DJI Air 3 with two cameras and longer flight time costs 1099 euros

DJI has presented the Air 3, which has a dual camera and a longer flight time as the biggest changes. The dual camera contains a wide-angle lens and a telephoto lens that optically zooms in three times. The drone can fly for up to 46 minutes, which is 48 percent longer than the Air 2S.

The Air 3 has two 1/1.3″ sensors with a resolution of 48 megapixels. The wide-angle camera has a 24mm lens, a fixed aperture of f/1.7 and an angle of view of 82 degrees. The ‘3x medium telephoto camera’ has a 70mm lens, a fixed aperture of f/2.8 and a field of view of 35 degrees. The predecessor of the Air 3, the Air 2S, had one camera with a field of view of 88 degrees. That drone was released in April 2021.

Users can record HDR video in 4K and at 60fps, or 4K and 100fps without HDR. The drone supports the 10bit color modes D-Log M and HLG. DJI also reports that the Air 3 is the first Air drone that can record 2.7k videos with a 9:16 aspect ratio.

The drone is the first Air drone to contain multiple sensors for omnidirectional obstacle detection, allowing the drone to avoid obstacles while flying. The Air 3 gets other features that were previously only available in more expensive drones, such as a night mode for better images in dark conditions.

DJI talks about a take-off weight of 720 grams and says that the drone without propellers measures 207×100.5×91.1 mm in the closed position. Unfolded, the drone measures 258.8x326x105.8mm. The drone can land and take off at up to 10m/s, and fly horizontally at up to 19m/s. Outside the EU this is 21m/s. The drone has 8GB of internal storage and a 4241mAh battery. The DJI Air 3 is available for purchase from today and falls under the C1 drone class.