- Hey guys, my name is Matt Johnson and today is an exciting day. Because today I'm gonna be reviewing this powerful little fella. The DJI Mavic 2 Pro drone. And this review is going to be answering one of three questions. And I am certain that if
you're watching this review, you want at least one of these
three questions answered. First question, if you own an
older or cheaper DJI drone, such as a Spark or a
Mavic Pro or a Mavic Air, is it time to upgrade to a Mavic 2 Pro? Second question, if you have
never purchased a drone before and you are considering buying
a good all around drone, is the DJI Mavic 2 Pro
the right choice for you? And third question, if you
already own a Phantom 4 Pro or an Inspire or Inspire 2
or some bigger DJI drone, is it worth it to pick up
the Mavic 2 Pro as well? I'm going to spoil the answers
to these question right now and tell you that the answers
are yes, yes and it depends. Yes, if you are coming
from a Spark or a Mavic Pro or even probably a Mavic Air, it is time to upgrade to the Mavic 2 Pro. If you have never
purchased a drone before, it is time to buy a Mavic 2 Pro. And if you already own a
Phantom 4 Pro or an Inspire 2, it really is going to
depend on your situation, whether you should buy this drone. Now, if you want to know my reasoning for why I have given you these answers, you're going to have to
watch the rest of the review. Because in it, I'm
gonna be explaining why. And also, just so you know,
this is not a sponsored video, I'm not being paid by DJI or
anybody else for that matter. I bought this drone with my own money because I honestly kind
of have a drone addiction that I have not sought
medical treatment for. Even though I own like four drones now and I've been building up my drone fleet, I'm sure you could
understand and empathize, just keep buying drones,
it's fine, it's great. Okay, on to the review. Let's start off by talking
about the size of this drone. Mavic, more like Mav Thicc, am I right? This thing has gotten a
little heftier than before. But that said, it is still quite small, especially whenever you compare
it to a Phantom or Inspire and I believe that I
am still capable here, of hiding it behind my beard. Yes, what drone? There's no drone here, it's just me. Okay, I just had this idea, actually. I could have Rachel braid
my beard in a way that it could operate as a pouch to
transport around my Mavic 2. It gives me excuse to
never have to shave either and eventually, I can carry
larger and larger drones as the beard grows.
(sighs) This is patentable, I'm
gonna run with that. Next we have build quality and you could really tell
that this is a second or, really third generation of the Mavic, if you consider the Mavic Air. The original Mavic Pro was well built, but it had some flimsy parts. Like the gimbal being
attached with rubber bands and an exposed ribbon cable, which could make the camera
easily break if you crashed. The Mavic 2 Pro, on the other hand, has a much more sturdily built gimbal and overall, it feels very well built. Look at the tolerances
here for how perfectly the arms slide up against
the sides of the drone. The Mavic 2 Pro has much
more precise engineering than the original Mavic and many of DJI's earlier drones as well. If you've watched my review
of the original Mavic Pro, which I'll link to up in the corner and down in the description, you'll know that I had
major quality control issues with the original Mavic Pro. I had to return my first Mavic because half of the lens was blurry. And I had to return my second Mavic because it had a shaky gimbal. As I said though, the Mavic 2 Pro is a third generation drone. So I have not experienced or really heard of many other people having
nearly as many issues with the Mavic 2 that they did
with the original Mavic Pro. You'll also notice that
there's some new cameras and sensors on the sides, back and top. That's because DJI has added omnidirectional obstacle detection, so you don't hit stuff nearly as easily. This is a great improvement
over the Mavic Pro's only forward and downward facing
obstacle avoidance sensors. The gimbal cover has also been redesigned and the way it works now
completely settles the debate of whether you should fly with the gimbal cover
on your drone or not. I've always said not to, but surprisingly, there were conflicting opinions out there with the original Mavic Pro. Thankfully, the way that
the gimbal cover works on the Mavic 2 Pro, is that
it simultaneously holds the gimbal in place as
well as protecting it. You literally cannot fly the drone with the gimbal cover in place. This is a better design, in my opinion, but it's still kind of janky. You may also see that these motors look a bit bigger than the Mavic Pro. The Mavic 2 Pro has more power
than DJI's earlier drones and you can really feel it when flying because it feels more
