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DJI Air 2S
Retail Price
$999.99
Lowest Price
$806.99
Release Date
April 15, 2021
It’s a small folding drone with a premium 1-inch sensor camera, 5.4K video, automated flight and safety features, and is more affordable than Mavic Air 2. Overall, the $999.99 DJI Air 2S is last year’s Mavic Air 2 with an upgraded camera and obstacle sensors, expanded automatic camera movements, and robust safety features and quality that made DJI the market leader in aerial imaging. Plus, the larger camera sensor and 5.4K recording are worthwhile upgrades for professional photographers and videographers.
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Overview
- Summary
- Overview - Features
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Summary - It's a small folding drone with a premium 1-inch sensor camera, 5.4K video, automated flight and safety features, and is more affordable than Mavic Air 2. Overall, the $999.99 DJI Air 2S is last year's Mavic Air 2 with an upgraded camera and obstacle sensors, expanded automatic camera movements, and robust safety features and quality that made DJI the market leader in aerial imaging. Plus, the larger camera sensor and 5.4K recording are worthwhile upgrades for professional photographers and videographers.
Jim Fisher - PCMag
04/15/2021
Overview - Features - Combining the DJI Mavic Air 2's compact design and the Mavic 2 Pro's image quality, the Air 2S is now the best all-round drone you can buy with new features such as a large 20MP 1-inch sensor and digital zoom, with a weight of 595g. Though it's slightly pricier than its predecessor but is worth the extra cost. It’s the perfect combination of size, weight and features, making it ideal for people who take drones with them on days out. Also, the safety features make it safe and intuitive, but the weight of the drone requires CAA (UK) or FAA (US) registration. However, there are rumors that DJI is going to announce a new drone: the DJI Mavic 3 Pro, which could boast new features, including a duo camera set-up, with one of them featuring a telephoto lens and the other offering a 20MP Four Thirds sensor. It has a bigger sensor, and 20 megapixels, enough detail to get everything, while the light is enough to get good low light shots, and great picture overall with a dynamic range to shoot different things like the ultra-wide panorama. Its clip is big enough to support larger handsets, and the remote can charge the phone. It has a one-inch sensor on a consumer level drone with 5.4k video, 10 bit color, and smart flight modes perfect flight.
Overview - Release - It was released in spring 2021, and is the most compact and lightweight drone available with a one-inch sensor, coming in at 21oz / 595g. Also, it’s capable of shooting video at up to 5.4K alongside 4K video up to 60fps, which pitches the Air 2S above and beyond the Mavic 2 Pro in terms of video.
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11/02/2021
Overview - Sensor - Upgrade - The Air 2S comes with a one-inch Ocusync 3.0 sensor that improved the resolution, and new upward facing sensors. It offers more of the pro features in a smaller travel friendly body. Additionally, it’s a user-friendly aircraft packed with features found on some of DJI's top drones with the increased resolution sensor size and tracking modes making it great for travel, and hiking sports.
Overview - Upgrade - The Air 2S is an improvement over its predecessors, with improved safety features, new camera functionality and new flight features. Image and video quality is excellent. It is the most compact and lightweight drone on the market with a large sensor behind the aforementioned better image quality, as well as resolution and performance.
Recommendation - Camera - Sensor - Weight - It’s an exciting option for photographers and videographers with its 20MP one-inch sensor and 21oz weight.
James Abbott - SPACE.com
11/02/2021
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Pros & Cons
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Cons - The cons are the fixed f/2.8 rather than adjustable aperture, fixed-size controller, limited digital zoom use, and slightly soft image edge.
Pros - The pros are the 20MP one-inch sensor, advanced safety features, small and lightweight, and great image quality.
Reasons Not To Buy - Don’t buy it if you need aperture control, you recently bought the Mavic Air 2, and you want to use it with the DJI Goggles V2.0.
James Abbott - techradar
01/07/2022
Reasons to Buy - Buy it if you want the smallest drone with a 1-inch sensor, and you want a drone featuring AirSense.
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01/07/2022
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Accessories
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Accessories - It comes with a user guide or quick start guide, the 3 sets of propellers, 3 batteries, controller, triple charger, filters, and an accessory that turns the batteries into a powerbank.
