DJI just announced the DJI FPV, their first ready-to-fly first person view sporting drone. I took it for a first spin and here are my impressions from a filmmaker’s perspective in our DJI FPV Review. In case you missed our post with all the technical details of the new drone, click here to read it. Flying an FPV drone – very different from “mainstream” drones If you’ve ever flown a drone, it’s most likely you flew a DJI Mavic or Phantom drone – DJI’s normal “mainstream” drones. Flying the DJI FPV drone is a quite different experience: FPV stands for first-person-view, and it’s a completely new design for DJI, with a very different purpose in mind: sports flying, at high speeds, with a completely freedom of movement in all axis, to make movements you haven’t seen before. And yes, you can fly this drone only with goggles. The DJI FPV drone. Image credit: CineD FPV drones are notoriously hard to fly and take many, many hours to master, involving lots of crashes in the process. Most FPV drones are self-built and often very lightweight (especially Cinewhoop drones), which makes even hard impacts often not as destructive as on heavier drones. Now DJI’s FPV drone is not exactly lightweight though – it weights almost 800 grams or 1.75 pounds, which is partly because of a large battery that allows it to fly for up to 20 minutes but of course also bears the question – how can you learn how to...
Published By: CineD - Tuesday, 2 March, 2021