Skydio 2 – Review of Features and Specs

The Skydio 2 is your camera crew. Built to get everybody into drones, the Skydio uses the same advanced flight capabilities to keep new operators in the air that allows professionals to pull off impressive shots with ease.

Introduction:

Skydio started building drones with the global of available autonomous flight for any operator. When they built, the Skydio R1’s goal was to eradicate crashes using collision avoidance sensors. At the time, it was one of the most progressive obstacle-avoidance drones on the market. Flash onward to the end of 2019; the Skydio 2 was released with a thorough design overhaul and advancement all around.
The Skydio 2’s autonomous flight abilities are unmatched by other manufacturers. Skydio leverages breakthrough Al to create the world’s most intelligent machines for use by consumers, enterprises, and government customers.

Feature Overview of the Skydio;

The Skydio now comes in four varieties; Starter, Sports, Cinema, and Pro. Although the Skydio drone is the same in all four, each kit consists of an increasing amount of accessories. The Skydio 2 is one of the most impressive drones. Only Skydio has a key frame, an unrivaled feature that lets you easily design custom flight paths to capture all the shots you’ve imagined.

Autonomus Flight:

Skydio promotes progressive autonomous flights as the main feature of Skydio 2. Thanks to six cameras used completely for obstacle avoidance purposes along with superb visual tracking, this drone can autonomously follow a subject more exceptionally than any other. That said, manual flight feels a bit clunky related to other leading models on the market. Also, while the autonomous follow modes are impressive, they’re not ideal. Quick changes in direction may find the subject drifting to the boundary or even out of the frame, and high speeds and/or dense obstacles can still cause the drone to lose the subject. Despite these imperfections, if you’re viewing for a way to autonomously film yourself while you run, ski, or bike, this drone is the best option available.

Video Quality:

The 4K camera on the Skydio 2 maintains impressively clear, crisp footage, representing a big improvement over its predecessor. The camera constantly churned out high-quality footage with good resolution and engaging color composition. In the ideal lighting conditions, this footage is approximately on par with that of some of DJI’s upper-tier prosumer models. The greater weak point of this drone’s camera comes with cloudy, low-light conditions. In these situations, colors can start to look a bit dull and muted — if the drone alike grant you to fly at all (if it senses that there isn’t enough light for its obstacle avoidance cameras to function well, it will not take off).

Although the Skydio 2 can produce fantastic images in good lighting conditions, it lacks various progressive options of the upper-level DJI models. There are fewer post-processing benefits for serious connoisseurs who might want to do some progressive editing like color correction.

The camera on the Skydio 2 can shoot 60 frames-per-second (fps) at its full 4K resolution, that’s means can get some cool slow-motion effects like whereas shooting in ultra-high definition. Whenever, you drop the resolution down to 1080p high definition, the greatest frame rate increases to 120 fps, allowing you to dip your toe into the super slow-motion territory. There are as well standard options for 24 and 30 fps in both resolutions.

Size and Weight:

The Skydio 2 is 8.8″ x 10.7″ x 2.9″ (or 223 x 273 x 74 mm) in range, slightly lower than an unfolded DJI Mavic 3. However, the Skydio 2 has fixed arms, so it’s not as portable as any other option. The folding propeller brings the packing size down a scant. Weighing in at 775 g (1.7 lbs), it does weigh less than the Mavic 3. Nonetheless, when related to the Skydio R1, it is an excessive enhancement in size and weight. The R1 was a flying pizza box at 13 x 16 x 1.5 inches and weighed approximately 1000 grams (2.2 lbs). The redesign was much needed and now looks like a first-rate product.

Conclusion

Skydio makes probably the best “follow me” drone on the market technology-wise. On paper, it looks like a great drone, but in the progression from paper to reality- it misses the mark, slightly. The 4K 60 fps footage should be superior to it is, and it’s quite limited by flight time. Skydio knocks it out of the park with its autonomous features, even years later. Skydio’s goal as a company is to make drones available to anybody, regardless of experience. They’ve polished that masterfully over the obstacle avoidance technology they’ve advanced and integrated into the second revision of their flagship drone. The substantial size and design of the Skydio 2 are a huge improvement from the original R1 drone, but still large when related to a folding drone like a DJI flagship