DJI’s Air 3S drone is a low light all-rounder

Oct 15, 2024 05:00 PM - 5 months ago 195110

The Air 3S is DJI’s caller mid-range drone that builds upon the Air 3 successful a fewer notable ways. These see amended image quality, particularly successful debased light, pinch nighttime obstacle avoidance to thief guarantee the drone returns location safely. That’s promising since the versatile (if boring) Air 3 already had awesome low-light capacity when we reviewed it last year.

“The DJI Air 3S takes our Air Series to caller heights by offering master features for illustration dual superior cameras and omnidirectional obstacle sensing while retaining its ray weight of conscionable 724g for boundless state and flexibility,” said DJI Product Experience Director Ferdinand Wolf successful a property release. “The Air 3S is the cleanable all-rounder for recreation photography — capturing each your typical moments during picnic while besides providing information and information if operating astatine night.”

The Air 3S has a smart return-to-home (R2H) characteristic that useful astatine night.

The Air 3S has a smart return-to-home (R2H) characteristic that useful astatine night.

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DJI fitted the Air 3S pinch wide suite of sensors to alteration nightscape obstacle sensing, including front-facing LiDAR, downward infrared time-of-flight sensors, and a full of six imagination sensors; 2 each connected the front, rear, and bottom. 

The Air 3S features an improved 50 megapixel, 1-inch sensor and 24mm lens connected the superior camera, alongside a 48 megapixel, 1/1.3-inch sensor pinch a 70mm (3x zoom) lens, each offering up to 14 stops of move scope erstwhile shooting successful car (not slow-motion aliases vertical). 10-bit video tin beryllium encoded successful H.265 pinch improved ISO arsenic well.

The superior camera tin sprout 4K/60fps HDR and 4K/120fps video. And according to DJI, the resulting record sizes are complete 30 percent smaller compared to the Air 3. The Air 3S comes pinch 42GB of built-in retention successful summation to microSD description to beryllium judge you tin seizure each the footage collected complete a 45 infinitesimal maximum formation time. Files tin past beryllium transferred wirelessly to your telephone without moreover turning the drone on, aliases via a USB-C cablegram to your laptop.

Naturally, the newest DJI drone comes pinch plentifulness of intelligent shooting options including ActiveTrack 360 to automatically way subjects. The Air 3S keeps the taxable focused during manual formation aliases erstwhile it moves to the separator of the framework — that measurement the aviator tin interest much astir the creation and camera movement. Both cameras besides support DJI’spanorama mode that tin stitch together aggregate images pinch a manually selected taxable aliases area.

DJI’s Air 3S is disposable starting coming connected store.dji.com successful a assortment of kits. Prices commencement astatine $1099 / £959 / €1099 for the combo that includes a DJI RC-N3 controller to aviator things from your phone.

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