Gadgetory

today on this super hot day in the middle of nowhere we are reviewing one of the two drones that DJI has released today this is the Mavic to zoom drone and behind me is the ruins of a tent tech standard reduction mill which has been off-limits to the public for the last 15 years it was built in the 1920s about a hundred years ago and the only way to get close to it without trespassing is with one of these with the zoom feature on this drone we can get pretty up close and personal let's get started alright so this is the maverick to zoom and there's a couple major differences between this and the previous Mavic one my favorite is that it actually has sensors on every single side sensors on the side sensors on the front and sensors on the back so no matter what direction you're flying this thing it's going to be pretty hard to wreck not impossible to wreck but much harder than the previous Mavic and the other DJI drones while these ruins might look like a colorful graffiti gangster castle it was actually built around 1920 about a hundred years ago to refine or or is a special type of rock that contains many type of valuable elements like gold copper silver and lead if you can extract those elements from the ore you get instant money it was built into the side of a hill because gravity would help flow the ore from the beginning of the process all the way down to the end after the precious metals were extracted unfortunately this mill only lasted about five years partially because of an antiquated extraction method called the Augustine process one cool thing about the DGI Xoom is that it's camera can actually look up at the sky instead of staying level with the horizon and it doesn't catch any of the propellers while filming it adds a whole new dynamic to the camera one cool trick you can do with a drone that has a two times optical zoom lens is something called perspective distortion when I'm flying toward something or flying away from something I can zoom in or zoom out at the exact same time and make the background and foreground have kind of like a warp effect to it you can add this in post sometimes but you lose image quality where I'm doing it directly out of the drone with the lens itself I'm not losing any of that quality with a crop the Augustine process was an acid Brian leaching process in which the ore was first roasted with salt and then reached in a strong brine solution and finally precipitated with copper to recover the silver each batch required about a hundred and forty hours to run and the recovery rate was pretty high about eighty-five percent of the silver sixty percent of the copper 32 percent of the lead and seven percent of the gold was able to be extracted from the ore the reason the whole place is off limits currently is because of the high levels of lead and arsenic leftover in the mill covering the landscape making it relatively dangerous to humans and trespassers and also because the buildings are basically falling apart you can see the metal reinforced rebar popping out of the concrete in many locations another problem was that it didn't get enough quality or from the nearby mine which shut down the whole building five years after was constructed you can still see evidence of the water tanks or bins the crushing rolls the iron boxes and the leeching tanks it's a pretty cool bit of history so with the zoom drone you might be thinking to yourself well it's probably easier to spy on people which isn't the case at all the drone is still relatively loud while it's one of GG is quieter drones there's no way this is sneaking up on anybody so we have thematic to side by side with the original Mavic we can see some differences right off the bat we have these side sensors in decide and then rear sensors in the back which the original Mavic does not have the original Mavic is only equipped with sensors in the front on both sides one thing I do want to point out is the gimbal construction of the two drones so we can see this one right here there's no extra like ribbon cables dangling around anywhere but with this drone every time that I would clamp in the drone for transportation with this little plastic piece I was always worried about catching that little ribbon cable right there in the side it seems like a much more fragile design on the original Mavic we're on the Mavic - they fixed it I want to point out the LED lights as well it's kinda hard to see them in the Sun but this guy right here is lit up red whereas on the Mavic 2 right here it's a different type of LED lights but they're much brighter the Maverick to remote remains pretty unchanged compared to the Maverick one we have the same directional joysticks and antennas but over here on the right-hand side is a switch where we can switch between tripod mode which keeps the drone stable during time lapses then we have our positioning mode for normal flight and then sport mode which turns off some of the safety features and allows the drone to go super fast the top of the controller has the same gimbal adjustment circle except for this time with the Mavic - it can adjust all the way up allowing the camera to look at the sky while you're flying and then the knob on the right is specific to the zoom drone allowing it to zoom in and zoom out onto and objects which is pretty cool and one of my favorite features of this particular drone and there you have it we got the full experience of exploring it poisonous landscape with the safety of a zoom drone I'm a pretty big fan with all the safety features on the sides back and front it definitely makes it safer to fly which is important because these things are an investment I'll leave the current pricing and a link down in the video description and if you have any questions leave them down in the comments thanks stump for watching and I'll see you around