with a solar panel that it could go into, so then it's like a bird. could imagine some shared spec and network of these so they can charge, lying in wait.
- all2 3y ago> lying in wait What are they waiting for?
- endisneigh 3y agoto be activated by a user
- vorpalhex 3y agoSounds like the setup for a Scifi novel. "The drones lie in wait silently. The sun dips over the horizon. A lone IR led comes to life on the robots face. It is done waiting. It's prey is beckoning."
- fragmede 3y agoFor the stationary cameras to sense persistent movement that wants another camera angle on it. Skydio's focusing on the security/surveillance market and sells docking stations like GP is thinking.
- renewiltord 3y agoPerhaps they could substitute for stationary security cameras. When incidents occur, you could track the target. Entertaining sci-fi.
- anigbrowl 3y agoTake a look at the Ukraine conflict to see the future of adversarial drone tech. Most of the public stuff is FPV but I think it's extremely likely that there's also semi- or fully-autonomous units flying too.
- system2 3y agoThey have industrial models for that. It is so futuristic. https://enterprise.dji.com/dock https://enterprise.dji.com/dock
- ramenmeal 3y agoStreaming 1080p/60fps up to 20km wirelessly is mind boggling to me. What kind of tech is used to make that happen? seems like it'd require a lot of power.
- all2 3y agoTransmitting long distances lives on a kind of spectrum. On the one end you have MOAR PWER and on the other end you have signals analysis and robust codecs (? I'm not sure "codec" is right. Maybe encoding? Can someone answer this?) that allow for lost information. The signals analysis will clean the incoming signal and the codec/encoding will allow for robust recreation of the captured data. Most wireless transmission technology lives somewhere in-between the extremes of the above spectrum. Signals analysis is quite advanced and codecs/encodings are also quite advanced at this point.
- SSLy 3y ago> I'm not sure "codec" is right. Maybe encoding? Numerology
- livueta 3y agoMy RF knowledge is hobbyist only but I think the word you're looking for is "modulation", e.g. LoRa is able to work over significant distances at low power because of its clever chirp spread spectrum modulation method.
- brokenmachine 3y agoThe longest range drone control channel, ELRS, is basically LoRa.
- GenerocUsername 3y agoFirst off, those numbers are a huge asterisk for perfect atmospheric conditions. In reality you will see about a 2km max in relatively clear conditions, and as few as half a km in even normal suburban/urban conditions.
- ben7799 3y agoI've had the original Mini since it came out. Other than damaging a prop from it hitting a blade of grass on landing it is in perfect shape. Yes, they are so fragile I landed very smoothly in the grass and soft grass is enough to damage the props! I don't fly it as much as I used to. These new ones are certainly an engineering marvel with how much they have added and still kept it under 249g. The big one to me though is the wind resistance. 10.7m/s is 23mph. The original specs 17mph. It is hard to say at which point it starts having trouble, but 23mph is a non-trivial improvement, it probably means 2x as many days you can actually fly. Now the things that suck about DJI, and I wonder if they are actually at all improved with a new drone: - Geofencing sometimes locks you out of legal flights, no way around that unless you can jailbreak - Some legal flights require you going through an unlock process, and if the DJI web infrastructure is having a bad day you also get locked out of flying in a legal place I would probably buy from another competitor, especially a US one, just over the unlock experience with DJI.
- ShadowBanThis01 3y agoAnother gripe about DJI for video use is that they rip you off for a "license" to use CinemaDNG... which is an open, license-free codec.
- andy_ppp 3y agoIsn’t this because they have to pay Red for their ridiculous patent of compressed raw video?
- bri3d 3y agoIt's also only available bundled with ProRes, although it's almost certain there's also some backroom RED RAW-racket deal going on too.
- ShadowBanThis01 3y agoWell, that's DJI's decision.
- ShadowBanThis01 3y agoLet's hope this thing is compatible with DJI's own goggles. They seem to be getting better about this, but for a while they released drones that weren't... a real disappointing WTF.
