Gadgetory

hey what's up guys I'm cabbie HD here and one of the trends at CES is if you walked around long enough you would see a bunch of TVs a bunch of VR headsets and a bunch of drunk and it wasn't always this way you know drones have come a long way in the past couple years since we first started messing with them this DJI and Matic Pro that came out a couple months ago despite a couple of issues that has had pretty much represents the pinnacle of consumer drones and how far they've come and in just a couple of hours of playing with one I can pretty quickly see why so all the innovation in quad copters and tiny cameras and stabilization gimble's propellers and sensors and communication technology all of that stuff comes together to make this badass little thousand dollar toy and it's a lot of fun to play with as it should be so I've always had a sort of basic staple for I guess when new smartphones come out how they can be complete you know good display good battery good camera etc well for a drone basically what I'm looking for is good performance good controls and then of course a good camera so first of all the drone itself on the Maverick Pro it's super small that's kind of what it's known for even compared to other drones from DJI and others so many other drones with cameras acquire like their own carrying case or box because they're too big to travel with otherwise the Mavic pro is small enough that it can fit in pretty much any bag or a backpack or a travel bag or even a big enough jacket pocket if you wanted to thanks to the folding design so it's definitely small and then performance wise it happens to be right up there with the best you never really find yourself limited by the speed or acceleration or stability you can use it up to four miles away and basically the biggest challenge there when keeping it so far away is just keeping an eye on it on the horizon keeping your orientation so you can fly it back how the controller is actually pretty clever it's part drone controls and part video controls and they put a lot of that power on your smartphone so you grab the DJI app for Android or iOS and clip your phone in there and then it gives you recording controls for the camera and then all kinds of information for when the drone is on plus the top part of controller itself is just your typical joystick controller so going up down side side for backward turning all that now fun fact the Matic Pro has a 38 hundred million power battery that you can remove so not really that much bigger than the smartphone you might be watching us on but that battery can power the drone for a 25 minute flight time before it starts wanting to come home and land and that might not seem like that much at first but that's actually way on the upper end of longer drone flight times on a single battery and the battery is recharged pretty quickly too so basically if you want to fly for a while you got to have a couple batteries ready to swap out but all this to me is kind of secondary to the main reason I would get a drone which is having a camera in the air so the Mavic Pro has a built in 4k 30fps camera on a gimbal and this is kind of what DJI does best so they're great with stabilization of larger cameras that translates pretty well here too to the gimbal on the Mavic Pro and the camera itself is so small that it's basically a smartphone sized camera sensor with a super wide lens but that's actually not a bad thing at all because you already know how good smartphone cameras have gotten in the past couple years so having a camera too small is no problem for 99% of uses so you can imagine like a galaxy s7 edge or an iphone 7 camera up there in the sky and this is even a review I just messed around with flying this thing for a couple of hours I didn't mess with focus points or a manual mode I was basically just getting my feet wet with flying I took it out a beginner mode but the video stuff was in Auto but it immediately showed its potential as a video tool I just turned it on and took it in the air and was immediately getting shots that obviously you can't get with any other camera or tool and sure there are other bigger drones I can take you know GoPros and even larger cameras up in the air those exist but obviously those aren't going to fit in the backpack or be able to go with you in a bunch of places so we got the zooming out of Google Maps looking shot which is actually one of my favorites the first couple meters look like you could maybe pull it off with a big in of jib but then obviously as you keep zooming it becomes pretty obvious this camera is not connected to the ground we got the rising up the side of a cliff to reveal a mile score city shot this is Hoboken so for those of you who know how Wendy can be up here on the cliff though Maddock was pretty rock solid looks good then we got the the movie opening cityscape shot over the river of New York City pay no attention to that disco looking water that's just kind of the way it looks here and all of this stuff was pretty easy just from pointing in the right direction and hitting record and just doing a basic move but shout-out to Dom from Mack mixing for helping me shoot this dude's already a boss with his maverick Pro and all linked his stuff below that's why you see multiple drones and like half these shops is because he's out here making movie magic and I'm just kind of messing around on the corner trying to get a top-down shot of a random boat worth it though I love top-down shots but he was able to show some even more advanced shots on how they're possible he did this parallax shot from right above the water you think you know a cameraman would have to do something crazy to get this shot but obviously there's no cameraman it's just a drone the Maverick Pro also has some built-in smart features to make some more difficult things possible just with their contrast based focusing so follow mode lets you have the drone lock itself into place and then basically turn itself and the camera to follow you around so you can have a follow you doing something cool without your hands needing to be on the controller so that could be pretty useful and there's also a couple of mobile follow modes what I'll follow you in the air which you might not think you'd need to use but trying to manually follow myself with the drone controls is much harder than it looks I'm pretty good with controllers so having the drone just lock-on to me and follow me automatically using the software was way too cool it's not perfect but it's obviously way better than I would have gotten trying to do it myself plus I don't have to be holding the controller so yeah drones as a video tool to me is the most exciting part of it really cool stuff imagine being able to use a VR headset and look around controlling the camera when you move your head I mean there's all kinds of neat possibilities that Matic Pro has me thinking about even thinking about stuff like new angles for car videos that I've never been tried before I guess all I can say is stay tuned for that this won't be the last time I mess with airborne cameras this is just one of many drone videos to come obviously thank you very much for watching this one now it's Aussie has an excellent base yes