Description
Product Overview:
Featuring a 1-inch CMOS sensor, powerful autonomous functions, and a compact body weighing less than 21 oz., DJI Air 2S is the ultimate drone for creators on the move. Take this all-in-one aerial powerhouse along anywhere to experience and record your world in stunning detail.
In the Box:
– Aircraft ×1
– DJI Smart Controller ×1
– Intelligent Flight Battery ×3
– Battery Charger ×1
– AC Power Cable ×1
– Low-Noise Propellers (Pair) ×6
– Type-C Cable ×1
– Gimbal Protector ×1
– ND Filters Set (ND4/8/16/32) ×1
– Battery Charging Hub ×1
– Battery to Power Bank Adapter ×1
– Shoulder Bag ×1
– 24 W USB Charger ×1
– Spare Control Sticks (pair) ×1
Notes:
1. Activating DJI Air 2S: DJI Air 2S requires activation before using for the first time. After powering on the aircraft and remote controller, follow the on-screen instructions to activate DJI Air 2S using the DJI Fly app. An internet connection is required for activation.
2. The Fly More Combo includes low-stop ND filters (ND 4/8/16/32). High-stop ND filters (ND 64/128/256/512) are sold separately.
3. FocusTrack is not available while recording in 5.4K/30fps, 5.4K/25fps, 5.4K/24fps, 4K/60fps, 4K/50fps, 4K/48fps, 2.7K/60fps, 2.7K/50fps, 2.7K/48fps, 1080p/120fps, 1080p/60fps, 1080p/50fps, and 1080p/48fps. FocusTrack is not available when shooting 5.4K video.
4. APAS 4.0 is not available while recording in 5.4K/30fps, 5.4K/25fps, 5.4K/24fps, 4K/60fps, 4K/50fps, 4K/48fps, 2.7K/60fps, 2.7K/50fps, 2.7K/48fps, 1080p/120fps.
App & Compatibility:
The DJI Fly app requires iOS v11.0, Android v6.0, or above. Compatible devices include: iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XS, iPhone XR, iPhone X, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6, iPad Pro (9.7-inch), iPad air2 (9.7-inch), iPad mini4 (8-inch), iPad Pro (10.5-inch), iPad Pro 2018 (11-inch), iPad Pro (12.9-inch), Samsung Galaxy S20, Samsung Galaxy S10+, Samsung Galaxy S10, Samsung Galaxy S9+, Samsung Galaxy S9, Samsung Galaxy S8+, Samsung Galaxy S8, Samsung Galaxy S7 edge, Samsung Galaxy S7, Samsung Galaxy S6, Samsung Galaxy Note10+, Samsung Galaxy Note9, Samsung Galaxy Note8, HUAWEI Mate30 Pro, HUAWEI P30 Pro, HUAWEI P30, HUAWEI P20, HUAWEI P10, HUAWEI Mate 20 Pro, HUAWEI Mate 10, HUAWEI nova 5, HUAWEI nova 4, HUAWEI nova 3e, HUAWEI nova 2, Honor 8X, Honor V10, Honor 9, Honor 20 Pro, Honor Magic 2, MI10, Mi 8, Mi MIX 2S, Mi MIX 2, Redmi Note 5, OPPO Find X, OPPO R15, vivo NEX, vivo X27, vivo X21, vivo X20A, OnePlus 7, OnePlus 6T, OnePlus 5, Pixel 4, Pixel 3 XL, Pixel 2 XL, Pixel 2, Pixel, LG V20, LG G6, Sony Xperia 1.
From the manufacturer
DJI Air 2S: All In One
Capture It All
Featuring a compact body weighing less than 600 g, DJI Air 2S is the ultimate drone for aerial photographers on the move.
Take this all-in-one aerial powerhouse anywhere to experience and record your world in stunning detail.
Big World, Big Sensor
Equipped with a 1-inch image sensor and large 2.4μm pixels,
DJI Air 2S is capable of capturing every stunning detail.
DJI SMART CONTROLLER
The DJI Smart Controller is designed to maximize your outdoor flying experience with the DJI Air 2S.
A 5.5-inch built-in screen displays clear, bright images, even under challenging conditions. Intuitive controls and pre-installed features like SkyTalk and the DJI GO 4 App , DJI Fly App get you up in the air quicker, clearer, and more conveniently than ever before.
Mark Lohde –
The BEST drone for the valueThe media could not be loaded.
