Avons-nous besoin d'un DJI Mavic 4 ? - Les premières rumeurs sur le DJI Air 4

Do we even need a DJI Mavic 4? The obvious answer to this question is, yes. Of course, we want a new drone. Of course, we want new toys to play with. Of course, we want an upgraded professional platform from DJI to make our photos and videos better. But when you look at their current drone lineup – the DJI Mini 4 Pro, le DJI Air 3et le DJI Mavic 3 Pro—it’s hard to think about what DJI can do differently with these drones to make them any better. Now, I rarely ever cover Rumeurs DJI ou la spéculation ici sur ma chaîne, mais j'ai vu quelque chose sur X qui a éveillé mon intérêt pour la fabrication de produits de la mer. cette vidéo.

Spéculation sur la fuite de la batterie

It was this photograph with the hashtag #A4 that shows a set of Mavic 3 batteries and an unidentified battery that is a little bit bigger. This is also coming from Igor Bogdanov, who is a very credible source for fuite d'informations au fur et à mesure que de nouveaux produits sont développés, en particulier lorsqu'il s'agit de DJI.

As soon as I saw this photograph, my brain went to “Mavic 4”. It just makes sense, right? There’s a Mavic 4 battery next to a Mavic 3 battery. They’re kind of comparing the size between the two and it tracks, right? We expect the Mavic 4 to be a little bit bigger to accommodate a larger camera as well as longer flight time. So therefore, a larger battery makes sense.

Cela suit en quelque sorte la tendance de DJI depuis quelques années avec ses drones intermédiaires Air et ses drones professionnels Mavic. La taille augmente pour accueillir plus de technologie à l'intérieur. Le Mini, bien sûr, reste petit parce qu'il doit être inférieur à 250g.

Spéculation sur Air 4

Here’s the thing though – look at the hashtag #A4. That makes me believe that this is an Air 4 battery. So I’m kind of being pulled in a couple different directions here. Let’s just think about that – the Air 3 just came out. The Air 3 is not even a year old yet and we’re already talking about leaks about the DJI Air 4.

Think about if an Air 4 came out and how hard it’d be pushing up against the Mavic 3 series. The Air 3 is already a great drone in its own right. When you kind of accommodate the price of both the Air 3 and any of the Mavic 3 drones, you notice that the Air 3 actually turns out to be a better value.

I did a pretty detailed comparison between both of these drones, but to sum it up very quickly – the Air 3 is a baby Mavic 3 that is actually a better aircraft. It has better range, signal strength, performance, flight time – pretty much everything that’s important has been improved. The camera system on the Air 3 is also great and is serviceable for most. Even the professional photographer and videographer is going to find great use from the Air 3’s camera.

But the Mavic 3 outshines the Air 3 in basically every way when it comes to camera specs and image quality, especially when you’re looking at the triple camera setup on the Pro model. This means that for the potential Air 4 to be a worthy upgrade over the Air 3, to constitute a generational upgrade from the older drone, we’d have to see a fairly large improvement to the drone and camera system, which I think could be the nail in the coffin to the Mavic 3, making the Air 4 better than their professional platform.

I mean, look at the size of these batteries in the leak. The Mavic 3 and Air 3 are already a similar size and shape, meaning they have a similarly sized and shaped battery, and this indicates that the Air series might again grow in size. I remember going back to the original Mavic Air – it was so small and has really grown up over the years. But I think adding size is good to make these drones even more capable.

DJI’s Release Cadence

Something that is really hanging me up though is the fact that the Air 3 literally just dropped. It’s not even a year old. Think about these people that invested into the platform of the Air 3, and now a totally brand new drone comes out just one year later that’ll probably dunk on this drone and make it way better.

Now, DJI is not afraid to release mid-cycle refreshes. We’ve seen this across the board with different drones – the Mavic Pro Platinum, the Phantom 4 Pro, the Air 2S, le Mavic 3 Pro. They’ve done this with a lot of different drones in the past. In each of those instances, it featured a similar body style to their previous versions respectively, while adding small features to improve the overall flight experience.

Les changements apportés au Mavic Pro Platinum étaient aussi minimes qu'une nouvelle peinture, de nouvelles hélices et une mise à niveau de l'ESC. Le Phantom 4 Pro représentait un plus grand pas en avant avec de nouveaux capteurs d'évitement d'obstacles latéraux et arrière et une nouvelle caméra avec un capteur de 1 pouce, ce qui était énorme à l'époque. Le Mavic 3 Pro était un petit rafraîchissement de milieu de cycle, puisqu'il introduisait juste le nouveau téléobjectif moyen 70 mm.

