The Zoom has a very decent camera with 2x optical zoom capabilities-24mm to 48mm equivalent-and you can push that all the way to 96mm if you’re shooting at 1080p and don’t mind some digital zoom. There real differences between these two drones is in the cameras.
#Mavic pro video quality full#
It's worth noting that you can save the full resolution photos from a timelapse and put them together later on your own, but that takes some doing. If a GoPro Hero7 can make a stabilized 4K hyperlapse, then the Mavic 2 really should be able to as well. I'd love to see them fix this with a software update. It has some cool features, like the ability to control the length you want the finished video to be, and some clever ways of controlling the drone while shooting the hyperlapse, but it's let down by the end result. The video is not stabilized, so there’s a fair amount of shake, and it’s limited to 1080p. One of the new features in the drones is Hyperlapse, which I was very excited about, but which left me underwhelmed. At one point the drone was more than three miles away from me (deep in the wilderness, I promise!) and I still had solid, real-time video coming through with nary a glitch. Significantly, the remote control seems to have far greater range and throughput. The lens cover is easier to use and really locks the gimbal in place. In general, the Mavic 2 just feels more polished than the first generation. With the new version it will encounter, say, a tree branch, then go around it and continue tracking you. The previous incarnation would stop and hover in place if it encountered an obstacle while tracking you you had to grab the remote and navigate it to safety yourself. Not only that, its revamped version of ActiveTrack-now ActiveTrack 2.0-can predict where you’re going to go. That’s not what you generally hope for, but what you get in return is considerable: a larger battery with up to 31 minutes of flight time (in my testing, 25 minutes was about the average) and the ability to travel and track objects up to 45 miles per hour.Īrguably the most-important addition, though, are the new sensors giving the Mavic omnidirectional obstacle avoidance.
Both retain the same foldable design as the original Mavic Pro, but they're slightly bigger and heavier now. Apart from the camera, the Pro and the Zoom are identical. There’s really just one Mavic 2 drone with two camera options.