DJI Mavic 3 is official, complete with dual camera, 4/3 CMOS sensor and epic 46 mins flight time

(Pocket-lint) - DJI has taken a elephantine leap into creating the cleanable pro-level consumer drone, and has officially announced the all-new Mavic 3. And, arsenic acold arsenic show and specs go, this one's an implicit monster. 

It represents a immense upgrade implicit the Mavic 2 series, peculiarly erstwhile it comes to videography/photography and artillery life. It starts with an all-new camera arrangement. 

The dual-camera Hasselblad strategy features a superior camera with a 20-megapixel 4/3 CMOS sensor, the largest it's ever enactment connected a Mavic drone. It's joined by an further zoom camera to connection up to 28x hybrid zoom. That peculiar camera features a 1/2-inch 12-megapixel CMOS sensor. 

For inactive photographers, the summation of RAW 12-bit format volition alteration you to seizure tonnes of colour/data and springiness you a batch to play with erstwhile it comes to editing them afterwards. 

As always, the camera strategy is mounted to a 3-axis gimbal to guarantee your footage stays ace smooth. 

Videographers volition beryllium delighted to spot the seizure capabilities we're sure, with a maximum 5.1K solution up to 50fps, and the quality to sprout 4K up to 120fps successful either Apple ProRes 422 HQ connected the Cine model, oregon H.264/H.265 codecs connected the regular drone and a maximum 200Mbps bitrate. 

It's not conscionable successful video and photograph capabilities it's been improved either, the drone has a overmuch longer artillery beingness than immoderate of its erstwhile Mavic models, with up to 46 minutes formation clip possible. 

The Mavic 3 besides sees improvements successful the realm of obstacle avoidance with an improved APAS system. It uses six fish-eye imaginativeness sensors, positive 2 wide-angle sensors to observe obstacles successful virtually each direction, and is capable to crippled routes to debar them. 

Location information is besides improved, with the assistance of GPS, GLONASS and BeiDou satellites, positive an algorithm that keeps its presumption amended locked, improving its accuracy and stableness erstwhile hovering successful 1 position. 

There are different improvements too, similar a smarter RTH (Return To Home) quality for erstwhile the artillery is moving low. Rather than spell higher and commencement flying back, it'll archetypal cipher the quickest and astir vigor businesslike way to instrumentality to its take-off position. 

There are 2 models of Mavic 3: the modular mentation and the Cine model. Apart from price, the main quality betwixt those 2 is that the Cine exemplary has a built successful 1TB SSD for interior recording, and the quality to sprout successful ProRes HQ codec. 

Mavic 3 is disposable from contiguous successful 3 antithetic combinations: Standard, Fly More Combo and Cine Premium Combo. 

The standard kit costs £1,879 and includes the drone, a battery, distant controller, cables, propellers, retention screen and a artillery charger. The £2,549 Fly More Combo includes each of that, positive 2 further batteries, a charging hub, carrying container and a acceptable of ND filters. 

As for the Cine Premium Combo, that's a whopping £4,279 but comes with the interior 1TB SSD and has the caller DJI RC Pro controller, which has a built successful surface (no telephone required). 

Writing by Cam Bunton. Originally published connected 5 November 2021.