Do We Even Need a Mavic 4? - DJI Air 4 Early Rumors

do we even need a mavic 4 the obvious answer to this question is yes of course we want a new drone of course we want new toys to play with of course we want an upgraded professional platform from DJI to make our photos and videos better but when you look at their current drone lineup the mini4 pro the air3 and the mavic 3 Pro it's hard to think about what DJI can do differently with these drones to make them any better by the way this video is sponsored by squar space but more from them later now I rarely ever cover rumors or speculation here on my channel but I saw something over on X that sparked my interest in making this video it was this photograph with the hash A4 that shows a set of mavic 3 batteries and an unidentified battery that is a little bit bigger this is also coming from Igor boganov who is a very credible source for leaked info as new products are developed especially when it comes to DJI as soon as I saw this photograph my brain went to mavic 4 it just makes sense right there's a mavic 4 battery next to a mavic 3 battery they're kind of comparing the size between the two and it tracks right we expect the mavic 4 to be a little bit bigger to accommodate a larger camera as well as longer flight time so therefore a larger battery makes sense this kind of follows the trend that DJ has been on for the past couple of releases with their intermediate air drones and their professional mavic drones as the size increases to accommodate more technology inside the mini of course stays small because it needs to be sub 250 g here's the thing though look at the hashtag A4 that makes me believe that this is an air4 battery so I'm kind of being pulled in a couple different directions here and let's just think about that the air3 just came out the a air3 is not even a year old yet and we're already talking about leaks about the air4 think about if an air4 came out and how hard it'd be pushing up against the mavic 3 Series the air3 is already a great drone in its own right and when you kind of accommodate the price of both the air3 and any of the mavic 3 drones you notice that the air3 actually turns out to be a better value I did a pretty detailed comparison between both of these drones but to sum it up very quickly the air3 is a baby mavic 3 that is actually a better aircraft so it has better range signal strength performance flight time pretty much everything that's important has been improved the camera system on the air3 is also great and is serviceable for most even the professional photographer and videographer is going to find great use from the a3's camera but the mavic 3 outshines the air3 in basically every way when it comes to camera specs and image quality especially when you're looking at the triple camera setup on the pro model this means that for the potential air4 to be a worthy upgrade over the air3 to constitute a generational upgrade from the older drone we'd have to see a fair large Improvement to the Drone and camera system which I think could be the nail in the coffin to the mavic 3 making the air4 better than their professional platform I mean look at the size of these batteries in the leak the mavic 3 and air3 are already a similar size and shape meaning they have a similarly sized and shaped battery and this indicates that the air series might again grow in size I remember back to the original mavic air it was so small and has really grown up over the years but I think adding size is good to make these drones even more capable something that is really hanging me up though is the fact that the air3 literally just dropped it's not even a year old think about these people that invested into the platform of the air3 and now a total brand new drone comes out just one year later that'll probably dunk on this drone and make it way better now DJI is not afraid to release midcycle refreshes we've seen this across the board with different drones the mavic pro Platinum the Phantom 4 Pro the air 2s the mavic 3 Pro they've done this with a lot of different drones in the past in each of those instances it featured a similar body style to their previous versions respectively while adding small features to improve the overall flight experience the mavic pro Platinum changes were as small as a new paint job new propellers and upgraded esc's the Phenom 4 Pro was a larger step forward with new side and backwards obstacle avoidance sensors and a new camera with a 1-in sensor which was massive at the time the mavic 3 Pro was a smaller midcycle refresh as it just introduced the new 70mm medium Telly lens the a2s on the other hand was an even bigger upgrade Over The mavic Air 2 as it changed the name dro mavic it gave that tiny drone a 1-in sensor it added new upwards obstacle voidance sensors and it was also the first drone to upgrade its transmission system to the new 03 transmission system to me this also warranted calling the air 2s the air3 making it a generational update because of all of the changes they upgraded it in all the right areas the camera the obstacle avoidance the transmission system and if they were to just tweak the design a little bit they probably could have called this the air3 and gotten away with it you know the a2s here is still so good and was a mega value when it originally came out at only only $999 it was the go-to