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the DJI Medicare is on Norville and engineering and it's clearly giving us a preview of what's to come in the second generation DJI Matic pro this compact drone is as easy to fly and as consumer friendly as the DJI spark and it's almost as capable as its older brother the DJI Matic pro the Mavic error is what happens when the spark and the Matic pro have baby and the price of the MAV Akira is sandwich right between the spark and the Matic pro the base Medicare is currently retailing for seven hundred ninety nine dollars and for that price you get the drone the controller one battery one set of propeller guards a carrying case a whole bunch of miscellaneous cables and accessories and two extra sets of propellers unfortunately you have to bring your own micro SD card there's also a fly more combo pack that retails for 999 dollars and essentially you get a total of three batteries are charging hub to charge them all in a larger travel bag and two more extra sets of propellers given that each battery for the Medicare cost $79 alone in the charging hub by itself cost $49 plus the extra propellers and the travel bag and DJI claims you're saving one hundred thirteen dollars I feel it's a fair deal not a great deal but a fair deal if you want to pick the DJI maverick air up I'll have links to the description below and if you use the link it really helps out the channel check them out because DJI drones sometimes go on sale so you might get lucky the DJI Mavic error is slightly bigger than the spark but still slightly smaller than the Matic pro just like pneumatic pro the magic air folds up the back legs rotate backwards and out and the front arms extend outwards even though thematic air is slightly bigger than the spark in its folded state the Medicare is easier to store in a jacket pocket than the smart but it is important to take note that the propellers on pneumatic air are a different size and the ones found on the spark or maverick Pro and unfortunately they don't fold up personally I feel that these are I should standardize the propellers between the Maverick error and the second generation Matic pro this way it'll be a little easier to get replacements if you go to a store and I also think these are I should have used foldable props on pneumatic air because I feel that in the event of a crash the bull prods have a better chance of survival the DJ I'm AdvoCare has an array of sensors built-in that help it avoid crashing and help you find more precisely when indoors there a pair of sensors on the front a pair of sensors on the back and sensors on its belly so the Mavic air can know when there are obstacles in front of it behind it and underneath it the sensors can also detect if there's water underneath so it won't accidentally land in water which would obviously be a mood killer if you did and on that note the Medicare is not waterproof so you shouldn't be flying it in the rain or snow thanks to flight autonomy 2.0 the Medicare creates a real-time 3d map of its environment and it's able to better position itself and even automatically avoid obstacles without user input but the MAV acara is still prone to crashing if you're flying from side-to-side something I usually do to get panning shots personally I think the second generation Matic pro will come included with all of the sensors found on the medic error and with additional sensors on the sides and on the top of the aircraft rendering it virtually crash proof like the DJI phantom4 pro or at least I hope on the back of the era ders or USB C port and a microSD slot that can take cards up to 128 gigs but the magic error also has eight gigs of internal storage if you're shooting in 1080p that's a good amount of storage but if you're shooting in 4k that ain't a lot underneath the SD card slot you'll also find a light that also functions as a function button something that took me awhile to figure out because you will have to use this by a wind current to control it to the drone and on the sides of the drone there or latches that keep the battery secure DJI claims a maximum flight time of 21 minutes for the air but that under ideal conditions in my testing in the NYC area with high winds and with temperatures between 28 degrees and 48 degrees I averaged the flight time of 18 minutes I have yet to hit that magical 21 minute mark but below average performance in cold environments is normal for batteries so I'll probably hit that 21 minute mark in the spring or in the summer now when it comes to charging the air is better you first have to remove it and then use a proprietary cable and in order to fully charge it it's going to take about 50 minutes now let's talk about the camera the DDI Medicare the Medicare has a 12 megapixel camera that's housed in a 3 axis gimbal the camera on the Medicare also has the largest field of view at 85 degrees whereas the SPARC has a field of view of 80 1.9 degrees and the pro has the narrowest field of view at 78 point eight degrees essentially you'll be able to capture more of a scene with the Medicare as opposed to the pro when it's looking at the same thing away at the same distance on a side note I like how the body of the air essentially wraps around the camera so even in the event of a crash the gimbal system is still somewhat protected the 12 megapixel camera on the air can shoot up to 4k 30 frames per second and can capture stunning slow-motion video at 1080p 120 frames per second for comparison the pro also maxes out at 4k 30 frames per second but the best it can do when it comes to slow motion video is 1080p 96 frames per second or 720p at 120 frames per second but the pro can also capture cinema 4k at 24 frames per second MultiAir kent and just putting it out there the spark maxes out at 1080p 30 frames per second and shooting in 4k means you'll be able to capture more detail and you'll be able to zoom in more without losing too much video quality but personally I like shooting in 1080p 60 frames per second the most because it means much smoother video quality but is not as crispy and the camera on the Mavic era also does an okay job in low-light environments given that it has a 2.8 aperture but one major thing that air has over the pro is that it can shoot HDR photos which means better looking stills the Mavic air can also capture a few different types of panoramas if you're shooting a taller subject you can use the vertical panorama mode and for wider subjects you can just use the horizontal panoramas although these panorama modes are found on the spark the manicure is able to shoot the necessary photos and stitch them together much faster and then there is my personal favorite spherical panoramas although these do take a bit longer to take the end result is truly stunning you can go