(van door slides open) (upbeat music)
- Oh, I did not mean to sleep in that much, I was trying to wake up
in time for the sunrise, get good lighting, do a nice
little hike before it gets hot. Failed. Now, I'm filming with the
DJI Mini 4 Pro right now. My goal is to actually try to film the whole video with this camera, or at least the majority of it so that you get a sense
of what it looks like. Specs are only as important
as how good the camera looks. And right now everything
is just default settings. Right, so default color. So now I'm gonna go ahead and reposition the drone's camera. That's one of the nice things about vlogging on a drone is that it's very easy
to reposition the camera. I would say the downside
of vlogging with a drone is that you could probably
hear the propellers in the microphone I'm wearing right now. So if I get closer, yeah, you definitely hear it right? (drone propellers whirring)
But you know, this is the Mini 4 Pro,
the sub-250 gram drone, so it's not that much weight that it has to lift off,
relative to other drones. So it is actually really quiet. So now that I'm all nice
and soaked in sunblock and also got a hat, got water with me, microphone, drone, I'm ready for a little venture. I don't know, I kind of want
to climb this thing, I guess. It's not really a climb,
it's just more of a hike. That is one of the nice
things about drones is it's easier to scout things. So I mean, this would be
kind of cool to be up here. How high up is that? This is just under 140 feet. I don't know why I always do these hikes in the middle of the day when it's just as hot as it gets. If I waited just a few hours more or woke up a few hours
earlier, I would be chilling. Whoa, look at my tan line
on my leg right there. I must have been, whoa, that's gonna like blow out the shot. One of the things I really need to do is find a way to clip this controller onto me so I can use both my hands. But anyways, what do you think
about vlogging with a drone? I mean, this is definitely a
more interesting angle than just me wearing a helmet cam, right? It is kind of telling me to hurry up and land this thing because
the battery is getting low, so there is always that aspect of it. But you know, honestly
the battery life on these, really solid. Swap out this battery real quick. But how cool is this? I'm just vlogging with a drone and all of it fits into this bag right here. I got extra batteries on
me so I could keep flying. This is all just still standard
color and everything so I haven't changed any settings. Exposure is done auto. One other thing I would love to have different about these controllers, is instead of having to screw and unscrew your thumb sticks in, I wish that it could just fold in itself. So my TBS Tango 2, that has like a little
pullout and folding mechanism that I use for my FPV drones. But the awesome new
feature with this drone is the sideways sensor. So let's just say you're just kind of getting your epic
shot and you're like ooh, and you don't realize that you're right next to the mountain. It yeah, it just stopped by
there by itself basically. You can see there's a rock right there that I did not crash into. Lemme test out the backwards sensors. Right here hopefully, yep it stopped. It's like, "Nope, not going further back." Okay perfect, so backwards sensors check. It's doing pretty good honestly. It definitely helps that
these mountains have contrast. You know, there's a lot of details so there's a lot of things for these sensors to kind of pick up. Oh yeah, it just stopped
itself right there. Oh dang. Dang, that was actually pretty close, huh. It did it with pretty
good confidence actually. Now you should never fully
depend on these sensors but they definitely can save you. Whew, all right. Check it out, we made it to the top. (upbeat music) I cannot wait to take a shower. Whoa, there's a big gust of wind. The drone's doing this. The shot is actually looking okay. I'm sure you'll see a
little bit of the movement, but you know, these Minis actually perform
pretty good in the wind. Zoom in. 3X digital zoom. Hello. Or if I just zoom out and then just in post crop into 3X, I mean, maybe it'll look pretty similar. This is 3X digital zoom and this is basically just
the wide angle but cropped in, 3X in post. So does it look better with the digital zoom in the camera, or does it look the same as if I were to just crop it from a 1X? Oh you know what they should do is, this is the bag that comes with the drone. I would just love to
have like a clip on here so I could easily just go, (imitates clipping noises) hook it off, be hands free for a few
seconds, pick it back up, do that kind of stuff. Everyone loves hands-free, you know? Camping out in the desert definitely gives you a
big appreciation for, like things like air conditioning and cold water. We are now in, it's kind of like windmill city where it's always windy here. But yeah, check it out, the drone seems to be doing all right. I mean, it's definitely struggling a little bit
because of the wind, but it's able to push through it. - These things are always,
always surprisingly light. - Yeah, 249 grams.
