Air 3

My active fleet is up to two Air 3s and two Air 3S's. I have a retired Air 2 that just chills on my shelf these days. Its a FUN hobby and good way to make extra money.

Registration in the US is so cheap and easy I don’t see why it would even be a factor here. It’s like $5 for 3 years and about as many minutes. I have a Neo and an air 3. I use the air 3 for photography because the cameras are great, it handles wind well, and it’s a real fun machine to fly. I use the Neo hardly all, because the camera is worse than a 5 year old cell phone and the high pitched screech is very loud.

I put some master airscrew stealth ones on, and it did help a bit. Also made it a little more visible in the sky, which was a nice bonus. It always gives me a bit of a chuckle to see how much quieter (at least in terms of perceptiom) the air 3 is since it’s huge by comparison. Makes sense with the props spinning more slowly, but it’s interesting to see back to back

Get a (used) Mini 4 Pro, or Air 3(S) to start and try - if you like it: Mavic 4 Pro

I agree that an ND not necessarily needed for photography. I added a ND4 + CPL filter to my Air 3 as I like the polarization effect

I held off on the Mini 4 Pro & got the Air 3 instead keeping my Mini 3 Pro as a back up. I’ll be retiring my Mini3P for this bad boy & when the Air 4 comes out hopefully with Dual 1” sensors I’ll retire my Air 3. Very good things coming out from DJI to bad I gotta smuggle them into the US

If you want to shoot urban I’d recommend the Mini 4 pro as it has O4 transmission. If you want anything bigger you will need special licenses depending on where you are country/state/city wise. For me in Texas I only need my 107 to do commercial or heavier drones. If you just want to make basic social media content the Neo is your best bet as well but with a controller / phone. The Mini 4k is a more basic mini 3 pro but still good.

You just said you weren’t tight on funds lol yeah man the newer & latest one is more expensive. Let the Mini 5 Pro drop and Mini 4 Pro sellers will saturate the market lowering the Mini 4 Pro overall price

DJI is basically the only choice now, except maybe Autel Evo models that are somewhat older now, but they are included in the ban too! By the way, the ban won't affect actually the legality of buying and operating the drones, just importing and selling, so if you can buy one, you are good. The only issue is that warranty and support may be not available. I think a used DJI air 2s is a very good value. Extra refurb batteries are much cheaper than newer air3 batteries. However I have an air3 as well and love the zoom lens for some of my shots.

You are probably not going to find an all in one solution for this. The avata 2 (what I use) or a cinewhoop style is what you want for interior fly through. But these are not going to handle as well outside for photos, no bracketing options, etc. Outside photos/video I would be looking at the mini series or the air series. I run the avata 2 and an air 3. I was doing a fly through today, in from front door, through kitchen, to living, up to main bed out the balcony and down walkway to beach. As soon as I got to the outside towards the beach, the wind was strong, and the horizon had a heavy slant. It almost cut the the screen diagonally with the horizon. So, I also shot some video with the larger drone outside just in case.

It does have better wind resistance indeed. I myself bought an air 3 for that reason so that would be a good argument for the Air 3.

Never flew one... I have the Air 3

I’ve used a mini pro and a mavic 3 but my favorite to shoot with is still my air3. The 3x zoom seem perfect fP those nice compressed shots while still shooting 4k 60 in all the tracking modes.

While i don't care about brand loyalty as a air 3 owner let me say the obstacle avoidance with self tracking has gave me some of my favorite videos of me and my family. It has also saved me so many times. It's like a car with blind spot monitoring/ lane assist do you need it no? If you have it tho it's amazing.

You versus the drone she tells you not to worry about. First purchase was the Air 3 for me. Would love to get the Air 3s, or the 5-series. Damn U.S. gubbament oppressing us.