A unique and useful creator drone with a few flaws

After mixing with $ 200 NeoDji, another innovative Drone, returned with flip. There are types of folding designs and shrouded propellers to protect people’s safety. It also combines 3D infrared obstacle detections to watch subjects and has a long list of effective features.

Borrowed with a camera Mini 4 Pro, Sort High quality 4K 60p can lead to or less risk. Vlogger comes with friendly features as direction footprints and fast footage for social media. Or you can fly by pressing DJI controllers, smartphones, voice administration or a button.

There is no permission requirement to fly it and the best is Precious from $ 439 With a RC-N3 controller – it makes it one of the more affordable drones. To see how well these creators are served, in a castle, in a 500-year-old house and flew in nature. It’s not perfect (hello, harsh winds and obstacles) and a bit harsh competition with it The hoverer X1 ProBut it is still one of the most useful creative drones.

Project

Flip has a smart, user-friendly design. All four propellers are wrapped and stacked below the body as a kind of star wars spacecraft. DJI has chosen this essay so that in a clash, the DJI should include permanent (more, more, more, separable) shrouds to restrict production or damage. The design also uses large propellers that help perform the performance and reduces the noise. For comparison, DJI’s Neo has a small, fast spinning propeller that creates loud noise.

Using DJI, carbon fiber and other lightweight materials, the battery and MicroSD card, including 250 grams, kept the flight weight. This means that flip can fly without special permissions. It is still large compared to the Eyed Housing X1 Pro, especially.

Flip is better than a battery life than your opponent. The DJI promises a 34-minute flight time (about 27 minutes in about 27 minutes) compared to only 16 minutes for X1 Pro. The batteries are charged with four optional batteries with a charging device quickly. Flip only needs a memory card because it has 2GB internal memory.

Flip, DJI’s first light drone, which is a 3D infrared sensor for the forward barrier and also has a low vision sensor for location detection and stability. However, unlike the mini 4 Pro and other DJI drones, there are no side or rear barrier sensors.

A small issue is that the flip propeller is very cleared, so it can be flipped in short grass in the appendix. Like Neo, although it is taken from your hand and has been more developed for landing. For this purpose, there is a button on the opposite side of the power switch to select flight mode or flight mode like NEO. Also, at the same time, the DJI RC-N3 controller (requires a smartphone) or a 5.5-inch screen, with a RC 2 controller (which requires a smartphone) can fly manually with a control device.

Features and performance

Flip, not bad for a light drone, but a little slowly slower than 26 mph in a smaller sports mode better than Mini 4 Pro (37 mph). However, reduced weight and large surface area, which means not the best in high winds. For example, when flying over the roof of a castle, a gust hit him a gust.

However, Flip Mini 4 can do what you will never try with Pro. Full propeller is well adapted to fly inside large rooms filled with protection, stability and relatively low noise, fragile things and people. This is an excellent choice for the creators of the event professionals and content that work in general venues, along with excellent image quality.

It’s also perfect for beginners because neo can turn off your hand by pressing a button. Then a programmed mode will fly in advance and start where it started. One of these modes allows you to follow the direction, drone back and watch you for vlogging. There is also a tracking mode for activities such as running and walking, along with social media friendly flight modes like Dronie, Rocket, Circle, Helix and Boomerang. Note that this automatic mode is limited to video 4K 30 FPS.

At the same time, sliding is easy to fly with a smartphone or supported controllers manually. Although the mini 4 pro is unable to maneuver, it is easier to fly inexperienced and make a fixed camera platform. You need to be careful in areas where flip sensors can make their father and unstable, unopened floors (painted concrete, painted concrete). When this happens, you are the best bet, to go to the sports regime to eliminate vision-based flight stability sensors (and then the obstacle will be disabled).

Undoubtedly, Flip, unlike the cheaper Neo, DJI’s sunglasses do not work with N3 and Motion 3 controller. Because Dji sees more camera drone, mostly more than an acrobatic device.

If you are hoping to use the flip to watch yourself or others, there is a great matter: there is no obstacle detection in any direction, except for the obstacle or lower. For example, if Drone flies back, for example, you have to make sure that nothing can be behind behind. And while using the flip’s smart features like Drowine Track or ActiveTrack, it will stop 10 meters of everything without hitting everything he found. The absence of this feature is an important part of the fact that it is not to prevent preventable, and Dji did not say that he planned to correct this issue through a future update. This is a problem with the hoverar X1 Pro that can follow with any, back and even side-barrier detection, which is a full obstacle.

Thanks to DJI’s O4 transmission system, there is a very small drone of drone, such as small drone. At the same time, the controller can send a high quality 1080p 60 FPS video signal that can be recorded as a backup. However, if you fly using your smartphone with a Wi-Fi connection, the range is limited to a total of 165 feet.

Camera

The cameras are the biggest difference between flip and neo. Flip comes with a large 1 / 1.3-inch 48 megapixel sensor and 24 mm equivalent wide angle F / 1.7 lens. Mini 4 is the same as Pro and provides sharp, noisy video.

Not only 30 fps like Neo, you can take 4k video of 60 fps (slow-MO mode in slow-MO mode). In addition, Flip supports 10-bit D-LOGM videos that allow a dynamic range that enhanced in bright lighting, as in ski slopes. You can also take pictures of 12mp or 48MP RAW (DNG).

Video quality is more important than NEO and flip is a better light for night shoots or dark settings thanks to low noise levels. Although DJI Air 3s and Mavic 4 offer higher quality due to larger sensors, the good light does not make a big difference. Because the flip is only a camera, the video is noticeably noisy when using 2x zoom. Note that in automated modes (direction track, dronie, etc.) is not hand control over the camera to adjust the shutter speed and ISO.

The Hoverair X1 Pro has a 1 / 1.3-inch sensor in the same size and is very similar to video quality (also with a log mode), even if I find the colors of DJI more accurately. If you spend an extra $ 200 for the Pro Max version to get a hoverair, 8K 30fps and 4K 120FPS, it is a little lower than averagirs.

With a gimbal with three astrokes, flip draws smooth videos like silk, even if it is buffet by winds. FPV mode can also watch the camera level that allows you to bend for Cameron Banks or the camera for a more interesting first person prospect. In general, the video shows the actions of a smooth, hoveryphone from the X1 Pro with sudden maneuvers and demonstrates casual janky actions.

The flip camera does not turn 90 degrees of mini 4 PROs, so the maximum resolution for vertical video is 2,7K – Mini 4 Pro Pro is 4K 60 FPS 9:16 vertical video.

Wrinkle

This Sort Represents a daring change in the direction (and design) for DJI. Unlike open prop drones, the creators allow you to shoot people with unusual and high video quality. And this is less than $ 439 – more than $ 759 $ 4 Pro. However, Flip is not perfect, the lack of obstacles while using clever modes, reduced maneuver, as a smarttrack in the wind and ActiveTrack.

As I mentioned, DJI is a serious competition in this category, ie $ 500 permanent X1 Pro. Both Palm flights, smart flight modes and theme tracking and similar quality, but the rear side of the Hozair X1 Pro offers active collision detection, a wider lens and more internal memory. It is also half of the flip size. In turn, Flip flight has twice and longer transmission range.

Then the choice depends on what you want. If the transportation, subject tracking and obstruction is a better choice of the hoverair X1 Pro. A company that prioritizes battery life is a smooth video and a more built-in company must choose fli. Anyway, DJI usually prefers all drone categories, so it is very nice to see many products in this creative center.