- Every time, every time I hold one, I'm just like, "Damn, it feels like a bag of Cheetos." - Also, we have this DJI
ND filter set right here. It's 16/64 and 256. That's a pretty strong ND filter, but when you have a
fast lens like a F1.7-- - Yeah. - And you wanna get that shutter down, it probably is the right
strength actually out here. Because it's like shooting
with a prime wide open. Another upgrade from the Mini 3 Pro is we get HDR up to 4K,
60 frames-per-second. Before we had it up to 4K 30. - Yeah.
- So, we just get more HDR goodness. But compared to flying your Air 2, are you feeling like
you're missing something? - [Frank] No, it feels good, it feels the same.
- Flies just as good, yeah. - Yeah, it feels the same. This is awesome, it's just, it's incredible for the size. - And also check this out, wide-angle lens. So in a way it is kind of
like having multiple lenses. So I think I do have to take
off the ND filter for this. So here's a little split screen between having the
wide-angle lens on and off. I feel like any change of field of view you could get optically is awesome. - Oh, oh, oh, oh, that bird
almost kicked your ass! - People are gonna be like, "Stop harassing the birds." It's like, "No, the
birds are harassing me, I'm trying to get away."
(laughs) Just having the wide
angle is cool for sure. The only downside is I can't
have an ND filter on, with it. I think it'd be really
cool if they came out with like a tighter version of this. Like a 3X.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I'm gonna go ahead and go D-Log M, because we do get 10-bit, it'll give us a lot more
flexibility in-post. How's this footage looking in D-Log M? Bird is, look at that, this bird is totally
coming after me right now. Look at this. (heavy rock music) I will say that's probably
one of the downsides of having a Mini that's small, is that the birds want to attack it. You know, and then an
Inspire, the birds are like, "I ain't messing with that." But we have a new version of
Active Track, 360 Active Track. This thing here on the
left is what's different. I guess I could just be like, "Go on his right and go outwards." This user interface itself, I do like it. And as he speeds up the
drone keeps up with him. And there's quite a few
obstacles on the side of him. Oh, I think it might've
just lost him here. Oh wait, will it find it? I'll be really impressed if it found him. Oh, I lost him there. And I do still have composition control over where I position him. So I could have him off
to the top-left like this, or I could swing him over to the bottom and then bring him over
to the right of frame. And it will hold that position. And these drones have
had those smart features for such a long time. But if you don't have obstacle avoidance sensors on the side, I mean, it's kind of stressful. And of course if you're in sport mode all your sensors are
automatically turned off. But even in normal or cinema mode, you can go ahead and turn off your obstacle avoidance sensors. And that could be useful if you're trying to go through a tight gap or something like that. I wonder if I could get it to crash into this post right here. It's like, "Nope, will not do it." This is an obstacle that I
don't have that high hopes for. Yeah.
(laughs) It just went straight through it. These are the worst in FPV, because you can't really see
them until the last second. Yeah, so around thin wires, power lines, thin branches, you definitely
don't want to be reckless. Look at it though, dodging all these obstacles
while flying sideways. I mean, obviously with the Mini 3 Pro, if I were to do the same thing it would've crashed very quickly, because it literally has no
idea what's on the side of it. But also in slow-motion we now get, oh 1080p to
200 frames-per-second. So before we had 1080p to 120, but also 4K out of 100 frames-per-second because the Mini 3 Pro only had it up to 60 frames-per-second. And go for it. (upbeat music) Oh, it looks like there's
also two gigabytes of internal storage in the drone itself in case you forgot your micro SD card. Two gigs, that's not much. It's less than the eight gigs that the bigger drones give you. But if you do get out to an epic spot, and you're like, "Crap, I
forgot the memory card," then you could still at
least get a couple of shots. Well, I can really
lock-in very particularly what part of the radio
frequency I'm using. So that's nice, because
if you're flying FPV, then I want to stay off of 5.8. Even just using like a sliver
of the bandwidth as well. So I'm gonna go ahead and
lock mine off to 2.4 gigahertz so I shouldn't be stepping on your signal. - Cool.
