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the Phantom 4 from DJI is BU a Longshot

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the best flying vehicle I have ever had the pleasure of using and I'll spend the

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next seven or so minutes telling you

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why Intel skull Canyon knck features a

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sixth generation cor7 quad core processor and Thunderbolt 3 learn more

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at the link in the video description right out of the box the Phantom 4

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impressed me it's small it's light thanks to the Magnesium chassis and the

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packaging can actually be reused as a really robust carrying case it'll hold

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the quad a metric wack ton of spare propellers the controller and either two

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batteries or a battery and a charger that's pretty much all that a

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recreational user will need although there's still room for accessories like

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hard cases and backpacks for the pros

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the setup process is fairly easy thanks to the document ation but still a little

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tedious so after charging the batteries it took about 20 minutes of you know how

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do I turn this on it's a quick press followed by a long press by the way

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screwing on the pill bottle style locking propellers running around

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looking for a lightning cable I used an iPhone 6S for this review by the way

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updating the firmware and figuring out where to put a Micro SD card only to

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realize that a 16 gig one is included out of the box bonus I did my first

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latency test of The firstperson View camera feed and it is hard to say how

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much of this is generational improvements I mean my solo is just

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about a year old now and how much of it is dji's use of a Hardline USB

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connection instead of that whole cledy connect to a Wi-Fi access point here

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that connects wirelessly to the Drone relay but wow this is Head and Shoulders

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better than anything I've used before I mean it's not like twitch reflex

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high-speed flying capable gear like those BLS in the Drone Racing League are

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using but it is certainly responsive enough to not be an excuse for a

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photographer or a videographer to miss a shot at least when it's sitting in the

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entryway of my house literally one meter away from the controller more on that

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later now some folks can go on and on about how sexy the Phantom 4 is

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but drones don't really turn my crank

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and I feel like if you seen one quadcopter you kind of seen them all

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it's got like you guessed it four propellers yay so

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it's the underlying Tech that gets me excited here and let's get it up in the

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air while we discuss the motors have been upgraded for about a 20%

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Improvement in top speed that's up to 72 km per hour in sport mode with the 5300

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Milah LiPo battery rated at a maximum of 28 minutes though this assumes a very

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steady flight and optimal conditions not

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being a drone Ace I personally didn't find much reason to whip around that

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fast but there is more to the improved Motors than just I want to go faster and

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in the normal P mode the most impressive

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thing to me about the Phantom 4 is its stability in the air P or position mode

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uses a combination of GPS downward-facing cameras ultrasonic

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emitters their new inertial measurement unit and these upgraded Motors to

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achieve something I just hadn't seen yet

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nearly perfect hovering and shockingly

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fast self-correction during small gusts of wind or when the user suddenly lets

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go of the sticks in the middle of a maneuver and it needs to compensate to

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get back to a hover it's so confidence

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inspiring to see it behave so predictably in the air that I was

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actually willing to let my four-year-old son help me fly it in my lap something I

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wouldn't have even considered with any of drone that I have touched some of

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which theoretically hover when you let go but in practice require a fair bit

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more user intervention than that which doesn't mean it flies itself if you

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don't want it to purists can switch to the less helpful attitude mode which

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turns off the GPS system and lets you bank and drift through corners much more

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naturally I mean I think the bottom line about the Phantom 4 is that flying it is

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just such a pleasure however ever manual

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or not manual you want it it behaves smoothly and predictably and the

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firsters view is fantastic just fantastic I mean to be

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clear I am aware that there are DIY solutions that can handle even lower

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latency and longer range but to say I

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was blown away when I flew for 20

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minutes around the corner of a building and up to a kilometer away which is as

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far as I can go maintaining line of sight with my binoculars anyway without

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so much as a compression artifact on the video feed would be an

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understatement again the 3dr solo also a

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very good drone went a similar distance

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but not in a confidence inspiring manner I mean it would glitch out here and

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there and the video feed was anything but HD by that distance which leads us

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pretty well then into the camera it is

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great I was quite critical of DJI

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initially for moving to their own propriety camera system instead of

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collaborating with a market leader like GoPro except whether they saw this

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coming or it was just a lucky guess GoPro has sat on their ass and done

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absolutely nothing noteworthy in the last year and a half while DJI has been

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innovating so the camera is slightly sharper than the Phantom 3 professional

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and while I lack one personally for a comparison it is really really similar

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to the Inspire one based on this fantastic video from Fon RC Hobby and

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the gimbal actually has an added support link as well for better stability the

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120 FPS 1080 recording mode was quite

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disappointing and I'll let you be the judge of its lowlight performance so

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this is 1080 60p footage as we were approaching dusk on an otherwise sunny

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and beautiful day but my overall takeaway here is that the footage is

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professional grade stable and looks

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amazing what a payoff for DJ on that gamble which leads us pretty well then

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into the phantom for touted autonomous

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flying modes I have no use personally

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for click to fly where you touch the touchcreen and it goes where you touched

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I can operate control sticks but the object tracking mode that I'm using on

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my bike here is freaking sick you drag a

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box around the object you want to track and the Phantom 4 follows it using its

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front mounted cameras to either avoid oncoming obstacles or go around them and

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under carefully controlled conditions it's amazing it actually uses the visual

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tracking rather than a link to the remote control unit the way most of

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these Solutions work yet it actually managed to produce more usable footage

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of a moving subject running around below it than my 3dr solo with that said

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though it has a long way to go before I will trust it in the way that I do the

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Phantom 4's other features a quick moving subject can easily shake off the

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Drone and from my experience taking my bike for a very sweaty stressful ride

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around the neighborhood even under what I would consider to be pretty ideal

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conditions with a high viz yellow object to track the altitude and the following

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distance of the Drone was all over the place it lost me twice while maneuvering

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slowly and the collision avoidance system managed to scrape a street L

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though fortunately without crashing stop dead in front of a branch that it wasn't

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going to hit instead of going around it and not stop itself as I crept towards

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fairly dense foliage pulling into my driveway it works sometimes but it's not

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a mode that I would actually use unless I had the kind of income that would make

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buying a new Phantom 4 basically inconsequential which leads us then to

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the conclusion here because the Phantom 4 is not cheap is it worth the money

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well not if you don't have $1,000 lying around I suppose but if you were

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shopping for a fancy quadcopter for pleasure or even light professional use

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man the lack of an HDMI output on the

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controller without a $100 add-on module and some tinkering is a bummer but I

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can't criticize much else about it it's not as much of a blast to rip around in

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the park as a fully manual even a fixed

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quite frankly and it feels more like a tool to use than a toy to go out and

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play with but that doesn't mean that it's boring and combined with some

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creativity the Phantom 4 really packs a lot of fun into its functionality bottom

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line this thing spanks I'm going to try

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and popularize that that spanks bro so

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