Name: The DJI Mavic 4 Pro is EXCELLENT... If You Can Buy It
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I've got myself a brand new DGI Mavic 4 Pro.

Now, I'm going to be reviewing this today because I'm Canadian, so I get one, but we just found out that if you're in the States, you just can't get them right now.

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So the first thing I want to point out on the Mavic 4 Pro is this new gimbal design.

I mean, this gives you basically the most that we've ever seen as far as control goes on the Mavic series.

First off, you can turn vertical to do vertical video just with the flick of a switch.

And it does unlock some very interesting kind of rotational work as well that you can see here.

But also of course, you've got full motion below the drone.

I mean, this thing can point straight down, but it can also very interestingly enough, point almost straight up 70 degrees off axis.

So really very cool to do hero shots or shooting up into the canopy.

What I especially like about this gimbal system is just we've got the two arm support.

You got support arms on either side, the rotation.

It all makes it very flexible, but also actually really compact, you know.

And actually they have this new sling design to protect it, which promises to be easier than the old push on plastic clip in where you kind of got to get it exactly right and kind of fudge it in there.

This is just clip on the bottom, stretch it over the top, and you're ready to move.

As you can see here, this also houses three interesting cameras.

Okay, so on the Mavic 3 Pro, we had ourselves a 20 megapixel four-thirds sensor, and that did give us pretty good low-light performance.

But now the Mavic 4 Pro, we've got quite the upgrade.

So first off, this is still a four-thirds sensor, but DJI is saying it's a hundred megapixels.

Now they're not talking about anything, but our suspicions are this is a sensor very similar to the GH7, and they're using a quad bayer setup, and that's how they're getting the 100 megapixel number.

I mean, regardless, this thing can do either 25 or 100 megapixel still photos.

And so I really like the fact that we get that wider f2 aperture on the main camera, because like right now it's nice and bright, but we're going to be waiting for this to go down.

We're going to do some low-light testing with this camera, and that f2 aperture is going to come in handy.

But while it is still sunny out, let's say that, I don't know, you forgot your NDs at home, or you don't have any NDs because this is a brand new camera, and DJI didn't send you any NDs to use with the camera.

Well, luckily, this lens can go down to f11, and that's really handy to cut some of that light so that you don't have to use ultra-fast shutter speeds out here in this bright condition.

It also does give you nice little sun stars.

You get some fun 10-point sun stars when you stop down there to those tighter apertures.

So this is giving us all a 28mm full-frame equivalent field of view, which is a nice general-purpose wide-angle lens.

And this is also the only camera that's going to give you 6K 60p footage, 4K 120p footage.

So this will be the one that you rely on in a lot of situations, but there are two more.

It's a 48-megapixel quad-bayer type 1 over 1.3 sensor.

We've seen image quality like this very similar to things like the DJI Flip, which we like.

It's not going to have the same low-light performance as this main camera.

Now, this is going to give us a 70mm full-frame field of view.

Nice when you want to get just that little bit of background close to your subject, kind of portrait looks, that kind of stuff.

And this camera is going to give us an f2.8 aperture.

Not bad, but keep in mind you have no other options.

So if you are going to be shooting in bright conditions, you're definitely going to want to use NDs.

Otherwise, in low light, it's going to suffer a little bit compared to the camera.

In fact, this is the one camera module that we really see returning from the Mavic 3 Pro.

And then we do get a long telephoto camera.

This now returns, but it's a better sensor than what we had in the Mavic 3 Pro.

So this is going to actually give us a type 1 over 1.5 sensor, larger than the older type 1 over 2 sensor that we had before.

We also get a faster f2.8 aperture versus the older f3.5 aperture.

And so this telephoto lens is going to give us 168mm full-frame field of view.

Great for when you want to isolate a subject against a busy background or just have that nice zoomed-in look where the background is really close to your subject.

Awesome for like Michael Bay hero shots or, you know, any sort of adventure filmmaking.

This is going to give you 50 megapixel stills, and it is capped at 4K 60p, but it's a marked improvement over the Mavic 3 Pro.

And I'm really going to enjoy using that longer reach.

Okay, so if we're going to fly the drone, we have to have our batteries topped up here ready to go.

And so first off, the Mavic 4 Pro does use a brand new battery type.

It looks a lot like the Mavic 3 batteries, but this is a BWX341 series battery.

Now, of course, you can charge these individually like you always would, but it does make sense to maybe get an upgrade and get this.

This is the Mavic 4 Pro parallel charging hub.

And this is pretty neat because first off, I can charge three batteries.

I can do an individual one in about 40 minutes or all three in about 90 minutes, but it unlocks some other features.

So first off, if one of these is lower than the others, it will top it up till they're all equal and then fully charge all three of them together.

Or you can set it up so that if you've got three batteries that are all sort of like a lower charge, you can use the two lowest charge batteries to fill up one of the other ones.

At least then it's ready to go in the drone and give you that maximum flight time.

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