Priced from 4788 yuan, what does DJI's bucket-level entry-level drone look like?

Just last month on September 25, DJI officially released a new aerial photography drone - DJI Mini 4 Pro, priced at 4788 with a normal remote control and priced from 5988 with a screen remote control:

DJI Mini series as the first choice for many people to get started with drones, originally Tony planned to bring you the evaluation of this drone as soon as possible.

It's just a coincidence that Hangzhou just banned drones in the whole region for a while, and the control time began on September 1 and ended on October 28, during which you can only go out of Hangzhou if you want to shoot materials.

So the situation becomes: aerial shooting materials all rely on our editorial colleagues to help shoot when they travel or go on business trips, but you also know this kind of thing, mainly depends on fate.

You say that if it belongs to a regular iteration, let's not write articles, the key is that the update of Mini 4 Pro is quite large, and it can even be said to be an epic upgrade in some aspects.

Therefore, although there are relatively few aerial shooting materials prepared this time, I think it is still necessary to tell you what this drone has updated.

If you are considering buying a drone, thinking that you can travel on holidays or take it out on weekends, then the Mini 4 Pro is the most suitable choice at the moment.

Why do you say that?

I know that many people want to buy but have not made up their minds to buy drones for two main reasons: the first is to worry that drones will be eaten ashes when they are bought; The second is the fear that if one is not careful, it will blow up the plane.

Many people have mentioned eating ash

It seems to me that UAVs eat ashes.

On the one hand, because we don't have so many opportunities to go out and play, on the other hand, it is also because drones are not as portable as mobile phones, and bringing drones when going out is an additional burden.

Of the two reasons, the former is an objective factor that may not be changed in a short period of time, while the latter is very subjective.

There has always been a wise saying in the photography industry: a camera that can often be taken out to take pictures is a good camera, and this sentence is also true on drones.

No matter how good a drone configuration is, as long as we don't want it to take it out, then it is a decoration, and only by taking the drone out to shoot can it play its maximum value.

And what DJI Mini doesn't have in other DJI drones is that it's really lightweight, and even with a charger, three batteries and remote control, it can easily fit in a small satchel.

This time the Mini 4 Pro still continues the traditional advantages of the series.

It has only minor differences in appearance compared to its predecessor, with an intelligent flight battery that can provide 34 minutes of endurance as standard, the overall weight is still lighter than 249 grams, and the fuselage is even more hand-held after folding.

And needless to say, this weight is already lighter than some flagship phones, for comparison, DJI Air 3 weighs 720 grams, DJI Mavic 3 weighs 895 grams.

Mini 4 Pro even with a screen remote control, is lighter than its two big brothers, let's not consider their performance gap, from the portability alone it is better ~

As for the fried machine that many novices will worry about.

The most criticized point of the previous Mini series drones is that although it is positioned as entry, DJI has not given the omnidirectional obstacle avoidance function to this series of drones for positioning and price considerations.

You see, Mini 3 only has downward view obstacle avoidance, Mini 3 Pro is front-looking, rear-viewing, downward-looking obstacle avoidance in three directions, omnidirectional obstacle avoidance is only available in the higher-positioned Air and Mavic series.

And in this generation, DJI finally put omnidirectional obstacle avoidance down to the Mini series!

The body of the Mini 4 Pro is equipped with 4 wide-angle vision sensors and downward-looking binocular vision sensors, which can achieve obstacle avoidance in all directions, and it not only supports braking but also detour when encountering obstacles.

Although with omnidirectional obstacle avoidance, it may not be possible to guarantee that the drone will not blow up, but the addition of this function to the Mini series greatly reduces the probability of bombing, which is definitely a good thing for us.

For various unexpected scenarios such as drone falls, water ingress, and flying losses, DJI has previously launched a casual change service called DJI Care.

It is a bit similar to Apple Care +, buy this service, the drone is broken we only need to spend a little more money to repair, and it even comes with third-party liability insurance, the protection is quite comprehensive.

However, if the drone accidentally flies and loses the connection, it will still bleed heavily...