responsive and stable, even when it's windy. With the Mavic Pro, I would usually cruise it
around 20 miles per hour, so with the Mavic 2 Pro, I find myself going up to
around 30 miles per hour. This puts the Mavic 2
Pro in a unique position, because while it can still fly at roughly the same
speed as a Phantom 4 Pro, it still has the feel and
handling of a much smaller drone, which I really like. To put it all in perspective, the smallest drone that
DJI makes is the Spark. I'm not going to count the Tello drone. And while it is slow, it is still very fun to fly
because it's so maneuverable. On the other end of the spectrum, you have the Inspire 2 drone, which is really kind of like a lawnmower fused with a helicopter. So while it is incredibly fast, it is also not nearly as much fun for me to fly because it's just so big. The Mavic 2 Pro hits the sweet spot between maneuverability and speed. And of all the drones
that I've ever flown, this one has easily been
the most fun to fly. Overall, I think the build
quality of the Mavic 2 Pro is the best that we have
seen for DJI so far. And what's cool is that
you can see where DJI has taken what they've
learned from the Mavic Air and they've applied it to the Pro. With the original Mavic Pro remote, I had to buy these
little thumb stick guards to put over the thumb sticks to make sure that they didn't break while
I was transporting the drone. But then the Mavic Air came out and DJI made the thumb sticks detectable, which was a huge
improvement for portability. I think it's great that
they added this feature from the Mavic Air to the Mavic 2 Pro. And I honestly wish the Phantom 4 Pro had a remote more like this one, I'd feel better making precise movements with the size of this remote, over the bulkier Phantom 4 remote. Another feature they
added from the Mavic Air is eight gigabytes of built in storage. This is wonderful if
your memory card is full or if you forget to put a
memory card in your drone. Last year I was filming
a wedding in November in the mountains of Colorado and I brought along my Phantom 4 Pro. It was windy and freezing and I had the couple posed on a cliff while I was getting ready
to fly my drone over them. I was about to take
off and then I realized that I'd forgotten to put my
memory card back in the drone. The Phantom 4 Pro does
not have internal storage, but thankfully, I was able
to find another memory card that was buried in my bag and
I was able to get the shot. As far as I'm concerned, all
drones need internal storage and I really wish that DJI
would have put more than just eight gigabytes of
storage into the Mavic 2 Pro. DJI did not stop at just adding features from the Mavic Air to this drone, they also took one of my favorite features from the Phantom 4 Pro. Namely, the remote can now charge my phone in the event that it's low on battery. This was not possible with
the original Mavic Pro. Last year, I took my Mavic
Pro on a trip to Iceland and my old iPhone 6 Plus that I used as a monitor with my Mavic,
had the iPhone battery issue that I'm sure many of you have experienced where it would die very quickly. I would start flying with
my phone battery at 80% and within 10 minutes of flying my drone, it would be down at 15%. I realized it's more of an
issue with Apple, than with DJI, but whenever I would fly my Phantom 4 Pro, I never had to worry about
my phone battery dying and I'm so glad that they've added this feature to the Mavic 2 Pro. Speaking of batteries, the Mavic 2 Pro's batteries
are noticeably larger than the original Mavic's batteries. And DJI claims that
you'll get approximately four more minutes of
flight time with them. In my experience, as someone who gets ready to land when my battery is around 30%, the battery life is quite
comparable to the original Mavic and the Phantom 4 Pro and noticeably better than the Mavic Air. Things aren't all perfect with the Mavic 2 Pro's
build quality though, if I had to nitpick, I would
say that the SD card slot is very difficult to get the SD card out, unless you have decently long fingernails. Because it is buried in there and I wish that it
wasn't so hard to get to because you're gonna be taking
the SD card out of this drone a lot whenever you need to copy footage. So as you can see, DJI has taken many of the best
features from the Mavic Air and the Phantom 4 Pro and
they've put them into this drone. But that said, the
Mavic 2 Pro still shares a lot in common with the original Mavic. With that, let's talk about
shooting modes with this drone. Because the Mavic 2 Pro shares a lot of the same shooting modes
as the original Mavic. Namely, cinematic mode and tripod mode. And I'm going to let Matt from
the original Mavic Pro review tell you about those two. Tripod mode will slow
