DJI launch live: the DJI Mavic 3 Classic drone is officially here - TechRadar

DJI has already bowled america implicit this twelvemonth with the motorboat of the DJI Mini 3 Pro, but present it's conscionable made your drone-buying determination a spot trickier with the motorboat of the DJI Mavic 3 Classic.

As the rumors predicted, the Mavic 3 Classic is beauteous overmuch identical to the existent Mavic 3, speech from 1 thing: there's nary telephoto lens connected its Four Thirds camera. Yep, you'll conscionable person to marque bash with a 20MP Four Thirds CMOS sensor connected its ain for your aerial filmmaking.

So what makes the existent Mavic 3, and by hold the caller Mavic 3 Classic, 1 of the best drones you tin buy? Aside from having 1 of the champion cameras connected a user drone, it besides has a 46-minute formation clip and coagulated O3+ transmission, each bundled into a neatly folding package.

The crushed for the Mavic 3's omission of the telephoto lens, of course, is to bring each of that goodness to a little terms point. And what is that terms tag? You tin bargain the DJI Mavic 3 Classic connected its ain for $1,469 / £1,309 / AU$2,299, oregon with the fantabulous DJI RC Controller for $1,749 / £1,529 / $2,599 with the fantabulous DJI RC controller.

The motorboat is present over, but enactment tuned for our archetypal impressions – and if you fancy catching up connected what you missed, person a bully scroll done our posts below.

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And what astir pricing? You tin pre-order the DJI Mavic 3 Classic present for $1,469 / £1,309 / AU$2,299 (drone only) oregon $1,749 / £1,529 / $2,599 with the fantabulous DJI RC controller. 

From a speedy look astatine the DJI store (opens successful caller tab), it looks similar shipping volition beryllium acceptable to spell wrong 3-7 days, depending connected wherever you live.

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As before, the Mavic 3 Classic's Four Thirds camera tin sprout 5.1K/50p, 4K/60p and 1080p/60p video. There are besides slow-mo modes successful the signifier of 4K/120p and 1080p/200p options. Helpfully for adjusting vulnerability successful mid-air, the 24mm equivalent focal magnitude lens besides has an adjustable aperture that tin power betwixt f/2.8 to f/11.

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It’s official: the DJI Mavic 3 Classic is here. And arsenic the rumors predicted, it’s has the aforesaid 20MP Four Thirds CMOS camera, 46-minute flight-time, and O3+ transmission strategy arsenic the archetypal Mavic 3 drone – it conscionable doesn’t person that drone’s telephoto lens.

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One infinitesimal go...

Right, if you're not already primed and acceptable for DJI's large launch, you person astir sixty seconds to covertly unfastened the livestream supra connected your enactment machine and get settled. 

Time to spot if the DJI Mavic 3 Classic rumors were accurate, and however overmuch we're going to person to rise from eBay income successful the adjacent period to spend it...

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20 minutes to go...

Based connected these DJI Mavic 3 Classic leaks, the large question for astir radical is however overmuch you're apt to miss that telephoto lens. It's a tricky one, due to the fact that there's nary uncertainty that the existent Mavic 3's 162mm lens is importantly inferior to its main camera, successful presumption of outright representation quality.

And yet, the effect you tin get from that unsocial zoom – including a melodramatic 'parallax effect' that makes the inheritance look similar it's moving rapidly down your taxable – has been down immoderate of the astir absorbing drone videos I've seen connected YouTube and elsewhere.

Still, successful these tricky fiscal times, that other outgo for the modular Mavic 3 is significant, and the Mavic 3 Classic could connection bully worth if that leaked pricing is correct. It's inactive a flying Micro Four Thirds camera, aft all.

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DJI Mavic 3 Classic – the leaks truthful far

Based connected leaks from @JasperEllens (above) and WinFuture (opens successful caller tab), it looks beauteous apt that we'll spot a DJI Mavic 3 Classic drone onshore successful conscionable implicit an hour. But what specs mightiness it have?

WinFuture claims that the "DJI Mavic 3 Classic is fundamentally astir 100 percent identical to the regular DJI Mavic 3", isolated from 1 main item – the removal of the existent drone's telephoto camera.

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The presumption from the Mavic 3

Looking for a sensation of the benignant of video prime you mightiness beryllium capable to expect from the rumored DJI Mavic 3 Classic? The 1 supra collates immoderate of the tests shots for our DJI Mavic 3 review.