Drone of its time that I couldn't recommend enough so I guess what I'm trying to say here is that DJI releasing an air4 really isn't off the table it's not all that crazy they've definitely done worse in the past in terms of canonizing their own sales but at the end of the day they were the only game in town when it comes to making usable consumer drones so why not why not come out with an air for what do they have to lose right why not continue to push the ball forwards in terms of what they can fit inside of their intermediate drone I also think that coming out with an air four kind of makes sense from a naming scheme standpoint and kind of the way that their um their lineup of drones sit so for example you've got min4 Pro air3 mavic 3 Pro the mavic 3 is the oldest drone the mini4 pro is the second oldest drone and the air 3 is the newest drone so kind of the way that it goes is mini4 air3 mavic 3 in terms of price point and capabilities but then it's kind of flip-flopped right it goes mavic 3 Mini 4 air3 in terms of newness now in this regard I think that if they came out with an air4 and make it the second oldest drone and then if they came out with the mavic 4 and make it the newest drone so then both of those kind of lists that I made right there are going to be in line so the newest drone is the most expensive that is also the most capable in the mavic 4 then you've got the air4 which is kind of just as capable it's that intermediate drone that slots right in the middle it's the second oldest and then the oldest drone the mini4 pro is kind of slotted at the bottom it's the oldest it's the less expensive it's kind of the one that you jump into as a beginner and then from there they can kind of start from the bottom and work work their way up through every single upgrade cycle they could go mini 5 air5 mavic 5 mini 6 air 6 mavic 6 I don't know just a thought okay so let's switch gears here to a successor to the mavic 3 or the mavic 4 it's hard to say exactly what I'd want in an air4 because I'd be mentally trying to keep it worse than the mavic 3 so I just want to go all the way to the very top before we get into this though here's a quick word from this video sponsor Squarespace Squarespace is my all-in-one tool to share and manage my content the layout that I've chosen gives me the ability to share my photos videos and general information with my audience on my own term so I get to choose how it's displayed after choosing from one of their many templates I was able to fully customize the experience quickly and efficiently with the new fluid engine that makes building out your website a 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like 12 months ago nobody would ask me for vertical video now I find myself grabbing my air3 or the Mini 4 Pro to do vertical video like literally every day that's like I would say it's 70% of my business which is mindboggling of course you can crop video but nothing beats that native vertical when you're trying to film a subject for like a reel or something so I feel like and I know people probably like oh it's not like a professional format but I think it really is it's becoming a professional format and we need to see it I almost hate shooting video horizontal now sometimes because I'm so used to shooting it vertically I know I forget like the other day somebody hired me to do a video and I grabbed the she's like what are you doing I'm like oh crap that's right we're doing a real and I had to go grab my other you know my other gimbal but I think you know if you're going to tout it if it's going to be like the the the end all be all drone for DJI it has to be able to do everything the other drones do right and it has to do it really well you got to have that that Starlight feature so it needs to have vertical video for 100% yo what's on man all right so one feature in the mavic 4 what do you want one feature on the mavic 4 yeah uh fullframe sensor full frame hey go go home I think apsc is probably the way to go right probably but think about it I mean full frame why not do you want the mavic to be the size of the Inspire pretty much yeah so you just want an overall better camera on the mavic 4 do you think that they should do the triple camera setup or do you think that they should leave it to like one single sensor and give us like optical zoom personally I think it should be two different sensors instead of three um and then you keep like the 3x and the 1X is quite frankly most of what you need yeah if you think about it like when do you ever use the 7x to do anything 3x the 3x is what you're going to use the most so give her a better sensor on the 3x and then and then you have I mean you know I'm being fous too with the one inch but with the full the full frame because as it is right now the camera is so good but the 3x and the 7x is really where it lacks a little bit especially on the 7x but I don't know that you need all three quite frankly when the when the air3 came out and you had that 3x in there it was like this is what I needed the whole time you know it was nice to have a zoom on the other one but now it's like yeah so yes the one and only if you could have one feature on the mavic 4 what would it be one feature on the mavic 4 yeah probably I guess like vertical shooting vertical I don't know you're like the second person that said vertical