down all of your movement of the drone to just
creepy, crawly speeds. But the benefit of that is that if you're flying
in an enclosed space or under some trees or in a forest or you're worried about hitting something, it will move very slowly, enable you to get some beautiful
shots at a very slow speed. The second mode that
I use, cinematic mode, does not slow down the drone
as much as tripod mode, it's not gonna be creeping around. What it will do is that it slows down the rotation of the drone and it provides a smoother ramp for whenever you are
accelerating the drone and slowing the drone. So the benefit of that is that, say, that you're following the wedding couple as they're walking through a field and you're like, there's
a beautiful drone shot and then they stop suddenly. If you stop the drone suddenly, it's gonna go (imitating duck quacking) and then it'll just kinda stop and the image doesn't look as pretty. But with cinematic mode, you'd stop and you let go of the sticks and instead of it just going
(imitating duck quaking) it will gently come to a stop. The benefit of that is that your image now has just a beautiful
cinematic slow down without you needing to do anything. The con of that can be if
you are flying in that mode and you're like, a tree! And then you're like franticly
trying to take it back and your drone will be like, gently float into the tree
and then you'll be like no! What a good review, good job Matt. Those two shooting modes
are still my favorite shooting modes for the
Mavic 2 Pro as well. DJI has even moved tripod
mode from an option in the app to a dedicated switch on
the side of the controller. Switch it to T and you'll
be flying in tripod mode. DJI has also created a tracking
feature called ActiveTrack 2 and from the testing footage I've seen, it looks like the Mavic 2 Pro is really good at tracking things. I haven't tested this yet though, there's actually a lot
of the automated features I haven't tried out yet because
I'm usually manually flying. On to the next major topic
about this drone, image quality. And that means that we
need to talk about a lot of the buzzwords associated
with the Mavic 2 Pro. Buzzwords like 10-bit, HDR video, one inch sensor or taco delivery drone. Okay, I made up the last one but honestly, if they could make a
drone that delivers tacos, get on that Taco Bell. I'm waiting on my taco drone delivery, that's gonna be so great. Before we get into all
the image quality details for the Mavic 2 Pro, come back in time with me to early 2017, whenever I first purchased
my Phantom 4 Pro. The first time I started
shooting with the Phantom 4 Pro, I was stunned by the image quality. The video quality that I was getting from the one inch sensor
with its 100 megabits codec was a significant step up in quality over the Mavic Pro's tiny
cell phone sized sensor. The jump in video quality
from the Phantom 4 Pro was so good that as the year continued, I started not using my
Mavic and begin using the Phantom 4 Pro way more
often, even when traveling. I opted to take the Phantom
4 Pro and flying to Colorado and even to Iceland and Alaska because I wanted better quality footage. The Mavic really became more
of a backup drone for me that I would use when I
wanted to fly stealthily. And yes, that means
instead of carrying around my little Mavic man bag purse, I was instead carting around my huge case for my Phantom 4 Pro and
all of its accessories. Fast forward to early 2018 and there were suddenly all
these rumors flying around that DJI was going to be
releasing a new drone. And bam, just like that,
the Mavic Air was released. And while it was a very impressive drone and definitely smaller than the Mavic Pro, it still compromised on enough features that made me not want to buy it. Specifically while DJI added a higher 100 megabits
per second video codec, which helped with the video quality, the Mavic Air kept the Mavic
Pro's small sensor size. It also used WiFi for video transmission, which doesn't work well in cities that have a lot of interference. And it surprisingly didn't include the D-LOG picture profile,
which if you'll watch my video about my favorite settings
for the Mavic Pro, you'll know that I love shooting in D-LOG. So I was stuck with lugging
around my Phantom 4 Pro for the image quality and
occasionally using my Mavic Pro. I ideally wanted a drone that
combined the video quality and the Phantom 4 Pro with
the size of the Mavic Pro. Enter the Mavic 2 Pro. When I first powered up the
Mavic 2 Pro, I was so impressed. DJI did it, this drone is
capable of shooting video that is the same quality
as the Phantom 4 Pro but in a much smaller package. For image quality, let's first talk about what DJI has taken from the Phantom 4 Pro and put into the Mavic 2 Pro. First, you have a one inch camera sensor, which means much improved video quality and much better low-light performance. You are going to see a