Les Air 2S Le Mavic Air 2, quant à lui, représentait une amélioration encore plus importante par rapport au Mavic Air 2, puisqu'il changeait de nom, abandonnait le terme "Mavic", dotait ce petit drone d'un capteur de 1 pouce, ajoutait de nouveaux capteurs d'évitement d'obstacles vers le haut et était également le premier drone à mettre à jour son système de transmission avec le nouveau système de transmission O3. Pour moi, cela justifiait également d'appeler le Air 2S Le "Air 3" est une mise à jour générationnelle en raison de tous les changements apportés. Les améliorations portent sur tous les points importants : la caméra, le système d'évitement des obstacles, le système de transmission. Et s'ils avaient juste modifié un peu le design, ils auraient probablement pu l'appeler Air 3 et s'en tirer à bon compte.

Vous savez, le Air 2S here is still so good and was a mega value when it originally came out at only $999. It was the go-to drone of its time that I couldn’t recommend enough. So I guess what I’m trying to say here is that DJI releasing an Air 4 really isn’t off the table. It’s not all that crazy. They’ve definitely done worse in the past in terms of cannibalizing their own sales.

Mais en fin de compte, ils étaient les seuls à pouvoir fabriquer des drones grand public utilisables. Alors pourquoi ne pas le faire ? Pourquoi ne pas sortir un DJI Air 4 ? Qu'ont-ils à perdre, n'est-ce pas ? Pourquoi ne pas continuer à pousser la balle en termes de ce qu'il est possible de mettre à l'intérieur d'un drone intermédiaire ?

DJI’s Drone Lineup

I also think that coming out with an Air 4 kind of makes sense from a naming scheme standpoint and kind of the way that their lineup of drones sit. So for example, you’ve got Mini 4 Pro, Air 3, Mavic 3 Pro. The Mavic 3 is the oldest drone, the Mini 4 Pro is the second oldest drone, and the Air 3 is the newest drone.

Voici comment cela se passe Mini 4, Air 3, Mavic 3 in terms of price point and capabilities. But then it’s kind of flip-flopped, right? It goes Mavic 3, Mini 4Air 3 en termes de nouveauté. À cet égard, je pense que s'ils sortent un Air 4 et en font le deuxième drone le plus ancien, puis s'ils sortent le Mavic 4 et en font le drone le plus récent, alors les deux listes que j'ai dressées seront alignées.

So the newest drone is the most expensive, that is also the most capable – the Mavic 4. Then you’ve got the Air 4 which is kind of just as capable, it’s that intermediate drone that slots right in the middle, it’s the second oldest. And then the oldest drone, the Mini 4 Pro, is kind of slotted at the bottom. It’s the oldest, it’s the less expensive, it’s kind of the one that you jump into as a beginner. And then, from there, they can kind of start from the bottom and work their way up through every single upgrade cycle. They could go DJI Mini 5, DJI Air 5, DJI Mavic 5, DJI Mini 6, DJI Air 6, DJI Mavic 6. I don’t know, just a thought.

Liste de souhaits pour le DJI Mavic 4

Okay, so let’s switch gears here to a successor to the Mavic 3, or the Mavic 4. It’s hard to say exactly what I’d want in an Air 4, because I’d be mentally trying to keep it worse than the Mavic 3. So I just want to go all the way to the very top.

Avis de l'industrie

Billy: Yo, Kenneth. Si vous pouviez avoir une fonction dans le Mavic 4, quelle serait-elle ? Une fonction pour changer...

Ken: Vidéo verticale.

Billy: Pourquoi ?

Ken: Well, I think because we’re in a different place. Like 12 months ago, nobody would ask me for vertical video. Now I find myself grabbing my Air 3 or the Mini 4 Pro to do vertical video, like literally every day. That’s like, I would say it’s 70% of my business, which is mind-boggling. Of course, you can crop video, but nothing beats that native vertical when you’re trying to film a subject for like a reel or something.

So I feel like, and I know people probably like “Oh, it’s not like a professional format”, but I think it really is. It’s becoming a professional format and we need to see it.

Billy: I almost hate shooting video horizontally now sometimes, because I’m so used to shooting it vertically.

