With its straps and leather-look finish, the cover looks like something you’d find hanging from the racks of an Ann Summers shop rather than your local branch of Jessops, but there’s no denying it does a great job of keeping everything safe.Īlso in the box is the DJI RC-N1 remote controller, onto which you dock your smartphone when flying the drone. This time the colouring is a bit darker and moodier, and the camera is noticeably chunkier, but there’s nothing here that truly surprises, except perhaps for the protective cover that keeps the rotor blades, camera and obstacle sensors securely covered up when the drone is folded down for storage. The build quality is reassuringly solid, just as is expected from DJI. The overall look of the Mavic 3 isn’t too dissimilar from its predecessors, with the rotors situated on four fold-out arms, the battery sliding into the back and the camera mounted on a three-axis gimbal just under the drone’s nose. Let’s find out how well they work in practice. The Mavic 3 isn’t cheap, with prices starting at £1879 for the bare bones model and going up all the way to £4,279 for the deluxe and high-powered Cine Premium Combo, but those headline features do seem genuinely ground-breaking.

On paper, it looks like the Mavic 3 really reaches for the sky (no pun intended) with its long battery life, multi-directional obstacle avoidance system and dual camera setup, which combines a 12MP zoom module with a 20MP 4/3 module – the latter being the biggest sensor yet seen on one of DJI consumer drones. The Mavic range, DJI’s flagship series of folding camera drones, has just had its first major update in three years: and it’s an impressive one.

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