The best drone just got better: Mavic 2 Pro review
DJI’s follow-up to the Mavic Pro improves on the original in every way
The Mavic Pro was one of DJI’s biggest hits. It took everything great about their original breakout drone, the Phantom, and stuffed it into a super portable package. For the first time, you didn’t have to carry a huge bag whenever you wanted to fly a drone; you can carry it with you.
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The Mavic 2 Pro keeps the foldable form of the original, and adds a whole bunch of new features. The biggest? The 1-inch Hasselblad camera sensor, which allows for some gorgeous photos and video.
All of which made me feel really bad about crashing it.
OOPS, MY BAD
I’d spent the day filming our video review. This isn’t as exciting as it sounds. It’s a lot of basic stuff, repeated endlessly: Take off. Land. Take off again. Land again. Hover in place. And so on, for hours.
But the Mavic 2 Pro is so much fun to fly that I was itching to unleash it.
And so we took a short break from filming so I could use the camera to grab a great sunset shot of a ferry. The drone shot out over the harbor, flying sideways to try and frame a shot of the boat in the setting sun’s reflection. I was impatient. I flicked it into sport mode, and the drone surged to a top speed of 72km/h.
And then, too late, I realized that I was heading straight for a tree-lined slope. The signal disappeared. The drone was gone.