This wan’t even on my radar, but saw it at Best Buy today. I know it’s not a mechanical shutter, but it sure looks better than the mavic 2 pro. Anybody have any thoughts?
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That looks sweet! Love the 10-bit color and use of Sony’s sensors / low light support.
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Yeah and BHPhoto has the bundle on sale for 1745. Best buy drone only is 1800.
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No, but they seem to be quite competently made and designed. If you go for it, post some sample data?
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Before you pull the trigger I’d make sure there is some kind of capture app (Drone Deploy, Pix4dcapture, Measure Ground Control, Map Pilot, Drone Harmony) that supports Autel. Otherwise you’re gonna be up a creek with no paddle. If I were in your shoes I’d just go P4Pv2 and wouldnt look back. You know for a fact you’re gonna be good with that one.
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There’s wisdom to that. For sure: you need a good flight planner.
Thanks. They all support the Evo 2 Pro. The issue is some of these places Iʻm recording, are a 10-mile hike in with around 2000ft of climbing. The P4 is so much heavier than basically everything else. Iʻm trying to justify the mechanical shutter to weight ratio in my head. The Evo has so much better battery life. sigh…
Also, I pre-ordered a Skydio 2, which is supported by DroneDeploy and it is ready to ship. But the range on the Skydio is pretty weak compared to everything else, but the obstacle avoidance is so much better ARGH! what to do?
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I think portability and flight planning are important, as are autonomy. That’s why I was leaning heavily Anafi for myself to replace my Solo.
That being said, the Skydio is very tempting for my town work, as it would work a treat for surveying suspended sewer pipelines (yep, that’s a real thing, unfortunately) under a stone bridgeway.
I’d go EvoII since it sounds like you don’t “need” the P4P.
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For sure, and you can flight plan your way around a rolling shutter, at least to some extent. If you need survey grade, you need a mechanical and preferably leaf shutter. For everything else, you can make it work.
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My use case, is that I am making as-high-as-possible mbtile map layer for a leaflet web app that shows your location on a map. I have around a dozen that I made from old maps/photos. Iʻm looking to make a much higher version. This is all mountainous terrain over Honolulu with a lot of cliffs, dropoffs, altitude changes. I know I can load the terrain in the mapping stage, which I think is a necessity given my altitude issues.
Iʻm wondering if the Skydio2 can be loaded with mapping coordinates, that it will follow even if it goes out of range of the transmitter. Iʻm pretty sure I remember my Phantom doing that, but that was a long time ago…
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Most can, though by default might not. For many flight controllers you need to set the behavior on lost radio link, whether to complete the mission, hover, land, or return to home.
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EVO have mapping and so forth built into there APP
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