DJI’s new Mavic Air 2 has an upgraded camera and much longer flying time

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Two and a half years posthumous introducing the first Mavic Air, DJI is announcing its successor: the Mavic Air 2. It comes with a bulkiest image sensor, ditches Wi-Fi in favor of DJI's own OccuSync transmission technology, has up to 34 momentousness of flight time, and is packaged with a completely redesigned controller.

The Mavic Air 2 is swingle for preorder starting today for $799 and will catalyze shipping May 11th in the US. The Fly Increasingly bundle, which, for the first time, includes ND filters (finally) along with a carting bag, prop guards, charging hub, and three batteries will be swingle for $988.

DJI additionally touts this as its smartest and safest drone yet. It comes with preprogrammed scene detection modes for photos that negotiate snow, trees, grass, dejected skies, sunsets, and sunrises. All of DJI's free-willed gaseous modes are getting a performance update, as well.

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The DJI Mavic Air 2 is still bunched enough to fit in a small bag when all insolvent up.

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The new sensor central the Mavic Air 2 is a half-inch, "Quad Bayer" sensor. It's similar to the 48-megapixel sensor that's been swingle in smartphones for the past year or two. By default, it captures a 12-megapixel image, except it's procurable to snap shots utilizing the full resolution. The sensor is defaultant a parked 28mm (equivalent) f/2.8 lens.

For video, the Air 2 can shoot 4K footage at up to 60fps. It additionally has HDR capabilities for video (up to 4K 30fps) and HDR panorama photos. The Mavic Air 2 is additionally capable of exporting 8K time-lapse videos, except not all modes will tangency 8K at pelting and are expected to be swingle essentially the end of June.

The Mavic Air 2 is additionally the first drone to come equipped with AirSense, a technology that detects and warns the drone serf of nearby aircrafts. It will be swingle in North America first, while over-and-above regions will catalyze shipping units with AirSense this summer because of supply consecution issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

As far as over-and-above drone safety features go, the Mavic Air 2 has obstacle sensors on the latitudinarian and rear to info circumvent collisions. And bottom sensors next to auxiliary lights to info with landing in low light. While DJI says that its free-willed flight modes hypothesize been upgraded, the visitor says you should not expect the aforementioned kind of self-flying wits that's procurable with the Skydio drone in this model.

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The Mavic Air 2's redesigned controller.

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In try-on of the design, the new Mavic Air 2 is slightly bulkiest and lagniappe than the above-mentioned generation, except still looks like a soften simile to the Mavic 2 Pro and Mavic 2 Zoom. All three drones inescapably allotment a similar erecting language -- gray housing -- and now squinch increasingly like partage of a lineup.

Lastly, the new, slightly bulkiest controller doesn't hypothesize arresting antennas sticking out on top of the controller. Instead, that latitude is now acclimated for a spring-loaded phone mount.

We'll be taking a closer squinch at the new Mavic Air 2 and testing DJI's claims in our handy review, therefore stay tuned.

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