massive jump in video quality coming from the first
Mavic Pro, the Spark, older Phantoms, basically any drone that has a smaller image sensor than this. I will also say that if
you have a Mavic Air, it is not gonna be as big
of a jump in image quality as it will be from other drones. Because, while the Mavic
Air has a smaller sensor, it actually has a 100
megabits per second bitrate, which puts it somewhere
between the older DJI drones and the Mavic 2 Pro. We'll talk more about bitrate
here in a minute, don't worry. Other than the one inch sensor, the second thing the Mavic 2 Pro takes from the Phantom 4 Pro
is an adjustable lens aperture. With the original Mavic Pro, you are limited to an
f/2.2 fixed aperture. But now, much like any DSLR
or a mirrorless camera, you can now open or close the aperture of the Mavic 2 Pro's lens. From f/2.8 to f/11 to let
in more or less light, which is very helpful on a sunny day. What is not helpful about the Mavic 2 Pro's adjustable aperture is that the aperture that you choose will directly affect your video quality. And if you choose the wrong aperture, your video may end up looking blurry. In short, you should try to
keep your f-stop between f/2.8 and f/4 when filming with the Mavic 2 Pro. Anything lower and you're going to start to see your video quality drop, with your image looking
much softer at f/11. I also want to give a huge
shout out to Matt Harris with The Film Poets, he made a video that brought this issue to my attention, so I'll make sure to link to that video and his channel down in the description. So what do you do if you're shooting with your Mavic 2 Pro on
a bright and sunny day and you don't wanna set
your aperture below f/4 because you want your image to be sharp, but you also don't want your
footage to be overexposed? Do you turn up your shutter speed? Well, no, I wouldn't recommend
turning up your shutter speed because that's gonna make any
motion in your video look bad. I recently made a super short video explaining shutter speed
in less than four minutes, so if you wanna watch that, I'll link it up in the corner
and down in the description. Instead of increasing your shutter speed, I would recommend investing
in some ND filters for your Mavic 2 Pro. I recommend purchasing a set
of PolarPro's ND filters. I've been using them since way back when I flew my Phantom 2
drone with a GoPro on it and they've always been great quality. I have a set of these
filters for the Mavic 2 Pro that goes between ND4 and ND16 and I've found that ND16 works very well for sunny days here in Texas. I'll link to the exact ND filters that I recommend down in
the video description. The next image quality
feature that the Mavic 2 Pro takes from the Phantom 4 Pro is that it is capable of
shooting in the H.265 codec. This is one of the buzzwords
that you're gonna see in the marketing materials for this drone. To sum up H.265 as simple as possible, it basically means that your drone can compress your video
footage so it shoots double the image quality
in half the file size. Practically, what this means is that when the Mavic 2 and the
Phantom 4 Pro are recording using the H.265 codec,
the image looks sharper, the colors look better
and DJI also fixed one of many filmmakers major
complaints about the original Mavic and their earlier drones that
shoot in the H.264 codec. Namely, when earlier DJI
drones were shooting in H.264, you could see flickering in the shadows on underexposed footage. Look at the sand in my footage
shot on the original Mavic from this beach in Iceland and see how it appears to
bounce every eight frames. This is a known issue with DJI drones and how they're H.264
codec compressed footage. With the Phantom 4 Pro and the Mavic 2 Pro shooting in H.265, I have
not seen this flickering in the shadows when I'm shooting at 24 or 30 frames per second. So I believe the H.265
codec has fixed this issue. Side note though, I have
still seen flickering in the shadows of 60
frames per second footage shot with the Phantom 4 Pro
and I believe this is due to the video bitrate not being
high enough for that frame rate. Regardless, H.265 definitely
looks better than H.264. Sounds great, right? Who doesn't want better image quality? Well, it's going to come at a cost. Namely, in terms of your
computer's processing speed, H.265 video is not quick to edit. So while I do recommend shooting in H.265 for the best image
quality, I also recommend creating proxy files
whenever you are editing, which is gonna make editing
those H.265 video files like cutting through butter. Of course, I've created a video tutorial for creating proxy
files in Adobe Premiere, which I will link to up in the corner and down in the description
