- Ho ho ho ho. Guess what, Sam? - [Sam] What up? - I forgot the SD card (laughs). Luckily, there's eight gigs
of internal storage in there. So, that should probably
get us through this, huh? Oh that's cool, there's a
phone charging option too. So when I turn that on, the
remote charges the phone. That's cool.
(drone buzzing) All right, let's go take
it for a little spin. Here we go. (peacful music) Oh yeah, this is looking nice. It's a little bit of gloomy weather right now, but man, this is looking nice and crispy. All right, I'm on sports mode now. I'm getting about 35 miles
per hour, so not bad. I know it's creepy to look
at houses with a drone. You shouldn't do that, but
these houses are epic man. All right, let's stop being
creepy and let's just fly. So, I don't know if it's
because it's the new drone or because of the new app, but you can see that it
says manned aircraft nearby and on the map you can
actually see the airplane, where it is, live. So, that's pretty cool. Oh, yeah, and you can hear it coming too. Okay, I'm literally
watching the flight path of that airplane, which I can hear, but it's a cloudy day so I can't see it, but I can hear it. That's honestly pretty neat. Just being able to see the
planes and where they are, live. Another thing I'm noticing is that most other
drones, you tap to focus. But, here it looks like it's a fixed focus because everything seems to be in focus. Everything all the way
over there is in focus. And even Sam, you're like,
what, two feet away from me, two and a half feet, something like that? You look like you're
pretty sharp in there, so I guess there's pros and cons to that. You won't be able to get a shallower depth of field like you would be
able to do on the Mavic 2 Pro. But at the same time it's nice because you don't have
to worry about focus, I mean, unless you get in real close. I'm going to get into one of your bananas. That sounded wrong. And, honestly, I'm surprised
at how in focus you looked even though I'm a foot away. And honestly, if you're flying, you don't want to get this close 'cause if I'm this close, I'm probably going to be
cutting some fingers off. But here for like a medium
shot, it looks super clean. So, it is kind of nice that
you don't have to worry about the focus anymore. All right, first impressions
it flies really well, and I also like some
of these smart features like ActiveTrack. And they actually did a
great job integrating it into the app itself. So instead of having
to open up ActiveTrack and dial through the menu a little bit, you literally just drag
and select me right there. And now that I got myself
locked in, I can just go ahead and just maneuver the drone around and I don't have to worry about where the camera is aimed at. I just kind of tell it where to go and it should frame up
for me, which is awesome. It really makes flying
this drone so much easier and the tracking has
been pretty solid so far. But features like ActiveTrack, which I've always been a fan of, it's really easy to access it now so I should really dig that. I select me and by default, it goes into tracking mode so I can go and fly around and not have to worry about which direction
the camera is pointed. And we are also able to adjust what part of the frame the ActiveTrack
is putting the subject. So, I can put myself on the
bottom right of the frame and I can still use ActiveTrack. And these are some pretty
difficult shots to get right here, but I'm literally just
operating this thing with just one thumb. At any point you just go fly
around, find your subject. I want to track Sam, so I'm
going to select him right there and it's tracked. It's super easy. So, I love how they've made this cool feature easier to access. From here I'm going to go
into orbit, so let's go ahead and set the speed and I just hit go and
it just does its thing. And then let's put you on
the top left of the frame and it's doing it just fine and it's holding you perfectly fine. Wow! This is awesome! What do you think Sam? - I'm diggin' it.