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Build & Design
- Design - Build
- Design - Portability
- Screen - Display
- Storage
- System Build
- Weight - FAA Registration
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Design - Build - The design of the Air 2S is similar to the DJI Mavic 2 Pro although it’s smaller and lighter. Also, the propeller arms are folded in for transportation and folded out for flight, with the front arms swinging out while the rear arms rotate down and out. Also, all moving parts feel robust and reliable. However, the controller has a fixed size.
Design - Portability - Outside, the Air 2S look similar to the Mavic Air 2, with a few subtle differences. It features a folding design that Mavic drones are known for, the front arms swing out, while the rear arms rotate down and out for flight and help keep the drone highly transportable. Dimension-wise, its at 3.3 by 3.8 by 7.1 inches (180×97×80mm) when folded, and about 1.3 pounds, but unfolded its at 7.2 x 3 x 10in. (183×253×77mm).
Screen - Display - It has a basic screen to display information and some additional programmable function buttons on the back of the controller.
James Abbott - techradar
01/07/2022
Storage - The drone have some internal storage though it’s only 8GB, which fills quickly at 4K or 5.6K. It's ample if you're using it primarily for photography, but not enough for video.
Jim Fisher - PCMag
04/15/2021
System Build - The bitrate has been upped to 150 megabits per second as opposed to the 100 on their flagship DJI Mavic Pro 2. It also has an improved mapping technology and avoidance capabilities to smoothly follow a subject while taking advantage of the drone collision avoidance feature improvements. Also, the active track 4.0 allows taking advantage of subject tracking and improved flight and obstacle avoidance capabilities point of interest 3.0 that tracks a subject in an orbital pattern keeping the subject centered, so you can set the radius and flight speed too.
Weight - FAA Registration - It weighs 595 grams or 1.3 pounds. However, it’s heavy enough to require FAA registration, but if you're flying for fun, a $5 fee covers any drones you own for three years. On the other hand, pilots making money whether for real estate, cinema production, or anything in between are required to pass a certification exam.
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Camera
- Aperture
- Camera Features
- Camera Functions
- Camera Moves - Toggle
- Camera
- Camera - Lens
- HDR Mode
- Image Quality
- Sensors
- Video Quality
- Video Quality - Modes
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Aperture - It features a fixed f/2.8 aperture, thus there’s no ability to control exposure while the drone is in the air beyond changing shutter speed and ISO, so a set of ND filters are essential for video shooters.
James Abbott - SPACE.com
11/02/2021
Camera Features - The Air 2 features a 20MP 1-inch sensor and a full-frame equivalent focal length of 22mm with a fixed aperture at f/2.8 and a focus range of 60cm to infinity. ISO control of 100-12,800 is available for stills, while 100-1600 is available for video, and is capable of making photos with more pixels though most will use its 12MP binned output but there's more to a picture than pixels. Also, it provides in-camera processing that’s applied even to Raw files but does produce great results where noise only becomes noticeable at ISO 6400.
Camera Functions - It features Single Shot, Timed Photo, AEB (Auto Exposure Bracketing), HDR, Panoramas and Hyperlapses. Plus, a new SmartPhoto mode that records full-resolution photos using scene analysis and deep learning to automatically choose the best of three options HDR, Hyperlight and Scene Recognition.
James Abbott - techradar
01/07/2022
Camera Moves - Toggle - A center toggle switches between slow (Cine), standard (Normal), and fast (Sport) flight modes. Specifically, Cine and Normal are for more elegant camera moves as turning the drone in the air when using either, makes the camera stay smooth and level. In Sport mode, the drone flies faster for video with more sense of motion, and turning the drone gives a banking, POV effect from video, which is fitted for action shots, but obstacle detection isn't supported in Sport.
Jim Fisher - PCMag
04/15/2021
Camera - It's essentially a professional level drone that shoots 4K or 5.4K footage in 10-bit color depth. Files can be smaller, but generally the video files will be large. It has an obstacle avoidance sensors at the top bottom front and back, and is significantly larger with better wind resistance. Additionally, it has a 22-millimeter wide angle lens.
Camera - Lens - It shoots at 22 millimeter, which hinders getting a wider look with more information. The shooting resolution is either 4K or 5.4K.