if you wanna watch it. We'll talk more about
video quality in a minute. But first, we need to
address one of the features that the Mavic 2 Pro did not
take from the Phantom 4 Pro. Namely, the Mavic 2 Pro cannot shoot in 4K at 60 frames per second
like the Phantom 4 Pro can. I really wish that it
could but the Mavic 2 Pro is limited to 2.7K at 60
frames per second, not 4K. To be honest though, I don't really miss 4K
at 60 frames per second. The majority of my drone shots
are of landscapes, buildings, wedding venues and I don't
really need those shots to be in 60 frames per second,
that would be too slow. Instead, I found that 30
frames per second slowed down to 24 frames per second looks great and that's mostly what I've shot at, even on my Phantom 4 Pro. So if you were someone that
already owns a Phantom 4 Pro and you find yourself
shooting in 4K 60 often, or if you don't own a drone yet
and you shoot a lot of 4K 60 with a Panasonic GH5 or another camera that's capable of doing
that, then I would probably go with a Phantom 4 Pro
instead of the Mavic 2 Pro. As I said at the start of this review, whether or not you buy a Mavic 2 Pro really depends on how
you want to use a drone. Okay, back to talking about
the H.265 video codec. There is one other reason
that you should be shooting in H.265 with the Mavic
2 Pro and that is because if you shoot in H.265, you can
also record in 10-bit color. What is 10-bit color and why
is it such a big deal, Matt? Well, we're actually gonna
go back in time again to a review that I made
of the Panasonic GH5. A camera that is capable
of recording 10-bit color and in that review, I explained what the heck 10-bit color is. So what is 10-bit color? I'm gonna try to summarize 10-bit color as simply as possible. Cameras record colors
and the way that most digital cameras record color is by using red, green and blue. Because if you have the three primary red, green and blue colors, you
can make any other color by mixing these colors together. With most cameras such as the Sony A 7S II or all other mirrorless or DSLR cameras on the planet right now
record video in 8-bit color. What is 8-bit color? And what makes it different
than 10-bit color? 8-bit color means that your camera is capable of recording 256
different shades of red, 256 different shades of green and 256 different shades of blue. And then it's able to
mix all of those together into millions of different
colors, sounds great, right? Well, the GH5, because it records in 10-bit color is capable of recording 1,024
different shades of red, 1,024 different shades of green and 1,024 different shades of blue. So substantially more color information, we're talking billions of
colors, that is awesome. Because that means that
this camera is recording more color information than this camera. How does that benefit us though? Namely, it benefits you in color grading. Because if you've ever
color graded something and you had the wrong white balance or you were trying to do a heavy grade where you're like, oh, I
want this thing to look dark and moody and you're pushing the color and then things are starting to get blocky and then it's starting to fall apart. And you're like, no, I
wish this looked better! The reason, oftentimes, is
because your camera is recording in 8-bit and you have
pushed the camera codec and the color information
to its absolute limit. And the camera's saying, I don't have any more shades of color, I got 256, you're out, I'm sorry! There you go, up until
now, all DJI drones, except for the Inspire 1 and
the Inspire 2 recording in RAW, were recording video at 8-bit. Now, the Mavic 2 Pro is out
and it records in 10-bit. 10-bit sounds great, Matt, more colors, this is awesome, right? Well, hold on a second, not all 10-bit videos are created equal. While the Mavic 2 Pro
does record in 10-bit, it only records with a 100 megabits per second video bitrate. The Phantom 4 Pro on the
other hand, records in 8-bit but still with a 100
megabits per second bitrate. The bit rates between these
two drones are the same. What does this mean, Matt? It means that in my
Testing and Pixel Peeping and Editing footage, I
haven't seen a massive quality difference between the Mavic
2 Pro and the Phantom 4 Pro, even when I'm adding
more extreme color grades and really pushing my colors. All that said about
10-bit versus 8-bit video, I do think that the colors
look a little better on the Mavic 2 Pro over the Phantom 4 Pro and I've found the footage
a little bit easier to grade with the Mavic 2 Pro. I'm not seeing a huge difference though, so if you already own a Phantom 4 Pro and you're thinking about
buying a Mavic 2 Pro because you want 10-bit video and you're expecting the image
quality to be crazy better, I'm not seeing a massive
difference there, so I probably wouldn't do that.