shooting I don't know you fly the air3 you fly the air3 right now what do you wish that it did that it doesn't do oh faster faster there we go yo hey Bill all right one feature on the mavic 4 what do you want I can only pick one yes one this like an ultimate dream dream wish or just reasonable whatever you want I already have someone saying that they want a full-frame camera on the mavic 4 so so what do you want a fullframe camera yeah I want better dynamic range okay uh and I want seamless transition between the cameras for sure yeah that's so frustrating yeah look and dynamic range especially from a drone standpoint when you're dealing with really harsh sunlight is always welcome so I think that's that's something interesting that's something I didn't have on my wish list because I already like the dynamic range I think it's pretty good it's pretty good but I think for like for nighttime photogra or photography and video but like and it does look pretty good like your stuff is great when I see your oh thank you shots yeah it's it's wicked cool by all right one feature on the mavic 4 what would you want H difficult difficult question I would say something as simple as USBC on the actual battery yes yes USBC on the actual battery and dual card slots yes dual card slots all right well there you locked in your answer thank you thank [Music] you hey Sam what's going on Bill uh just wanted to call and ask what you think would be a great feature to add on the mavic 4 is the mavic 4 out yet haven't you been testing it I only have the mavic 2 the mini 2 I think I think that's what it's called okay so from your Prof opinion what would you want added to a mavic 4 cameras a new camera all right that' be nice yeah cool camera I don't even know how to drive a [Music] drone I'm calling I'm calling people asking what they would want on a mavic 4 what's your one feature you'd want on a mavic 4 I wanted to come with a tattoo that says iHeart BK okay but now if you had to be serious if you could choose one feature what would it be um Eternal friendship with BK no let me I I'll need to think about that um I'm on a search and rescue thing flying an m30 okay so should I call you back later yeah let me think about it are you recording this right now I'm recording right now you've got to give me an answer within the next three two one gosh what would I want I longer battery life like better U Better endurance okay um so you don't like the0 you don't like the 46 minutes that it has right now well I love it sure but I think I'd love 90 minutes more I I would too would you would you be okay with a bigger drone would you be okay with the Drone being like let's say one and a half times as big you know it would be nice if it had the capability like still the same form factor but then have the ability to plug in a much bigger better or much longer battery with a much higher capacity so the form factor is the same but why not have a zoom lens so you can get a lot of I don't know yeah why not why not cool well look everybody's answer was a quick one sentence you gave us a full entire paragraph So I appreciate appreciate you and I'm moving on to the next person thank you hey that the I love BK tattoo is a okay fine it'll come with it it'll be it'll be a little stencil [Music] later all right yo if you could have one feature on the mavic 4 what would it be zoom lens Optical okay how much Zoom do you want not a lot I think I think the three and the I think the three is good but there's times where the three is too much I would say and the Seven you know at least from a business perspective like if you're in the mountains and doing I'm sure it's great but for what I do having at least like one to four would be great yeah like jump the jump between one three and seven is just too big to have that that much optical zoom the digital zoom in between is useless yeah useless useless all right so it was pretty interesting to hear from some friends in the industry about what they want from a mavic 4 it seemed like most people were discussing the fact that they wanted an upgraded camera system in some way whether it's a new sensor optical zoom better dynamic range it seems like the camera is the one thing that most people want to improve whereas the Drone itself is fine in people's eyes they're fine with the speed they're fine with the range they're fine with the performance the flight time all of those things so DJ if you're watching it seems like most people want changes made to the camera now I made a list of things that I want changed here some some things I like to see in mavic 4 I've got about maybe 10 or 15 different things some of them are very small nuanced features and others could be a massive change that really do constitute that generational jump from mavic 3 to mavic 4 okay so the first change on my list here and by the way these are in like no particular order the first is dual micro SD card slots most professional drones cameras actually no drones just professional cameras have dual SD card slots so that you can write your data to both of those cards so that you have a backup just in case one fails or one corrupts it's also great to expand your storage so you could put like two one tbte SD cards in there and have two terabytes of total storage if you wanted so being able to have dual SD card slots would be great for a professional