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Interesting review of the Mini 3 Pro. The guy highlights some issues, has anyone here experienced the same? He spent a month with it and had about 60 flights.
Video is a part of an article on The Verge: A month with DJI Mini 3 Pro - The Verge
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Just added one to my basket plus the flymore kit and when you fill in your details to checkout, the next available delivery date is June 27th.
Heliguy were stating next batch arriving latest 6th June but thats now changed to ‘imminent delivery’.
The same what? To save me 12 minutes of my life!
Sorry, my 12 minutes are more valuable than yours, so I’m not going to spend it telling you the issues he mentions in the video.
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Standard youtube nonsense - they make a 12 minute video consisting of almost entirely filler where 6 lines of text would have conveyed the same information far more efficiently.
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In the interest of balance, I actually enjoyed some of the footage shown in the video. And wasn’t there a phrase born from an American news article, which is clearly demonstrated countless times in GADC and one of the main reasons for owning a drone… ‘A picture is worth a thousand words’ 
multiple ideas can be conveyed by a single still image, which conveys its meaning or essence more effectively than a mere verbal description .
Lots of 'em strung together… 
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I totally get it. Learning from video/images is a lot easier. But for me to write (or even dictate which is very good these days) some basic stuff/questions down in a few lines for people to digest in their own time is far easier than asking me to watch a 12 minute video to find something out, especially if I’m in an environment where blasting out audio would be frowned upon and i don’t have headphones on me.
Writing this took me barely 2 minutes, and you’ll read it even quicker, and probably type up a reply to anything i’d have asked in 2/3 mins too, that’s far quicker than the 12 minutes just to watch a video to find something out.
Or at least put a direct link to the video timestamp of the relevent bit, which is easy enough to do from YouTube too. We all save time.
After a couple of hours of flight (weather has been shit) including some breezy days and getting caught in a shower once:
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High battery load: Yet to encounter, even in sport mode, but then I don’t do extended flying into the wind and what I think is too windy is probably a bit cautious, I haven’t drawn more than 7.5A on the battery that I’ve seen.
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Crashing from the side: Well yeah, no shit, this is why you keep an eye on it. For the random descent, I haven’t noticed any weird behaviour in flight personally
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Overheating: Haven’t experienced but it’s been chilly, but lets be honest here (a) It’s not a new thing to DJI to have this issue (not that thats a good thing) pretty sure previous drones have had issue with the gimbals and that overheating and (b) With no internal fan then it’s as simple as just giving it some airflow when it’s not moving, there’s other kit out there that suffers this problem since it’s not really designed to be static (F1 cars being an extreme example).
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HDR/APAS Limited to 4K30 & not vertical: I’ve not really used the 4K60 much, the 4K30 has been plenty enough for me and is a bit less taxing to edit. It’s a small sensor, and I would imagine the CPU onboard it limited due to size/thermals, apparently APAS in vertical ‘might’ come in the future?
Generally, I think a lot of the issues I have seen are in part just from people being somewhat unrealistic in what to expect from such a small drone (particularly re. battery load and flying in high winds). Hopefully some things like the connectivity drops are firmware fixes but for me within VLOS I have only had momentary video hangs. The price relative to the mini 2 is a bit hard to swallow but hasn’t felt unreasonable to me based off my experience so far.
Anything I missed?
A quick question on the return to home function, there is the option to return to the home point and hover or return to home and land. When I select return to home and hover after a couple of seconds it automatically starts to land, can’t see anywhere in the settings to alter this?
Can you not turn off RTH once it has returned to the area it took off from, manually?
I have to select cancel landing, a couple of times I’ve forgotten as I was expecting it to just hover overhead and then panic and fumble to cancel when I notice it descending which isn’t ideal.
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Lots of people are seeing huge vignette on the 12mp still images.
It appears the baked in lens profile in the DNG isnt correct for the 12mp raws.
Its not on the JPGs or 48mp (although the 48 has big issues of its own).
Ive encountered this - it is making stitching vertical panoramas much more fiddly.
Normally camera wouldn’t apply any corrections to a RAW image (I don’t know single that does) because they are what the name indicates: raw image data. JPGs, Tiffs, PNGs etc. are processed, lossy image formats where the camera does apply various corrections and filters as per camera settings.
The vignette may be caused by camera setting (aperture mainly), the lens or the sensor (the light doesn’t reach the sensor in same angle throughout), or in some cases, the lens frame/ filter ring. If it’s caused by the lens or the sensor, there is an issue that can’t be rectified on RAW images. Well, there is if you can replace the camera with better optics.
I would start by taking images with various apertures and shutter speeds to find out if the settings are the cause to start with.
Lens Vignetting | Types, Tips and How to Get Rid of It has pretty good information about it without getting too technical.
Cheers! It’s always good to hear from those who use the thing for other than review purposes. I was thinking that some issues the guy in video faced could be also firmware related. I’m currently thinking of getting sub 250g one and am drawn between Autel Nano+ and Mini 3 so I am reading any feedback from Mini 3 with great interest.
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That isn’t the case.
The DNG profile allows for baked in corrections and for many years the DJI drones have had embedded profiles in the DNG (certainly post 2017). Its a container format that contains the raw image and other 3rd party data associated with the image rendering which can be used if required by software.
Your post isn’t relevant for a fixed focal length, fixed aperture lens either.
What is happening is the correction is applied to the JPGs and to the 48mp DNG but not to the 12mp.
Go and look up the structure of the DNG profile to see all the embedded information that can reside in there.
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Fair enough. I’ve never worked with DNG images so I just assumed they were raw files.
Actually it is. Optical vignetting occurs in all lenses and can be reduced by using smaller aperture.
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If Mini 3 has fixed aperture (I haven’t read its technical specs in detail), of course you can’t then change it to reduce the amount of vignetting. Based on what you said in your original post, it has very substantial amount of it which then means that the optics are not very good at all.
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It’s not relevant.
The mini 3, like all the non Mavic series drones has a fixed aoerture.
You can’t stop down.
The Amazon link posted the other day has stock, offered me non-Prime delivery Monday
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