Okay let me start out with the stuff I don’t like. There’s not much…I don’t like how it doesn’t have rear obstacle avoidance. I wish it went just a little faster/more power for better air control. I also wish it had an adjustable aperture. Wish the EXP’s for yaw were lower and more yaw range in the gimbal. Wish it had slightly more dynamic range too.Okay now what I do like!Coming from an Inspire 2 with X5s, the size is the biggest advantage overall. The fact it folds down so small is amazing. No longer needing to carry around a 50lb pelican case for my drone is quite convenient lol. The Air 2S is much more low key and quiet for “sketchy” quick flights or through tight obstacles. Plus, the Air 2S shoots higher resolution than the Inspire. Yes, given it’s not Cinema DNG RAW, but the D-Log and 10-Bit H.265 files from the Air 2S are very workable (Especially with the new Mac M1 processors). It has maybe 12.5-13 stops dynamic range from my eye and color grading tests in Resolve. As for color grading the footage, the shadow recovery is much better than highlight recovery so try and always expose your image for the highlights as they cannot be recovered nearly as much in post. The files are a good bitrate 5.4K 24fps 10-Bit, meaning you have the resolution to zoom in without loss and they have better color tonality. The colors can be a little strange especially blue midtone shadows. Fixable in post though.You just have to understand how amazing it is to have a camera that you can put virtually anywhere in the air with a detailed 5.4K video. With three batteries charging you can get a lot of flights in one day with this guy, maximizing your opportunities for creative shots in many different locations. The size of the drone is amazing. Like legit the size of a large camera lens. The controller also fits nicely as the thumb sticks come off and store in it making it more flat. Also, the controllers battery life is just simply amazing. It lasts forever. The bag the drone comes with is extremely nice and great if you are just doing a trip with it. Everything fits in there. The included ND filters are very nice and honestly required for most flights. No noticeable color shift on the filters and they balance on the gimbal perfectly. I did order myself some additional CPL filters that helped quite a bit when shooting water and such. You may need something darker than ND32 for mid day shooting FYI.Battery life is roughly 20 mins of spirited flying while still leaving plenty reserve and not letting them go below 20% to extend their life. Plenty for some fun hyperlapses, which is an awesome included feature. The master shots feature (will the drone will fly itself and get some base level shots) is good to just do as a base level and completes in a couple mins. Results are good for zero effort.Finally, the range on it is superb. 9/10 situations it will have no problems. Staying within line of sight keeps signal the best (and legal). Flying behind objects will sometimes lose the connection. Also in cities (areas with lots of wifi signals) it has less range. But I would say it has better signal than the Inspire 2. The Inspire 2 was more “nimble” and “smooth” given the better power envelope of the motors, 360 spin of the gimbal, and second operator all adding to smoother footage of hard to track items, but could not go nearly as far. With the Air 2S line of sight becomes a TINY speck on the horizon.For a single man band this drone is only beaten by the Mavic 3, which is several times the price ($5k for the good “cinema” version). In my 10+ years of videography I haven’t been this stoked on a new tool in a while and it will be used a lot when the bigger cinema drones cannot fly or are not practical.Okay let’s compare the drones I have flown/used: Mavic Air 2S ($1000) vs Mavic Air ($500) vs Phantom 4 Pro ($1600) vs Inspire 2 X5S ($10,000) vs Freefly Alta 8 RED Monstro Zeiss CP3 ($175,000)When I compared the top dogs like an Inspire and a flying cinema camera (Alta 8), the Air 2S surprisingly holds its strengths pretty well. They are different tools for different jobs and are not apples to apples AT ALL but the fact the Air 2S and everything in the bag is about the same size as the MoVI (Alta 8’s Gimbal) Controller is kind of funny.The image quality on the Air 2S is much better than the Mavic Air and the P4P both in resolution and dynamic range. The resolution is comparable to the X5S camera but the dynamic range of the Air 2S is noticeably worse than the X5S. Obviously, if you are shooting something with budget and need 8K with good lenses, the Alta is your best bet. But that is 2 huge 80lb boxes, has a 10 min flight time at 45lbs with massive batteries. Minimum of 2 operators. Whole different beast. Can’t really compare the Alta to the Air 2S.If you’re into travel vlogging, weddings, real estate, landscape this is the perfect drone if you can’t quite stretch to get the Mavic 3.Also to compare this to the “48mp” Mavic Air 2, the pictures are actually much sharper because of the 1 inch sensor and better lens. Plus the Air 2 is a 12MP camera with pixel shift it’s marketing talk. Megapixels are not everything and the true 20 MP of the Air 2S will be enough for most uses I think.Also note 4K 60 has a crop where 5.4K does not. Can be pretty useful actually IMO.Amazing where technology is going and excited to see when the Mavic line comes out with interchangeable lenses someday! Great product DJI!Included is a video I made along the California Coast with exclusively the Mavic Air 2S and the included ND filters. Enjoy!