- [Gene] Yeah. - I'm really diggin' it. I'm going to recreate a dramatic scene. Why is this happening to me? Was that good? - [Gene] You have to feel it. - This isn't fair. This isn't fair. (drone buzzing) (dramatic music) - I should just become an actor. - [Gene] I think so, yeah. Dude, you committed. All the way. - Yeah, dude, I'm very method. - I could put it into trace mode where it will essentially follow you. Sam was trying to use
it a little bit earlier and trying to escape the
drone, but he had no luck. And then there's also parallel, as well, where everywhere you
move, it moves parallel to you so if you want
to get a profile shot or something like that. So, lovin' these smart features and the flight time
has been pretty decent. I know a lot of people have been saying that this controller is
bigger and bulkier and, yeah, it is bigger and bulkier, but the signal out of here
has been solid so far. I flew it all the way out to there and had zero issues with connections. But first impressions, I'm loving this. I kind of want to compare
it to my Mavic 2 Pro. Let's head back to the
studio and check it out. This is it, fellas, this is the very last video
I am filming in this studio. What is it, over a year and a half ago when we first moved into this space? It sure has evolved a bit,
but for the most part, it's all kind of stayed the same. And I'm definitely going to miss it. I moved into here with
200,000 subscribers. Now we're at almost 650. It's treated me well and
it's been almost a character on this channel so, thank you. Thank you. But you know what, let's do this. Final review here in this studio. Mavic Air 2, let's jump up to the overhead cam. This is kind of my go-to Mavic 2 Pro. And then in here I have
my trusty Mavic Mini. So it really seems to sit right
there nicely in the middle of the Mavic lineup in terms of size, but also in terms of
price and performance. But one thing that is clearly different is this new controller. Definitely the biggest of the lineup. And I guess the big question
we want to figure out, is which one of these would you buy. Mavic Mini is great
because it is inexpensive. It is very compact. It's super fun to fly. But the problem is that it didn't really have the professional
features I really wanted. Mavic 2 Pro is really impressive because it was still considered small, relative to its bigger brothers, but it still packed a pretty good punch. One inch sensor, great images out of it. I mean, if I were to
buy a drone right now, I think I would personally
be kind of in the middle of these two, because I do really care about getting the best
image quality out of it. And I think the only way to find out which one of these drones I like better, is just to go out and fly them both. So, let's go do that. Farewell studio, you've been real nice. Sam, should we just like
both tear through it at the same time? - [Sam] Yeah. (paper screen crinkling) - Uh, I think we did that wrong. You gonna miss this studio, Sam? - No, not at all. It's too tiny and it smells. (laughing) All right, time to pull out these boys. Which is going to fly better? This one, this one, I don't know. - Stop, stop. The new place that we just
moved into is very close to the beach, so hope you
guys enjoy seeing shots around here, because we're
going to be coming here a lot. All right, Sam. Counting on you not to crash this drone. - I'm not making any promises. (laughing) - We gotta do a giveaway
with this drone, so. - Sorry, lucky winner. - With this amount of light, since I don't have ND
filters for the Mavic Air 2, I have to crank that
shutter speed all the way up to a 1/800th of a second. And since we can't control the aperture like we can on the Mavic 2 Pro, we are kind of stuck at this
super-fast shutter speed. So, ND filters would
definitely be nice for here. When it comes to color picture profiles, there's normal, and there's D-Cinelike. But for now, let's pop
both cameras into 4K, 24 frames per second in D-Cinelike and let's compare some of the footage. (upbeat music) Looking at the footage from these two, I still kind of lean
towards the Mavic 2 Pro although that Mavic Air 2, not far behind. And I love the way the Air 2 flies. It's very powerful. We did a little race and it's only a few miles per
hour behind the Mavic 2 Pro. Significantly faster and more
powerful than the Mavic Mini. Now the image is looking flat because I am shooting D-Cinelike, so it's the flat color profile
intended to be color-graded. But I did notice that
the only options I have is Normal and D-Cinelike. So those are the two
options, which is cool. It's nice and simple, but it doesn't give you as many options as the Mavic 2 Pro gives you. This might be something we see
in a future firmware update, we'll see, but for now we
have more color options on the Mavic 2 Pro. I still feel a little bit less freaked out flying the Mavic Air
2 than the Mavic 2 Pro because of that price
difference, you know? I mean it would suck to
crash either of them, but if I had to crash one or the other, definitely would be the
Mavic Air 2, you know. - I'd rather crash the Mini. - Exactly. The thing with the Mini is
that it is a great one to kind of practice on, but it has no sensor so you're actually more
likely to crash it. I'll admit the Mavic 2 Pro sensors have saved me a couple of times. So flight-wise, Mavic Air
2 is really, really solid. I'm really enjoying flying it. I also love how integrated the
ActiveTrack is into the app. I think they did a really
great job with that. And image quality wise,
everything I've seen so far out of the Mavic Air 2,
actually looks pretty good. I still think I prefer the
look out of the Mavic 2 Pro, but the difference isn't huge. One thing I do like about the Mavic 2 Pro is that you can shoot in
the wide field of view, but you can also shoot in
a tighter field of view. So, you get a little bit of flexibility while
maintaining 4K, so that is cool. But the Mavic Air 2 can shoot
4K at 60 frames per second, while the Mavic 2 Pro stops at 30. So from a technical standpoint, the Mavic 2 Air does have
that better frame rate in 4K. So far, all our footage
has been in broad daylight with pretty even lighting so they're both definitely
going to look good. But one thing I do like the
