DJI’s new Mavic 3 Professional rocks three cameras as a substitute of two

The brand new DJI Mavic 3 Professional — and its barely extra movie-magic-focused Mavic 3 Professional Cine counterpart — arrive subsequent month and include a brand new triple-camera system that features the four-thirds Hasselblad digicam included within the earlier mannequin. That primary shooter makes use of a 24mm lens (like the usual Mavic 3), but it surely’s now joined by a brand new 70mm medium-tele digicam and a 166mm zoom digicam for extra exact framing.

Mavic 3 Professional’s Hasselblad digicam nonetheless shoots at a max decision of 5.1K at as much as 50 fps, and it could actually do slow-mo 120fps with DCI 4K mode. The brand new 3x digicam can shoot video at 4K/60fps and take images as much as 48 megapixels — all on a 1/1.3” CMOS sensor. Lastly, the Mavic 3 Professional’s tele digicam additionally will get a lightweight improve: supporting a wider f/3.4 aperture (beforehand f/4.4) and 4K/60fps video.

The additional digicam energy does come at a small battery efficiency value: the Mavic 3 Professional will get a most 43 minutes of flight time in comparison with 46 minutes on the usual Mavic 3. Nonetheless, these numbers assume you’re not utilizing DJI’s APAS 5.0 impediment avoidance tech and aren’t taking pictures video, which may decrease the flight time.

Different options which are nonetheless the identical within the Mavic 3 Professional embrace DJI’s “OccuSync” O3+ tech that options 80 MB/s file switch speeds to your cellular system over Wi-Fi 6 and 1080p/60 stay feeds to the DJI RC controller. You’re additionally getting DJI’s “clever” modes like the corporate’s the steady observe shot FocusTrack function and the flexibility to mechanically shoot and edit movies with MasterShots.

The Cine model has many of the similar options because the Mavic 3 Professional. What’s distinctive concerning the Mavic 3 Professional Cine is help for Apple ProRes encoding (422 HQ, 422, and 422 LT) and that it consists of 1TB of inside storage to deal with that footage. It’s not fairly the ProRes RAW footage that the $16,499 industrial-level DJI Inspire 3 is able to (and at 8K, no much less), however the Cine can be lower than a 3rd of its value.

You’ll be able to order the Mavic Professional 3 now from DJI’s web site and different shops, and it’ll begin transport in Might. Like earlier variations, the Mavic Professional 3 is available in completely different packages, together with the $2,999 Fly Extra Combo containing a carry-case, two extra units of propellers, 4 ND filers, two additional batteries with a cost dock, a protecting muzzle, charging cables, and the usual RC controller with a built-in display screen. The drone can be offered in a fundamental package deal with the controller for $2,199, which is $150 more than the usual Mavic 3 (as of this writing).

For the extra critical fliers, there’s the $3,889 Fly Extra Combo that features the identical objects above however with an upgraded RC Professional controller, which provides a few antennas plus the flexibility to seize a stay video feed. Lastly, the last word Mavic 3 Professional Cine comes within the full premium combo package deal with RC Professional controller for $4,799, which is surprisingly lower than the earlier Cine that launched for $5,000.