What it looks like trying to inspire to what it looks like for the maverick air Maverick air versity inspire. I mean we're talking about really expensive, large, not portable drone, like this verse something like this. This comparison is not intended at all to make either drones seem like it's the only option or the best option for all people. It's literally just something I figured I'd take advantage of simply because I have them both.
Oh, I see that as the first let's talk about getting it ready to fly. This is how long it takes the Mavic air to get ready to do its thing. Open. You put the phone into the controller. The cables built in ready to go pick up the antennas He opened the maverick case, it is 1234 and you're ready to fly. So it's pretty quick, pretty, pretty quick.
Now they inspire. On the other hand, I will say the case that I have here is designed for what they call ready to fly mode or I believe I won't, I don't know what they call it. But hopefully being this is a very large case because it actually allows me to keep it kind of ready to rock so I can take it out and only have to put props on.
That's a huge advantage to me because if you take it out of landing mode, you have to take the gimbal off, you have to put the gimbal away You have to do a lot of things that make it not as convenient. This case while very big, very bulky. It is very quick to actually put this together, unlike the other cases. So it's as simple as opening it up. Taking it out, ready to rock there. And all you got to do is put props on which is as simple as one two Three, four. So for a drone being as massive as it is pretty good setup, the controllers obviously much, much bigger requires a cable that is not permanently attached which I kind of can keep attached if I want. Big Huge difference in size, huge difference in portability that goes in my backpack that is little too large for the backpack. When it comes to cameras night and day difference, Micro Four Thirds sensor, this is actually the same size sensor as what is on my gh five. It can have different lenses.
This is a 15 millimeter 1.7. So it's equal then have a 30. I also can put a 15 millimeter on it. It just gives tons of flexibility. The Maverick air obviously fixed lens fixed gimbal no sort of adjustments. You just basically use what's on it. So let us know Get the maverick up in the air here. Now one thing about the maverick is the maverick is a fixed focus, fixed lens. So there's no sort of ever having to tap the focus is very similar to kind of with the Phantom three did back in the day, the maverick pro actually was more of a tap to focus, which I didn't really like because it would actually have a lot of things that missed focus and I really didn't have any depth of field anyway, so it kind of seemed pointless to me, but this is fixed focus.
So there's zero tapping to focus everything's always in focus. And I kind of for a quick drone actually prefer that because I found myself constant missing focus with other things. And that's not really what I want to worry about the Inspire on the other hand, that's crazy. Shallow doesn't feel it if you want it so you really got to be careful.
Here we go. So one thing without question that I definitely noticed with the Mavic and I know I've read about this a little bit as well but the range from the maverick is significantly less. And I understand that the antennas are smaller on the remote antennas are smaller. So I know that's kind of part of it, but I think they claim it's two and a half miles or something of range but I would be absolutely shocked if you get anywhere near there unless you're in the middle of Montana and there's zero people or civilization near you. That's okay for kind of what I would use the drone for the most part but something to keep in mind. Luckily it has obviously returned to home and all that which is an amazing thing because you don't have to worry about it too much. I still for the most part, just use my phone if we were doing an all day job and doing lots of drone stuff, I would I would use an iPad, but for this stuff.
I tend to not to Let's get her going here. Such a monster it's so awesome. When you first start flying the Inspire it's it's like somewhat Scary not from the standpoint of that it's hard to fly but more of the standpoint of, it's honestly a lot of money that you have in the air. But there's also almost the other side of it too, that I feel like I feel like I trust the inspire more than any other drone because of just its its raw capability.
Just the fact that it has even better sensors, it has even better just overall just stability, I feel like when you're flying it, it's this weird feeling. Even though you just have a remote in your hand. There's this natural sense of just, it's so under control. It's almost like when you drive a really big car, like those big Audi at the boats, it just kind of got get this gets this feeling that it's just just looks really it just smooth, just smooth.
So here we go. Same shot. So you're looking at now or the steel stacks, which actually were part of the opening scene of the Transformers movie, which I've talked about in my vlog before but they're pretty awesome looking pretty cool that they were able to manage to keep them Existing. So right now about 1600 feet out and not a single drop whatsoever in, in interference in vision. It's just night and day difference in terms of range, which should be we're talking eight times the cost here. So by no means in anything that I'm doing here, will I try to discredit the maverick for those kind of things because I'd be kind of disappointed if I spent the amount of money I did for this and had the same quality Alright, so now we're going to just try tracking mode, which active track for the most part should be identical on both there should not be like a better than the other.
