DJI Neo Drone with Camera for Adults Self Flying Mini Drone Stabilized Video, Built-In Propeller Guard

Okay let me start out with the stuff I don’t like. There’s not much… I don’t like how it doesn’t have rear obstacle avoidance. I wish it went just a little faster/more power for better air control. I also wish it had an adjustable aperture. Wish the EXP’s for yaw were lower and more yaw range in the gimbal. Wish it had slightly more dynamic range too. Okay now what I do like! Coming from an Inspire 2 with X5s, the size is the biggest advantage overall. The fact it folds down so small is amazing. No longer needing to carry around a 50lb pelican case for my drone is quite convenient lol. The Air 2S is much more low key and quiet for “sketchy” quick flights or through tight obstacles. Plus, the Air 2S shoots higher resolution than the Inspire. Yes, given it’s not Cinema DNG RAW, but the D-Log and 10-Bit H.265 files from the Air 2S are very workable (Especially with the new Mac M1 processors). It has maybe 12.5-13 stops dynamic range from my eye and color grading tests in Resolve. As for color grading the footage, the shadow recovery is much better than highlight recovery so try and always expose your image for the highlights as they cannot be recovered nearly as much in post. The files are a good bitrate 5.4K 24fps 10-Bit, meaning you have the resolution to zoom in without loss and they have better color tonality. The colors can be a little strange especially blue midtone shadows. Fixable in post though. You just have to understand how amazing it is to have a camera that you can put virtually anywhere in the air with a detailed 5.4K video. With three batteries charging you can get a lot of flights in one day with this guy, maximizing your opportunities for creative shots in many different locations. The size of the drone is amazing. Like legit the size of a large camera lens. The controller also fits nicely as the thumb sticks come off and store in it making it more flat. Also, the controllers battery life is just simply amazing. It lasts forever. The bag the drone comes with is extremely nice and great if you are just doing a trip with it. Everything fits in there. The included ND filters are very nice and honestly required for most flights. No noticeable color shift on the filters and they balance on the gimbal perfectly. I did order myself some additional CPL filters that helped quite a bit when shooting water and such. You may need something darker than ND32 for mid day shooting FYI. Battery life is roughly 20 mins of spirited flying while still leaving plenty reserve and not letting them go below 20% to extend their life. Plenty for some fun hyperlapses, which is an awesome included feature. The master shots feature (will the drone will fly itself and get some base level shots) is good to just do as a base level and completes in a couple mins. Results are good for zero effort. Finally, the range on it is superb. 9/10 situations it will have no problems. Staying within line of sight keeps signal the best (and legal). Flying behind objects will sometimes lose the connection. Also in cities (areas with lots of wifi signals) it has less range. But I would say it has better signal than the Inspire 2. The Inspire 2 was more “nimble” and “smooth” given the better power envelope of the motors, 360 spin of the gimbal, and second operator all adding to smoother footage of hard to track items, but could not go nearly as far. With the Air 2S line of sight becomes a TINY speck on the horizon. For a single man band this drone is only beaten by the Mavic 3, which is several times the price ($5k for the good “cinema” version). In my 10+ years of videography I haven’t been this stoked on a new tool in a while and it will be used a lot when the bigger cinema drones cannot fly or are not practical. Okay let’s compare the drones I have flown/used: Mavic Air 2S ($1000) vs Mavic Air ($500) vs Phantom 4 Pro ($1600) vs Inspire 2 X5S ($10,000) vs Freefly Alta 8 RED Monstro Zeiss CP3 ($175,000) When I compared the top dogs like an Inspire and a flying cinema camera (Alta 8), the Air 2S surprisingly holds its strengths pretty well. They are different tools for different jobs and are not apples to apples AT ALL but the fact the Air 2S and everything in the bag is about the same size as the MoVI (Alta 8’s Gimbal) Controller is kind of funny. The image quality on the Air 2S is much better than the Mavic Air and the P4P both in resolution and dynamic range. The resolution is comparable to the X5S camera but the dynamic range of the Air 2S is noticeably worse than the X5S. Obviously, if you are shooting something with budget and need 8K with good lenses, the Alta is your best bet. But that is 2 huge 80lb boxes, has a 10 min flight time at 45lbs with massive batteries. Minimum of 2 operators. Whole different beast. Can’t really compare the Alta to the Air 2S. If you’re into travel vlogging, weddings, real estate, landscape this is the perfect drone if you can’t quite stretch to get the Mavic 3. Also to compare this to the “48mp” Mavic Air 2, the pictures are actually much sharper because of the 1 inch sensor and better lens. Plus the Air 2 is a 12MP camera with pixel shift it’s marketing talk. Megapixels are not everything and the true 20 MP of the Air 2S will be enough for most uses I think. Also note 4K 60 has a crop where 5.4K does not. Can be pretty useful actually IMO. Amazing where technology is going and excited to see when the Mavic line comes out with interchangeable lenses someday! Great product DJI! Included is a video I made along the California Coast with exclusively the Mavic Air 2S and the included ND filters. Enjoy!

