Hi All,
After 2.5 years of flying a P3P virtually incident free I finally managed to park it in some trees over the weekend. Don't think it is 100% fatal, confident however it is going to be 100% expensive. Of the 2 crashes I've ever had, trees not in the camera's field of view have been the culprit on both counts. Rather than put down money on repairing a capable but aging drone, thinking it is time for and upgrade. The decision between Mavic or P4P has got me going around in circles.
Anyway, things that are important to me are as follows;
1. Obstacle avoidance (trees being high on that list)
2. Video quality not be less than that of P3P
3. No props in video
4. Compact size so as to fit in my existing camera bag.
5. Quick setup times
I think the P4P will be pretty clear winner for points 1 & 2. Just how good is the obstacle avoidance? As for video quality, I'm not what you call a power user. I do minimal post production using Vegas Pro 14 for my editing. Is the camera in the P4P overkill for someone like me when I thought the P3P was perfectly adequate? Has anyone used the Mavic? If so, is the video quality on par with the P3P for finer detail (e.g foliage) and low light performance?
Not sure if my google-fu is lacking, however I can't seem to find anything about props encroaching on video for the P4P. Has anyone found this an issue at all? Size wise I am very interested in the compact size of the Mavic. I camera bag vs camera bag & drone backpack is a pretty big draw for me. Finally, how easy to setup is the P4P over something like the P3P?
After 2.5 years of flying a P3P virtually incident free I finally managed to park it in some trees over the weekend. Don't think it is 100% fatal, confident however it is going to be 100% expensive. Of the 2 crashes I've ever had, trees not in the camera's field of view have been the culprit on both counts. Rather than put down money on repairing a capable but aging drone, thinking it is time for and upgrade. The decision between Mavic or P4P has got me going around in circles.
Anyway, things that are important to me are as follows;
1. Obstacle avoidance (trees being high on that list)
2. Video quality not be less than that of P3P
3. No props in video
4. Compact size so as to fit in my existing camera bag.
5. Quick setup times
I think the P4P will be pretty clear winner for points 1 & 2. Just how good is the obstacle avoidance? As for video quality, I'm not what you call a power user. I do minimal post production using Vegas Pro 14 for my editing. Is the camera in the P4P overkill for someone like me when I thought the P3P was perfectly adequate? Has anyone used the Mavic? If so, is the video quality on par with the P3P for finer detail (e.g foliage) and low light performance?
Not sure if my google-fu is lacking, however I can't seem to find anything about props encroaching on video for the P4P. Has anyone found this an issue at all? Size wise I am very interested in the compact size of the Mavic. I camera bag vs camera bag & drone backpack is a pretty big draw for me. Finally, how easy to setup is the P4P over something like the P3P?