Ken : I know, I forget – the other day, somebody hired me to do a video and I grabbed the… She’s like “What are you doing?” I’m like, “Oh crap, that’s right, we’re doing a reel”, and I had to go grab my other, you know, my other gimbal. But I think, you know, if you’re going to tout it, if it’s going to be like the end-all-be-all drone for DJI, it has to be able to do everything the other drones do, right? And it has to do it really well. You’ve got to have that Starlight feature, so it needs to have vertical video for 100%.

Billy: Yo, what’s on man? All right, so one feature in the Mavic 4. What do you want?

Greg: Une caractéristique du DJI Mavic 4 ? Euh, le capteur plein cadre. Plein cadre. Hé, c'est le grand format ou la maison, n'est-ce pas ?

Billy: Je pense que l'APS-C est probablement la voie à suivre, n'est-ce pas ?

Greg : Probablement, mais pensez-y - je veux dire, plein cadre - pourquoi pas ?

Billy: Voulez-vous que le Mavic ait la même taille que l'Inspire ?

Greg: En grande partie, oui.

Billy : Donc vous voulez juste une meilleure caméra sur le Mavic 4. Pensez-vous qu'ils devraient utiliser une triple caméra ou qu'ils devraient se contenter d'un seul capteur et nous donner un zoom optique ?

Greg: Personally, I think it should be two different sensors instead of three. And then you keep like the 3X and the 1X, as quite frankly, those are what you need most. If you think about it, like when do you ever use the 7X to do anything? The 3X is what you’re going to use the most. So give it a better sensor on the 3X, and then you have, I mean, you know I’m being facetious too with the 1-inch. But with the full frame, because as it is right now, the camera is so good, but the 3X and the 7X is really where it lacks a little bit, especially on the 7X. But I don’t know that you need all three quite frankly. When the Air 3 came out and you had that 3X in there, it was like, “This is what I needed the whole time.” You know, it was nice to have a zoom on the other one, but now it’s like, yeah.

Billy: Donc oui, le seul et unique. Si vous pouviez avoir une fonction sur le Mavic 4, quelle serait-elle ?

Sarah: One feature on the Mavic 4? Yeah, probably I guess like vertical shooting. Vertical, I don’t know.

Billy: You’re like the second person that said vertical shooting.

Sarah : I don’t know

Billy : You fly the Air 3, you fly the Air 3 right now, what do you wish that it did that it doesn’t do?

Sarah: Oh, plus vite.

Billy : Plus vite, c'est parti.

Russ: Salut Bill.

Billy : Très bien, une fonction sur le Mavic 4, que voulez-vous ?

Russ: Je ne peux en choisir qu'un seul ?

Billy: Oui, un.

Russ : Il s'agit d'un rêve ultime, d'un souhait de rêve, ou tout simplement d'un rêve raisonnable,

Projet de loi: tout ce que vous voulez. J'ai déjà quelqu'un qui dit qu'il veut une caméra full-frame sur le Mavic 4. Alors que voulez-vous ?

Russ: Un appareil photo plein format ?

Projet de loi: Oui

Russ : I want better dynamic range. And I want seamless transition between the cameras for sure. That’s so frustrating.

Billy: Yeah, look, and dynamic range, especially from a drone standpoint when you’re dealing with really harsh sunlight, is always welcome. So I think that’s something interesting. That’s something I didn’t have on my wish list, because I already like the dynamic range, I think it’s pretty good.

Russ: It’s pretty good, but I think for like for nighttime photography or video, like, and it does look pretty good. Like your stuff is great when I see your…

Billy: Oh, merci.

Russ: …shots, it’s wicked cool.

Billy: D'accord, une fonction sur le Mavic 4, qu'est-ce que vous voulez ?

Eddie: Question difficile, difficile. Je dirais quelque chose d'aussi simple que l'USB-C sur la batterie elle-même.

Billy: Oui, oui, USB-C sur la batterie elle-même. Et deux emplacements pour cartes ?

Eddie : Oui, deux fentes pour cartes. Très bien, vous avez verrouillé votre réponse. Je vous remercie de votre attention.

Billy : Hey Sam

Sam: What’s going on Bill

Billy : Je voulais juste vous demander quelle serait la meilleure fonctionnalité du DJI Mavic 4 ?

Sam: Le Mavic 4 est-il déjà sorti ?

Billy: Haven’t you been testing it?

Sam: Je n'ai que le Mavic 2, le Mini 2, I think. I think that’s what it’s called.

Billy: D'après votre opinion professionnelle, que voudriez-vous ajouter au Mavic 4 ?

