DJI Mavic Unfolding Animations

msinger · Sep 19, 2016

WilsonFlyer said:
You mean all 10 years of it? LOL

Yes, sir.

How many years of experience does Go Pro have?

WilsonFlyer · Sep 19, 2016

msinger said:
Yes, sir.

How many years of experience does Go Pro have?

Don't know. I don't know who they hired to design it. You don't either.

Jdhill · Sep 20, 2016

I thought the Mavic is supposed to be like an FPV racer ?
I could be wrong, I'm not positive.
If so it would not be meant for photography, or to compete with Karma.

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Mako79 · Sep 20, 2016

tml4191 said:
no gimbal?

ummm... no landing gear..
I hope the gimbals are replaceable as no landing gear means broken gimbals..

tml4191 · Sep 20, 2016

msinger said:
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How did you get this? Nice ..thanks! This thing can be called DJI bat. It folds like a bat...man this is way different.

msinger · Sep 20, 2016

Jdhill said:
I thought the Mavic is supposed to be like an FPV racer ?

That's what people were saying before the first pictures surfaced. It looks like they are just going for a more compact drone though -- like we're seeing from other drone makers.

msinger · Sep 20, 2016

tml4191 said:
How did you get this?

It's not mine... unfortunately. I was just sharing the photo I found

QuadBart · Sep 20, 2016

Yeah, thats what people were speculating the direction DJI was going to take. Seems they are happy to stay in the AP world.

Jdhill said:
I thought the Mavic is supposed to be like an FPV racer ?
I could be wrong, I'm not positive.
If so it would not be meant for photography, or to compete with Karma.

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TheLightSpeedz · Sep 20, 2016

I can't wait! I think Mavic somehow was designed to be a competitor of Karma.

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tml4191 · Sep 20, 2016

msinger said:
It's not mine... unfortunately. I was just sharing the photo I found

Oh... in that case, here's some pics off of reddit: http://m.imgur.com/a/EO5g5

Suhail78 · Sep 20, 2016

msinger said:
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Interesting photo.... I can see the VPS sensors, and the downward facing cameras, so looks like its going to have that. Probably front obstacle avoidance? Wonder if they just took the guts of the phantom 4 and re-packaged everything? I like how this thing looks, but i probably wouldn't trade my phantom 4 for it.

N017RW · Sep 20, 2016

Suhail78 said:
Interesting photo.... I can see the VPS sensors, and the downward facing cameras, so looks like its going to have that. Probably front obstacle avoidance? Wonder if they just took the guts of the phantom 4 and re-packaged everything? I like how this thing looks, but i probably wouldn't trade my phantom 4 for it.

What appear to be forward (only) OA sensors are visible in other photos.

tml4191 · Sep 20, 2016

Even though it's foldable, the casing for this must be layered for protection, so the size difference ,when taking it out in a field, jumps
from a large hicking backpack(phantom 3/4)to a school sized backpack(mavic) . Hopefully the mavic's specs are more promising than the karmas... How about waterproofing drones? They already have drones that can function underwater and fly now.

N017RW · Sep 20, 2016

Waterproofing is waaaay to niche-y.
These are mass-appeal, mass-produced items.

Suhail78 · Sep 20, 2016

Mako79 said:
ummm... no landing gear..
I hope the gimbals are replaceable as no landing gear means broken gimbals..

The landing gear appear to fold up into the arms....here's a pick i found:

N017RW · Sep 20, 2016

The photo msinger linked to show the front 'gear' a fixed feature of the front arms only.

No folding or any 'gear' on the rear arms.

leekiya · Sep 20, 2016

One think on my mind is that all google pics of the mavic have a round camera but in djis video it shows a square camera. Wowsers been a long long time since i posted on here. LOL Hi any old school regulars from back in the day.