New Drone - DJI Mini Pro 3

 

I use a drone for landscape images where I can't get the image I am looking for from my land based camera setup.  I cater for the small sensor by stacking images and building HDR and HDR Panorama images from raw images in Adobe Camera Raw.  It is surprising how good the images can turn out - just need to follow the golden rule of no cropping so get your image right before you take the shot.

I went to grab my old DJI Mavic Mini Air which is in great working order and was very surprised to find out that the drone is no longer supported by DJI and none of their software works on my phone so I couldn't fly the drone.  I did pay and download a third party product which still allowed me to fly the drone but with a big trip coming up, I decided to go down the forced upgrade path.

To be honest, I am liking the new upgrade and whilst I didn't relish the cost of upgrading it has ended up being a good thing.  In addition to taking photos which have a number of improvements including the lens, this version of the drone allows you to track objects so I might be adding some videos in the future.

Some tracking testing on Bribie Island

Some example shots from testing on Bribie Island