DJI Mavic 4 Pro | 168mm Telephoto with D-Log & Insane Subject Recognition!

0:00 Now, inside this bag is the Mavic 3 Pro.

0:02 And inside this bag is the brand new Mavic 4 Pro.

0:05 One of my personal favorite upgrades is not

0:07 necessarily something you see on the spec sheet,

0:10 but something you will definitely notice every single

0:11 time you actually go and use the drone,

0:13 which is how long and tedious is the process

0:16 of getting the drone out of the bag, booted up, set up, and into the air.

0:20 I don't know, maybe it's just my impatience or laziness,

0:22 but the less painful it is to use something, the more often I'm going to use it.

0:28 Now, if you were paying close attention,

0:30 you may have noticed a few details that gave the Mavic 4 Pro the victory.

0:33 While the Mavic 3 Pro is still fiddling with those thumb stick things,

0:37 something I've been complaining about forever.

0:39 Instead of having to screw and unscrew your thumb sticks

0:42 in, I wish that it could just fold in itself.

0:45 This controller.

0:46 Ooh.

0:47 Okay.

0:47 Dang.

0:48 It's just a big old screen.

0:50 So, how's this work?

0:50 Does it Okay, it flips up and Oh,

0:53 you like how it just turned on without me pressing and doing the tap and hold.

0:57 I just got to go through the setup here.

0:59 But dang, this is a chunky screen.

1:02 I like that.

1:04 Wait a second.

1:05 I did not install these.

1:07 This.

1:07 Now we're talking.

1:09 I go down and so does the thumb sticks.

1:13 Thank you.

1:14 Now, you may have also noticed that I

1:15 didn't actually have to power on the drone.

1:17 When you unfold the legs, it automatically boots up.

1:20 That's cool.

1:21 Like, at first, it kind of surprised me, but now it's like, oh, that's awesome.

1:23 Like, I I would much rather have that.

1:25 Just a little bit faster when you're out in the field.

1:27 One less step.

1:28 Yes, it turns on automatically, too.

1:30 It turned on.

1:30 I didn't do I didn't press the button on nothing.

1:32 So, you just folded the legs out.

1:33 It turned on.

1:34 It turns on.

1:34 How do you turn it off?

1:36 The same way.

1:36 So, by default, you have to turn it off the normal way,

1:39 but I turned on the setting where it should just turn off when you collapse it.

1:44 Okay.

1:44 So, that's a setting.

1:44 That's an option.

1:45 Now, even though DJI has been one of my favorite sponsors,

1:47 they've always allowed me to talk about the things I love about

1:50 their stuff as well as the limitations I find as long as it's accurate.

1:54 So, after we're done with all our tests and flights and comparisons,

1:57 I will let you know what my favorite

1:59 and least favorite thing about this Mavic 4 Pro is.

2:02 All right, so now to the good stuff.

2:03 We have three cameras just like we did before,

2:06 a wide angle, a mid, and a telephoto.

2:10 And we have solid upgrades to all three of them.

2:13 So, first of all, DLOG across the whole board.

2:16 Not just DLOG M, but DLOG, full-on DLO.

2:19 And when the Mavic 3 came out two years ago,

2:21 I felt like it was very exciting at the time

2:23 because it gave us a really good wide angle lens,

2:26 but it really just gave a lot of us a taste

2:30 of what telephoto lenses can do out of a drone.

2:33 But when it first came out, it had a lot of limitations.

2:35 But now the super telephoto is, I would say, very usable.

2:38 I mean, it's full DLOG.

2:39 It has the frame rates I want.

2:41 We also have a larger sensor in the super telephoto.

2:44 It's a one over 1.5 in sensor.

2:47 You do the math.

2:48 I mean, it's much bigger than the 1/2 in sensor that used to be in here.

2:52 And it's not quite as large as the one over

2:54 1.3 in sensor that we see in the mid lens,

2:58 but the fact that I can finally really comfortably use

3:01 the super telephoto out of this Mavic 4 Pro is awesome.

3:05 Your first side by side here, yours is sharper.

3:08 That's what I'm noticing.

3:08 Oh, yeah.

3:09 Yeah.

3:09 Instantly like way cleaner cleaner image.

3:12 Yeah.

3:12 Let's do a 5x.

3:14 Yeah.

3:15 Way more details on the pants.

3:16 like your beard for example.

3:18 I can see your facial hair on the four,

3:20 but on the three it's like it's just All three cameras gotten an upgrade,

3:24 but the super telephoto is probably the one I'm most excited

3:26 about cuz I've been wanting to use that lens for so long,

3:29 but it's just never quite clear enough.

