DJI Mini 3 Pro review Reddit

$1150 for the drone, upgraded batteries, the RC controller (amazing value for upgrading to other compatible drones), and the fly more kit?

That seems like amazing value and maybe DJI trying to win back some users after the whole Mavic 3 fiasco.

That sensor should get “ok” low light footage too (excellent for the size).

What are your thoughts? I sold my 3 a few months ago (too many problems for the price tag) and just sold my Air2s last week (wanted to use the new RC controller and O3) in preparation for this drone. Unless you are a professional photographer for business, I think this is the drone.

This is not true.

I work in hospitality management, and can say for certain that most TA reviews are not paid for, that would get your restaurant automatically delisted once their algorithms picked up on it (which wouldn't take long these days) if you have several reviews from for-hire review writers, it's not hard for a bot to figure that out.

Say one restaurant is busted for hiring review writers, it will take an the reviews from that restaurant, and all those accounts go on a list for higher scrutiny. At that point, it's very easy to discover a pattern of some of those accounts all having reviewed a certain set of restaurants, yet with no- or weak-patterns in location, or food type, etc. That allows them to confirm certain accounts as for-hire reviewers, as well as identify even more accounts to include on that list. TA may then remove the offending reviews, but TA doesn't ban the reviewer accounts, or even warn them. Instead it watches them, and thereby finds even more restaurants paying for reviews and more accounts writing these fake reviews.

As for the Vice article, none of the roughly 50 reviews for the fake restaurant were paid for. They just were done by the guy's friends. That put the restaurant in roughly the top 10% of London restaurants on TA. Then, all the people clicking on the "call" "reserve a table" "email" "menu" and "website" buttons on the Trip Advisor page slowly pushed it up the rankings, until it reached number 1 (it's not just the reviews, but also page activity that influence your ranking).

That being said, I do imagine some of these drone reviews were done with devices received for free. However, it can't be ALL of them, and yet I haven't found a single bad review for the Mini 3 on YouTube. Just one that mentioned there were issues with the range before the first few updates, and another that had an issue with one of the active tracking features not always following the desired side of the tracked object.

Just upgraded from a Mini 2 and some things I’ve noticed so far

• The build quality of the drone seems way more flimsy. I get they had to cut the weight for new sensors, but the arms genuinely feel like they could snap when folding them out

• The open battery housing is going to be a nightmare to keep free of dirt

• No charger

• No strap to hold the propellers in place

• Quality of the case is poor, lots of frayed threads hanging out. Very tight to fit RC controller + battery hub in

• Lack of fan means the drone gets very hot when not flying

• RC controller gets very warm during use, not sure if this is causing the crashing issues?

• Care refresh is now officially expensive

In terms of features and camera quality there is little to complain about, but it feels they made this drone cheaper to produce yet the price is nearly double that of the Mini 2.

After being on the fence between the Mini 3 Pro and a DJI Avata. I ditched the Avata mainly because the battery life wasn't going to work for some of my planned shots and grabbed a Mini 3 Pro + Fly More instead. This is joining an Air 2 I already own with hundreds of hours of flight time on it.

So far I'm pretty impressed. I only have one real work flight under my belt on the Mini 3 Pro so far but I did spend a day tuning its pitch, yaw, etc and getting a feel for it.

It handles well, and the battery life is chefs kiss especially with the extended batteries. I like the way multi-battery charging is handled with that new dock too, very convenient both due to USB-C as well as the "grab and go" nature of it.

Sensor is bigger than my Air 2's but I don't think it's really noticeably sharper or anything. Basically the same shooting modes too. I haven't had cause to film at dusk yet though, I imagine that will be a noticeable difference.

The major reason I justified this purchase is the vertical camera orientation. I am primarily a photographer dipping their toe into videography and having a native portrait orientation is awesome.

It's pretty neat in video both because instagram reels are popular for my organization and it saves editing, but also it becomes easier to be more precise with your vertical framing. I used to be an "all video should be landscape!" die-hard but it's time to face facts - vertical video content is on the rise.

I guess in short, the Mini 3 Pro doesn't do anything for me that I couldn't do before - but it makes a lot of things I did before a lot easier and very slightly better. For the price that seems fair.