OK, after talking about "eating ashes" and "bombing", the two biggest concerns that many people have before buying drones, the next question becomes whether we can take good aerial photos and videos with it.

Among them, the photo should be quite good to take, because the drone is in the sky, the perspective of God brought by the drone itself is very unique and shocking, do not understand the composition we can also learn and sell by referring to other people's works~

But shooting videos is different, because in addition to understanding composition, we also need to master the corresponding lens skills, which requires long-term practice, and it is really difficult to shoot a good video in a short time.

In response to this, DJI has made the Mini series support one-click movie function from a very early stage, allowing the drone to automatically shoot short films with fixed lens movement methods such as drifting, surrounding, spiraling, and soaring.

However, in the end, it is just a template, and after using it for a long time, you will find it quite boring, so later DJI also decentralized the master lens, time-lapse photography and focus following functions to Mini.

The master lens is equivalent to the advanced version of the one-click short film, which can automatically shoot multiple materials with different lens movements according to the scene, and it can also achieve a one-stop editing soundtrack, which is indeed very foolish to operate.

It's just that the finished product edited with the master lens, the traces of material splicing are still quite obvious.

And time-lapse photography is not much different from the time-lapse photography function on the mobile phone, don't say, usually we use this function to shoot some clouds, traffic is quite easy to produce:

As for the focus following function, it is definitely a sharp weapon for individual combat, such as when cycling and driving, as long as the target is selected in advance, the drone will automatically follow the target for shooting.

In this way, even a person can get an aerial perspective, but it only provides three follow-up modes: intelligent following, focusing, and point of interest surrounding, and the following method is actually a bit single:

After the Mini 4 Pro supports omnidirectional obstacle avoidance, DJI has also upgraded the focus following function, bringing us "omnidirectional intelligent following" and supporting us to customize the following trajectory.

And it is worth mentioning that this function is still the first launch of this machine, and the Mavic series that is currently positioned higher and more expensive than it is not available, and the card is directly full.

It can be said that with the blessing of the above functions, the Mini 4 Pro has indeed become much easier to make films. Speaking of which, some people may also worry that the Mini 4 Pro's performance is not enough.

The gimbal equipped with the Mini 4 Pro is the same as the Mini 3 Pro, with a built-in 1/1.3-inch CMOS and 48 million effective pixels, but thanks to the improvement of computing power and algorithm upgrades, its picture quality has been slightly improved:

In addition to this, it also allows us to take photos in 48-megapixel RAW format.

And in terms of video.

The Mini 4 Pro supports 4K/60fps HDR video shooting, can record up to 4K/100fps slow-motion video, and its night performance has been improved after the noise reduction algorithm has been upgraded:

And it also allows us to record 10-bit D-Log M for post-grading:

Let's just say that the Mini 4 Pro is more than enough to record life.

Of course, its image capabilities are certainly incomparable with the DJI Mavic 3 of Hasselblad 4/3 CMOS and the Air3 with dual main cameras, after all, their prices are here, you get what you pay for~

In addition to the aforementioned above, DJI has also upgraded the Mini 4 Pro's image transmission from the previous generation of O3 image transmission to the current O4 image transmission, which can bring high-definition image transmission up to 20 kilometers.

As for its battery life, it has basically not changed.

Intelligent flight battery is standard and lasts up to 34 minutes; Long-life intelligent flight battery, the longest battery life is up to 45 minutes, and if you want to fly when you go out, you still have to add money to the long-life battery.

In short, after making up for the biggest shortcoming of obstacle avoidance, the Mini 4 Pro can finally be called a bucket-type drone, and if you have a budget of 4788, you can indeed consider it.

Of course, drones are not strictly speaking, just needed, before buying, you still have to carefully consider.

And from January 1 next year, the new UAV regulation "Interim Regulations on the Management of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles" will also be officially implemented, which puts forward more standardized requirements for UAV pilots and pilots.

It is recommended that friends can carefully read this regulation before buying a drone to see if they can comply with these specifications when flying drones, thank you for watching~