(burps) Moving on, let's talk about one of the sexiest topics, picture profiles. As I just said, you're going to want to shoot in 10-bit with a Mavic 2 Pro. And currently, there are
only two picture profiles that support 10-bit, D-LOG and HLG. We'll cover HLG first and fast by saying, HLG stands for Hybrid Log Gamma. And I would only shoot in HLG if you are planning on editing your video using an HDR Workflow, so you can play it on
an HDR TV or monitor. Spoiler alert, while HDR
is growing in popularity, it isn't quite there yet, so, you will most likely not
be needing to shoot in HLG. That leaves us with D-LOG. D-LOG is DJI's flat picture profile that maximizes the dynamic
range of your footage and gives you the most flexibility when it comes to color grading. I made a video a while ago about how to color grade D-LOG footage, shot with a Mavic Pro and that video applies to
the Mavic 2 Pro as well. I'll link to it up in the corner and down in the description
if you wanna check it out. When it comes to shooting D-LOG, the Mavic 2 Pro does have one nice benefit over the Phantom 4 Pro. On the Phantom 4 Pro, shooting in D-LOG locks
your ISO to ISO 500, you can't change it. So to adjust your brightness, you have to use the drone's lens aperture and a good set of ND filters. The Mavic 2 Pro on the other hand, does not lock your ISO to
500 when shooting D-LOG. You can set your ISO as low as 100 or as high as you need to. Why did DJI lock the
ISO of the Phantom 4 Pro when shooting in D-LOG, but not lock the ISO of the Mavic 2 Pro? I'm really not sure why. I remember reading something online about it maximizing the image quality by locking it to ISO 500, but it always made shooting in D-LOG with the Phantom 4 Pro more of a hassle. We have one last thing to talk about in regards to image quality
with the Mavic 2 Pro. Instead of making things
easy for us by giving us one image quality setting
when recording in 4K, DJI has given us two. If you go into your
video resolution settings in the DJI GO app, you'll
see you have the option of recording 4K in either
HQ or Full FOV mode. DJI claims HQ mode is going to result in a slightly higher quality
video than Full FOV mode, but this comes at the cost of a dramatic crop in
on your video footage. Now after editing a lot of
footage in HQ and Full FOV mode, I have not seen a huge difference in quality between the two. Don't get me wrong, HQ mode is definitely slightly shaper than Full FOV mode, but it is not a big difference. So here's how I've turned this
weird HQ versus Full FOV mode into a positive instead of a negative. DJI has actually released
two versions of the Mavic 2, the Pro version that I'm
reviewing here and a Zoom version, that has a zoom lens, so you can get in tighter
on whatever you're filming. I treat the cropped HQ video
mode on the Mavic 2 Pro like a Mavic 2 Zoom Lite option. I usually film with my Mavic
2 Pro in Full FOV mode, but when I want to zoom
in and get a much tighter field of view for extra
parallax movement, et cetera, then I switch to HQ mode. I actually really like filming this way. There is one more thing you need to know about recording in Full FOV mode, when you shoot in Full FOV mode in D-LOG, you may notice a slight
fisheye effect on your footage. This can result in things
looking stretched a little weird and your horizon can look curved. Thankfully and here's another shout out to Matt Harris of The Film Poets, he has created some presets that will remove that
slight fisheye effect. I will also link to those down in the description of this video. I would also like to address
a bit of the controversy that was happening online when
the Mavic 2 Pro was released. Basically, as I said earlier, you want to shoot video
with this drone in 10-bit because it's the highest quality, but DJI was not super clear
on if both Full FOV mode and HQ mode were recording in 10-bit. Well, you'll be pleased