3:32 It's never quite crisp enough.

3:33 But that being said, the wide angle having an f2.0 lens opposed

3:38 to your f2.8 is a nice upgrade as well.

3:42 So, Mavic 3 Pro is maxed out on its low light right now, but Mavic 4 Pro,

3:46 I can go ahead and just open up that lens to f2,

3:49 and that already gives me a lot more low light.

3:51 But also, I could go up to ISO 3200.

3:53 Look at that.

3:55 And I can even go further.

3:56 6400.

3:57 Oh, jeez.

3:58 That's crazy, huh?

3:59 That's awesome.

4:00 Look at that low light difference.

4:01 Oh my god.

4:02 Jeez.

4:02 Yeah.

4:03 That's actually incredible low light.

4:04 Can you see how dark it is outside on the camera?

4:07 It's like this makes it look bright outside.

4:09 Crazy.

4:10 I could see your face in the vehicle.

4:12 Oh, yeah.

4:13 This is with our mid-range lenses.

4:16 I see more lens flare on the three.

4:18 Maybe I just have a hood that cuts a little bit earlier.

4:21 Or just the glass is higher quality glass over here.

4:24 These are just theories.

4:25 We don't actually know.

4:26 There's more dynamic range, too.

4:27 We had perfectly matched exposure settings.

4:29 And look, you're already clipping here on the mountain.

4:32 So, the mid lens is 70 mm on both of our lenses.

4:36 But what's interesting is on the controller, for you it shows up as a 3x lens,

4:40 but for me it shows up as a 2.5x.

4:42 And the reason for that is because my wideangle

4:44 lens is a little bit tighter in than yours.

4:47 So my wide angle is a 28.

4:49 Mine is a 24.

4:50 Right.

4:51 It's measuring it off of that.

4:52 Exactly.

4:53 So I have a 100 megapixel mode.

4:55 100 megapixel mode.

4:56 I'm actually kind of surprised that the 100 megapixel has a raw with it.

4:59 It's a DNG file.

5:01 111 megabytes for one photo.

5:03 That's good.

5:03 Let's go 10x like full extreme.

5:06 I mean, it is sharper.

5:07 It is better.

5:08 I get more detail here in the snow.

5:10 Mhm.

5:10 It's sharper.

5:11 Trees also.

5:12 Do you have different modes in terms of resolutions or anything?

5:15 I have mode called low battery.

5:17 We just took off at the same exact time, right?

5:19 Yeah, pretty much.

5:20 You're at 18 17% now.

5:22 I'm at 45 still.

5:23 Holy crap.

5:24 Yeah.

5:25 And we've been doing the same exact fight and we've been out here for a while.

5:28 Yeah.

5:28 Oh, snap.

5:29 I got active track for birds now.

5:31 What is that?

5:32 a bird.

5:32 I found a bird.

5:33 Yeah, it knows that it's a bird.

5:35 Now we're talking.

5:37 Oh yeah.

5:38 Like how it dives down like that.

5:39 Like that's hard to track.

5:40 I think I should do some 4K 60 here.

5:43 Oh, that's so cool.

5:45 Wow.

5:46 Frank, oh my gosh, look at this.

5:47 Oh jeez.

5:49 The sun is red right now.

5:50 It's blasting the Look at that.

5:52 Oh, look at this tracking though.

5:53 That's pretty impressive, huh?

5:55 That's very Oh, dang.

5:56 It literally We just lost the sun on it.

5:58 Tell it to go up higher cuz it was just hovering there.

6:01 It was not.

6:01 I thought that was you.

6:02 Yeah, that was crazy cuz it was just stand still,

6:05 but it must have just been flying against

6:06 the wind and it just like perfectly still.

6:08 Oh, if I could get the bird with the moon with the background.

6:16 So, I've actually used this bird mode before.

6:19 Flashback to my very first flight.

6:21 You It's got a boat icon.

6:23 That's insane.

6:24 But look at this.

6:25 Oh, snap.

6:26 Was it like tracking all of them for a moment?

6:28 When you see the plus, it's like, which one of these do you want to select?

6:32 So then you could just toggle between the different ones.

6:34 Honestly, I was really impressed because just look how hard

6:36 it is to see the birds even with your eyes.

6:38 Now, in this situation, the active track was definitely losing it.

6:41 I have to keep grabbing it.

6:42 But that's to be expected.

6:44 I mean, considering how hard it is to even see with your eyes, right?

