![]() Out of the box, you simply have to screw a rotor blade onto each prop, plug in the battery pack and power the Phantom on before you’re ready to fly. It takes a steady hand, especially when you're also using the vertical tilt wheel to angle the lens up and down. You can’t rotate the camera, meaning you have to turn the drone instead to get the shot you want. We could spot a small amount of shake at top speed, but in steady flight you should be able to get perfectly stable shots. The camera's three-axis gimbal kept the image perfectly still when in flight, even when winds picked up to 10mph. It even uses the same sensor, so still image quality should match the Professional model. The 4K footage captured by the Professional is pristine, rivalling anything we’ve seen from the likes of GoPro or other action cameras.Ī less expensive model, the £900 Phantom 3 Advanced, drops video quality down to 1080p but retains all the other features found in the Professional version. Our test shots looked incredibly punchy and vibrant, with an impressive level of detail, but it’s when recording video that the Phantom truly shines. The 94-degree field of view virtually eliminates fisheye distortion, and avoids capturing the landing gear when taking stills or video. It’s the 12.4-megapixel, f/2.8 camera bolted to the Phantom 3’s undercarriage that turns it from hobbyist toy into an aerial photographer’s dream. We found it very useful for practice when high winds prevented us from taking the Phantom outdoors. New pilots can practice with the Phantom simulator, using the controller and the app, which mimics flying the actual drone using the same controls you’ll eventually need to pilot it outdoors. A warning appears when the battery is nearly empty, prompting you to return to your take-off site, and the Phantom will land automatically if the battery gets critically low. The app also shows you the all-important flight time you have remaining the Phantom 3 can last for up to 23 minutes on a single charge, although that drops if the drone has to fight strong winds. The free DJI Pilot app also gives you full control over camera shutter speed, ISO sensitivity, white balance, resolution and video frame rate, as well as automatic take-off and landing buttons, a GPS overlay indicating your altitude and a signal strength indicator showing the distance away from the controller. The live view fills the majority of the screen, making it much easier to line up your shots than by eye alone. ![]() You don’t actually need to connect a mobile device in order to fly, but having the live view makes capturing stills and video much easier. In the open air, you can fly up to 400 feet vertically and get up to 1.2 miles away from the control unit. It means you could feasibly use it indoors, but although it looks deceptively small, the propeller span of 590mm makes the Phantom 3 mostly suited to outdoor flight for safety reasons as much as anything, as the propellers don't have guards. When GPS is unavailable, DJI’s own visual positioning system (VPS) helps keep the Phantom 3 hovering the downwards-facing camera and two ultrasonic sensors work brilliantly, creating a real-time map of the ground beneath the drone. The 4K camera module is mounted below on a three-axis gimbal to keep your footage free from camera shake, while landing gear protects the electronics from bumps on touchdown.Ī fully stabilised flight controller takes out almost all the challenge of flying, and integrated GPS ensures it stays in place when you want it to. Like most consumer drones, the Phantom 3 uses a quad-rotor design for balanced flight. Video of DJI Phantom 3 Professional - drone overview The drone
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