into the DJI app and manipulate the photo any way you want and even in high winds the end result is still very clean and the air can also take these spherical panoramas in a fraction of the time the spark does one of the things that I really like about the Mavic area is just how many options you have when it comes to actually flying it if you want to take a quick selfie you could just use gesture controls since the Mavic area is slightly bigger than the spark you can't palm launch which honestly isn't a problem with me because I always just end up crashing my spark anyway the gesture controls automatic error are much more accurate and there are much more robust and the ones found on their spark it's able to track your palm more precisely and you can even make it move forwards and back by opening or closing your arms in order to take a picture you just throw up a peace sign and to start recording you just make a rectangle with your fingers the only problem I've really only had with the desert controls is telling the Medicare it's red if you want you can also just fly the Medicare with just your smartphone and the DJI go for app the touchscreen controls are accurate but the control input is numb down a bit so you'll be able to fly the Medicare as fast or as precisely but when strictly using your phone to control the Medicare you'll get a range of about 80 meters or 260 feet with directly on the site and with minimal signal interference but I do want to point out that this 80 meter range is slightly shorter than the 100 meter range the spark has when flying it with just your phone as well when using the included controller the DJ I'm advocare has a range of up to 4,000 meters or 2.5 miles which is a little more than half of the range of the DJI Matic pro 7,000 meters or 4.3 miles but again these numbers are well in ideal conditions when flying in a highly populated area with lots of tall structures I routinely got signal interference I could usually only go with distance of about a thousand or 1,200 meters before my video stream completely cut out or got too much static to know exactly what I was doing well when it comes to linear speed the Medicare is slightly faster than the Maverick Pro with the top speed of 68.4 kilometers per hour or 42 miles per hour while in sport mode versus the pros top speed of 65 km/h or 40 miles per hour but it is important to keep in mind that while in sport mode the sensors on the Medicare or attorney officer you're flying blind but more importantly when used with the controller the medicare has a max ascend speed of 4 meters per second versus the pros 5 meters per second descent speed and the air and the pro both have a descent speed of 3 meters per second and to me this is just as important to know because it's how faster drones can gain or lose altitude because personally I never really go oh geez Rick I really wish my drone would fly faster I'm usually going oh geez Rick I really wish my drone would get up faster or come down already but the Mavic air is very precise and nimble control inputs are very accurate and the air itself is very agile is able to accelerate very quickly and stop on a dime but don't let a small size fool you even in the roughest of wind pneumatic air stays stable and allows you to place it wherever you want without losing all of it now when it comes to the controller itself let's talk about battery life first in order to fully charge it it's going to take about two and a half hours and after a full flight with the Maverick error the battery on the controller is still at about fifty percent but in order to charge it you have to use the included adapter and personally I think the controller should have used a USBC port instead because I feel losing this adapter it's pretty easy unlike the pros controller which has a screen that shows you information about your join at a glance the controller on the air has none of that but the joysticks do screw off and don't worry if you lose them DJI included a second pair you have shoulder buttons to quickly capture a picture or video a second shoulder button for quick access to your camera settings or rotating knob to adjust the tilt at the camera and the all-important return to home button so you can call your drone back when you have no idea where it is the controller design itself is fine but I just find it so hard to actually place my phone inside even without a case or even a skin I just wish the cradle was a little bigger but now let's talk about the things I hate about thematic error first off I absolutely hate how every time I want to charge the battery I have to completely unfold the Mavic to get the battery out I also hate that you have to remember to fold and unfold the error in a specific order first the back legs and the front arms to open the drone and first the front arms and then the back legs to collapse on another thing I hate about the Medicare is just how hard it is to get the SD card out I've been using tweezers to get the card out because my dainty little fingers are still too big and this matters because if you're going to be shooting a lot you're probably going to want to quickly swap out the SD card and like I mentioned earlier I think it's super weird that the controller uses and adapted to charge I just wish to use a USB C port like the air store I just need to worry about one cable but this is just mean they're picking the DJI medicare is a great little drawing for any intermediate pilot it can capture some stunning video in pictures but it's also just a lot of fun to fly to play around with smart capture and just to play around with the various picture modes it has a good amount of range for any hobbyist and you can fly it indoors or even in the horses of winds personally I think that if you in the market trying to decide between thematic era and the current Matic pro I don't go out the Mavic air if your picture quality is just as good and unless you're trying to capture some at landscape shots the few extra minutes of flight time and extra range aren't that big of a deal but like I said at the beginning of this video the Medicare is giving us a preview of the second-generation Matic Pro which one feel will be released in the next 8 to 10 months I bet it will be slightly smaller than the current generation Matic pro have extra sensors off to the side a larger camera sensor that can probably capture 4k video at 60 frames per second and slow motion at 1080p 240 frames per second and if the second-generation maverick pro can also have a 30-minute flight time that would be great hey if you enjoyed the video please like and subscribe it helps out more than you realize for more product reviews and deal alerts check out Jim Carrey that net if you want us to port the channel pick up a shirt and I'll catch you next time