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I would prefer a mavic 2 form factor with a p5 cameraWould you prefer the mavic 2 or the phantom 5 were to come out?
Same, this is my dream drone. I just don't know if that's possible.I would prefer a mavic 2 form factor with a p5 camera
True. If there was a mavic sized p4p that would be amazing.If the MP2 had just the P4P´s specs it´d be a killer already. A P5 would have to be really special to beat that because portability is the future for drones.
The Mavic has some obvious upgrade potential (better camera and OA) but it's more difficult to guess how they will upgrade the P4P. The P4P imaging system is already about all any prosumer would need. It's always possible to make it better of course but I'm not sure anyone would want to pay a yet higher price for better imagery at this point (that's what the Inspire is for.) They could tweak OA features (360 protection in all flight modes, downward OA, etc.) It will be interesting to see where they go with the P4p, and if they are able to maintain the same price point.
Yes, processing power is certainly something that can increase with no change in form factor and perhaps little effect on price. Maybe the ability to record RAW onboard the aircraft? (although even the current 100 mb/s H.265 video seems to be stretching people's PCs to the max.) And DJI definitely seems to be pursuing OA/autonomous flight and safety functionalities so we can probably expect some tweaks there.I agree that there is probably little they can improve on the camera (maybe a little bit better lens) given that form factor and weight constraint. Possibly (with the advent of faster memory cards) and significantly faster video processing HW, the actual encoding quality may has room for significant improvement up to and including low compression (raw type) modes currently requiring hard drives. Other than that the only real improvements are in the autonomous flight and safety arena. Once again, currently rather limited and funky, with much more processing power, the AC could be made almost un-crashable (short of sudden power failures or bird attacks).
We need to know so we can start speculating what will be in the P6.A choice of two non-existent drones? Decisions, decisions.
We need to know so we can start speculating what will be in the P6.
Yes, when the Mavic was only competing against the P4 then the Mavic was the clear choice. The P4P was probably introduced so Phantom sales would not be destroyed and DJI could maintain two model lines (for instance I was going to buy a Mavic but switched when the P4P came out, as many here did.) So if the Mavic gets a better camera (not sure if DJI will want to bump the price that much) then I would expect that DJI will do something to up the Phantom series to maintain a differentiation. So you may still end up with a tough choiceIf the Mavic Pro carried the PH 4 Pro Camera I'd consider switching forum to MavicPilots. Nuff said.
Yes, when the Mavic was only competing against the P4 then the Mavic was the clear choice. The P4P was probably introduced so Phantom sales would not be destroyed and DJI could maintain two model lines (for instance I was going to buy a Mavic but switched when the P4P came out, as many here did.) So if the Mavic gets a better camera (not sure if DJI will want to bump the price that much) then I would expect that DJI will do something to up the Phantom series to maintain a differentiation. So you may still end up with a tough choice