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about two weeks ago I was a few thousand miles away from the office so I'm currently on vacation in Iceland and I just had to do a little bit of work a day before I left on my trip I was able to get my hands on the new DJI Mavic 2 unit I had with me was the Maverick 2 pro but will cover both the pro and the zoom in this video I attempted to film this in Iceland but the audio yeah hidden wasn't great but now we're doing this in the studio which works out better since I had more time to test out all the new and/or upgraded features - now with over 8 hours of flight time with 2 Mavic twos I'm ready to tell you why these drones are changing aerial photography the pneumatic tube Pro and zoom are slightly bigger than the old Matic pro Platinum you really won't notice the difference at first but what you will notice that it is heavier than what you'd expect otherwise you're looking at the same foldable design will give a dramatic which makes it a good portable drone it also has the same props than in the Mac Pro platinum meaning this drone is relatively quiet one the difference between these two is a sensor size and B the zoom has well zoom real optical zoom so lets you get twice as close without losing quality lastly the gimbal and both seems to be really robust so you might get away to crashing this thing that's something I really don't have an interest in testing but there are plenty of other youtubers who love destroying gadgets for your pleasure filming with the pro has been great from connectivity various modes and most importantly superb image quality the one in CMOS sensor were housed about optics doesn't make a big difference when it comes to video and photo quality ability to shoot 10 bit 4k video and dialog truly helps to maximize when you get out of it to zoom on the other hand has a smaller sensor and it doesn't have a true flat profile it does set a sin alike which is what we signed a Mac here but it just doesn't retain the same amount of data you should be aware that however the only way to shoot dialog on the pro is if you're shooting in h.265 which in theory is a better conversion system but in practice isn't widely about to be it reviewing footage or a premiere am i relatively fast might be pro has been a real struggle and i had to create proxies for all of my files the maverick 2 pro is the first DJI drone with HDR and it does make some difference in exposure for certain scenes but truthfully the log looks just better to me also quick note I tend to leave my white balance to auto just to see what the camera chooses and to me it seems to be a bit on the warmer side although the colors do look very accurate second out I didn't have neutral density filters for this drone so some shots didn't come out as good as they could have CJ says the end these are coming for both units but it'd be a lot easier if those were just built in from the start alright let's taste like dealloc footage a bit more when you're shooting in very low ISO 100 or 200 you'll get really clean footage noticeable noise even when you zoomed in you're still getting very good results when bumping up the ISO obviously more noise introduced especially in the shadows it's more noise than you'd expect from this drone but it's still not as bad as where you get from the smaller sensor that's on the Maverick to zoom nevertheless footage again on the matte - Pro is the best you can get from a drone of this size one more quick note unlike the Phantom 4 Pro v2 which can shoot 4k at 60 frames per second the Maverick 2 pro can shoot 4k up to 30 not a deal-breaker for me since I tend to shoot at 24 frames and both can shoot slow my at 120 frames at 1080p and I only mentioned this I can have an excuse to put this clip in the video another new mode you get is hyperlapse I do love how it's implemented in the South where you choose your interval and the total run time of the clip Mavic dust arrests videos out of stitch on your phone and it's ready to use or close to it unfortunately the hyperlapse footage isn't stabilized it's too shaken basically unusable on a few occasions it even randomly change my exposure setting either way there's an option to save photos individually some more often or not I'll just process it myself in after-effects and lastly there's a dolly zoom which you obviously get in the zoo model it lets you make cool shots like this but only 1080p not 4k sorry the pros new sensor can shoot 20 megapixel photos and is someone who shoots photos with this drone more often than video it's a joy to use and they're a big step up from what we had before not only by pixel size but color just means very accurate we've seen real-life this isn't the case with the zoom photos look great even though there are 12 megapixels but once they start editing the RAW files the colors just they don't look asked true on both drawings you'll find all the same shooting ones you had before panel vertical pan out 360 spherical photos and on the zoom you get this mode called super resolution takes nine separate photos which then stitches together into one massive 48 megapixel image in the differences or evident the last thing when it comes to photos is the new hyper light mode which supposedly helps with noise reduction in lower light situations here are three photos shot in JPEG hyper light and HDR to me there's a slight improvement all of the three examples tried at 600 eyes so look pretty noisy if anything hyper light mode added a bit of chromatic aberration although that is an easy when it comes to photos deciding between these two can be tough we may seem like the pros better on paper because I was bigger sensor but the zoom is a number of features that you just don't get with the pro the zoom and super resolution at the end of the day it might come down to price all right that was a lot but we still have a few things left to cover i'll just gonna go through this real quickly first one i just think - absolutely loved it can comfortably say that this is the first time i haven't had a single interference with signal even when I may be fluid further that I was allowed no wishes there whatsoever it even gives me 1080p previews and caching right on the phone so I can edit there but I really don't see myself ever doing that second one battery life advertised 31 minutes of flight seems possible under perfect conditions but most I got out of it comfortably was 24 minutes just because I didn't want to find myself in a situation where I lose battery mid-flight weird which actually happened once different drone I'll tell you the story in the iCard third one remote control same ole design you find original maverick and medicare plus the screen although there's a switch on the side which lets you toggle between sport program and crepin mode and i'm happy to report the DJ's greatest invention ever is back removable joysticks gosh I love those things are we down here you want to spend your sensors and tracking right right right okay first sensors there are two new sensors on this drone the side sensors which help you when you're tracking a subject those are only active and tripod mode and when you're using active track there's also pair of LED lights at the bottom of the dome which help with the bottom sensors and landing and low-light conditions whatever the Mavic twos now also have 3d mapping feature that helps it predicting where a person or a car would go in the case they're obstructed by an overhead object the drone was good at follow me around and avoiding objects but it wasn't super fluid it was a little bit jerky when I went behind a pillar I'm excited to see how this gets improved over time here's the bottom line a lot of the updates that we got with the pneumatics or updates you'd expect better obstacle avoidance more sensors better connectivity quieter operation and yeah I get longer battery life but it really stands out is how these two new drones are elevating aerial photography and videography the pro gives you notice really better video quality that you can ever get with a drone of this size well the zoom gives a new tools to completely change how your drone photography looks these new drones make you think differently about the creative possibilities you can get out of your drone in addition to that these drones just work great so you don't have to worry about connectivity stability crashing or any other headaches that you used to have to deal with when flying a drone instead you can just focus on getting the shot all right I probably shoot story earlier so here we go real fast I was flying my Medicare which is white by the way it was winter ran out of battery fell into the forest I went looking for it in the snow which was up to my knees it took two hours to find but apparently Hill says like find my drone features a pink sound it didn't really help that much but I found it