To be honest, 22mm EFL feels, well, very wide to me – subjects which are quite close to camera can start to feel quite a long way away, which doesn’t necessarily feel ideal for a drone which has a lot of on-board technology aimed at capturing those engaged in action sports even more sedate moments like orbiting a hiker climbing a hill benefit from a the subject being visible in the frame. Nonetheless focusing is something you will want to keep an eye on, which is something the tap-to-focus makes fairly painless and, if you enable it, focus peaking can help with too. That might sound potentially problematic to some, but the drone also has a very wide – 88˚ or 22mm – field of view, notably wider than the 77˚ / 28mm – of the Mavic 2 Pro which was also usually used at the wider end because drones tend to be a fair way from their subject. Comparison fans will note that both these options beat the Mavic 2 Pro’s 4K 30fps limit – in fact the only advantage that drone still has is an adjustable aperture, the Air 2S’s camera being fixed at ƒ/2.8. The 1-inch sensor, with 2.4 micron pixels, captures RAW or JPEG at 20 Megapixels, and outputs video at an attention-grabbing 5.4K maximum (though sticking to 4K brings 60fps into the equation). The drone’s camera is the centre of attention, and the aspect which is new, so we’ll cover that first. At the same time the on-board collision avoidance system is a generation better and this definitely bears out in testing – I wasn’t able to get the drone to fly into anything, even at full speed, and it was able to follow me around tricky obstacles. Nominally these are the upward sensors, but by placing them here, DJI also widen the forward view when the drone leans into forward flight, giving a slight hint of the insectoid look seen on the DJI FPV and a similar approach to collision avoidance. The Air 2S takes nearly the same shell, but actually looks very different because two new collision sensors have been added at the front. It was also incredible to fly.ĭJI Air 2S DJI Air 2S in flight Seeing the Air 2S in flight from above makes those new sensors more than apparent, though the centre of attention is that lovely big camera housing. The drone clearly distinguished itself from the lighter Mavic Mini, and the more sophisticated subject tracking systems had a clear appeal to those at least as enthusiastic about what they were capturing as the system itself. The previous Air 2 replaced the inadequate Mavic Air and brought with it the nimble folding airframe design it gave the series a middleweight in terms of price and specs, featuring forward, downward and rear collision sensors and automated flying, and a half-inch sensor with 12 or 48 Megapixels, depending on your interpretation of quad-Bayer. Interestingly it also drops the Mavic name while making the supposedly higher-end Mavic 2 Pro look a little long in the tooth. Announced in April 2021 it makes a number of improvements over its predecessor to become arguably the best consumer drone to date. The DJI Air 2S is a mid-range drone with a half hour flight time, powerful obstacle avoidance, and a one-inch sensor camera capturing 5.4k video or 20 Megapixel photos.
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