- TheCaptain4815 3y agoWas just telling my friend I was a bit surprised at how rapidly consumer drones advanced in the late 2010's and have slowed down ever since. Seems like a lot of these features haven't really improved all that much in the past 5 years.
- Tepix 3y agoMost aspects have seen good improvements, in particular range, flight time and the camera. The Mini 4 Pro also has the 360° sensors that previously only were on the larger drones. The Mini (2019) was a big step up compared to the Spark (2017) with merely a 2-axis gimbal and the Mini 2 (2020) brought very welcome range and camera improvements. I don't have first hand experience with anything more recent but it looks like both the range and the camera keep improving in those. The flight time, top speed and wind resistance are also increasing. So i'm not sure what in particular you feel hasn't improved significantly.
- TheCaptain4815 3y agoTrue, I suppose I was referring to rate of change during those early years.
- jms703 3y agoTerrible website. So difficult to view.
- system2 3y agoDJI's website is literally one of the best out there, what do you mean?
- bmurphy1976 3y agoI have a Spark and a Mavic Air 2. I really love flying the Spark, it's a fun zippy little drone. I'd compare it to something like a Miata. The Mavic on the other hand is all serious, professional utility. It's more like a mini-van. It's a great tool but it's not even remotely fun to fly. My biggest issue with my Spark is the 9 minute battery life. Even though I have 4 batteries, having to constantly land and swap the batteries is a real drag. Does anybody have one of the older Minis? How do they compare to the Spark?
- bittercynic 3y agoOriginal mini here, and I've flown a friend's spark. The mini flies about 30 minutes on a charge, and is much more compact when folded. The spark had more sophisticated collision avoidance than my mini. They seemed comparably zippy to me, but I never flew them back-to-back.
- ben7799 3y agoThe original was more like 20-25 minutes. Which at some point becomes boring. Like you usually don't have enough interesting things to do with the drone to stay engaged that long. So something like a 45 minute flight is not going to make me buy a newer one, cause i don't have something interesting/important I need to do for that long.
- Tepix 3y agoThe Mini 2 has a battery range of close to 30 minutes. It's a big improvement over the Spark, in particular the 3-axis gimbal makes a big difference.
- bmurphy1976 3y agoBut how does it handle? The spark is really agile. It doesn't go as fast as the bigger drones, but it accelerates and turns much quicker.
- Tepix 3y agoThe successors can handle stronger winds and i've also noticed a reduction in latency going from the Mini (which wasn't great) to the Mini 2.
- Sohcahtoa82 3y agoI've been looking forward to the release of the Mini 4 Pro so I can hopefully get a Mini 3 Pro on the cheap. I want something that can autonomously follow me on my mountain bike or follow my RC car as it goes over jumps for under $500.
- Foivos 3y agoIf you want the drone to autonomously track you, then the mini 4 pro is the only realistic choice since it has obstacle detection at all directions. The mini 3 pro does not have obstacle detection at the sides. In a mountain bike scenario, the drone is mostly capturing you on the side and it is moving sideways itself. So, unless you want to fly it next to the sea, you want to have sideways obstacle detection. Or, just have a friend control it. :)
- Sohcahtoa82 3y agoMy mountain biking is done at a mountain biking park with no trees on the tracks I ride. As long as it maintains at least 10 feet of altitude over me, there's no risk for it hitting something. That said, I'm starting to lean towards spending the extra money to pick up the Mini 4 Pro, especially if Costco runs a good bundle deal. Like right now, they sell a Mini 3 Pro bundle for $839 that includes the drone and RC-N1 controller, 2 extra batteries, charging hub, and a 128 GB SD card. All that would be $1,063 if bought from DJI directly.
- patall 3y agoWouldn't it be better to get a (helium) ballon and attach i.e a go-pro that with a rope tied to you. I mean, you need a bit of volume that will have a bit of drag, but it will always follow you, be quiet and mostly cheaper.
