I have never ever wanted to own a drone. Or even control one. I have found them them way too toy-ish, bulky and nerdy. Just look at the Phantom 4. No matter what you try to do to it to make it look cool, it still looks like a toy. And this comes even if I love both photography and helicopters, and have many vivid memories of the times I have been able to merge the two using the old school, and much heavier machines from the olden days!
Enter the Mavic Pro
But this thing is different.
This thing is the first drone I have ever looked upon and thought. “WOW!” Just the industrial design of this… It looks like something coming straight out of an extremely well designed video game with strong ties to Japanese military mecha/anime. It’s really beautiful! So I thought really, really about for at least two days, and then I just bought it! (yeah!).
Delivery isn’t due before a month from now, so now — I believe for the first time since I was waiting for my iPhone in 2007 (and that is saying a lot!) — I am having this kid-before-christmas day both anxiety and anticipation. Its delivery date is pending, but it ought to be here sometime early next month.
I still don’t know what this means, will my life require me to film everything from above now? Will I have to pick up an extreme sport just to make it happy? Will I from now on be that annoying guy with the drone? Have I really really just bought myself the ultimatest selfie-stick? Still don’t know, and it’s a nice feeling.
And by the way, I couldn’t find the specs in a handy format anywhere, so I compiled this Mavic Pro specs PDF for all your speccy needs. And I have to give it to Casey. I think this was the moment that had me (pre-forwarded for ya.)