![]() The earth's beauty is truly spectacular! It fuels my burning desire to experience and capture it's inspiring beauty, every second of everyday. Hi, I'm Ryan, a certified local tour guide and professional photographer, that has been shooting in Cape Town and abroad for close on a decade. Being able to own both is a great benefit, as each has its own place. Now you can leave you Phantom 4 Pro at home when you are traveling but also take it with when you need higher quality visuals. If you do own the Phantom 4 Pro already, then the Mavic Air can also be a great choice as a secondary drone, again for the simple fact of its portability. If you are new to drones and don’t own either, the the Mavic Air is certainly the better choice just for its portability and feature set. The design choices for the Mavic Air are for those who want high quality footage but are able to easily take it with you wherever you go, while in most cases the Phantom needs to stay home unless you are traveling locally in your car, or need the higher specs for a higher end production quality. Don’t forget the remote controller of the Phantom 4 Pro, which is also another 643% (7.2 times) bigger and 210% (3.1 times) heavier than that of the Mavic Air. It is however 80% more expensive, 223% (3.2 times) heavier and a whopping 24 times larger and bulkier when having to pack it away in a bag. The Phantom 4 Pro hosts features like variable apertures, increased resolution in both video and stills, together with higher burst frames and a mechanical shutter. As i covered in the article the Phantom 4 Pro is made for higher end drone footage and filming requirements than either the Mavic Air, Mavic Pro or DJI Spark are designed for. The Phantom 4 Pro is a different type of drone. This is easier to answer than when compared to the Mavic Pro or Mavic Platinum. Well worth the extra 40g for an additional 15mins of flight time. You obviously can’t split up batteries in fractions, so if we take 2 Mavic Air batteries the total weight comes to 280g, giving us 42mins of flight time, compared to 240g for only 27mins of flight time with the Mavic Pro or Mavic Platinum. This means you get 36mins of flight time (1.7 x 21mins each) with the Mavic Air for the same weight as 27mins with the Mavic Pro or Mavic Platinum. ![]() If you look at the Mavic Pro or Mavic Platinum and consider that each of it’s batteries weigh 240g, you basically get just under two batteries (1.7 to be exact) with the Mavic Air for the same weight sacrifice as one battery of the Mavic Pro or Mavic Platinum. Buying a second battery really isn’t a weight issue any longer. This is extremely light when you consider that they give you 21mins of flight time each. This again is the reason why the Phantom 4 Pro is an entry level professional filmmaker’s drone (DJI Inspire being the high end professional levels), when compared to the Mavic Air, Mavic Pro or Mavic Platinum, which are built for good old droning fun and portability.Īs I mentioned earlier in the article, the batteries on the Mavic Air are astoundingly light, (just like the body), weighing in at only 140g. The Phantom 4 Pro is the only DJI drone in this comparison, that has a variable aperture, which can be set from f/2.2 to f/11, just like your DSLR camera, in order to decrease the depth of field (DoF) or exposure. At sunset/sunrise ro night, the Mavic Pro and Mavic Platinum will have a slight edge, but just barely. The difference from f/2.8 to f/2.2 is only ⅔ of a stop of light, which in most daylight cases wont make any difference, as most people put an ND filter on their DJI cameras anyway. ![]() ![]() The Mavic Air has a slightly smaller (darker) aperture of f/2.8 compared to the DJI Spark’s f/2.6, and the Mavic Pro or Mavic Platinum’s f/2.2. Similar to the above, you only really need auto focus when your subjects are close to the drone and you want to focus on a specific area/subject. The focus system on the Mavic Air is fixed, just like the DJI Spark. ![]()
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