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look I know jobs are expensive but some people just really want one but it is hard to justify dropping several hundred dollars on one unless you're a professional last year every time I would go to the store I would just stare at the drones and try to convince myself that today was the day I would get my own drum but if today's the day you've decided to finally pull the trigger on getting your old room then you might be wondering should you just get the DJI spark or pay double and get the brand-new DJI Mavic air now remember this isn't a full review on either of these drones so I'm just trying to point out the most important differences between them so I can help you with your purchase decision if you want to learn more about these drones watch their full reviews the DJI spark in the data I'm a Vaquero are the two most affordable drones DJI currently has on sale not including the Telo cuz that's a toy the base Deeja automatic error is currently retailing for seven hundred ninety nine dollars and the base DJI spark is currently retailing for $399 $100 discount from its original price of $499 if you want to pick either of these drones up I'll have links in the description below and if you use the links it really helps out the channel check them out because these are icons sometimes go on sale so you might get lucky first let's talk about what you get with these drones when you get the base package both drones come with one battery charging cables two extra sets of propellers and a carrying case neither one come with an SD card so you have to bring your own only pneumatic error comes included with a controller in the base package whereas with the spark you have to pay extra for controller you can either get the fly more combo pack for $599 and get everything you do with the base DJI spark package plus an extra battery and extra accessories and the controller or you can get the controller on its own for $119 and personally I don't think it's worth getting two controller through the spark because of the sparks short flight time of 16 minutes a max range of 2,000 meters with the controller under ideal conditions and overall the Sparks camera and fly performance isn't worth paying upwards of $500 I feel that if you get the spark you're better off just flying in with your phone it's worth just fine for me even though the spark is smaller than the air in its folded State the Navigator is much easier to carry around than the spark both drones are also come with hard shell carrying case that protect them from getting crushed in a bag or if you accidentally drop them but again Medicare's case is smaller and more premium than the sports case now let's talk about the hardware the spark has a 3d sensing system on the front that helps to detect obstacles that are directly in front of it and sensors on its belly that help it detect obstacles beneath it this camera is housed in a two axis gimbal that can compensate for pitch and roll and in order to get smooth video on the spark when turning DJI uses digital image stabilization the slightly bigger Mavic air houses its camera in a 3 axis gimbal that can compensate for pitch roll and yaw and the video is a little smoother especially when turning the Mavic arrow also has sensors on the front and on his belly that help it detect obstacles in front and underneath it but it also has sensors on the rear so we can detect obstacles behind it when flying backwards something the spark can't do although these systems are great and they have prevented crashes on both the air and the spark it is important to keep in mind that you still run the risk of crashing if you fly from side to side on either of these drums something I regularly do to get panic shots the Mavic arrow also has a new feature called advanced pilot assistance systems or AAPIs for short and when this features turned on the Medicare will automatically avoid obstacles all you have to do is tell it's a foot forward and it also works from flying backwards granted the medic year will drastically slow down with it's automatically avoiding these obstacles but it's still impressive nonetheless but once it detects there is nothing in front of it again it'll speed back up this feature makes flying in cramped environments much less stressful now let's talk about the flying dynamics on these drones sessom advocare is bigger than the spark and has larger propellers it's much more stable to fly especially in windy conditions now don't get me wrong the spark does a really good job of compensating for random gusts of winds but if you're by a river or at the beach or any other area with high winds it is very hard to keep the spark stable and get decent shots if you're shooting a specific subject the larger size of the Medicare and the included controller means you able to fly the air much faster and much more aggressively than the spark when flying the spark with your phone it has a max ascent speed and Max descent speed of 3 meters per second and when flying in the air with the controller it has a max ascend speed of 4 meters per second and a maximum descent speed of 3 meters per second and this matters because it's how fast these drones can gain or lose altitude when controlled with your phone to spark has a max linear speed of 30 miles per hour or five point eight meters per second whereas the air has a max linear speed of 20 miles per hour where nine meters per second when using the controller but the controller also allows you to unlock sport mode on the air way you'll be able to reach a top speed of 42 miles per hour but remember the sensors are turned off while in sport mode so you're on your own and if you get the controller on the spark then you'll be able to get a top speed of 31 miles per hour in sport mode and keep in mind if you decide to find the magic air with just your phone control input or knock down a bit when flying the spark with your phone you get a max range of about a 100 meters but keep in mind this is under ideal conditions with direct line-of-sight and with minimal signal interference of other Wi-Fi signals or tall metal structures if you were to fly the Maverick air with just your phone you'll get a max range of about 80 meters under ideal conditions ironic I know I expected the air to get slightly longer range over the sport but if you fly the Mavic you're with the controller then you get a range of up to 4000 meters but again this is under ideal conditions in highly populated areas I haven't come close to this range another thing that requires ideal conditions for peak performance is