*UPDATED BELOW* Bought the DJI Mavic Air 2, two weeks ago before I knew an update was coming so soon buttt.... I just ordered the Air 2S! The Air 2 has been fantastic but I did run into some range issues or losing connectivity around buildings and residential areas. Hoping the updated unit with 4 antennas vs 2 will fix that issue. Also looking forward to the updated hardware and 1 inch sensor! Will post back with comparison and if it was worth the extra buy. *UPDATE* So today I just got the beautifully upgraded 2S only two weeks after purchasing the Air 2. What are my first look and flight opinions... 100% worth the upgrade! Now don’t get me wrong the Air 2 is still an amazing drone and will work great for anyone but for me as I had the money and interest in learning how to edit video footage this upgrade was well worth it. Just look at the difference in the cameras in my pictures... Air2S - aluminum or metal material gimbal and has a beautiful 1” sensor vs Air2 - .5” plastic sensor and tbh the picture on the Air2S is just flat out better. However the Air 2 is still a fully capable drone and I will still use it as my everyday drone and for riskier shots. As for the OcuSync 3.0 or better know as O3 I didn’t see a huge improvement on my first flight and I live in a suburb area with no tall buildings. That doesn’t mean that the range won’t be better for some but in my impression I saw no improvement here. I do have out of ground power lines all over where I live so this could be causing the issue. It generally lost signal when I was about .25 miles away and was flying low but would regain signal going above 65 feet. Not a huge deal breaker for me and I know others have said they saw a big improvement so maybe it’s the specific area where I live. Lastly, MASTER SHOTS! This is one of the coolest things about the drone IMO. You select your target and the Air2S shoots a sequence of really cool dynamic shots and throws them into an edit for you. It literally does everything for you and it comes out really cool if you want to impress your friends or social media followers. All in all 100% BUY THIS DRONE if it fits your budget. I don’t think it is too far off the price of the Air2 so if you have the extra cash I would definitely spend a little extra and go with the Air2S. In my opinion - Always go with the Fly More Combo - I got it on both drones.

This purchase completes my DJI family. The Mavic Air 2s was the only model that I didn't have. I spent months agonizing whether I should buy it. But, a few advantages to the newest 2s FMC (fly more combo) finally tipped the scale. With the improvements to the OAS, autonomous flight programs and enhanced image quality, I just could not say 'no' to the Air 2s. And, who buys just the drone basic package, just to struggle with getting the additional accessories one by one later on? I'd rather just get what I need now and get it over with, as the FMC. Then, pick up the few accessories that I know I will need to round out the set. The Air 2s is on par with the rest of the DJI aircraft for performance and reliability. It's very easy to fly. It interfaces with your smart phone very smoothly. The controls are straightforward and simple to understand and operate. It's larger than the Mini, smaller than the M2P and right in the middle, price wise. The complications of adhering to FAA regulations and licensing have been simplified with built in and available software. The most basic things to remember right now are that, as a recreational flyer, you need to register with the FAA and display your registration number on all of your aircraft. BTW, as a recreational flyer, you only need to register once, as a pilot, and YOUR number is what's displayed on the drone. Each aircraft does NOT need to be registered. That is with the pilots that want to fly for profit. Because the Air 2s is heavier that 250g, your number has to be applied to this drone, in an obvious place on the exterior of the drone. I recommend using a label maker to do the FAA number and your cell phone number. The Air 2s is a great aircraft and like all of my DJI aircraft, it gets 5 stars.

I purchased this drone as a reward for passing my Part 107 exam to be able to fly drones commercially. Coming from a Mavic Air (the original one) this is so much of an upgrade that it's not even funny. The DJI Air 2S has a 1" sensor, giving it much better low light performance than the Mavic Air. On the Mavic Air, if you are shooting at anything at all over ISO 100 you might as well just throw the image away. On the DJI Air 2S I've gone up to ISO 800 without the level of noise I would have at 100 on the previous drone. Photo: With its 20MP sensor, I am able to take photos with an incredible amount of detail with enough room to be able to crop the image if I catch a telephone pole that I don't like. The colors and sharpness of the image remind me a lot of my A7iii if I were to strap it to a quad copter and throw it 400ft into the air. Video: This drone can record 5.4k video at 24fps in 10-bit D-Log. If you don't know what that means exactly, it means you can record super high quality video and not have to worry that the colors will break apart in post. The 5.4k resolution is great to use as-is or to crop in on to make vertical content that doesn't need to be stretched in order to work I use this drone primarily for landscape/urban photography and wedding videography and couldn't be happier. It's probably a bit overkill for most wedding videographers (plenty of friends use a DJI Mini 2 and produce great work) but if you have the extra money you won't be disappointed

