Quadcopter Reviews: DJI Phantom 3 Professional Quadcopter Drone with 4K UHD Video Camera

Quadcopter Reviews: DJI Phantom 3 Professional Quadcopter Drone with 4K UHD Video Camera

The DJI Phantom 3 Professional Quadcopter Drone is essentially an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (aka potential UFO) with a camera attached to it, well it’s a little bit more than that. This drone has some skills when it comes to shooting videos, taking pictures and processing them. It also has improvements regarding facilitating flight, like the self-take-off and land features, in-flight stability and more. While it may not be the choice of the top professionals in the filmmaking industry, you can easily fool people into thinking that it’s a helicopter shot. If you like it, you can get it at Best Top 10 Good Quadcopters Reviews.

So let’s get down it.

Handling and Navigation

It is now a lot easier to maneuver indoors. The reason is the cameras on the underside part that are equipped with optical flow sensors used for ground pattern recognition which helps stabilize the drone, along with ultrasonic sensors to measure the distance from the ground. This makes it GPS independent to some extent. In terms of processing power, it comes with a significant boost, and that means faster GPS navigation, faster delay times from hardware lag.

They’re also signed with the Russian Aerospace Defence Force to use their GLONASS system which adds essential coverage. The flight range extends to 2km (around 1.24 miles) and they’ve added a useful Return To Home (RTH) button for it to go back on its own. A great feature which is sad, lacking is obstacle avoidance, so you do need to pay attention to the surroundings.

Battery

Slightly increased battery life (15.2 Volts) for a flight time up to around 23 minutes, a higher capacity charger (100 Watt) that gives a charge time of 25-30 minutes from low/ empty to full.

The 4K UHD Camera Features

The camera is stabilized on a 3-axis gimbal, it uses the Lightbridge technology that allows 720p HD at 30fps digital streaming of live videos directly from the drone onto your smartphone, using an 8bit camera with a 20mm rectilinear lens it gives a different more panoramic photo style. It records at 60 Mbps maximum due to the h.264 codec, meaning that higher resolutions with capture less detail. It has a load of software feature to play around with and make some stunning photos. The 60FPS max is the only issue here since slow-mo effects won’t be very unusual.

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