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On the evening of October 30, Dajiang officially released Mavic Mini, the “little brother” of the Mavic family. Ai Faner also released Get started.

In the next few days, we observed on Weibo and WeChat a lot of attention from players outside the drone to Mavic Mini.

This heat has also appeared in May 2017, when Dajiang released the first drone with “lightweight” and “self-portrait” as its selling point – Spark.

But Spark has become a high-frequency ash product after gaining attention and finally moving to consumers. There is no reason for it, the battery life is short, the picture transmission performance is weak, the picture quality is limited, the volume is not small… The limitations make Spark just a short-lived product for exploring the sinking market in DJI, even if it has infrared TOF face recognition, palm Selling points such as take-off and off-control flights.

The existence of Spark proves that Black Technology is not the most important product selling point for consumers in the sinking market. What they really care about is the core product value of the drone – shooting, and the necessary to achieve this value. Functional stability – flight, map transmission.

So, when Mavic Mini started to release the experience, Ai Faner also collected some questions from the attention of these readers. I hope that when the Mavic Mini is released, it will let readers know more about whether Mavic Mini is suitable for them.

Use the Mavic Mini to record “Guangzhou Morning”:

Hardware Design: Micro-Innovation Based on Mature Architecture

Spark’s small, mainly reflected in the small part of the fuselage, but considering its arm is unfoldable design, so the size of Spark is actually very large.

In the Mavic Mini project, Dajiang is clearly learning, directly applying Mavic Pro’s ancestral folding structure to balance the fuselage volume, wheelbase and portability.

A Mavic Mini with only one phone size after folding, the wheelbase has reached an excellent 213mm, compared to Spark’s 170mm increased by 25%. Stability will be better, more tests are needed to prove, but the larger wheelbase theoretically provides better flight stability, which is beyond doubt.

However, the Mavic Pro’s body is designed for Pro-level players. To minimize weight and battery life, a lot of simplification is required.

For example, the Mavic Pro series of iconic forward-looking binocular vision sensors, Mavic Mini is not configured, the openings originally prepared for it have become pure decoration, and even the function of the vents is not available.

The Micro-SD card cover is naturally skipped, and the inside of the battery compartment can also directly see the boards and wires distributed around the fuselage, thereby eliminating unnecessary loads for the Mavic Mini.

Similar lightweight retrofits, we can find a lot on the Mavic Mini, not to mention them here.

Mavic Mini looks like Mavic ProThe series, Ai Faner guesses that on the one hand, this fuselage architecture has been verified by the market. It is a performance and portable architecture. On this basis, it can be redeveloped to achieve high efficiency and light weight.

At the same time, because of the overall consistency with Mavic Pro, Mavic Mini can also create a “small version of Mavic Pro”.

So, how do you make Mavic Mini look like a “simplified version” of Mavic 2? The answer is the accessory.

A total of 6 Mavic Mini accessories have been released in Dajiang:

• Face creation kit ($69): Contains stickers and multi-color brushes. Friends who know how to draw can use DIY body stickers. If you paint ugly, you should not start…
  Charging base (199 yuan): The base that can display the charged Mavic Mini like a work of art, the best drone charger ever!
• Mini Backpack (RMB 249): A small backpack designed for Mavic Mini, Osmo Action, Osmo Pocket, good-looking (please forgive me for the poor…)
• Beamer
• Extension buckle:

  So, where is the “regret”?

  First, Mavic Mini does not support shooting RAW format, which limits post-processing space.

  Second, Mavic Mini does not support video manual exposure. Although the quality of the video capture is good, the lack of manual exposure will cause many video clips to not guarantee a stable exposure, affecting the look and feel of the work.

  

  I can understand that many users who buy Mavic Mini don’t rely on RAW format and manual video exposure. Mavic Mini also needs some lack of features to clarify the positioning of its entry-level products, but the lack of these two features is no doubt It will limit the growth space of some novices, and at the same time discourage photographers who are interested in purchasing a cheap drone to replenish their seats.