4 months Mavic Air 2 full evaluation   Because the release was delayed just in time for the may be the longest drone I've ever tested.       For a second, I took my Mavic Air 2 to the Altaf Sea in Xinjiang for winter capture, confiscated in Azerbaijan for temporary storage, Turkey at the world's largest airport, recorded blue skies and winter snow in Croatia, and traveled to Dubai and Russia. These, in the current epidemic, are like the last century.   Too long to read  Looking at the Mavic Air 2 in the hands in the extended test period a little iterative growth and improvement, I have a little experience of Dajiang engineers feel, since the new generation will come, why not dare to change their lives? Dajiang's products, or rely on their own to hang.   The quality of photos is not as good as Mavic 2Pro, at a glance, the video is only slightly inferior to the Mavic 2Pro, but are stronger than the first generation of Mavic, but also stronger than the Mavic 2Zoom version.  Mavic Air 2 hardware is more like the Mavic 2Pro mini version / youth version / cost-effective version, the hardware is too strong 4999 yuan cost-effective a bit exploding. Main features  1. introduced a 48-megapixel SONY IMX 586 in the phone ring 1/2 inch CMOS  2. first video shoot to 4 K/60fps  HDR effects were introduced for the first time in 3. shooting, HDR photography, video, HDR panorama  4. first raised the mobile delay and photography to 8 K  First extension of 5. flight time to 34 minutes  6. new generation of self-avoidance to improve the effect of stunning  For the first time 7. lifted the distance to 10 kilometers  8. first introduced ADS-B models   Open the box  Airframe  When I first got the machine, I didn't know it was a first-generation Mavic Air iteration product, and I was a little surprised to know Mavic Air 2, it was.  Because in shape, it's a small Mavic 2 wow. The shape of the initial Mavic Air is said to be imperfect, and the ceiling of the same volume and weight is difficult to break through, so Dajiang engineers directly adopt the Mavic 2Pro shape, which also unifies the design language of the whole Mavic series of shapes.  But to be honest, I still miss the appearance of the first generation of Mavic Air popular design language, snow white, obsidian black, scorching sun red colorful color, but also captured a lot of new consumer groups. After all, the Air's main user base should be newbies who want to try fresh technology.   Now the Mavic Air 2 completely abandoned the initial design language, the whole gray, modeling style design language to the Mavic 2Pro industrial style. Put together, except size, can hardly tell who is who.  Weight I weighed, take-off weight 570 g, than the generation of 430 g more than about 140 g.  Cloud head protection lock installation is still not very good, Mavic series but common trouble. Feel, damping are almost, I do not know whether the mass production version has improved. I got the first month to fly six countries, the fuselage release suitcase consignment, my cloud head protection lock has a small crack.   Remote control  Big change in shape, Mavic series of new attempts, the antenna hidden in the remote control (I wanted to unscrew to see what this global antenna looks like, but the screw card at the bottom is very difficult to twist, give up), slightly larger than before, grip feel better, A lot of solid. The remote control clip has raised and depressed parts, which are friendly to the phone power key, volume key, at least the iPhone 11Pro Max and OPPO Find X2 I have on hand are all right.   The joystick is also more solid than other models in the series, praise. Rubber package, originally worried that rubber low temperature will not harden, but I did the test in Xinjiang Altay minus 20 or 30 degrees, low temperature is no problem.  Remote control interface replaced by C mouth, praise ~ Dajiang finally willing to embrace the new interface, which also allows the receipt line at hand can be used at any time.  Compared with Mavic 2Pro, a wave wheel is missing and replaced by a "photo / photography" boot button.    Remote control interface replaced by C mouth, praise ~ Dajiang finally willing to embrace the new interface, which also allows the receipt line at hand can be used at any time.  Compared with Mavic 2Pro, a wave wheel is missing and replaced by a "photo / photography" boot button. Battery  3500 mAh,40.42Wh, very small, Ying Ying a grip, but brought 34 minutes of long voyage.  Not using the Mavic Mini universal fast filling small D port, is a new custom style. Anyway, Dajiang does not seem to be unified charging interface.   It's not easy to fall  Smart Follow 3.0, Focus Follow 2.0, Interest Point Surround 3.0  Although in order to distinguish the product stalls, the Mavic Air 2 hardware does not have left and right obstacle avoidance, but the general consumer most want to use, but does not dare to use the intelligence to follow, Mavic Air 2 has made the great enhancement, the big Xinjiang technology is still very amazing.  Three-directional environmental perception and obstacle avoidance based on binocular vision  Support for precision landing, sky detection / surface detection / hovering,  Support subduction acceleration, near-earth automatic deceleration,  Based on the computer world's new eye function, intelligent follow, interest point around and Spotlight integration, more accurate identification of people and ships.  