If the Mavic 3 Classic does so person the aforesaid sensor (only without that drone’s telephoto lens), past that's apt to springiness america a bully thought of what to expect. 

Our reappraisal said that “image prime from the main camera for stills and video is thing abbreviated of fantabulous overall”, and determination inactive isn’t truly different drone successful the Mavic 3’s value people that matches its 20MP Four Thirds CMOS sensor.

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Is this the pricing?

How overmuch mightiness the rumored DJI Mavic 3 Classic cost? That's 1 happening that the rumors and leaks hadn't been excessively wide about, until earlier this week.

The Tweet supra from regular DJI leaker @JasperEllens connected Twitter sounds beauteous assured that prices volition commencement astatine €1,499 (for the drone only), with a bundle including caller DJI RC controller costing €1,749.

Based connected existent DJI pricing, that should enactment retired arsenic astir $1,499 / £1,349 / AU$2,399 for the drone connected its own, oregon astir $1,749 / £1,599 / AU$2,799 for the DJI RC controller bundle. Not cheap, but a decent redeeming connected the DJI Mavic 3's motorboat terms of US$2,199 / £1,879 / AU$3,099 (which included the aged RC-N1 Remote Controller).

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Decisions, decisions...

As idiosyncratic who bought the DJI Mini 3 Pro earlier this year, I precocious wrote astir why I could extremity up regretting that decision if the DJI Mavic 3 Classic rumors are accurate. 

Not that I'm astatine each unhappy with the Mini 3 Pro – it's a superb small drone that proved to beryllium large companion connected a caller sojourn to the Lake District successful the UK (where I took the changeable above). 

But the Mavic 3's larger assemblage is much unchangeable successful windy conditions and getting that Four Thirds sensor for little wealth than the existent exemplary volition marque it a tempting alternative, peculiarly if you often alert successful gloomy conditions.

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DJI drones: a primer

If you're caller to DJI drones, here's a speedy primer connected its existent lineup. Despite immoderate caller contention from the likes of Autel, DJI is inactive by acold the biggest shaper of user flying cameras – and its scope is present divided into 4 sub-brands.

DJI's small, entry-level drones are the 'Mini' series, headed by the DJI Mini 3 Pro. Just supra from them is the mid-range 'Air' series, which contempt the sanction are somewhat bigger and person cameras with larger sensors (like the 1-inch DJI Air 2S, which antecedently topped of our usher to the best drones you tin buy).

But supra some of those is the 'Mavic' series, which started backmost successful 2016 with the DJI Mavic Pro. The DJI Mavic 3, which packs a ample Four Thirds sensor into its folding body, is the spiritual successor to that archetypal model. But with a US$2,199 / £1,879 / AU$3,099 terms tag, it isn't precisely inexpensive – hence the rumors astir a DJI Mavic 3 Classic launching today.

Buzzing astir parallel to these 3 main taxon of DJI drone is simply a caller FPV exemplary called the DJI Avata. It's a super-fun intro to FPV flying, but a spot much niche than what we're expecting to spot today.

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How to ticker the DJI launch

How tin you tune into today's DJI launch? There's present a placeholder connected DJI's authoritative YouTube transmission above, which is wherever the announcement volition instrumentality spot contiguous at 9am EDT / 1pm GMT. If you're successful Australia, that works retired arsenic 12am AEDT connected November 3.

That means we're present little than 5 hours distant from the authoritative lift-off, which gives america plentifulness of clip to excavation into those Mavic 3 Classic rumors and enactment retired whether it each adds up to a compelling imaginable Christmas present. As idiosyncratic who bought a DJI Mini 3 Pro earlier this year, I person immoderate thoughts connected that.

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Hello, I'm Mark (TechRadar's Cameras editor) and I'll beryllium your co-pilot for today's large DJI launch. I've covered and tested DJI drones for years going each the mode backmost to the archetypal DJI Spark successful 2017, truthful I'm looking guardant to seeing precisely what lands today.

The event's 'Explore Vivid' doesn't springiness distant a immense amount, but that Hasselblad camera successful the teaser poster does constituent towards a caller drone, similar the rumored DJI Mavic 3 Classic. So if you're successful the marketplace for a caller flying camera (or are conscionable funny successful wherever they're gliding to next), propulsion up a spot and articulation america arsenic we number down to take-off.