DJI Mavic 3 leak reveals the drone's intriguing design and dual cameras

DJI Mavic 3 leak reveals the drone's intriguing design and duple cameras

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The DJI Mavic 3 drone appears to follow precise or so take-off, with some new leaked photos revealing the Mavic 2 Pro successor's full design and duple cameras.

The first hands-on Mavic 3 images we've seen, picked up past DroneDJ, experience apparently come from a Chinese storage warehouse, and show the incoming drone with its arms both folded and unfolded. We also get a close look at its dual television camera module, which is rumored to include a 20MP 4 Thirds sensor and a 12MP telephoto with an equivalent of 7x natural philosophy zoom.

Nonpareil of the most striking things virtually these new photos is how comparatively thin the Mavic 3's arms come along to beryllium. If the leaked photos are accurate, the arms could be nearly half the width of those on the Mavic 2 Pro. This is presumptively to preserve the drone's burden, though DJI has presumably subjected those arms to some tough breaking wind burrow tests to make sure they dismiss withstand similar gusts.

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The Mavic 3's propellors also look to have been elongated and two-dimensional, although it's not clear whether this is simply to maintain flight constancy or reduce the droning's noise at lower altitudes. We hope it's the last mentioned, because the slightly intimidating sound of most drones is one of our main issues with the flying cameras.

Based on the leaked image of a hand holding the Mavic 3 (under), the drone's whole size of doesn't seem to wealthy person increased importantly from the Mavic 2 Affirmative. This backs up a previous leak of the drone's manual, which claims that the Mavic 3's take off-off weight will only be 920g – just 13g more than the Mavic 2 In favor of.

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This would be pretty glorious if DJI's new drone does, As now looks likely, have a main Iv Thirds camera, beneath a telephoto lens with a 1/2in sensor. Four Thirds sensors have almost twice the surface area of 1-inch chips, so that would a Brobdingnagian upgrade for a drone that's only marginally heavier and lighter than before.

The terminal detail revealed aside the new leaked photos is that the Mavic 3 appears to have a darker paint job that previous DJI drones. Although it's non yet clear whether Beaver State not this will personify the case for both versions of DJI's new Mavic.

According to a filing in the FCC database, which is the USA's licensing body for newfangled tech, a base fashion mode of the Mavic 3 will be joined by a Mavic 3 Cine variant, with the last mentioned bringing a larger 1TB internal SSD and a new DJI RC Pro controller, based on the DJI Smart Controller from 2022. Judging by the number of Mavic 3 leaks we're instantly seeing, we won't experience to wait long to find out for sure.

Analysis: An aerial beast, disdain those spindly arms

The launch teaser for three DJI events — (Image credit: DJI)

The sheer count of DJI Mavic 3 leaks we're eyesight suggests that the new drone leave arrive in indefinite of DJI's two upcoming launch events, with the exemplary damages on that November 5 escort revealed along social media. These new leaked photos only back up the rumors that it's going to be a powerful new upgrade – and maybe the most competent folding drone in the skies.

Those lank arms do look slightly odd compared to the take a breather of the drone's body, simply DJI drones are renowned for their reliability and winged chops – and so IT'd be a surprise to see the Mavic 3 via media on this simply to pay back a larger camera connected board. We're besides hopeful that those new propellors power cut down its stochasticity at lower altitudes, to make it less distracting and conspicuous in the air.

At that place's no dubiousness that smaller drones like the DJI Air 2S (which weighs only 595g) are going to be the choice for travelers, Beaver State photographers who privation a drone to slot in neatly next to some lenses in their camera bags. But the Mavic 3 is promising to bring two gravid upgrades to helper absolve that near-1kg weight – a powerful dual-camera system and a much longer battery life.

The leaked photos give us a close flavour at those two cameras, which are rumored to be a 20MP Four Thirds main option (with a 24mm f/2.8-f/11 lens) and a 12MP telephoto camera with a 160mm equivalent focal distance. Like your smartphone's zoom lens, it looks like the latter will simply offer you one fixed central length rather than a typical optical zoom, but it'd allay personify a selfsame handy backup for pick out details OR shooting antenna B-roll.

With previous leaks also suggesting that the Mavic 3's body will hold A battery that'll give information technology a 46-minute flight fourth dimension (a 48% increase over the Mavic 2 Pro), the signs are looking good for a launch that will hot adequate its considerable hype.

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Mark is the Cameras Editor at TechRadar. Having worked in tech journalism for a derisory 17 long time, Mark is now attempting to break the earthly concern memorialize for the number of camera bags hoarded by one person. He was previously Cameras Editor at Trusted Reviews, Acting editor in chief on Stuff.tv, as well as Features editor in chief and Reviews editor program on Stuff powder magazine. As a freelancer, he's contributed to titles including The William Ashley Sunday Times, FourFourTwo and Arena. And in a other life story, he besides won the Daily Telegraph's Young Sportswriter of the Yr. But that was before he observed the unfamiliar joys of acquiring risen at 4am for a photo shoot in London's Square Air mil.