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HDR Mode - It allows you to create video and stills in high contrast situations without worrying about post editing, which is great for filming situations with extreme bright light and very dark shadows.
B&H Photo Video
04/15/2021
Image Quality - For stills photography, you can shoot in Raw, JPEG or both, and for video you can shoot in standard color profiles for straight out of camera footage, D-Log (10 bit) for professional quality Raw footage or HDR in HLG (10 bit). In terms of video frame rates, it’s possible to shoot 5.4K at 24/25/30 fps, 4K at 24/25/30/48/50/60 fps, 2.7K at 24/25/30/48/50/60 fps and FHD at 24/25/30/48/50/60/120 fps. Also, it features a 20MP 1-inch sensor, with the camera providing an 88-degree field of view or a full-frame equivalent focal length of 22mm. It features a digital zoom that allows you to get closer to the action without the drone being physically closer. However, the maximum setting you’d want to use is 2x because image quality naturally reduces the more it’s applied up to 4x in 4K and 8x in FHD. Images shot at ISO 3200 are also clean for a drone, even one with a 1-inch sensor. It’s only at ISO 6400 where noise becomes more noticeable.
James Abbott - SPACE.com
11/02/2021
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Sensors - It has a 1-inch sensor design, and the camera sports bigger pixels, 20MP in total. Performance-wise, it can detect and avoid obstacles in more complex scenarios and at high speeds with APAS 4.0. It also has an improved image quality and high ISO response with the ability to capture 5.4K video at 30fps, alongside 4K at up to 60fps, as well as 1080p at up to 120fps, which opens up significant creative potential for capturing video.
Video Quality - It nets still images with better detail and more dynamic range, and its video has greater bit depth and twice as many pixels as a 4K drone can capture. It also does 4k at 60 fps in recording, with a higher maximum resolution of 5.4K, and a 5.4K clip contains about 16.8MP, just about twice that of an 8MB 4K frame. It also supports 8-bit H.264 capture and higher-quality 10-bit HEVC. Also, its unlikely to notice the difference when using the standard color profile, but the extra data contained in a 10-bit file comes in handy for cinematographers who take the time to work in the flat D-Log format and apply color correction to footage. The HDR HLG format is also 10-bit.
Video Quality - Modes - It offers the usual QuickShots, which are DJI's automated camera moves like the option 'Boomerang' where the drone will automatically circle around you. It also include modes Rocket, Circle, Dronie, Helix and Asteroid.
James Abbott - techradar
01/07/2022
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Controller
- Controller
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Controller - The controller isn't foldable and larger with a weight of 393g. Performance-wise, it connects fast, but doesn’t offer a simple screen showing basic flight and camera information. Battery-wise, it’s larger with longer life. But rather than attaching phones to arms at the bottom of the controller like the Pro, this controller uses a telescopic grip at the top to support phones. The control sticks unscrew for transportation and can be stowed away in the rubber sections at the bottom of the controller. Build-wise, it's a rectangular, gray slab with removable control sticks, a number of camera and flight control buttons, and convenient USB-C charging. Comfort-wise, it fits comfortably in the hand, not unlike a video game controller.
Remote Controls - Flying it is intuitive enough, as you only need to make sure your phone is plugged in and loaded with the DJI Fly app, and that you install the two joysticks for flight control. Specifically, the left stick controls yaw and altitude, while the the right moves the drone forward, backward, left, or right in space. There’s also an emergency control button that can set the aircraft to hover in place with a short press, or automatically fly back to your position with a longer one, and a control wheel to set the camera tilt at the left bumper position and a video/photo button at the right.
Remote Screen - It doesn't have its own screen, so you'll need connect your phone for flight.
Jim Fisher - PCMag
04/15/2021
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Features & Functionality
- Flight Features
- Flight Restrictions
- Flight - Aeroplane Signaling
- Focus Track Mode
- Hyperlapse Mode
- Master Shots Mode
- Modes - Video Recording
- Quick Shots
- Raw File - Availability
- Safety - AirSense - GEO 2.0 - Sensors - Return to Home - Obstacle Avoidance
- Time-Lapse
- Wind Resistance - GPS Positioning
- Zoom - Frame Rate
- Positive
- Negative
Flight Features - Flying is easy and safe because of the front, rear, bottom and top obstacle sensors, which uses binocular zooming technology to recognize objects from further away to increase effectiveness. Then there’s the Advanced Pilot Assistance System (APAS) 4.0, which can be set to stop the drone or to autonomously fly around, under or over obstacles when they’re detected to maintain smooth and continuous flight. Other features include, ADS-B aviation technology, and a maximum speed of 42.5mph/68km/h.
