Mavic 2 Zoom

This drone is absolutely fantastic, awesome, great! It takes a while to understand controls, to get used to it. Don't hurry up, learn little by little. It's cheaper to gradually improve your drone's pilot skills, than to buy another drone ;) Be careful, this drone is made of plastic and it is fragile, but it's light and flies great. But, DO NOT FLY IN RAIN or in high humidity/fog, it will damage the drone. Follow the laws and regulations, get a license from FAA, and fly responsibly, and you will have A LOT OF FUN!! Continue. The drone is very responsive, but you can control it. The smart controller is a "must buy", it operates with the drone better than a standard controller, it has stronger signal through the wireless connection (dual band), and makes flights more enjoyable. Also, with the smart controller (and with the correct settings) you can secure your privacy better, because China is WATCHING, remember it! If you operate with a standard controller, you will have to install all the drone's applications into your phone, and the data will be stored on Chinese servers (controlled by Communist Party in accordance to laws of China), which may jeopardize your privacy and even identity ("identity theft risk"). By using a smart controller, you can avoid these risks. Also, these smart controllers have very nice bright screen (you can buy a screen protector apart, there are good ones on Amazon). Joysticks come together with a smart controller, they are hidden under antennas. Be careful flying in darkness, the drone's camera is great for a day-time flights, but doesn't have night vision mode (but you can buy a night or thermal vision camera apart and install it if you're a legal permanent resident being in the United States). This drone has phenomenal capabilities, and can be used for filming, for security/LE measures, and just for fun! Don't get surprised when you will start enjoying these flights even more than you expected! The Chinese engineers did a great job making this model, and now (finally!) healthy capitalist relations between our countries help everybody to be happy, as it should be! I absolutely recommend this drone to buy, it is as seductive as MAGA as soon as you try it! Have fun!

I love my New Zoom! I sold my DJI Phantom 3 Pro and my DJI Spark to get this one. I love the Zoom!!! It’s not only easy to fly, but it takes amazing video and pictures! I can’t wait to use it at our summer camp and to take it hunting! I want to film some hunts but will need to figure out how to do it w/ out spooning the quarry! The clarity when I put it on my laptop was mind blowing!!!!! I haven’t shot the videos that I want to yet but just so simple shots around the house, but I’m stunned by how amazing the colors pop and the incredible clarity. The Zoom option is the reason I bought it and I was really pleased w/ how much it can zoom in! I often will forget I have it on and only later when descending realize how far I’m up! It is the best DJI drone I’ve owned and I think their best product out thus far! If your thinking about it, do it! I promise you’ll won’t be disappointed and it will blow you away w/ the pics and videos you can take! Happy flying

Only thing I dislike about the Mavic 2 Pro is that the battery doesn't last long, especially in the windy beach area I live. I get 20-25 minutes, just because the bird is always self-correcting as it fights the wind gusts. I go easy on the throttle and speed, but still, this area is windy. Other than the battery not lasting long, this thing yields great, satisfying results. You don't need to have prior experience flying RC aircraft, because the thing stays in flight by itself. It automatically does all the corrections and compensations. All you need to do is watch your surroundings and go up, down, left or right as you move the camera gimbal to your liking. Once you get used to the controls, it's intuitive, plus you also can configure them to your preference. This thing has very advanced systems to stay in impressively stable flight while you focus on your image composition. It comes with Beginner Mode enabled, so the drone doesn't get more than 100 feet away from you or higher than 98 feet, and it also restricts its speed and control sensitivity. It also won't take off without a GPS signal lock. It's a nice feature. I used it for three battery changes to really learn everything before disabling it. This type of camera drone feels very different from RC helicopters and smaller drones, which require constant control input. As long as you respect the law and fly safe, you'll find a new source of joy and creativity in a flying camera. Everything looks different from up there. You have so many more possibilities for composing photo and video scenes. Anyway, the colors on the camera are very natural and lifelike. Those shots I enclosed are DNG files converted to JPEG on Snapseed without any adjustments. Last three shots are JPEGs straight out of the drone so you can see that Hasselblad's HNCS color profile look is more than just marketing non-sense. The video I enclosed was shot in H.265 in the regular color mode, not in DLog-M or HLG, to show you what choices the drone made. I do prefer DLog-M to preserve highlights, and to color-grade the footage to my preference. As you can see in that video, the highlights are blown-out in the waves. I highly recommend the Mavic 2 Pro. That little Sony-powered Hasselblad camera is the real deal. Videos look great, too, but you want this model for the photo quality and colors. There are newer DJI drones now, such as the Air 2S, which I also own, and the recently released Mavic 3, but the sensor crop on the Mavic 2 Pro's 4K HQ Mode gives it a cinematic look. It's a unique aesthetic to this drone, plus its video is not ultra-sharp for being 4K, so it looks more filmic and less digital. Peace!