- 2023throwawayy 3y agoCheaper != better
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- exar0815 3y agoI've got the Mavic 3, and while it's an awesome piece of Hardware all around, I am royally fucking pissed about DJI retracting on their promise to release an SDK for them, which stops me from using litchi with it.
- cheesemayo 3y agoBeware that DJI's software to control these craft is super sketchy to install and use. It doesn't exist in the Google Play Store, to avoid inspection.
- hashtag-til 3y agoI don’t have any of these, but is the software some apk you download, and at that point can’t that be inspected?
- spankalee 3y agoWho inspects APKs? The Play Store has all kind of automated and manual processes to detect malware and vulnerabilities. It's why I don't enable side-loading on my phone.
- mcsniff 3y agoPlease tell me you're joking or missing the sarcasm tag. The Play Store is notorious for allowing absolute garbage apps in, regardless of the "risks" of sideloading.
- palata 3y agoThat's not incompatible. They do a lot for security, even if malware still manages to get there. One would assume that the most popular apps get more attention.
- cheesemayo 3y agoThe APK is a thin shell that downloads even more code to execute, from the internet. So, what you download and inspect isn't what's executed, and what you execute now might be different in 5 minutes.
- hashtag-til 3y agoOk understood. That was the context I was missing. Thanks
- ChrisMarshallNY 3y agoThe product they make, that I think is a lot cooler than their drones (but probably was inspired by them), is their Osmo Pocket minicam[0]. [0] https://store.dji.com/product/pocket-2?vid=98631 https://store.dji.com/product/pocket-2?vid=98631
- coder543 3y agoThe Pocket 3 has been rumored to be coming out any day for like a year now... the camera tech in the Pocket 2 is just not that great anymore, even if the gimbal is fine. I want to see what kind of improvements DJI has made over the last 3 years.
- whyenot 3y agoIt seems like the Osmo Pocket line has stagnated a bit. I bought a Pocket 2 in the summer of 2021, and more than two years later, it still is the current model. That's a shame because while it's a good idea, the camera has some problems. Video quality is not great, especially in low light. It does not work well for creating vertical format (TikTok-style) videos. The screen on the camera is smaller than a postage stamp and is pretty much unusable -- you really need to pair the camera with your phone. ...which then leads to the question, why not just use DJI's excellent Osmo Mobile gimble and record footage using the much better camera that your phone has.
- prawn 3y agoI have a Pocket and used it a few times but it's sat idle for a while now. For general casual filming, the workflow on a good phone is better. For anything the phone won't do well enough, use a proper camera. Main remaining use of the Pocket is having rotating timelapses. That's the only reason I still pack it, and even then only use it on 1/10 trips.
- willio58 3y agoWhoever developed this website was probably told "We want it to look like Apple.com" and didn't veer one inch from that request. Not to say it looks bad, but it does feel unoriginal to me.
- tambourine_man 3y agoI came here and hit command-f "Apple" to see if others had the same opinion.
- dotancohen 3y agoFunny, I hit /apple for the same reason.
- hatthew 3y agoDJI is absolutely the Apple of the drone world
- system2 3y agoIt might look like Apple but their product demo in pages are extremely well thought. Especially video intros blending with mid-page areas. I am always excited to see their new product pages because they are one-upping every time they release a new one.
- brentm 3y agoI always look at these and think I want one but also can't think of what i'd actually use it for. I just picture it sitting in a closet next to my GoPro and Oculus after about 3 days of messing around. Anyone own one? What do you use it for?
- yread 3y agoI got a 20eur knock off to check whether the gutters are full of leaves without getting the ladder. It kinda works. The roof is at the 3rd floor and the ground is a bit uneven there so it's not just that I'm lazy ok?
- GenerocUsername 3y agoI've had a Mini V1 since 2020 and here are my uses: * Fun Flights * Aerial photography of yard projects * Towing fishing lures way beyond furthest castable distance * Fireworks videos * Hiking Scouting * Surveillance drone ( Caught some motorbikers trespassing on property and tracked them back to house ) * Firewatch * Pester folks safely from patio
- eweise 3y agoHow do you drop the lure?