to know that if you check the footage's bitrate or even
when you edit the footage and color grade it, both
Full FOV and HQ modes record in 10-bit as long as you are
shooting in D-LOG or HLG. Are your eyes glazing over yet? I'm sorry, I realize that picture profiles and image quality are not
the most exciting things to talk about in a review. But I have good news,
we're almost at the end. In conclusion, with the Mavic 2 Pro, DJI has given us the main feature that so many filmmakers were requesting, better image quality. If you're a wedding filmmaker
or a commercial filmmaker or basically any filmmaker
whose full-time job isn't flying drones and
you don't need RAW video or 4K video at 60 frames per second, the Mavic 2 Pro is the drone that I would recommend that you buy. If you already own an older DJI drone, such as an original Mavic Pro or a Spark or an older Phantom drone and you've been considering
upgrading to a new drone, buy the Mavic 2 Pro. If you already own a Mavic Air, I wouldn't necessarily recommend upgrading to the Mavic 2 Pro for
marginally better image quality. That said though, I would recommend upgrading
to the Mavic 2 Pro from the Mavic Air for better flight time and for better image transmission quality. If you don't own a drone and you've been wanting to
buy a great all-around drone, buy the Mavic 2 Pro. If you already own a Phantom 4 Pro and you love the image quality, but you hate lugging it around, buy a Mavic 2 Pro, it'll
have the same image quality. Same thing goes if you have an Inspire. But if you don't travel a lot or if you do not mind traveling with a larger drone in a larger case, then I probably wouldn't
buy the Mavic 2 Pro. Also, I know that if I
don't address this here, there are gonna be a
ton of comments saying, Matt, what about the Mavic 2 Zoom? You didn't cover the Zoom,
should I buy that one instead? Well, here are my quick
thoughts about the Mavic 2 Zoom. I'm usually using a drone to film establishing shots of
landscapes, buildings, wedding venues, et cetera, so
I usually want a wider lens. But if you oftentimes find
yourself flying your drone and filming people or smaller objects, where you want to get closer
and get crazy parallax movement as you rotate around
them, then in that case, I would recommend the Mavic 2 Zoom. I haven't even tried the Zoom yet, but in my experience with the Full FOV and the cropped HQ mode
of the Mavic 2 Pro, I'm pretty happy. With that, thank you so much for watching. I hope this video has been helpful to you and given you some great insight into whether you should
purchase a Mavic 2 Pro. There are also a ton of links down in the description of this video, to the drone, to the
accessories that I recommend, such as the Fly More Combo that I highly recommend
picking up with the drone, so you can have extra batteries and the battery charging
hub and things like that. And the ND filters that
I recommend as well. I also have a link down in the description to download some free
Mavic 2 Pro video clips. So if you wanna download those and see how your computer
handles editing the footage, as well as how it color
grades, you can do that below. As always, if you have
questions or comments, please feel free to leave one below or get in touch with me through
my website, whoismatt.com. It is also a massive, like size of this carrying case,
big drone sized help to me, if you would consider liking
this video and subscribing if you wanna see more videos
like this in the future. Very last thing, there are
also links to my Instagram and my Facebook page down there. As well as the link to Matt's Music List, if you're a wedding filmmaker
and you've been struggling with finding music for your wedding films, Matt's Music List can help you, I highly recommend checking it out. Thank you so much for
watching and have a great day.