Mavic 2 Pro's one inch sensor is that it's pretty good in more difficult lighting situations. - [Sam] Here we go, let's try this. I'm in the shade, silhouetted
by some direct sunlight. - Now in a lot of cases,
they both look really good and a lot of times, they go neck and neck. But here in this shot, the Mavic 2 Pro definitely
has a little bit of a cleaner image. The colors look cleaner. Everything just looks a
little bit more natural and just overall better, in my opinion. The Mavic Air 2, it still looks good, but it definitely has a little bit more of a digital video-ish feel, almost like an action camera a little bit. With the Mavic 2 Pro, if you're going to spend the extra money, I mean, this is where it goes, towards this one inch sensor. It just looks overall
cleaner and more natural, in my opinion at least. Especially with skin tone. Here's another example here. I'm going to open up the
Mavic 2 Pro to an f/2.8 and check that out. Look at that. You're getting some shallow
depth of field actually out of this drone. Now shallow depth of field in a drone isn't something that you always notice, especially if you're up high flying. Focus just kind of gets set to infinity and everything looks like it's in focus. And one of the coolest
parts of the Mavic 2 Pro is that you can actually go
in and adjust the aperture from f/2.8 all the way to f/11, opposed to the other smaller
versions of the Mavic, it's a fixed aperture. One thing I was happy to see
that the Mavic Air 2 had, which the Mavic 2 Pro and
also the Inspires have, is that you can press on the
screen and you can drag it to actually move the camera around. Not just up and down, but also sideways, so that's always a nice feature. Last, but not least, let's go check out our low-light dungeon and see how the drone looks in here. Welcome to the dungeon. - [Sam] I feel like you're
going to murder me right now, that's what it looks like. - Low light's when the larger
sensor's usually take the win and this seems to be the case, more detail and clarity in
the deeper, darker shadows. But again, it's not as
terrible as I was expecting. And looking at some of these shots, I was shocked at how similar they looked. A lot of times I couldn't even tell which camera it was coming out of. All right, so now that
we've had a chance to play with the Mavic 2 Air for a
bit, let's talk about them. Let's start with this little one. The Mavic Mini, the smallest and least expensive of the bunch. It's sitting right around $400. For the price, you just
cannot beat this thing. It's got a pretty decent camera on there. It's super fun to fly. It's got a pretty decent battery life. It's awesome. I don't think you'll be disappointed. But really, the one to
get if you can swing it would probably be the Mavic Air 2. It is going to be around double
the price the Mavic Mini, so there is that. But, you're going to
definitely recognize a lot of improvements going
from the Mini to the Air. Across the board, everything
from the image quality, how it feels, how you fly it. I think a real big factor is the sensors on the front and rear so you're going to be much less likely to crash it into things. I mean you still can crash into things so you need to be careful. You can do some gardening if you want to, but these sensors can
definitely be helpful, especially when you're flying backwards. Another huge factor is the way it flies. As much fun as the Mavic
Mini is, it's not as powerful and as fast as the Mavic
Air 2, not even close. So let's say you're trying
to use a drone to chase cars or boats or anything
that's moving fairly fast, then this Mavic Mini might
not be able to keep up. Also, if you fly in high wind
conditions, the Mavic Air, you're going to feel so
much more comfortable with this thing because the Mavic Mini, it can get blown around a
little bit with strong winds. In Hawaii, I went to go grab
a few shots and I was trying to have it fly back to me, but then a huge gust of wind came and it just pushed the drone
way further away from me. I swear I thought I lost
the drone after that, but a few minutes later
it started to come back and it landed, so, that was scary. But with the Air, I've been able to hit speeds
like 40 miles per hour with a little bit of a tailwind. So, if it's a bit windy, you can feel a little bit less paranoid. That is why I would recommend the Air to a majority of people. Now, this video isn't sponsored
or anything like that. I actually paid full price
for this Mavic Air 2, but I asked my buddies over at DJI if they would be willing
to do a giveaway with one of these and they said yeah. All you gotta do to enter to win, drop a comment down below letting me know the
first place you would go and fly this thing if you won. The winner will be chosen
within the first 24 hours of this video going live, so good luck. And finally, the Mavic 2 Pro, and again there's going to
be another leap in price, almost double the price
of the Mavic Air 2. And honestly, the
differences in image quality was a lot less than I had anticipated. I still think there is a
difference, so if I want to go out and get the best image quality, I'm probably still going to take this. But at the same time, the Air 2 is so much
more comfortable to fly. I think a lot of it is psychological. Because even when I'm
flying this Mavic Air 2, I'm like, that's an expensive thing that I'm flying around and then this is like
double that expensive thing. And everything from the
way it flies to the app, to the control. Everything just feels
like it's been updated. And there's also a level of simplicity. You know, you don't have
to worry about focus. There's less options that you
have to go and dial through. It's just a very easy, simple, fun drone. Did I mention that it can do
240 frames per second in HD? What? The image quality isn't the
best thing I've ever seen at 240, but, you know, it
still has it as an option. Honestly, I think the Mavic
Air 2 is going to be the drone that I carry around
with me on a daily basis and I really only pull
out the Mavic 2 Pro for if I'm going to go to
a spectacular location, I really want the best footage. (phone ringing) And, that just ruined my,
hold on, I gotta get this. All right, guess where we're at, again. I'm pulling up comments
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