6:47 Yeah.

6:47 Because of the environment.

6:48 Like, look at this parking lot.

6:51 The tracking is really responsive,

6:52 but I almost want to say here it's a little bit too

6:55 responsive cuz a bird is not moving at a super steady speed, right?

6:58 It's like every time it flaps its wing, it moves a little bit.

7:01 You could actually see that translating in the camera a little bit, right?

7:05 So, it it tells you how responsive this thing is,

7:08 but it's it's almost too responsive in this case.

7:10 So, maybe that's just like a algorithm

7:12 adjustment where they just like dampen it slightly.

7:14 Have you noticed how much I was trusting the sensors of the Yeah, way too much.

7:19 So, basically, these sensors require almost

7:21 no light for the obstacle avoidance sensors.

7:23 They call them like I think it was

7:25 0.1 lux vision sensors or something like that.

7:28 And I've already taken it on a ride through foresty area,

7:31 which is honestly like probably the hardest type

7:34 of terrain for a drone to track, right?

7:36 Like if we're on a dry lake bed, that's easy.

7:39 But places like this is pretty tough.

7:41 It has what, like four times more information of its surroundings

7:46 with the vision sensors than like I think the Airs 3S even.

7:49 So, it's going to be better at detecting more things.

7:53 I had it just tracking me through some of the sketchiest looking tree branches.

7:57 Like look at that.

7:58 A lot of phantom branches, right?

8:00 But I was just kind of trusting that it would see it.

8:04 That would be devastating to have already crashed this.

8:06 Oh, here we go.

8:07 Here we go.

8:07 G.

8:08 Yeah, I know.

8:09 It's scary to look at this footage.

8:11 I was kind of testing out the active track here to see

8:13 how well it could kind of follow and stay with me.

8:16 I mean, that that that's pretty impressive

8:18 how it kind of navigated there, right?

8:20 But you could see anytime something gets in between me and the drone,

8:23 it has to start searching again.

8:25 In a situation like this, it's not like you could just like have

8:28 it track you and then just forget it's there and just do your thing,

8:30 or else you might realize it got stuck somewhere, right?

8:33 But it's definitely way better at reacquiring you.

8:36 I think that's along the same lines of what we saw

8:38 earlier with the birds where it could just kind of see everything.

8:41 It can refine you pretty easily.

8:43 All right, so on Instagram, I have asked all of you for questions

8:46 and let's see if I can answer any of these.

8:48 Photojuice asks, "How much noise does it make?" Well,

8:52 I'm pretty sure that's what this number here is.

8:54 Is 83 dB.

8:55 So, I think from a technical standpoint,

8:57 it's a it's a tiny bit louder than the previous Mavic 3 Pro, but honestly,

9:01 all of us thought it was a lot quieter,

9:03 and I think it's just because it's just a much deeper tone.

9:06 It's more like a a hum rather than like a buzz.

9:10 Ooh, that felt nice.

9:11 It's heavier, but it's not necessarily louder, I feel.

9:15 Well, bigger props makes lesser noise.

9:17 And the shape of it is different.

9:19 Different.

9:19 A lot different.

9:20 It has more of a pitch to it.

9:21 Now Josh asks, "Does the camera spin 360 or something?" Uh, yeah.

9:26 So, they have something called the Infinity Gimbal on here now.

9:29 Kind of fun, but it is important to know

9:31 that as you roll the camera into different positions,

9:33 there are limitations to how much you can tilt based on how much you roll.

9:37 So, look right here.

9:39 Right there.

9:40 See this green dot right here?

9:41 Now, notice as I roll the camera, that kind of shrinks down.

9:45 So notice that as I'm 90° sideways,

9:48 I really only have a few degrees of tilt angle that I have.

9:52 And then as I go fully upside down, I get my full range back.

9:57 So it does kind of let you know how

10:00 much tilting motion that you have capable to you.

10:03 So as you can see, we are all the way maxed out at minus 400 right now.

10:08 And then I think I could actually just hit this and it'll fully reset me.

10:12 Then that's my other limit.

10:14 40°.

10:15 Sammy, look at this.

10:16 What?

10:18 Oh, it spins this too.

10:20 Oh, it does.

10:21 So, when you want to go spin this, that's pretty 9 by6.

10:25 So, here's vertical right here.

10:27 So, my max tilt down.

10:30 I get about 11° downward and then I could get around the same upward.

10:36 Now, I'm on the wide angle.

10:37 Does it change at all?

10:38 No, it's about the same.