- And that's important, because if I do, then Frank will fall out of
the sky and lose his drone. (drone whirs) You wanna race? - [Frank] Where are we racing to? - [Host] Now top speed of the
Mini 4 Pro is pretty fast, but nothing different from the Mini 3 Pro. Also check this out, it's doing the return-to-home right now.
(drone beeps) And it's cool that it actually shows you-- - The path.
- the path it's gonna take. This little drone icon's kind of cool. It shows you, I think, where it's going to land or what's directly below it. So if I just go, land, seems like it's got some accuracy on that, so makes landing just that much easier. I'm gonna go ahead and try to take off
before we lose the light. (upbeat music) Oh this is actually kind of a cool road. You got the sunset in the back, got the motorcycle riding down the road. So just like the Mini 3 Pro, I could go ahead and
go into portrait mode. And it physically moves
the camera to its side. Which is cool, you get full resolution, full sensor. The camera itself seems to be similar to the Mini 3 Pro,
in terms of sensor and lens. It's that 1/1.3 inch sensor
that DJI's been using a lot, and it makes sense, I
mean, it's a good sensor. This morning I met a
guy in the parking lot, and he said he just goes around and flies drones to inspect power lines, he's got like a thermal camera. Not gonna lie, that actually
sounds like a pretty dope job. Just going around and getting
drone-shots of power lines. I'm sure there's a lot more
to it than I'm imagining, but honestly, I think I
would really enjoy that. So here we are at ISO 800, and we're still getting a nice clearer picture of the power lines and, I don't see too much noise here. At 3,200 ISO, so definitely
pretty sensitive. All right, we're
definitely at the tail-end of our lighting here. Is there a night mode actually? Yes, there is. So let's try that out. (upbeat music) So this is giving me
more access to the ISO. So I'm gonna go take manual control. Yeah, 12,800. You know, the stationary
objects look pretty good, right? Like it looks good, but then as soon as I start moving, I feel like we're losing detail. But honestly it doesn't look bad, especially if you cut over to my A7, which is, we're already at 12,800 ISO. But I have a F4 lens on there, which is why we're
struggling a little bit. But another upgrade we
have from the Mini 3 Pro is that we now have O4 image transmission. So instead of the 12-kilometer max range that you can have on here, which you probably never
fly out that far anyways, we now have 20 kilometers. Definitely a peace of mind
whenever you're flying around, just knowing that you have
a really strong connection. But another benefit of
O4 image transmission is that we have 1080p 60 frames-per-second that I can view on this display, opposed to the 1080p 30 frames-per-second that we were getting in the 3 Pro. And I'm assuming that the
lighter weight a drone is, the less dangerous it is. Is that why there's less restrictions for sub-250 gram drones? (drone propellers whir loudly) Ah. Okay, it hurts a little bit. It's interesting how all the
props just shut off, huh? It just instantly was like, pff. - [Camera Person] Is that for safety, it turns off for safety? - I guess so. It did break the prop too. So this is the bag that
comes with the Fly More Kit. So you got your controller, three batteries and a charging bay, drone itself, and USB-C cables, and propellers, manuals, all that good stuff. To keep the propellers and arms together there's this little harness thing that comes apart like that. And the Minis are nice, because you can open up
the arms in any order and this just pops right off. So then let's go ahead
and compare this to the Mini 3 Pro right here. Looks pretty similar,
the 24mm-equivalent lens. So when it comes to the plus batteries, which will give you that
extended runtime on these, it does look like it's
the same exact battery. But the lighter-weight batteries, you can tell right here it says, 249 grams that are written on these. But these look like different
batteries all together. Same type of charging case so, one, two, three, oh (beep). And just like the Mini 3 Pro
we do have USB-C back here. So if you don't want to
travel with a charger you can just plug straight into it, and it'll charge the
battery through the drone. Although this is kind of handy because this is also a battery bank. So basically any juice you have
leftover in these batteries can be used to charge other things. Looks like we have a light
when we didn't have one before. So this can be useful, especially if you're flying after hours and you're getting close to the ground. It seems like it's just
the same number of sensors, it's just angled out a little bit more. So now we're looking at a 360 view and avoiding obstacles on the side opposed to just the rear and forward on the previous version. Also check out what I got. A little leash. Hands free, just like the dog leashes. I've said it before and I'll say it again it is an amazing dog leash. - You could walk the dogs and fly a drone. - By the way, this does look very similar to the Mini 3 Pro controller, but this is the RC two so, it's compatible with the
O4 image transmission. So it is a newer controller. We do also have antennas up
here and minor differences but let's continue to test
out the Active Track 360 here. And let's see, will it find us on the other side of this tree? It did. Pricing wise, we are I
think at 759 US dollars. So the same as the Mini 3 Pro. But that is of course the basic kit. What's it gonna do through here? Are you gonna try to fly through here? Are you gonna try to, no. It just kind of knows to kinda work it its way my around.
