There’s no way to turn off obstacle avoidance, meaning it might start making choices you don’t always agree with. Hopefully that’s something Skydio will address in a software update rather than waiting on a new product.Īnother choice: how this drone flies. Sure, you can do that manually, but I wanted more from my flying robot. For instance, you can’t take bracketed photos in case you want to do exposure blending on your own, and there are no fun photo modes like 360 spherical photos, 180 panoramas, or vertical shots. But still, the photo mode feels a bit unfinished and underwhelming. When it comes to photos, Skydio takes 12MP photos in both RAW and JPG, which is a bit low on paper, but the photos I got out of it were acceptable - minimal chromatic aberration, sharp edges, and good overall detail. Still, you’ll be happy with some other options like 120 fps slow motion at 1080p and HDR filming which - and I don’t say this too often - actually looks good despite oversaturated reds and greens. Once you start raising the ISO, you will naturally invite more noise, but you’ll also notice how the footage starts losing that contrast and color. That said, the footage you get out of that standard color profile is solid - colors pop, white balance is on point, dynamic range is decent and it’s as sharp as you need it to be, as long as you keep shooting with a very low ISO. (Note to self: stop being snobby about color.) That’s going to be totally fine for the majority of users, but not for me personally and my line of work. There’s nothing like a flat, cine-like mode to open up more flexibility to manipulate colors and exposure in post-processing. One such choice is that the Skydio 2 only films in one color mode. I don’t mean that the image quality is bad it’s more that this drone operates more like a flying robot than a flying camera. Skydio made some clear choices here, and I’ll tell you right now that the Skydio 2 is not for professionals.
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