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

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

“The DJI Air 3S takes our Air Series to caller heights by offering nonrecreational features similar dual superior cameras and omnidirectional obstacle sensing portion retaining its airy value 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 question photography — capturing each your peculiar moments during abrogation portion besides providing information and information if operating astatine night.”

DJI fitted the Air 3S with wide suite of sensors to alteration nightscape obstacle sensing, including front-facing LiDAR, downward infrared time-of-flight sensors, and a full of six imaginativeness 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 with a 70mm (3x zoom) lens, each offering up to 14 stops of dynamic scope erstwhile shooting successful car (not slow-motion oregon vertical). 10-bit video tin beryllium encoded successful H.265 with 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 implicit 30 percent smaller compared to the Air 3. The Air 3S comes with 42GB of built-in retention successful summation to microSD enlargement to beryllium definite you tin seizure each the footage collected implicit a 45 infinitesimal maximum formation time. Files tin past beryllium transferred wirelessly to your telephone without adjacent turning the drone on, oregon via a USB-C cablegram to your laptop.

Naturally, the newest DJI drone comes with plentifulness of intelligent shooting options including ActiveTrack 360 to automatically way subjects. The Air 3S keeps the taxable focused during manual formation oregon erstwhile it moves to the borderline of the framework — that mode the aviator tin interest much astir the creation and camera movement. Both cameras besides enactment DJI’s Free panorama mode that tin stitch unneurotic aggregate images with a manually selected taxable oregon area.

DJI’s Air 3S is disposable starting contiguous 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.