Flight Restrictions - DJI limits flight capabilities in areas where restrictions are in place. They have a Fly Safe site that includes an interactive map, and details the procedures pilots can use to unlock flights in certain zones.
Jim Fisher - PCMag
04/15/2021
Flight - Aeroplane Signaling - It features AirSense which uses ADS-B aviation technology to receive signals from nearby aeroplanes and helicopters, and display their locations on the on-screen map on the DJI Fly app. Plus there’s the GEO 2.0 geofencing system, which helps keep the drone away from restricted airspace around locations such as airports.
James Abbott - SPACE.com
11/02/2021
Focus Track Mode - It has a FocusTrack mode, which includes several programmed modes where you draw a box around the subject and the drone will track it. Plus, there’s Spotlight 2.0, where the drone’s flight is controlled by the pilot, while the camera locks and tracks the subject in the frame.
James Abbott - techradar
01/07/2022
Hyperlapse Mode - It has four modes of control. In free mode, the operator has complete control. In circle mode, the drone automatically circles the subject while capturing images. In course lock mode, it will lock onto a subject and fly straight while keeping the subject in the middle of the frame. In waypoint, you can set up to 5 points and have the drone follow a flight path. Additionally, in standard still imaging and video, the Air 2S supports time-lapse with motion, also called hyperlapse, which gives the option of flying the drone manually, or setting different positions and camera angles.
Master Shots Mode - The MasterShots mode allows you to select a subject in the app by drawing a rectangle or square around it, then press the start button. The drone will then perform several maneuvers with a countdown timer showing its progress. The drone will automatically select a capture mode to shoot the video in, and then once it's complete you can then add themes in the DJI Fly app to create a video to share.
Modes - Video Recording - You can choose between normal mode and 10-bit d-log mode allowing you to push the grade on the footage between mp4 or mov and take advantage of the h.265 codec.
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Quick Shots - It offers multiple automated flight patterns and subject following modes to make complex videos achievable by anyone, and these can be found within the Quickshots section of the app.
Raw File - Availability - The raw files from the Air 2S are clean because DJI uses a temporal denoising technology to reduce high ISO noise. The aircrafts’ 1-inch sensor works at 20MP all the time, with support for JPG or Raw DNG imaging. Raw files offer more room to edit and the files promise up to 12.6 stops of dynamic range.
Safety - AirSense - GEO 2.0 - Sensors - Return to Home - Obstacle Avoidance - The Air 2S has AirSense, which uses ADS-B aviation technology to receive signals from nearby planes and helicopters, and displays their locations on the on-screen map on the DJI Fly app. Then there’s the GEO 2.0 geofencing system, which helps to keep the drone away from locations such as airports. Also, its positioning system leverages GPS and GLONASS satellites, as well as visual sensors, to determine position and hover perfectly in place. It supports automated return to home and includes an obstacle avoidance system, as well as geofencing support.
Time-Lapse - The time-lapse takes time, and the time-lapse fans should definitely go for the Fly More kit, assuming you want to take more than one when you're out and about.
Jim Fisher - PCMag
04/15/2021
Wind Resistance - GPS Positioning - It has a GPS positioning to hold it in place when hovering so it doesn’t get blown away by the wind.
James Abbott - SPACE.com
11/02/2021
Zoom - Frame Rate - Its zoom starts at 4x with 4K at 30fps video and goes up to 8x zoom with 1080p at 30fps. Considering the laws that govern how close to people drones can safely fly (no closer than 50m, in most cases), it allows you to get close while maintaining that safe distance. For professional drone pilots, this could be an extremely useful feature, and for enthusiasts it will open the door to more creative stills and videos. Quality-wise, the zoom is achieved less destructively, because the Air 2S’s camera can record at up to 5.4K. Performance-wise, at 60fps it can zoom in digitally up to six times 1080p at 30fps can zoom in digitally up to eight times 4k at 60fps can zoom in digitally up to three times while 4k 30fps can go up to four times, and 5.4k can’t zoom.