I'm not exactly sure what year the guys from DJI are from, but its not the 2010's or 2020's. The technology they are creating, and innovating, with really no other competition, is mind boggling. The only explanation is they are from the distant future and DJI created a time machine, probably what the Mavic Pro 5 is going to come with, and they are currently in our dimension to "wow" us. Seriously, though. I have owned some drones in the past from DJI but the Mavic Pro 2 is something special. I paid roughy $1499 for mine, although the price seems to fluctuate these days due to changing tariffs. I would say if you work in the professional photo or video realm, this piece of tech is worth every penny and more. In fact, if I were to lose or break mine and had to buy a new one, and they were now selling for $2,500... I'd still buy it. Thats how much I value this piece of equipment. Work I've done with my drone includes wedding films, YouTube videos, landscape photos for canvas prints, land surveillance, dolphin watching (and Manta-ray watching, yes Id fly it out from the beach shoreline and you can see these awesome animals in their habitat), self filming (using the built in tracking), and general photography and videography from viewpoints otherwise inaccessible. The thing about drones that some people overlook, is they arent just for video, flying over awesome landscapes to get cool video. These things basically give you range and POV that was previously impossible for creators. I included a shot I took of a protest at Jackson Square in New Orleans, this shot would've been impossible without a helicopter 10 years ago. The 1" sensor on this drones camera is noting short of incredible. Some Full Frame users (such as myself, I shoot with an a7iii) will scuff at such a "small" sensor which is honestly silly. Its still much larger than your phone or a GoPros sensor, and it does an incredible job with image quality, both video and photo. Low light, this is the best drone ive ever used as well. Although generally the best time to fly for me is sunrise and sunset. Its when the Earth is most beautiful, and this drone captures every square inch of beauty. This thing apparently can go around 5 miles from the controller!? Ive never even taken it a full mile away (ive gotten close though). I cant imagine going that far, although if the situation called for it, I would. With that said, ive had exactly ZERO issues with losing connectivity. Ive never once had any scares (with the exception of a mamma bird trying to attack it once when I was close to a nest unbeknown to me). The last thing Ill say about this drone that just makes me gush is the portability. When you open the box and get familiar with it, its like these guys just refined every possible thing. The controller breaks down so intuitively and folds up, the drone gets small enough to the size of a DSLR footprint, so it fits in most of my camera bags easily. I never go to a shoot without this thing. My essentials for any shoot is my camera body, my 24-70, and my drone. Its that simple, this is an essential piece of kit to me, and I cannot say enough good things about it. I dont even have anything negative to say. I won't say the battery life is bad, 30 minutes of flight time is plenty if you plan your shots out and dont just fly aimlessly. Bring an extra battery if you're going on a trip somewhere remote. I'm sure the new Mavic Air 2 is amazing as well, and idk what the Mavic Pro 3 is going to bring because this drone, by almost all my criteria, is near perfect.