But what this one does, is that a pass mode so it'll be interesting to see if it is better because of that. But I'm gonna have you stand right here and just film this and let this follow me in a circle and come back. So give it a shot. Okay, so this is me not touching the controller at all, holding the controller just for the sake of just in case here we go. Pretty good stop that sharks I don't want to scare the dog, but it was doing great. The reason I was looking back at Morris, I don't want to just for the sake of having a fun test running into the trees. The only thing you got to watch in any of these tracking modes, is the fact that it will see big obstacles without any problem whatsoever. But little tiny branches and things, the things that could possibly just completely derail the flight.
It sometimes doesn't see those that well, so I'm just always cautious of that. But they both work. The inspire actually has to be further away, which I noticed because because of how it uses the camera, because it's more of a 30 millimeter lens it has to be further away from the subject to actually track it because it has to have at a certain certain like bitten frame. So it was kind of higher than the other one needed to be. Which was why I was a little bit more cautious of hitting trees because there was a lot of trees, but it still is the same tracking mode. The inspire has sensors on the top, bottom Run in back, which is awesome. And the Mavic air has front and back, front, back and bottom. This also has top which is really nice because when you're flying underneath something it'll detect the top as well and kind of keep it balanced which is which is really nice to have.
So what have we learned about this inspire tubers Maverick air comparison. Well, like I said in the beginning this video, this really didn't have a real purpose. The inspire two is not supposed to compete with the maverick air and vice versa. They are entirely different drones for entirely different people and situations. I think the awesome thing that I brought out of this is the fact that the Mavic air for $800 is an incredible little drone. The image quality from it is outstanding and yes, so we punched into 300%. The inspire two is is better in all terms of quality and sharpness and in dynamic range and everything. It's a better drone, which it should be for the cost. But I think that that should not discourage you at all that if you're flying a maverick air even a phantom four which obviously is even better than the maverick air You have an outstanding drone. Now the one thing to know about the Inspire two is that there are tons of things outside of just straight up image quality that make this a drone that no other drone can actually compete with being able to operate with two different controllers and being able to get a 360 view entirely where the drone can continue a really natural flight.
And you can have the camera turn and look the opposite direction to get these really outstanding shots that you can't get with a phantom four or a maverick unless you are doing some sort of 360 rotation and then you're going backwards. It's not easy. There are other things about the Inspire to like having raw capability where you can plug in SSDs and Record Raw, incredible quality, which really matches up with your cinema cameras that you're using like reds or Ari's or all those things. There is a reason that this drone is used on a film set not just because of a Micro Four Thirds camera, but the comparison I was showing you is a very, very compressed image built in on the micro SD card which is not nearly the capability of what the actual SSDs raw capability can do. So by no means that I even show you the full capable ability of the Inspire to but that wasn't the point of it.
The point is there's a huge use for something like the Inspire to if you are someone in the market for a really high end aerial drone that has incredible and limitless capabilities, something to really keep in mind being able to fly in near freezing and below freezing temperatures and extreme heat, it just can last in a lot of environments that nothing else could if you're an environment with crazy winds, the Inspire to is going to handle it without any problem whatsoever, and just give you rock solid footage. It's just there's a lot of things that make it better. But the point of this review is more to just show you straight up comparison in a non technical way.
What's the cameras look like? What are the main things that separate these two Jones but whether you have the maverick air for $799 or you have the Inspire two which is around $7,000. The point is DJI is doing some incredible things. These are amazing, amazing drones. The technology we have in our hands is just ridiculous. And I'm just excited to own two of these pieces of gear.
But I'm even more excited to know like what the future holds for drones and This this capability in general, the fact that we can fly these cameras with the capabilities that they have is just ridiculous. But anyway, thanks so much for watching. If this is your first time here, would you consider subscribing liking this video Comment below tell me you're new here. Hopefully this review was as fun to watch as it was for me to make. I want to do more of these. So if you have any good ideas of some videos you'd like to see that are outside of my daily vlogs. I would love to hear from you. I'll see you tomorrow.
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