10:39 About 10 to 11°.

10:42 So, there's this mode here,

10:43 which is a 4K vertical mode where it gives me the frame guides,

10:46 but I have full tilt capability all the way down to 90 degrees.

10:51 How much can I go up in this mode?

10:55 Oh, that's pretty good.

10:57 What is that?

10:57 70° upward tilt.

10:59 Roman the Explorer asks, "Dynamic range?

11:01 How does the image look compared to the Mavic 3?" So,

11:04 according to the spec sheet, it says 16 stops of dynamic range for the wide,

11:08 14 stops for the mid, and 13 stops for the tight.

11:12 Molto Leonard says, "Why do they keep using small sensors and fixed

11:16 iris for the zoom cameras?" I got to assume it's because of weight.

11:20 When you go bigger on the sensor and you want to telephoto,

11:22 that's going to get bigger.

11:24 Especially if you want it to still be fast, then it's got to get way bigger.

11:28 So, I don't know.

11:28 I think they're just balancing weight and size.

11:30 That's my guess at least.

11:32 Andy King Photo says, "Will there be vertical video with all the lenses?" Yes,

11:36 absolutely, because when you turn the whole

11:38 gimbal over to the side, it all turns.

11:41 And look at that rotation right there.

11:42 Skimboard man asks, "How much flight time off of one battery?" Uh,

11:46 technically, it says 51 minutes on the spec sheet,

11:49 but no one actually flies in these perfect

11:51 environments and runs the battery down to zero.

11:53 For me personally, I have gotten about roughly 33 minutes is kind of my average.

11:59 before it gets to about 20% that's when I land it.

12:01 And I know that doesn't sound like much when you

12:03 compare it to the spec sheet that says 51 minutes.

12:05 But I am always doing a mix of some slow stable flying

12:08 as well as some sport mode 55 mph and then filming the whole time.

12:12 So I am aggressive on my batteries and I'm

12:16 still getting 33 minutes before even the warning comes up.

12:20 So uh that's honestly really good.

12:21 Manny says ND filters.

12:23 Yeah, I personally don't have ND filters yet.

12:24 So, all this footage that I shot have not had ND filters yet,

12:28 but I believe this just rotates off and you can just slap ND filters on.

12:33 I just am still waiting for those, but that will

12:35 definitely help with making things a lot more cinematic.

12:37 Brad in real life says, "Do all lenses have matching res and log?" So,

12:41 yeah, we already talked about how all of these have log,

12:43 but the uh wide angle on here has uh 6K now 6K 60 or you could go to 4K 120.

12:50 Uh it does crop it a little bit at 4K120.

12:53 Unknown combo asks, "What's the pricing?" In the top, we have the basic combo,

12:57 the Flymore combo, which of course has

12:58 like the extra batteries and extra goodies,

13:00 but this has been the creator combo that we've been testing,

13:03 which has this nice fancy RC2 Pro controller,

13:07 but also there's some differences in the drone, too.

13:10 So, kind of like the previous version where there was

13:12 the one version that had the terabyte built-in and ProRes.

13:15 It's kind of like that where this version has 512 gigs of built-in SSD storage,

13:22 but also a codec which is all I the intra frame codec.

13:27 So, denser file that's better for more professional level stuff.

13:32 But honestly, uh a lot of what I shot was uh H.265 just

13:36 because I think that's what a majority of people are going to get.

13:39 And Ceny asks, is ProRes not going to be a thing anymore?

13:43 So, yeah, no more ProRes in the drone,

13:45 which uh I think some people may be sad about.

13:49 But I do know that the uh Complex Aerial

13:51 guys who do a lot of very high-end professional work,

13:54 uh Sammy and Josh, they were a bit disappointed.

13:56 One biggest thing is kind of think cuz it doesn't

13:59 have ProRes and a lot of people like the ProRes feature.

14:01 Yeah, they might feel like, oh, no ProRes, no money.

14:05 But they were very happy when they saw the full

14:07 size HDMI coming out of the bottom of this controller.

14:10 Josh, it's full HDMI out.

14:11 Really?

14:12 Not like that little micro one again.

14:14 That's actually that's incredible.

14:15 Do you guys ever use active track or no?

14:17 No, just mainly just because it would come out of ProRes.

14:20 So, and then you So, that's the thing.

14:22 So, if can you use all those features like active track

14:25 and like orbiting and all that and still get the same quality.

14:29 Well, let's see.

14:29 You're in all eye right now, right?

14:30 So, you're in the high quality mode.

14:32 Yeah.