I have a bike remote control recording screen follow is fully automatic, no manual control. You can see that the flight path up and down the Mavic Air 2 is very natural and smooth, high and low, from 3.5 m to 1.5 m, and then up to 2.5 to move back and forth; left and right, facing cars, street lamps, oblique branches, Mavic Air 2 can tactfully adjust the position to avoid. This has a considerable practicality ah, go out to play, this time can rest assured of the back to the Mavic Air 2. Mavic 2Pro I dare not play like that.  Be aware that since the amount of computation of intelligent following is a bit large, the quality of the picture is up to 4 K/30fps.. Figure 3 4K/60fps can not open smart follow.  Painting quality  48 million pixels SONY IMX 586 on hardware One-half-inch CMOS, Internet Red Man with Cell Phone Circle COMS, The CMOS. I've got the latest one  However, drones do not have the size and weight of the phone so harsh constraints, Mavic Air 2 the use of serious glass lens, excellent coating technology, rather than the plastic lens of the phone, this effect is very different.  Coupled with the package and three official ND filters (16/64/256), such as tiger wings.  The half-inch CMOS, not only hit a number of mobile flagship, but also hit the Mavic 2Zoom version.  Software ,8 K delay video ,4 K/60fps@120Mbps、1080P/240fps slow motion, HDR photos, video, HDR panorama... Photos and the most expensive Mavic 2Pro than almost, the video, some aspects have their own strengths, the Mavic Air 2 rate is 120 Mbps, higher than the Mavic 2Pro of 100  As a whole, the Mvic Air 2 is equivalent to giving two styles. Ordinary shooting, is the normal slightly simple traditional color style orientation of Dajiang; Smart shooting, HDR shooting ,48 million pixels, is more typical but HDR style.  In addition, it is recommended that night scene shooting, do not use 48 million pixels. The Quad Bayer structure used in IMX586 is a four-in-one output of 12 million pixels, which can greatly suppress the noise problem in dark light. 48 million pixels straight out, a little too much noise.  Map  What, upgraded the WiFi map of the first generation Air to the OcuSync2.0 of the Mavic 2?  What? Figure transmission distance is 2 kilometers more than Mavic 2Pro? !10km? Don't take Mavic 2Pro seriously at all.   Disadvantages:  1. for me who is used to Mavic 2Pro, the Air interactive logic has completely changed. Although the function is quite many, it is all concentrated in the secondary and tertiary submenu, and the remote control shortcut key is only given one.  2. each shooting mode needs to set the quality parameters separately, can not coordinate.  Share two cases  Mavic Air 2 extreme use temperature, is wider than the Mavic Pro and Mavic Air first generation, the official recommended temperature, has been down to -10 C, and Mavic 2Pro flat. Still remember my internal test Air the first generation, in-30 C of Xinjiang Kanas, the use is not very soft.  My first use Mavic Air 2, happened to be in the-30 C of Xinjiang Fuhai Winter Festival. The first time to fly a new machine, excited ah, perturbed ah, but the use of a good handle, tolerance is good, in the vast white ice, the experience is good.    Star-seeking speed is also fast, the first generation of Mavic Air is compacted. During Mavic Air first generation, I ran all over the Old World, the Western Hemisphere, the Southern Hemisphere, the Northern Hemisphere and the Arctic in just a month. The Arctic satellite is small, the magnetic field is not mainstream, and there are solar flares. Mavic Pro and Mavic 2Pro( I lived in the Arctic for half a month last year) wait a little while to find a star successfully, while the Mavic Air takes 2~3 minutes (it is not clear whether the later software has corrected the problem). After this, I have reservations about Air ability to find stars under extreme conditions.  This time Fuhai winter capture, the Air is basically a second to find the star, it seems that the Air of this hidden trouble board has been filled. By the way, strongly give you Amway my hometown Xinjiang, very suitable for aerial photography ~ as long as the local public security bureau report can fly. I don't take this winter festival too well. Moreover, in order to shoot well, in addition to mavic Air 2, I also brought an underwater UAV —— the T1, of the shadow can dive to the underwater 150 m( about 50 stories high). Record underwater ice capture screen not too cool for 4 hours, use with Mavic Air 2, cover land, sea and air, not too cool. First shot underwater, new angle of view, there is a first feel. to fly to Xinjiang The second case, I was in Croatia and also found that Mavic Air 2 used the ADS-B hammer for the first time.  As a whole, under the framework of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), the European Union has unified the UAV regulations within the traditional European scope, which took effect on July 1,2020. It currently includes 28 EU countries ,4 related countries and 4 small and micro countries:  Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom (still included), and small and micro countries: Andorra, Monaco, Vatican, San Marino  As of July 1,2020, with EASA efforts, these separate European drone rules will be replaced by common EU regulations. This will establish a safe and truly coordinated UAV market.  At the same time, the no-fly zone, restricted areas to do a unified representation and division.  When I flew Mavic Air 2 in Zadar (Zadar), Croatia, I showed several complex no-fly zone areas, and my seaside was no longer grounded (sorry, I didn't expect a screenshot at the time). But in exchange for Mavic Pro 2, there is no such problem. Mavic Air 2 hardware seems to be adapting to the requirements of EU regulations.  Mavic Air 2 hardware seems to be adapting to the requirements of EU regulations, and ADS-B is the basic requirement.