So I wanted to wait a month before I wrote a review, I can say hands down this is the best drone they offer for it's price, it has everything you need from DJI, Active track 4.0, OcuSync 3.0, 31 minute flight time, 5.4k, 120fps in 1080p, fast speeds, an amazing gimbal, top/down/front/back sensors, the only lack would be of side sensors which can be a huge downfall if you aren't comfortable flying sideways or aware of the drones surroundings. Now to say the lack of side sensors is a huge risk, DJI has software for the the drone to fly kinda diagonal so the top and front/back sensors can act like side sensors, it wont as good as just having side sensors but it still works very well, i have a total of 6 hours of flight time on this drone, which isn't much but my images and videos can fool you to thinking I'm semi advanced and that's thanks to DJI's Active Track, easy learning and the ability to color grade and shoot log video and Raw photos. With this drone DJI has introduced 10-bit D-log in all resolutions options which allows us creatives to really go in and shape the footage how we like. with the option to shoot up to 5.4k footage you can get astounding footage. along side have a new 1 inch 20mpx cmos sensor you can capture amazing pictures. There's tons of new features like mastershots, hyper lapse, but I haven't messed with those to much to form an option on them yet.

Probably the least capable DJI drone, but its so impressive for its size, its hard to believe something so small can do 4K video, fly 35 Mph, fly in FPV mode and fly up to 10 kilometers away! Its way under 250 grams so you don't have to register it with the FAA. I already had the Avata 2 so I didn't need the controllers or goggles, so this was pretty cheap to add to my fleet. You could fly it without a controller by just using hand signals, it flies with your phone, the motion 3 controller, the RCN3 controller, the remote controller 3 and even the RC2 controller, and it also works with Googles 3. Its great for flying around the house while I wait for sprint in Minnesota, I can't wait to get it outside!

Occasionally, randomly, the recorded video is corrupted. Frames appear out of order and repeated, and everything goes blocky & visually corrupt, much like a sudden drop to horrible quality while watching streaming video. There's no apparent cause, nor any way of detecting it during recording (the live video often has glitches, that don't usually appear in the recordings, so that's no indicator). So, sometimes you come back at the end of the day and discover that some of your video is useless. These aren't playback issues - this is seen stepping frame by frame in an NLE. This is with SanDisk Extreme Pros, Lexar 1066x's, and other similar cards that are high-end and rated more than fast enough for the Air 2S's needs. If this weren't an issue, it'd be a great product. For completeness here's some additional information, in case somehow corrupted recorded isn't a deal-breaker for you. I've had a Phantom 4 Pro for several years, but wanted something more amenable to travel. In a nutshell, the Air 2S is kind of like the 4 Pro miniaturised, with some additional improvements. I particularly appreciate: • Obviously, the whole package is *way* smaller - I can fit the entire drone kit inside any old backpack with room to spare, whereas the Phantom 4 required it's own, dedicated, rather large backpack just for itself. I can throw the Air 2S into a camera bag with other gear, or a day-hiking pack, or whatever, and thus have it with me way more often. • The radio range is noticeably improved, with the base controllers. However, you can't fit parabolic reflectors to the Air 2S's controller (AFAIK) - with those, my Phantom 4 Pro's range is dramatically increased, rivalling the Air 2S's at least. • The image & video quality are even better than the Phantom 4 series. The 5.4K video is a big improvement over 4K, as is the 10-bit HLG / DLog support. Plus, the Air 2S has an improved lens with slightly improved sharpness towards the edges of the frame (though this is still clearly not of the same uniformity, nor overall image quality, as a DSLR or equivalent mirrorless). • Obstacle detection seems a lot less finicky. I often have to disable it entirely on the Phantom 4 Pro just to get the damn thing to fly properly, because if so much as a leaf gets within ten feet of the thing, the Phantom stops responding to the controls, which is super dangerous. Maybe that means the Air 2S's obstacle avoidance isn't as sensitive… but thus far it seems good enough, and much safer. A few things that concern me in principle but have not yet become a practical issue: • Not having the side sensing does worry me given strafing movement during videos is common. • The batteries seem a bit slower to charge than the Phantom 4 series', despite being much smaller. With the 4's batteries I could fly basically continuously if I had three batteries, whereas with the Air 2S you'd need to have *two* battery chargers and at least four batteries, to keep up. Problematic, in particular, if you're car charging and only have a single 12V socket available in your vehicle. • Supposedly the new DJI iOS app is not as featureful as the old one, as used by the Phantoms, but to me they're very similar and I am yet to find anything that I actually need missing from the new one.

It has passed 2 months and device is working perfectly. There are no defects, delays or issues during the flight; we bought full kit with additional batteries and propellers for change, but still - no replacements for additional parts have been required. I would suggest considering 4 batteries in total in order your flight will be supplied. As for manufacturer and model - that was the best choice for a new pilot to gain experience in drone control: it’s very light, easy to use, full of pleasant perks like if you loose control or battery dying - device will return on home point by itself - that made the most amazing thing for new learners if you feel what I am talking about, very manipulative and always gives you tips how to gain the best experience right during the flight. Low noise level and super speed - all in one, super happy with the purchase!