I found this article over at the Gizmodo website and, I found this video on the DJI YouTube channel. the footage in the video is incredible. Although, since the video is from DJI I don’t think you can expect any less.
If you order one from the DJI website it says that all orders will be shipped in the order received beginning in mid-May.
A few years ago only nerdy hobbyists took to the skies with UAVs. But with its entry-level Phantom drones, DJI has been gradually chipping away at the technical and financial barriers that keep normal folks away. The original Phantom was basically a flying platform you could mount a GoPro on. Cool, but niche. It wasn’t until the Phantom 2 Vision that DJI started to get serious about outfitting its UAVs with its own cameras. With these cameras, DJI also started developing a sophisticated app for monitoring the footage you were shooting and tweaking settings. With the Phantom 3 the app and camera get totally supercharged.
The Phantom 3 comes in two flavors: Phantom 3 Professional and Phantom 3 Advanced. The main difference here is the camera. The Professional version shoots 4K footage at 30 fps, while the Advanced shoots at 1920 x 1080 resolution at up to 60 fps. The Professional costs $1250, or $1350 packaged with an extra battery. The Advanced costs just $1000 or $1100 with an extra battery. (Battery life is rated at about 23 minutes of flight time.)
Sure, the Phantom 3 models aren’t insanely cheap, especially compared to competitors like the Iris+ from 3DR, which costs just $750. But DJI does a whole hell of a lot to make their Phantom line chock-full of features that can make the extra cost worthwhile, especially for beginners. And the Phantom 3 has more of them than ever at a lower price.
DJI has dramatically improved its camera technology over the last few years. We started to see the fruits this a few months ago with the 4K camera on the company’s new professional grade Inspire 1 drone. The Phantom 3 Professional has essentially the same camera, except that unlike the Inspire 1, you can’t remove it.
Bringing camera development in house allows DJI to correct for some of the GoPro’s weaknesses when it comes to shooting aerial video. Most importantly, the new Phantoms shoot with a 94 degree field-of-view. The 170-degree fisheye lens on the GoPro is great if you’re mounting it on a surfboard, and admittedly, it captures dramatic footage from the sky. But if you want to shoot realistic, distortion-free video from a distance, you’re better served by a narrower field-of-view.
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