If you’re an aspiring aerial photographer or videographer, drones are your ticket to the sky.
These cheap, lightweight marvels provide perspectives that you’d otherwise be able to re-create only with expensive equipment such as cranes or dollies, which is why they’ve become a staple of many online creators’ gear lists.But you can find dozens of different models—sometimes even from a single brand—with various costs and benefits to sift through. After test-flying 36 drones, we’ve concluded that the DJI Air 3S is the best because it combines a high-quality main camera, a useful telephoto camera, and the latest autonomous technology in a light-enough and relatively affordable package.
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The DJI Air 3S is easy to fly, has an ample stated battery life of 45 minutes (backed up in our testing), and is equipped with two cameras, giving you options for more varied and interesting shots than its predecessor. We recommend buying the Air 3S as part of DJI’s Fly More Combo because it’s the only package that also includes the DJI RC 2 controller, which features a built-in screen and is a marked improvement over the standard controller’s reliance on your phone’s screen for live view.
Like the older Air 3, the Air 3S can sense and avoid obstacles approaching from all directions, but it adds a front-facing lidar sensor, making it better at avoiding obstacles in low-light situations. These new sensing abilities make the ActiveTrack feature, which directs the drone to autonomously follow and film a subject while also avoiding obstacles, easier to use in more situations.
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