14:32 Focus track enabled.

14:33 Okay.

14:33 So, you know how how good that's going to be?

14:35 You can still shoot high quality and cheat some shots.

14:39 In the Mavic 3, you guys never used any of the smart

14:41 features because because you lose the quality of ProRes and everything.

14:44 Yeah, exactly.

14:45 Of course, there's spotlight and active track.

14:47 So, spotlight is available on all three cameras

14:50 and basically just frames the camera for you.

14:52 So, all you have to really worry about is maneuvering the drone, right?

14:55 But in spotlight mode,

14:56 the drone will not actually move without you giving it some input.

15:00 Right now, there's active track where the drone will

15:03 actually fly itself and chase you around the block.

15:06 That feature is available on the wide and the mid,

15:09 but it is not available on the tightest lens.

15:12 I do remember being pretty impressed

15:14 with the minimum focus distance of that super tight.

15:17 We also get a few improvements in speed.

15:19 Raced Frank and his Mavic 3 Pro and we've always

15:22 won in normal mode where all the sensors are turned on.

15:25 I was able to hit 40 mph in a wide open space.

15:30 So, better sensors means that they can

15:32 work even when the drone is flying faster.

15:35 and even flying backwards.

15:36 I was able to hit 40 mph.

15:38 And in sport mode, of course, a lot of it has to do with wind,

15:41 but I was able to hit like 55 and also how fast the batteries charged.

15:45 So, you can fully charge one battery from zero in.

15:48 It says 43 minutes and all three in 90 minutes.

15:51 But I was also happy to see that I can just plug like my laptop

15:55 charger straight into the USBC and I was

15:59 able to fully charge a battery that way.

16:01 So, if you're just trying to pack ultra light.

16:03 All right, so now it is time for my favorite

16:05 and least favorite thing about the Mavic 4 Pro.

16:07 It's honestly hard to kind of just pick one

16:08 thing because there's so many improvements with the camera,

16:10 with the aircraft, the workflow, everything.

16:12 But if I could only choose one thing, I would say I really loved using

16:16 the smart tracking feature with the ultra tight lens.

16:20 It just kind of felt like cheating on how easy it

16:22 was to make something look really epic with that super compression,

16:25 with that super tight lens.

16:26 I know I'm going to like the quality of the footage.

16:29 you know, it's going to be in DLOG and I'm also less

16:32 stressed about crashing because of the upgraded

16:34 obstacle avoidance sensors in all directions.

16:36 It's effortless and the footage just looks so good.

16:39 Now, my least favorite feature with the Mavic 4 Pro is there's still not

16:44 a great way to record good quality audio and sync it up with the drone.

16:50 And even as something as simple as time

16:52 code built in would be such tremendous help.

16:57 and even their little action 5 Pro and the Pocket

17:00 3 that has a basic form of time code.

17:03 Now, there is actually a fun feature now where there is a microphone built

17:07 into the controller and that basically will send

17:10 a little audio file to the drone itself.

17:13 But, uh the downside of it is it sounds like this.

17:15 I guess it's kind of cool that I can like narrate my flights.

17:18 Yeah, something different.

17:19 Something more options.

17:20 Yeah, there is also a way to pair the DJI

17:23 Bluetooth mic onto the controller and then transmit the audio there.

17:26 But, uh, here's how that sounds.

17:27 I basically paired the DJI mic into the controller,

17:30 which will then transmit the audio files to the drone.

17:34 Uh, kind of cool, huh?

17:36 But here's the downside.

17:37 The sound quality is kind of like meh.

17:39 But at least on the bright side,

17:40 I could look at the audio recorded on the controller as kind of reference audio,

17:44 so it'll make it easier for me to sync to my master audio at least.

17:49 So, there is that.

17:50 I do love that DJI is at least thinking about audio going to the drone.

17:55 Honestly, that's like I think one of the big

17:57 things I'm really kind of hoping for or time

17:59 code because then I could just overall uh really

18:02 happy with the image quality out of all three cameras.

18:05 The DLOG is saves the day.

18:08 The aircraft just flies better.

18:10 The workflow, man.

18:11 Oh, I love just how fast I can just boot it up and just go this leg.

18:17 Turns out it's just this one leg that I have to unfold for it to boot up.

18:21 So, this is the secret leg to power on.

18:24 and uh power back off.

18:26 It takes about 8 seconds for this to power off.

18:29 So that's the amount of time I have left

18:31 where you can like kind of click on things.

18:33 Uh links in description and stuff like that.

18:35 And uh