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- Hyperlapse Mode
- Master Shots Mode
- Modes - Video Recording
- Quick Shots
- Raw File - Availability
- Safety - AirSense - GEO 2.0 - Sensors - Return to Home - Obstacle Avoidance
- Time-Lapse
- Wind Resistance - GPS Positioning
- Zoom - Frame Rate
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Performance
- Battery Life - Charging
- Ease of Use
- Flight Time - Power Use
- Fly More Combo - Flight Time - Signal - Stability
- Stability
- Video Format - Color Profile
- Video Quality - Resolution - Frame Rate - Zoom
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Battery Life - Charging - Its battery is good for around a half hour, as it’s rated at 31 minutes, and you can expect to get within a couple minutes of that in real-world conditions. How you fly, wind, and other factors come into play. Charging takes about 70 to 80 minutes to reach a full charge.
Ease of Use - Flying is easy and safe because of the flight features such as the flight modes, automated video modes, collision avoidance and manual flight control that provide as little or as much assistance as you need.
James Abbott - techradar
01/07/2022
Flight Time - Power Use - The maximum flight time is 31 minutes. That claim is for when there’s no wind, so when factoring in the weather and the Return-To-Home function (which kicks in when the battery reaches 25%), the flight times are often around 20 minutes per battery, depending on conditions. The most power is used when flying in Sport Mode, where the drone can reach speeds of up to 42.5mph/68kmh. Other flight modes include Positioning Mode (P) where all sensors are active and Cine (C) where speed is restricted and controls are less sensitive for shooting cinematic-looking video footage.
Fly More Combo - Flight Time - Signal - Stability - The fly more combo gives 23 minutes on average per battery, and signal is good with great drone stability in high wind.
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Stability - It’s steady even when panning, thanks to a combination of automated movements, the physical stabilization provided by the camera gimbal, and some additional electronic image stabilization.
Jim Fisher - PCMag
04/15/2021
Video Format - Color Profile - It can record video in H.264 or H.265 formats, and choose from three video color profiles, which are Normal (8-bit), D-Log (10-bit) or HLG (10-bit). Pro users can fit their aerial footage into a raw video workflow with color grading, while hobbyists can use Standard more to get footage that looks great straight out-of-camera without any need for raw editing.
James Abbott - techradar
01/07/2022
Video Quality - Resolution - Frame Rate - Zoom - Dropping down to 4K ups the maximum frame rate to 60fps, the same maximum at 2.7K and 1080p for standard recording. There's a separate slow-motion option for recording at 1080p120 only. For the most part the drone operates exactly the same at these lower resolutions, but you will gain subject tracking and automatic navigation around obstacles at 30fps and lower in all modes except for 5.4K. In terms of video, it’s possible to shoot 5.4K at up to 30fps, 4K at up to 60fps and Full HD at up to 120fps, so slow-motion video is available. There's also the 8x digital zoom, which starts at 4x with 4K at 30fps video and goes up to 8x with 1080p at 30fps. Zoom recording isn’t available while shooting 10-bit videos or 120fps videos.
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- Battery Life - Charging
- Ease of Use
- Flight Time - Power Use
- Fly More Combo - Flight Time - Signal - Stability
- Stability
- Video Format - Color Profile
- Video Quality - Resolution - Frame Rate - Zoom
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Application
- DJI Fly App
- Video - Editing Software
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DJI Fly App - The DJI Fly app is a free app for Android and iOS devices, is a necessary download. It's easy enough to set up but you'll need to create a DJI account to activate the drone and give it the required permissions to access your phone's camera roll. In the app you can configure many esoteric settings. The geofence is configurable there allowing swapping between metric and imperial units or adding a framing overlay grid as a photographic composition aid. Also, the app shows the view from the drone's camera, and gives access to the automated flight modes. It displays a map that shows your position in the world, as well as the drone's. The drone is represented by a blue arrow, and a floating red line is there to connect its position to where you're standing. It can also be used to switch between different photo and video modes. For images the drone can shoot in JPG or Raw format, either in a basic mode or a Smart Photo scene recognition mode. The app also sets video resolution between 1080p, 2.7K, 4K, and 5.4K, adjusts frame rates, and changes the color profile. Additionally, some basic video editing tools are included, but it's limited to 1080p output, and a Flight Log function, so you can go back and review your flights to check speed, altitude, and the like.
