Best Camera Drones to buy for under $299 - Great Christmas gifts!

hey everyone welcome to my channel well i'm going to try to keep this video really short because i know a lot of you just want to buy yourself a drone for under 299 u.s so i'm a guy if you're not familiar with my channel i'm a guy who's flown pretty much every drone on the planet and if you're subscribed to my channel you'll see i have so many drone reviews the new drone comes out it's on this channel and i will fly it and review it so now for the low-cost drones of you know like 299 dollars and less i've reviewed an awful lot of them and this video is just my pick because everybody keeps asking me what is the best drone which one's better i'm gonna give you the drones that i think out of all the ones i've reviewed in the year 2020 i'm gonna tell you which ones are the best here we go now obviously i have to keep this video short so i'm not gonna give you all of the information you'd like to hear because i'm sure you probably are thinking of something specific to your purposes and this video may not cover it however every drone i'm going to tell you about in this video i've done as i've mentioned a full review on it so the links to the full reviews will be placed below this video just have to go below the video where i'm talking way down here at the bottom someplace and look below and you'll see the description of this video and in there you'll see some links that will take you right to a full review of the drone which will answer all your questions now the most important thing to every single one of you watching is where to buy these drones and yes again below this video are going to be links to where you can buy the drone as well i have contacted many of the companies who sell these drones and i said give me your best price give me your best price because i'm making a video and they did and that price and the coupons there's usually discount coupons so you see a price that says like i don't know 100 bucks 150 bucks you type in the coupon at checkout or discount code if you want to call it that that's shown below and all of a sudden the price drops even lower so make sure you click on the links below this video and also check out the discount coupon codes and you'll be golden all right let's get into this now i know somebody's going to want a drone under 100 us and there's only one on the market that i would recommend for under 100 us and that is the tello yes the rise teller here i'm just going to place it right here on my little pad this camera here if you're wondering it's recording whatever is in this location so the ryze tello came out in march of the year 2018 it has brushed motors brushed motors on a drone usually means it's in the toy category so any drone under 100 is in the toy category but the tello is an exception it's actually really good because it has sensors on the bottom and it's got a bit of dji technology in it so it's a pretty decent drone for the price all you need is a cell phone or a tablet that can run the app and you can fly it it's that simple so what's it have that makes it so great well first of all the camera on the telo can actually take 5 megapixel photos and it can shoot 720p video which is hd at 30 frames per second and it is electronically image stabilized which is called eis flight time per battery is about 13 minutes the flight range from your cell phone to the drone is about 100 meters maximum and the weight of the telo is 80 grams which places it under the 250 gram you know maximum from most countries if a drone is 250 grams or more you'll have to register in your country so the telo you don't have to register so all in all a really good drone check the links below to where you can find this drone a lot of people would love to have this drone for christmas and it does make a great christmas gift because you can fly it indoors and it flies so well indoors due to the sensors on it [Music] all right now let's get into the drones that are considered to be above toy grade and that means all of these drones have brushless motors brushless motors are good they all have a built-in gps that means when you fly them outdoors the satellites in the sky they will connect to and they will hold their position you can walk away and go have a sandwich and your drone will sit in the air and do nothing until you come back it will not fly away or anything that's the great thing with gps gps also gives the drone the ability to come back to you say the battery runs low or you lose connection between you and the drone anything like that fly out of range well then the drone will come right back to you at the location it took off so that's a pretty cool feature all of these drones have internal sensors of one type or another you know like altitude hold the barometer is inside the drone that means if the drone goes up in the air and you stop about this level the drone will just stay at that level so that's a pretty good feature to have in these drones all of the drones i'm about to show you all have a follow me feature yes they will follow the gps in your cell phone or tablet and wherever you go that's where the drone goes they also have an orbit feature they'll rotate around you or some object that you pick and give you some really cool video they also have a waypoint feature so that you can tap on your phone and pick waypoints on a map and they will fly to those locations all within reason you know has to be within the range of the drone some of them also have a gesture feature you know like you move your hand do this do this it takes a photo video does certain things all of the drones i'm going to show you all take photos at 4k resolution which is pretty darn decent so if you like taking a photo 4k that's good a lot of them when it comes to video will either be 1080p 2k or 4k and i will explain that in each of the products i show you some of the drones will have a gimbal and a gimbal is something very important to have on a drone because when the drone is flopping around in the wind like this the gimbal keeps the camera straight so if you want footage that's nice and smooth you want a drone with a gimbal all of these drones either have a gimbal or they have electronic image stabilization which does pretty much the same thing all of these drones record video and photos to a micro sd card that you stick in to the drone one is not included so get yourself a micro sd card usually the one i recommend for these types of drones would be like a class 10 micro sd card at about 16 gigs something like that will work just perfectly fine final two points all of these drones are over 250 grams so that means there's a good possibility that you will have to register the drone in