DJI announces Mavic 4 Pro drone
DJI has announced the Mavic 4 Pro, the company's first drone with a 360-degree rotating gimbal for footage that tilts, rolls, and offers true vertical filming.
In addition the new drone brings significant updates to camera capabilities, flight performance, and user controls.
The camera
The Mavic 4 Pro includes a triple-camera system: a 100MP 4/3" CMOS Hasselblad main camera, a 1/1.3" medium telephoto, and a 1/1.5" telephoto lens.
Photographers can now switch focal lengths mid-flight, a useful feature for varied compositions — from wide sweeping landscapes to compressed telephoto shots. Each lens supports manual exposure control, RAW photo capture, and 10-bit D-Log M color profiles.
The drone supports 6K video at 60 frames per second and 4K at up to 120 frames per second. The Cine edition includes a 2TB internal SSD and supports ProRes recording, but even the standard version comes with 64GB of internal storage — up from 8GB.
Flight performance
Body-wise, at 1.06kg, the 4 Pro is 105g heavier than the Mavic 3 Pro, and it's faster too, maxing out at 90 kilometers per hour (compared to around 75kph on the 3). In addition, its maximum transmission range has doubled to 30km.
With a 6654mAh battery, the drone can fly for up to 52 minutes under ideal conditions, a significant improvement on the 43 minutes of its predecessor.
A new controller
Announced at the same time as the Mavic 4 Pro, DJI's updated RC Pro 2 controller features a 7-inch tilting display with improved brightness and responsiveness, making it easier to monitor exposure and composition in bright environments.
The screen is on a folding arm that automatically folds down the joysticks for easy transport, and the user interface supports real-time LUT previews and focus peaking.
Interestingly, DJI has chosen not to release the Mavic 4 Pro in the USA due to ongoing regulatory concerns and issues around the Trump administration's tarifs.
In addition, according to the Verge, US Customs is still holding up DJI’s ability to import drones into the country, which may have influenced the company's decision to just roll the drone out in Canada, Mexico and other countries for now.
The DJI Mavic 4 Pro starts at $3,099. You can find out more here.