Let me tell you something, for a $1500 drone… Quality control is crap. If I thought this was a isolated incident... I would’ve sent it back and got a second, but reading the forums… This happens to too many people with some workarounds, unfortunately they didn’t work for me. Making me think that the controller was bad from the factory. Which, the second it disconnected, sent it off flying in random directions and had it crash once. The scary part was, there was no rhyme or reason. I would disconnect the cable on my phone reconnect it... then it would just connect seconds or minutes later. For a company who is touted as being one of the premier drone manufacturers, their quality control is just terrible. If the drone cost two or $300, I could forgive it. But when you were paying a premium price for a premium drone, you don’t expect amateur issues. Not to mention, I was lucky if I can get it to fly a half mile without video disconnect. No matter which way I turn the antennae’s or where I flew it. Not to mention, the video quality even with the 1 inch sensor was worse than that of a half inch sensor at 4K... and considering that they had the forethought to put the 1 inch sensor on this drone, how is it that the older Evo has 60 frames per second but this drone does not? Then I also had an issue of getting statically lines in the video when I moved the drone forward. I have no clue what caused it, but it was obviously not only disconnecting from the remote, it was also getting interference from the main CPU to the video chip. So, instead of returning it and getting a second, which I didn’t know it would work or not. I decided to go with an Autel Evo. Which has been a dream do not only fly, but the video quality is second to none even at night. And was much a higher quality than the Mavic 2 Pro. What I found out after doing some research is that the Mavic in fact, does not use all of it sensor in the high-quality mode, therefore you aren’t getting the benefit of the 1 inch sensor to give you that extra light. Which is why the video quality at night looks so horrible.Yes, you can clean it up and post which I’m going to guess is what the decent looking videos from it do. But I wasn’t going to pay so much for a drone that basically required me to do surgery after the fact. Which the Evo does not. I can post videos directly from the drone and they look incredible, with very vibrant colors and sharp incredible imagery. Making me salivate over the prospect of the Evo 2 and it’s 8K/24w/ 48 Megapixel still camera and it’s 6K 1” camera, which are interchangeable. The cool thing about Autel... they are from Washington state, it’s a small company with 14 employees and you can call and talk to anyone of them that you want. Which means, fast, efficient American customer service. Not to mention, they listen to fans of their drones and implement features because of them. Evo 2 should be available in mid to the end of March & I can’t wait!

The battery could last longer, but solved the issue buying the pack with 2 additional batteries (and a carrying case). It's a mind blowing drone, the type of thing that 3 years ago would have definitely be science fiction. I just can't get enough of it, I'm flying at least an average of 1 hour a day (wish could have more time to do it), and taking the best pictures of my life while having tons of fun. Make sure you get the carrying case..., I can't imagine not having one at this point in time. The drone is the perfect complement for whoever loves traveling, fishing, camping, sports, or any other outdoor activities, however, I have to say that my experience is unique, since I live in a country that still didn't regulate drones, and therefore, i have a lot of freedom for what I whatever I want to use it for. My kid plays tennis, it's drone time, I go fishing, it's drone time, going biking?, drone time, BBQ with friends?, drone time..., what can I say?, it's my best friend now.

Incredible product!! So easy to use and operate. I bought the DJI Mavic 2 Zoom from Amazon and the OEM Plastic case from DJI directly. Everything fits into a small case. You have to purchase the Smart Controller. It makes operating this Drone so easy and set-up is fast! We are a communications company and use it to do terrain analysis and take pictures of our tower sites. We can easily take the Drone to 100' and inspect the antennas and lines on the towers. The time is now to buy a DJI Drone. They have an upgrade program when the technology changes or you need a better model. The future is Drone delivery. We also purchased the Drone to begin to gain experience. Experience costs! However, Amazon, FedEx, and others wanting to reach markets of home delivery are going to be using Drone technology. We want to be there when it happens. We are going to buy 2-3 more of the exact models very shortly. The applications and business opportunities of this technology are wide-open!!

I have had this drone for 1 year now. The drone is cool and portable, now questions. But there is few problems why I would give it 4 stars. First I can’t get it to shoot a sharp images in 1080. Always after getting home and watching images I notice some noise. I have had played with setting and seems like was able to bring it to minimum but still not satisfied with the result. Second problem is the smart controller, I hate it. There is some pluses of having smart controller, one of them is faster set up when you need to take off, and don’t have to deal with additional cables and sharing phone or tablet, but audio quality recording on smart controller is horrible, seems like processor does not handle app running very well, and so I happened to me that app would crash a couple of times. Also when staring the screen recorder processors seems to get overloaded and then video delay increase which could cause a drone crash. And price for the smart controller. I recommend everyone just get regular controller and iPad mini for same money but also having a tablet for other use other then monitor for DJI app. So Smart controller is a big NO!!