The Sony Airpeak drone was officially unveiled virtually during CES2021. As the first model of the Airpeak series, the drone will be able to carry mirrorless cameras such as the full-frame cameras of the Sony Alpha series. The drone market has been massively dominated by DJI in recent years. Now it seems that Japanese camera giant Sony wants to enter this market and secure market share for itself. Back in November 2020, Sony teased the new drone project with a mysterious Youtube video. Today, during the virtual CES2021 show, Sony finally officially announced the drone and revealed more details about it. Let’s take a look at the Sony Airpeak. Sony Airpeak Drone Sony is marketing this drone as “the world’s smallest drone capable to carry Alpha camera systems”. That means, in fact, that the drone is not that small. At least not small enough to compete with DJI Mavic line. It resembles rather the DJI Matrice or FREEFLY Alta drones. There is virtually no technical info about the drone from Sony yet, so I am only writing up what I observed from the published videos. Airpeak is a classic quadcopter, so it has four arms, each with one motor and one propeller. It seems to have two fairly large batteries in its body as well as a handful of sensors on every side. There also seems to be a small gimbal-stabilized camera on the drone already. Airpeak Drone Batteries. Source: Sony The main camera for the drone hangs on a...
Published By: CineD - Tuesday, 12 January, 2021