Originally Posted by
DanK
I got a DJI 2s.
There are a lot of features in the hardware and software to make it easier to fly near obstacles like trees. For example, it has obstacle sensors on the top, bottom, front, and back--but not the sides--and you can program what it should do when it sees an obstacle: stop, fly around it, or fly over it. It will automatically fly back to its starting point and land if you want it to, and if it is more than 50m away, it will first ascend vertically to whatever height you set, fly horizontally to the starting point, and descend. It came set for something like 300 ft, but 100 ft or so should take care of trees.
One problem is that it's very small, and it's very easy to loose visual contact. It has lights, but they aren't visible at a distance in sunlight. I've trained myself to memorize where it is before looking away. I've lost sight several times and had to tell it to start coming home so that I can hear or see it, but I'm getting better at that. It's also hard to see how it's oriented, which makes it very easy to fly or rotate in the wrong direction, but you can put something on the screen that shows orientation. You can also let it hover while you tilt the gimbal up so that you can see where it's pointed.
It also can move very fast in normal mode, so I often fly it in a much slower "cine" mode.
So far, I'm not so impressed with the camera, even though it's apparently considerably better than some of the competitors. I think I'm just spoiled by shooting with a 5D Mark IV most of the time. The color balance isn't quite right, and I need to do more tinkering with color than I normally do with the 5D. Still, with experience, those adjustments will become easier and more routine. And it's hardly fair to expect a camera that accounts for a small share of the cost of the drone to compare with the 5D.