- GenerocUsername 3y agoI put a small metal 'basket' that I put the float into. It's a fine-tuning thing to allow the line to tow, but 'pop out' with a bit of extra tension. So we fly it out 200m and then lock the line and it pops out of basket. Risky, but very fun
- eweise 3y agoThanks. I'm going to try it
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- oytis 3y agoHaving spent the last two years reading news about Russian-Ukrainian war it's pretty refreshing to see how many people still associate DJI drones with peaceful life and entertainment. And seeing a drone flying in the mountains my first thought was about Karabakh.
- palata 3y agoGenuine question: what kind of smartphone do you think the soldiers use? Do you associate Android/iOS to war? Pretty sure terrorists use Android/iOS, too.
- H8crilA 3y agoSoldiers typically use tablets, to have larger screens. With Google Meet or Discord for real time streaming to battalion/brigade command.
- _boffin_ 3y agoDammit! and i just purchased the Mini Pro 3 a few months back... i mean, i love it, but this is awesome too!
- ZunarJ5 3y agoAnyone see pricing?
- TylerE 3y ago$750 or so
- yieldcrv 3y agobattery life good everything else idk might make drone LED shows easier though, those are probably a bigger use case than the one off drone enthusiast
- ricardobeat 3y agoLED shows use custom built drones, not commercial/recreational ones. You can’t program these, and you can build similar hardware for 1/5th of the cost.
- topherjaynes 3y agoWaiting for DC Rainmaker review before clicking buy!
- ryukoposting 3y agoI have an Osmo action camera. Good camera and solid UX, but it forces you to make an account, install an app, and pair with your phone, only to lead you to an app that doesn't seem to do much of anything useful. A mountain of dark patterns, and a huge turn-off that will prevent me from buying another DJI product.
- exodust 3y agoThe account activation requirement sucks. It's of no benefit to users. Other companies have copied, such as the Insta360 products like their new gimbal. Fortunately I found a better gimbal without that requirement, the Hohem iSteady MT2, which does not come "pre-bricked" demanding account sign-up.
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- H8crilA 3y agoOmg, finally, waypoints in an entry level drone! Shooting smooth footage by hand is hard, especially if you're planning to speed it up in editing. The camera improvements look nice too.
- TruthWillHurt 3y agoBut how many grenades can it carry?
- VerminOctopus1 3y agoZero?
- sashk0 3y agothat's nice! but can it drop F1 grenades?
- crest 3y agoHow many mm of rolled homogeneous steel does it penetrate?
- sacnoradhq 3y agoReactive armor would just shrug it off.
- sacnoradhq 3y agoSo with all this talk over banning TikTok violating the 1st a. rights of Americans using Orwellian, authoritarian tactics critics are decrying, you'd think DJI and sketchy cloud-based webcams would be banned first over more obvious capabilities.
- fareesh 3y agoI have DJI drone. It's very easy to fly, however there are all sorts of restrictions that exist in the software which are not in sync with local laws (which may be more liberal than what the software thinks), so your only option is to use sketchy means to actually use the drone.
- eenchev 3y agoIn Europe, it is limited to a flight height of 120m
- ricardobeat 3y agoThat’s enough for photographing an entire small city from above. Though in the Netherlands for example the normal limit is 50m. There is no way you can keep visual contact at this distance, especially for a tiny drone like this, and you’re getting relatively close to air traffic in some places. Europe is quite dense. Makes sense that going further requires a license / flight plan.
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- CSDude 3y agoI had the original Mini and it drifted away to the sea. I launched it from my home which was already in a steep location. RIP I'll never buy a light drone again.
- bluetidepro 3y agoSlightly off topic but it's wild how their online store is almost a direct rip-off of Apple's store. Has this been discussed before?
- burnte 3y agoLOTS of webstores look just like that.