Video - Editing Software - To get the most out of the video, you'll need to invest in higher-end video editing software. Apps that do well are Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2021 and Apple Final Cut X while basic apps, including the editor that puts in the DJI Fly app, can edit the video, but not with full-quality output.
Jim Fisher - PCMag
04/15/2021
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- DJI Fly App
- Video - Editing Software
Sources
- PCMag
- techradar
Jim Fisher - PCMag
04/15/2021
Jim Fisher - PCMag
04/15/2021
Jim Fisher - PCMag
04/15/2021
Jim Fisher - PCMag
04/15/2021
James Abbott - techradar
01/07/2022
Jim Fisher - PCMag
04/15/2021
Jim Fisher - PCMag
04/15/2021
Jim Fisher - PCMag
04/15/2021
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Comparison
- Comparison vs. Air 2, Mini 2 - Features - Sensor - Image Quality
- Comparison vs. DJI Air 2 - Build - Wind Resistance - Aperture Control - Value
- Comparison vs. DJI Mini 2 - Price - Value - Beginner-Friendly
- Comparison vs. M2P - Battery - Price - Accessories
- Comparison vs. Mavic 3 - Usage - Weight - Portability - Features
- Comparison vs. Mavic Air 2 - Price - Sensors - Improvements
- Comparison vs. Mini 2 - Size - Camera - Sensor
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Comparison vs. Air 2, Mini 2 - Features - Sensor - Image Quality - While the Air 2 does have some nice features over the mini 2, the sensor size is almost the same so there’s no huge improvement in terms of image quality.
eugene_captures
12/17/2021
Comparison vs. DJI Air 2 - Build - Wind Resistance - Aperture Control - Value - Air2S is superior, and bridges the gap between the M2P and the Air 2 series well. All its lacking is slightly weaker wind resistance and lack of aperture control, but the price point is undeniable considering next current gen level is the M3.
UA_Jordan
12/17/2021
Comparison vs. DJI Mini 2 - Price - Value - Beginner-Friendly - The Air 2S is likely above what a beginner needs so you’d be spending more money than needed ($1300). Something smaller caliber like the DJI Mini, and the Flymore Combo is only $600 and is great quality for fun video making.
ZVideos85
12/31/2021
Comparison vs. M2P - Battery - Price - Accessories - Used M2P drones and fly more bundles with the Smart controller can be found cheap on eBay. Between a $1000 A2S, you can pay $1400 for like 3-6 batteries, cases, smart controller, filters etc on ebay used.
UA_Jordan
12/17/2021
Comparison vs. Mavic 3 - Usage - Weight - Portability - Features - The Air 2S is more suitable for outdoors than the DJI Mavic 3. Unlike the Mavic 3, the Air 2S has a much lighter weight and is much more portable, and there may be a bit too many features on the Mavic 3. The only drawback of the new, unreleased drone is the price and size. Specs-wise, it will have two cameras, one of which will be ideal for low light, and it will have master shots. The DJI Air 2S has a 1-inch sensor that’s a significant upgrade over the Mavic Air 2's 1/2-inch sensor and can record 5.4K video. Overall, the Air 2S is the best all-around drone price/performance wise, but the Mavic 3 is in no way shape or form worth $1000 more than the air 2S.
Comparison vs. Mavic Air 2 - Price - Sensors - Improvements - The Air 2S debuted less than a year after the Mavic Air 2 and is meant to coexist with its predecessor in the market. For $200 more than the Mavic Air 2, you only get a few improvements with the drone itself, and the big change is an extra set of obstacle sensors, positioned forward and facing slightly up.
Jim Fisher - PCMag
04/15/2021
Comparison vs. Mini 2 - Size - Camera - Sensor - The Mini 2 is slightly bigger than an iPhone and is easier to maneuver/transport. It shoots 4K files in 8-bit, which are great for social media and gives smaller file sizes, but it only has a downward sensor. On the other hand, the 2S has a 1" sensor, good photo quality, sensors, and sturdiness (wind resistance). Overall, the Mini 2 can get the job done for the most part, but the 2S is a great longer-term investment.