your country whatever your drone laws are for drones that are over 250 grams and the last point is that all of these drones fly with your cell phone you know you have a controller in your hand to control with joysticks but you have a cell phone so you can see what the video display is where your drone is what the camera sees coming back to you that means in order to get that image back to you and control the drone you must have a cell phone or tablet that has the ability to communicate at wi-fi at 802.11 ac now you're saying what the heck is that let me just say this if your cell phone or tablet was purchased in the last four years maybe even five years you have it no worries you have it your phone is compatible if you have a really crappy phone like somebody handed you down a phone from several years ago you might not have it so i'm going to put a link below this video to a website where you just look at your phone and your brand and it will tell you if your phone is compatible or not so now let's look at the drones that have all those features so the first one right here is the csj x7 pro 2. this drone is one of my favorites i really like this drone i've loaned this drone out to friends they have flown it they've had no problems so it must be a really good drone it's got all the features i mentioned has a really good gimbal on it and it does take half decent video and furthermore you get a little shoulder bag it comes in a shoulder bag and it has a brother right here is called the sg906 pro 2. this one here is identical to the csj x7 pro 2. so both of these drones all the same features that are going to tell you about right now here we go [Music] so both drones can take 4k photos they both can take 2k video at 24 frames per second they have a flight time of 26 minutes a range of you know maybe 1200 meters on a good day but in reality the range is about 600 meters they weigh 564 grams each so this one here the the beast the sg906 pro 2 is 564 grams same as the csj x7 pro 2 and they both cost 149 u.s so check the links below this video and it will take you right to the store that's selling for that price and if there's a discount code make sure you put in the discount code the next drone to show you is the bugs 20 eis this is a very popular drone the bugs 20 eis eis stands for electronic image stabilization it actually records video at 4k a full 4k at 30 frames per second at a high megabit rate what does that mean to you that means the quality of the video captured image is actually pretty decent and you can manipulate it in editing software if you so desire if you don't desire that's perfectly fine but this is a really decent drone some people like this one because it sort of reminds them of a phantom you see how the arms stick out and it's got landing legs however i will warn you now this is a drone that is not foldable so it looks as it looks so that means each time you fly it if you put it back in the box when you take it out guess what you have to put the props on and that's going to take you a little bit of time before you get into the air as a matter of fact i was kind of lazy and check this out but i could take the prop off i'm just sitting them there i didn't even want to put them on because it just takes time all right but it is a really good drone and it's very popular if you check out my review on this drone you'll see it is extremely extremely popular they sell a lot of these let me tell you the features on this drone it can take 4k photos it can also take 4k video at 30 frames per second with electronic image stabilization that makes everything look smooth it can also shoot video at 1080p 60 frames per second so you can get slow motion if you wish flight time is 22 minutes it can fly to a range of you know in my tests i could get it out to a maximum of maybe maybe 600 meters it does weigh 555 grams so you're over that 250 limit and the price of this drone is about 163 dollars u.s check the links below check to see if there's any discount codes if i included them and that will get you that price or close to that price and i also believe this drone comes with two batteries but you might want to check it out in the description before you buy it make sure it comes with two batteries at least minded now the next drone is another bugs drone and it's basically identical to the one i just showed you except this is called the bugs 12 eis so the one i showed you previously was the bugs 20 eis this is the bugs 12. this is the drone for people who want exactly what was in the previous drone but you want a foldable drone this one folds up now all of the drones that i'm showing you that are over 100 u.s all fold up for portability except for the bugs 20 eis which i showed you the arms are pretty much fixed and you have to put the props on all the other ones that are foldable you know like even the csj x7 pro 2 that i showed you and the sg906 pro 2 they're all foldable and the props stay on because the props are foldable this one here the bugs 12 eis is also foldable so you're looking at it right here watch i can fold the arm in and fold this arm in you see how portable it gets it gets a lot smaller all right so what makes the bugs 12 eis so amazing well it's the same features as the bugs 20 eis so let me go over them again [Music] so it can take 4k photos it can shoot video at 4k at 30 frames per second at a high bit rate it can also shoot 1080p video at 60 frames per second also it has 22 minutes of flight time range is the same as the previous model about 600 meters on a good day it weighs 558 grams and with the discount code you can pick this up for about 167 dollars u.s check below check the links check the discount codes and see if it's for you and i should say my bugs 12 eis came with two batteries i don't know if they all come with two batteries so make sure you check that before you order the next one to show you is the ex4 pro now this one does come in a carry bag here a shoulder bag and let me just dig out the drone as you can see looking at the drone it is pretty much a copy of the dji mavic air the first version i'm just going to unfold it here and just show you why i say that because when i flip it upside down look at on the arms you have to push these little legs out and there are antennas in some of the legs all right so let me tell you about the ex4 pro [Music] for a gimbal it has a full 3-axis gimbal it can take 4k photos but amazingly it only shoots at 1080p for video at 24 frames per second has a flight time of 25 minutes it has a range of 1.5 miles that's what makes it pretty interesting so that's pretty darn far and it weighs 435 grams and it costs 167 dollars u.s with the discount codes and everything else now i really do