Toby Hicks –
Top notch drone for photo or videoI purchased this drone as a reward for passing my Part 107 exam to be able to fly drones commercially. Coming from a Mavic Air (the original one) this is so much of an upgrade that it’s not even funny. The DJI Air 2S has a 1″ sensor, giving it much better low light performance than the Mavic Air. On the Mavic Air, if you are shooting at anything at all over ISO 100 you might as well just throw the image away. On the DJI Air 2S I’ve gone up to ISO 800 without the level of noise I would have at 100 on the previous drone.Photo:With its 20MP sensor, I am able to take photos with an incredible amount of detail with enough room to be able to crop the image if I catch a telephone pole that I don’t like. The colors and sharpness of the image remind me a lot of my A7iii if I were to strap it to a quad copter and throw it 400ft into the air.Video:This drone can record 5.4k video at 24fps in 10-bit D-Log. If you don’t know what that means exactly, it means you can record super high quality video and not have to worry that the colors will break apart in post. The 5.4k resolution is great to use as-is or to crop in on to make vertical content that doesn’t need to be stretched in order to workI use this drone primarily for landscape/urban photography and wedding videography and couldn’t be happier. It’s probably a bit overkill for most wedding videographers (plenty of friends use a DJI Mini 2 and produce great work) but if you have the extra money you won’t be disappointed
Thomas V. –
Great, but buyer beware!One of the batteries didn’t work out of the box. Everything else is perfectly fine, but when I contacted customer service to explain there was a battery that won’t charge no matter what I tried, they said my options were to return the whole thing and buy another drone kit, or just deal with it. I use the drone almost every day, and I didn’t want to be without it for however long the return process would take. So I’m just running it minus a battery. If you can afford it, check everything and be ready for a mediocre customer service solution if something happens not to work. I use DJI products often, and in the years I’ve used drones and gimbals this is the first time I’ve ever had this issue… well that and the time a phantom fell out of the sky into a busy parking lot, but that’s a different issue. Over all the dji drones are highly reliable and a great value for your money, so I’m not going into fits of rage over loosing a battery.
David Fast –
Compact DroneI do professional Photography and have 2 other drones already. I was hesitant, but bought it anyway after some research and comparisons. One of the selling points was the High Resolution and a 1” CMOS lens which is twice the size as the others and a 3 axis gimbal. The instructions are ridiculous so you need first hand knowledge on flying drones. You also need the highest speed Micro SD card that you can get or your videos will be choppy. You have to change on screen all the settings you want it to have when it is powered up and ready to fly. I still haven’t figured everything out yet. But the Images and Videos are amazing. Fly to home works well also. I flew it well out of sight and there is a sight map showing flight path and which direction to come home. My opinion, it is a nice mid size drone that functions well.
jimmy frazier –
You get what you pay for.This is not a paid DJI endorsement I’ve spent my own money on DJI products. This is my 4th DJI Drone and for one reason only guality. People don’t like to admit it, no one on the planet especially in the USA can come close to the quality and the technology that DJI puts into their consumer drones , which explains why they are the global leader in consumer drone’s bar none. The proof is in the pudding! I’m going to take a left turn here and set the record straight. People complain about China this and that but, the truth is almost everything if not everything comes from China thanks to the capitalist mindset of America. News break America couldn’t survive without China and the U.S. government knows it. The government is literally so far behind China in this area we will never catch up, at best the U.S. gov can try to keep pace in the commercial drone field. Now the military is a different game all together we have that locked down with relative certainty. Case and point you just have to do your research to make the best educated buying choice you can and you can’t go wrong with DJI. People want the most bang for their bucks you get that with DJI. My best advice is to do your research, there is no reason anyone should be ignorant about anything in this time and age goggle it. Like any big company DJI is not perfect they could do better in some areas and should. The bottom line is this for the most bang for your money DJI is hands down your best choice and the Air 2 S fly more combo you can’t go wrong.Stay safe fair wind and clear skies.
Ksdfhyrckk –
Definitely get the value packAmazing but you will need more batteries and could use the 3 port charger
Gustavo –
ImponenteLlego a tiempo y el producto es increíble
keith –
Controller has poor range and not compatable with other forward produced DJI productsStay away from the Controller
AMZN_addict –
excellent droneToo bad a rank beginning drone operator can’t buy a cheap, used version that could be used for practice and occasionally crash into something before the operator becomes competent enough to fly it in a variety of situations, and only then buy a new, quality drone like this one. But after those minor wrecks occurring a few times (school of hard knocks, be prepared to buy spare propellers) and viewing dozens of tutorials and practicing nearly daily, I am trained enough to use most of its features fairly competently. The videography you can create from it is great and the addition of ND filters is essential if you want to avoid overexposure and do hyperlapses (plan on buying higher density ND filters if you want to create bright daytime hyperlapses, such as ND 256). It would be nicer if it and the DJI Fly application allowed for 4K 60 FPS frame rates for quick shots, master shots and active tracking, but what it does at lower resolutions and frame rates with those preprogrammed features is still very good. Even with the 3-pack of batteries with the Fly More option, battery life is very restrictive and careful planning is needed to do complex flyovers without having to prematurely end the shooting sequence.
c89purist –
It mostly worked. But prepare for crashing if connection lost.Crashing if connection lost. No way to get it replaced without another thousand dollars.Does not allow you to script it, mod it, or otherwise improve it. The software it comes with is very limiting, but the other brands are even worse. It relies on laser range-finders to detect obstacles from a very narrow field, with no way to memory the obstacles after they leave its sight, no way to compute how big the obstacles are or detect their velocity vector (eg to predict where the obstacles will be later.) This is why I wished to rewrite the firmware myself. But it was always locking me out. If you are able to get to the circuit boards to rewrite the firmware yourself, maybe you could make it come back safely if it lost connection, but if that is too complicated for you to, just wait another decade before you get RC aircraft, they are not ready yet to be sold.The reviews say DJI is somehow “developer friendly,” but they do not let you dev it at all.