Sam: Appareils photo

Billy : Un nouvel appareil photo.

Moi: All right, that’d be nice. Yeah, cool camera.

Sam: I don’t even know how to drive a drone.

Billy: I’m calling people asking what they would want on a Mavic 4. What’s your one feature you’d want on a Mavic 4?

Personne: Je voulais qu'il soit accompagné d'un tatouage disant "I Heart BK".

Moi: D'accord, mais si vous deviez être sérieux, si vous pouviez choisir une caractéristique, quelle serait-elle ?

Personne: Um, eternal friendship with BK? No, let me… I’ll need to think about that. I’m on a Recherche et sauvetage de l'époque, aux commandes d'un M30.

Moi: D'accord, dois-je vous rappeler plus tard ?

Personne: Oui, laissez-moi y réfléchir. Vous enregistrez en ce moment même ?

Moi: I’m recording right now. You’ve got to give me an answer within the next three, two, one…

Personne: Qu'est-ce que je voudrais ? Une plus longue durée de vie de la batterie, comme une meilleure endurance.

Moi: Okay, so you don’t like the 46 minutes that it has right now?

Personne: Well, I love it, sure. But I think I’d love 90 minutes more.

Moi: I would too. Would you be okay with a bigger drone? Would you be okay with the drone being like, let’s say, one and a half times as big?

Kyle: You know, it would be nice if it had the capability, like still the same form factor, but then have the ability to plug in a much bigger, better, or much longer battery with a much higher capacity. So the form factor is the same, but why not have a zoom lens so you can get a lot of… I don’t know, yeah, why not?

Moi: Why not? Cool. Well look, everybody’s answer was a quick one sentence. You gave us a full entire paragraph. So I appreciate you, and I’m moving on to the next person. Thank you.

Personne: Ce tatouage "I love BK" est un...

Moi: Okay, fine. It’ll come with it. It’ll be a little stencil.

Billy: Très bien, yo. Si vous pouviez avoir une fonction sur le Mavic 4, quelle serait-elle ?

Brett: Objectif de zoom. Optique.

Billy: D'accord, quel zoom voulez-vous ?

Brett: Not a lot. I think the three and the… I think the three is good, but there’s times where the three is too much, I would say. And the seven, you know, at least from a business perspective, like if you’re in the mountains and doing… I’m sure it’s great. But for what I do, having at least like one to four would be great.

Billy: Oui, comme le saut entre un, trois et sept est tout simplement trop grand pour avoir un zoom optique aussi important. Le zoom numérique entre les deux est inutile.

Brett: Oui, inutile. Inutile.

Ma liste de souhaits pour le Mavic 4

It was pretty interesting to hear from some friends in the industry about what they want from a DJI Mavic 4. It seemed like most people were discussing the fact that they wanted an upgraded camera system in some way, whether it’s a new sensor, optical zoom, better dynamic range. It seems like the camera is the one thing that most people want to improve, whereas the drone itself is fine in people’s eyes. They’re fine with the speed, they’re fine with the range, they’re fine with the performance, the flight time, all of those things.

So DJI, if you’re watching, it seems like most people want changes made to the camera. Now, I made a list of things that I want changed here, some things I’d like to see in Mavic 4. I’ve got about maybe 10 or 15 different things. Some of them are very small, nuanced features, and others could be a massive change that really do constitute that generational jump from DJI Mavic 3 pour le DJI Mavic 4.