like this drone and i'm a big fan of it the only thing i don't like and i'm just going to tell you now the only thing i don't like is the gps calibration on this one it has the worst gps calibration i've seen on any quality drone on the market this one here sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't and it's usually because of the app the app doesn't talk to the drone very well if you watch my full review on it i'll show you how to do the proper gps calibration in that review if you watch that then you shouldn't have any problems if you try to follow what the app tells you you're gonna have problems but other than that it's a really good drone and when i flew this i had no issues flying it and unfortunately the image is only 1080p but it's a good 1080p when you watch the review you'll see that the video quality is not too bad for the 1080p at 30 frames per second so just like all the other drones i've shown check the links below see if there's discount codes and see if this is the drone you want to pick up for yourself the next drone to show you is the f11 4k pro very popular drone and really good drone and it comes in not a shoulder bag but actual carry case and it's actually good quality you know this is actually quite decent for the price that this is included and like many of the drones i've shown it's foldable so you just unfold the arms before you go fly and you're all set to go now this is one of the drones that really surprised me when i flew it because it's actually really really good what they did is they took electronic image stabilization like the bugs drones i've shown you and they also put a gimbal it's the only one in the category that has a two axis gimbal plus electronic image stabilization so that makes for some really stable video quality so let me tell you a little bit about this here drone [Music] it can shoot 4k photos and it actually shoots 4k video at 30 frames per second it has the 2 axis gimbal plus the electronic image stabilization it flies for 26 minutes it has a range of about we'll say about 750 meters on a good day you can go farther if it's even a better day it weighs about 564 grams it sells for about 199 dollars u.s it's a lot more expensive than the other drones because you get the electronic image stabilization plus the gimbal in the feature on the camera shooting at 4k so it's a bit more and i guess you pay for it that way so anyways check the links below see if this is the drone for you now the last drone i'm going to show you is by holy stone and it's called the hs720e this drone is really good so it comes in a very very very nice case this is a really nice case the drone is actually compared to all the other drones i've shown you it's almost like they put some time and effort into building the drone the quality the manufacturing how all the parts are put together i'm gonna show you it it's really well done but you're going to pay for it in the price here's the hs720e right here and you can see just looking at it it's a bring it closer to the camera it's made really really well the fit and finish on this is really good compared to all the other drones i've showed this one seems like it should cost more and it does cost more i should also mention that this one i think you can only get it with two batteries so that's probably why the price is a little bit higher because it just default comes with two batteries and like the other ones it is a foldable drone so the arms come out nicely like this and we have our drone looking pretty sweet like that alright so let me tell you about this drone [Music] it shoots 4k photos it can take 4k video at 30 frames per second at a high bit rate the same as those bugs 20 eis and the bugs 12 eis same idea it can even shoot 1080p at 60 frames per second for slow motion it's really good 23 minutes of flight time you know that's not super long but that's about all you need if you have two batteries it's not too bad range on this drone is you know 600 500 meters and it weighs 493 grams now i asked holy stone to give me a discount coupon because they pretty much sell this on amazon or on their own website and they gave me discount coupons in the past but this time they said we can only give you a discount coupon for your canadian customers because the price is pretty high in canada so there's a discount coupon below so if you're in canada you can get this at a lower price but for the us i don't believe there's a discount coupon at least not at the time of recording this video but check below just in case sometimes last minute coupons come in or it comes in after the video's been published and i post it below the video so check it out holy stone says the price they advertise this at is what they consider to be really good you decide but it is a really good drone all right so there you have it those are my recommendations for the best drones on the market today for 299 u.s or less if there's a drone not shown in this video that costs less than 299 dollars it was not shown because i did not think it was as good as the ones i had shown and if there's a drone that costs more than 299 dollars it's possible it's better than the ones i've shown but it costs more than 299 dollars i should also mention that the taping of this video was in the month of november in the year 2020 and all the prices i showed in this review are all effective as of that time i can't guarantee they'll be effective way past into 2021 so if you're wondering why the prices are different that's why and let me give you some final words of advice when you go to order any of these drones you're probably ordering from china or amazon if you order from china no issues you will get your product but it will take a while so be very very mindful when you read on the website of any of these chinese companies that shipping to your place is going to take oh i don't know 10 to 15 business days remember that's not calendar days that's business days so 10 to 15 business days equals 30 calendar days so if you want to quick you might have to pay for a courier service to get it at your door really fast before christmas alright guys if you enjoyed this video please give it a thumbs up and if you have questions on any of the drones i've shown please watch the full review first before asking your question because the full review will probably answer your question all right take care and we'll catch you in the next video with many more drone reviews [Music] bye [Music] 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Channel: CAPTAIN DRONE

Views: 208,327

Rating: 4.9151869 out of 5

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Length: 22min 10sec (1330 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 12 2020