- Oh my gosh, look at it go. - That's pretty good, huh? There is also of course DGI care. So I'm gonna go ahead and
do a little tilt up because we can get this thing all the way up to 60 degrees upward tilt and there I will put up the pricing info just so I don't have to memorize it. It is one of those things where it pays itself off if you crash it. You know what's funny
is yesterday Frank said, "That it feels like a bag of Cheetos." And I looked up the weight of the Cheetos. It's 240 grams for a bag of Cheetos. - Oh, so it was--
- Yeah. - Right on.
- This is basically right there with it. And I'm pretty sure that's not including the actual bag itself. It's like the contents of the Cheetos. So I mean pick up a bag of Cheetos and feel how heavy that, that is the weight of this thing. It's like silly how lightweight it feels. But this Mini 4 Pro have an obstacle avoidance in all direction. Definitely closes that gap between this and the air three, a step above it. Now the air three will give you a higher altitude takeoff limit. So basically if you're really
high up in the mountains this does have a 4,000 meter limit, or 3000 which is even less if you have the heavier battery in there. Which kind of makes sense, right? But the Air three and the Mavic three Pro they are gonna have a 6,000 meter limit. And of course they have
two or three lenses depending on which version you get. So just having more optical lenses within the camera is nice. One feature I would love to see in a drone is built in ND filters. How awesome would that be? Because with these yeah, you
can just attach the ND filters. But you know you have to land them, switching out, then take off again. But yeah, overall solid little drone. I haven't really seen any
real major downsides of it. I think the Mini 3 Pro
was an awesome drone and this is just that but better. Anyways, let's go ahead and see what you guys are saying in the comments. Christian says, "I wasn't expecting iPhone
integration to show up at the 11th hour of this review. Wow, stop talking to me into your swanky microphones here. Rode, these things are
getting more and more useful." Yeah, so the audio I'm using out of this is the Road Wireless Pro. They record 32 bit float internally. So basically this little
thing is recording. Carrie's got one as well
that she's talking into. - Yes, hi. (Carrie laughs)
- Yeah, so basically I start
recording on the drone and I do this, and I sync up all the microphones and that's how I'm getting audio. I would love for there to be a way for me to get audio straight
into this drone footage. That would be amazing. Anyways, battery swap time. That last battery was the plus battery and I got right around 30
minutes of flight time on that. So, yeah I mean, the 45 minute max battery life that's definitely like in
perfect ideal scenarios. But yeah, we are using
the new iPhone 15 Pro Max. Apple's letting us
borrow it for six months. So thank you Apple. It's so nice that we don't
have lightning ports anymore. But also we have a five X
telephoto lens on here now. So that's what this looks like. Let's see there, hello. And back to the one X. "Gene, I cannot believe
you wore a bicycle helmet on the hyper scooter. So relieved that you switched." Right, that scooter is, it's no joke. (intense dramatic music) We all love Sam. Yes, he is in Japan right now, which is why he is not
currently in this episode, but we can check in to
see what he's doing. - Moshi moshi from Nara Park. I'm here to feed some deer. (Sam laughs) Okay here.
(Sam laughs) They keep following me. So many deers, so little time. Okay, ah, ah, ah.