1. Dual micro SD card slots. Most professional cameras, actually no, drones, just professional cameras have dual SD card slots so that you can write your data to both of those cards so that you have a backup just in case one fails or one corrupts. It’s also great to expand your storage. You could put like two 1 TB SD cards in there and have 2 TB of total storage if you wanted. So being able to have dual SD card slots would be great for a professional platform.
2. Give us more than 8 GB of flash storage. Give us 512, 256, it doesn’t matter. Anything more than 8 gigs, because I know flash storage is cheap and it’d be very helpful to have more than 8 in a case where I don’t have an SD card. So being able to even have 128, it doesn’t matter, just having more than 8 GB would definitely be welcomed.
3. I would also like to see the drone be faster. I’m always looking to fly as fast as possible and sometimes been trying to catch up with boats, trains, trying to reveal the city skyline, I feel like the drone is just a little bit slow. And that’s why I’ll tend to lean on my Inspire 3 for my faster paced shoots. But if I could get a tiny fast drone like the Mavic 4, that would be awesome.
4. I’d also like to have better gimbal range. I’d like the drone to be able to look up a little bit more, almost like the Mini 4 here. You kind of have this gimbal that can look way up. It also compensates for faster speed so that the camera doesn’t knock down. So being able to have a better gimbal range would also be nice.
5. I know it’s stupid, Ken and a couple other people brought it up, but vertical shooting. Look, I shoot a ton of vertical video for clients, for social media. It’s just kind of something you’ve got to do. I actually almost feel like I shoot more vertical video than horizontal video. So being able to have the option to natively shoot vertical video on the Mavic 4 would definitely be a nice touch.
6. Agreeing with Eddie, I also want USB-C ports on the actual batteries themselves. Sure, it’s nice to plug into the drone and charge up the battery of the drone, but what if you’re in a hotel room and you don’t want to keep cycling batteries through the drone? Well, in that case, you could just plug them right into the USB-C port. So a port on the battery for charging would be nice.
7. Optical zoom instead of multiple cameras. I agree with I think Brett on this one. Being able to have the multiple cameras, sure it’s nice, but you’re kind of locked into the focal length of each camera to use to kind of have that full resolution and full quality. I’d prefer a larger sensor with a shorter optical zoom distance. So maybe anything between like 1 to 70mm, or I’m sorry, 24 to 70mm, or maybe 24 to 50mm, all optical would be great on a nice large sensor. That would be awesome.
8. Speaking of larger sensor, APS-C, could you imagine an APS-C sensor on a Mavic 3, a Mavic, Mavic 4, Mavic 4 Pro? I mean, you look at the Inspire 3 that has the full frame, we now have the Micro Four Thirds or the Four Thirds sensor on the Mavic 3. Bring us right in the middle and give us an APS-C sensor and just give us one camera, one camera optical zoom. That would be great.
9. Also on the trend of cameras, a higher resolution would be great. So we’re topping out at 5.1K on the Mavic 3 right now. Give us 6K, give us something larger. That would be nice.
10. De même, un obturateur mécanique serait également très utile sur l'appareil photo.
11. I’d also love to see user-swappable payloads. One, for repairability. So if I break my camera, I can buy a new one and easily put it on. I feel like the one thing that always rips off these drones is the camera, because the gimbal is very fragile. So if I crash, sometimes the drone will be fine, but the camera is laying like 5ft away. So user-swappable payloads would be nice from like a repairability standpoint. But also DJI, in a year, could come out with a new camera and sell it to us and make us buy it all over again. So from a business standpoint, I think it’s good for DJI, but also it’s great for the consumer as well.
12. Integrated LED beacons – I’d love to see one on the top and the bottom for flying at nighttime, for spotting as well as just for general visibility during the nighttime. I think that putting one on the top and bottom makes sense so that if you’re flying away or towards yourself, you can always see that light beacon.
13. Je pense aussi que c'est une grande demande, mais la 5G serait bien. Pouvoir intégrer une sorte de connexion cellulaire entre le contrôleur et le drone vous donnerait une portée infinie. Ce serait donc une bonne chose.
14. C'est un peu bizarre, suivez-moi bien - une conception à double batterie qui peut également être placée dans un tout petit boîtier pour en faire une seule batterie. Ainsi, lorsque vous achetez une batterie, elle est livrée comme une seule, vous pouvez la mettre dans le drone comme une seule, mais elle peut aussi être divisée en deux pour plus de redondance et aussi pour l'échange à chaud. Cela pourrait être très intéressant.
15. J'ai également un SDK sur ce site. La sortie d'un kit de développement logiciel pour le Mavic 4 serait donc une excellente chose pour que d'autres entreprises puissent tirer parti de la plateforme et l'améliorer. Par exemple, AVSS pourrait utiliser le Mavic 4 pour fabriquer un parachute.
16. De plus, j'ai trouvé quelque chose ici qui mentionne la télécommande, mais la RC Pro is already so good, I don’t know how they can make it better. But hey, they went from Smart Controller to RC Pro et l'a amélioré en ce sens. Ainsi, un nouveau RC Pro La version 2 pourrait également être excellente, avec un écran plus lumineux, une meilleure autonomie de la batterie et peut-être des boutons plus personnalisés.

Anyway, that’s pretty much all that I got for the Air 4 rumors and my Mavic 4 wish list. Let me know your thoughts down below. What do you want in a Mavic 4? And as always, I’ll talk to you later. Peace.