platform also give us more than 8 gbt of flash storage give us 512 256 it doesn't matter anything more than 8 gigs because I know flash storage is cheap and it' be very helpful to have more than eight in a case where I don't have an SD card so being able to even have 128 it doesn't matter just having more than 8 GB would be defitely welcomed I would also like to see the Drone be faster I'm always looking to fly as fast as possible and sometimes been trying to catch up with boats trains trying to reveal the city skyline I feel like the Drone is just a little bit slow and that's why I'll tend to lean on my Inspire 3 for my faster paced shoots but if I could get a tiny fast drone like the mavic 4 that would be awesome now I also like to have better gimbal range so I like that the Drone to be able to look up a little bit more uh almost like the mini four here so you kind of have this gimbal that can look way up it also combates for for a faster speed so that the camera doesn't knock down so being able to have a um better gimbal range would also be nice I know it's stupid Ken and a couple other people brought it up but vertical shooting uh look I shoot a ton of vertical video for clients for social media it's just kind of something you've got to do I actually almost feel like I shoot more vertical video than horizontal video so being able to have the option to natively shoot vertical video on the mavic 4 would definitely be a nice touch agreeing with Eddie I also want USBC ports on the actual batteries thems so sure it's nice to plug into the Drone and charge up the battery of the Drone but what if you're in a hotel room and you don't want to keep cycling batteries through the Drone well in that case you could just plug them right into the USBC Port so a port on the battery for charging would be nice optical zoom instead of multiple cameras I agree with I think Brett on this one being able to have the multiple cameras sure it's nice but you're kind of locked into the focal length of each camera to use to kind of have that full resolution and full quality I'd prefer a larger sensor with a shorter optical zoom distance so maybe anything between like 1 to 70 mm or I'm sorry 1 to 70 mm 24 to 70 mm or maybe 24 to 50 mm all Optical would be great on a nice large sensor that would be awesome uh speaking of larger sensor apsc could you imagine an apsc sensor on a mavic 3 a mavic mavic 4 mavic 4 Pro I mean you look at the Inspire 3 that has the full frame we now have the micro 4/3 or the 4/3 sensor on the mavic 3 bring us right in the middle and give us an apsc sensor and just give us one camera One camera optical zoom that would be great uh also on the trend of cameras a higher resolution would be great so we're topping out at 5.1k on the mavic 3 right now give us 6K give us something larger that would be nice uh also mechanical shutter that would also be great to have on the camera as well I'd also love to see user swappable payloads one for repairability so if I break my camera I can buy a new one and easily put it on I feel like the one thing that always rips off these drones is the camera because the gimbal is very fragile so if I crash sometimes the Drone will be fine but the camera is laying like 5T away so us user swappable payloads would be nice from like a repairability standpoint but also DJI in a year could come out with a new camera and sell it to us and make us buy it all over again so from a business standpoint I think it's good for DJI but also it's great for the consumer as well integrated LED beacons I'd love to see one on the top in the bottom for flying at night time for spotting as well as just for General visibility during the night time I think that putting one on the top and bottom makes sense so that if you're flying away or towards yourself you can always see that light Beacon I also think this is a big ask but 5G would be nice being able to integrate some sort of seller connection from the controller to the Drone would give you like infinite range so that would be a nice addition as well this is a little bit weird uh stick with me here a dual battery design that can also be put into a tiny little case to make it one battery so when you buy one battery it comes as one you can put it into the Drone as one but it can also be split into too for further redundancy and also for hot swapping that could be pretty cool uh I also have an SDK on here so releasing a Salter development kit for the mavic 4 would be great so that other companies can take advantage of the platform and just make it better like for example avss could therefore tap into the mavic 4 and make a parachute for it uh also I have something on here mentioning about the remote controller but the RC Pro is already so good I don't know how they can make it better but hey they went from Smart controller to RC Pro and made it better in that way so a new RC Pro 2 could be great as well with maybe a brighter screen more battery life and maybe some more custom buttons anyway that's pretty much all that I got for the air for rumors and my mavic 4 wish list let me know your thoughts down below what do you want in a mavic 4 and as always I'll talk to you later peace [Music]

Channel: Billy Kyle

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Length: 21min 54sec (1314 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 03 2024