battery life the Mavic air has an advertised flight time of 21 minutes and the spark has an advertised flight time of 16 minutes what factors like cold weather wind speed and just how aggressively you fly a drone will play into your flight time and if you fly in sport mode that new battery will drain even faster in the spring and summer my spark routinely achieved a flight time of 16 minutes and even sometimes 18 minutes but in the NYC winter where temperatures are below 30 I usually get a flight time of about 13 minutes and like I said in my initial review my Mady Cara hasn't hit that 21 minute flight time I've been averaging about 18 minutes but remember is what the temperature anywhere between 20 and 40 degrees I hope to hit that 21 minute mark in the spring and summer and charging these batteries is another factor to consider in order to fully charge the battery under spark it's going to take about 80 minutes if you're doing it through the micro USB cable and it's going to take about 50 minutes to fully charge the battery under Mavic era with the included charger okay let's get into the cameras both the Medicare and spark have the same 12 megapixel sensors but their lenses and apertures are a little different the spark has a 2.6 aperture and a field of view of 80 1.9 degrees and the air has a 2.8 aperture any field of view of 85 degrees this means you'll be able to capture more of a subject with the air than the spark when you're looking at the same thing away at the same distance from the same subject what the spark you can only shoot video in 1080p 30 frames per second which is just fine for social media even though the spark has the same sensor as thematic error it can't shoot 4k cuz DJI uses digital image stabilization to compensate for not having a 3-axis gimbal on the spark whereas on the Mavic arrow you can shoot in 4k 30 frames per second 1080p 60 frames per second 1080p 30 frames per second and even capture slow-motion video in 1080p 120 frames per second and these are just a few of the shooting modes the magic air has to offer these are the ones that just matter the most to me now the reason you want to shoot in 4k is because you will be able to capture more detail and if you wanted to you could zoom in on subjects in post without losing too much detail and personally I like shooting in 1080p 60 frames per second because it means much smoother video and if I need it to I can slow down the video a bit and still have it be pretty smooth both of these drones obviously also take pictures and they both have some very useful panorama modes but only the Mavic era can take HDR photos and when you take a panorama two drones will hover in place rotate and take the necessary pictures and the DJI app will stitch them together on your phone both of these drones do a great job of staying stable under windy conditions and the end results are stunning on both Jones but the Medicare is able to take the necessary pictures for these panoramas in a fraction of the time it takes to spark and speed matters here because you want to be quick to capture a moment or if your drone is hovering for too long it's obviously going to drain your precious battery life both of these drones are also have some pretty cool quick sup modes where they will automatically track a subject and they'll automatically fire themselves and capture some epic video and they both work very well no problems there and both of these drones will also have gesture controls really they will track you and you can position them just by waving your hands and these desert controls works very well on the Medicare there are a few hiccups here and there but the overall experience is great but the gesture controls on the spark are very hit-or-miss there are times where it will work okay and there are just some other times where it won't work at all and if you're in an environment with the slightest wind then you run the risk of crashing the spark with palm launching it happens to me all the time with all this being said the DJI spark is still a great little entry-level drone especially at $399 it's very capable but like I said in past videos it's an epic selfie machine it's great to have when you're with friends or if you want to record yourself doing something or if you're a parent it's a really easy way to capture some stunning videos of your little one and the spark does have some major conveniences over the Mavic air first off it's built like a tank my spark has survived some major crashes that even I'm surprised it survived drones are only fun after you gotten over the fact that you basically have 400 or $800 just zipping around in the air that just might not come back the spark also charges with the phone charger and a microUSB cable so if you take the spark to a friend's house you can fly it and just ask your friends for a phone charger and come back an hour and a half later and do it all over again with the Medicare you have to carry around the charging cable if you don't have extra batteries but most importantly the DJI spark looks like a toy which is clearly not while I was out getting b-roll with the Medicare and spark everyone would freak out because of the Medicare oh is that whose drone always it gonna crash into me oh you can't fly that drone here but with the spark since it's so small people don't really care they just go oh cool toy if you want to capture video of yourself or if you just want to get comfortable with flying a drone and the spark is great but if you're a content creator or you just want a more capable drone then the DJI Medicare is more your speed flight autonomy 2.0 is a huge game-changer which makes flying in cramped environments much less stressful all of this capability cramped into such a small package is what makes the Medicare so amazing if you're ok with the 21 minute flight time and a max video recording of 4k 30 frames per second then I would get the air over the current generation Matic pro the Medicare is clearly giving the supreme you of the second generation Matic pro but I think will be launched in the next eight to ten months I think will be smaller than the current gen Matic pro have all the sensors built in cinematic air plus sensors off to the side and I would really like the Matic pro 2 to have a 30-minute flight time and be able to shoot in 4k 30 frames per second and 1080p at 240 frames per second those are the specs I would need the second generation Matic pro is to have so I would pay a premium over the mapa care 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 to support the channel pick up a shirt and I'll catch you next time