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- Comparison vs. Air 2, Mini 2 - Features - Sensor - Image Quality
- Comparison vs. DJI Air 2 - Build - Wind Resistance - Aperture Control - Value
- Comparison vs. DJI Mini 2 - Price - Value - Beginner-Friendly
- Comparison vs. M2P - Battery - Price - Accessories
- Comparison vs. Mavic 3 - Usage - Weight - Portability - Features
- Comparison vs. Mavic Air 2 - Price - Sensors - Improvements
- Comparison vs. Mini 2 - Size - Camera - Sensor
Sources
- PCMag
eugene_captures
12/17/2021
UA_Jordan
12/17/2021
ZVideos85
12/31/2021
UA_Jordan
12/17/2021
ReianaSmiley
11/01/2021
ax-gosser
11/01/2021
ax-gosser
11/01/2021
ax-gosser
11/01/2021
ReianaSmiley
11/01/2021
r/dji
12/17/2021
ReianaSmiley
11/01/2021
ReianaSmiley
11/01/2021
Jim Fisher - PCMag
04/15/2021
ZVideos85
12/31/2021
foyizzle
12/17/2021
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Availability, Price & Value
- Price - Bundles
- Price - Fly More Bundle - Value - Kit Options
- Value
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Price - Bundles - The Mavic Air 2S is available in a standard kit or Fly More Bundle. The standard kit consists of the drone, controller, one battery, propellers, a spare pair of propellers, a charger and all cables costing £899 / US $999. The Fly More Bundle is great value at £1169 / US $1299, which includes everything in the standard kit plus two additional batteries, additional spare propellers, a three battery charging hub, a shoulder bag and a set of four ND filters. It was announced on April 15, 2021. Specifically, Standard kit costs £899 / $999 / AU $1699 and Fly More Bundle costs £1,169 / $1,299 / AU $2,099. On eBay, an "open box" Air 2s Fly More costs $1,000. In Malaysia, the standard costs 999 dollars or 4500 ringgit while the Fly More combo costs 1299 dollars or 57999.
Price - Fly More Bundle - Value - Kit Options - The Fly More Bundle offers the greatest value for money because getting all of those extras separately would cost much more. Plus, everything in the bundle is essential, because one battery is never enough and, shooting a video will need ND filters to maintain control of shutter speed. As for the shoulder bag, it’s something to carry the drone and accessories in, too.
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- Price - Bundles
- Price - Fly More Bundle - Value - Kit Options
- Value
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- SPACE.com
- techradar
- PCMag
- YouTube
James Abbott - SPACE.com
11/02/2021
James Abbott - techradar
01/07/2022
Jim Fisher - PCMag
04/15/2021
LowBarometer
12/31/2021
ProductNation
05/21/2021
James Abbott - techradar
01/07/2022
James Abbott - techradar
01/07/2022
James Abbott - techradar
01/07/2022
Air Photography
04/17/2021
BobWellington11
12/17/2021
Jim Fisher - PCMag
04/15/2021
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Miscellaneous
- App Limitations
- App Update
- Brand Information
- Update - Firmware
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App Limitations - Some features don't work at 5.4K, or at 4K when pushing the frame rate beyond 30fps such as the Active Track and APAS 4.0. The drone will still use its sensors to prevent collisions at higher resolutions and frame rates. Instead of flying around roadblocks, as it does with APAS, it simply stops and hovers in place at 4K60 and 5.4K.
Jim Fisher - PCMag
04/15/2021
App Update - It's important to update the fly app because there’s an update to make it compatible with the air 2s.
Air Photography
04/17/2021
Brand Information - This is the second drone release from DJI in a row to drop Mavic from the product name, so it's safe to say the company is moving away from clever branding. The DJI Air 2S, a bit bigger than the DJI Mini 2, and with a different camera than the otherwise similar DJI Mavic Air 2.
Jim Fisher - PCMag
04/15/2021
Update - Firmware - There is some firmware that needs to be updated in the drone.
Air Photography
04/17/2021
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