DJI Air 3S vs Mavic 4 Pro
The Mavic 4 Pro's 168mm tele lens reaches well past the Air 3S's single 70mm medium tele, covering distant subjects, wildlife or restricted-access sites neither of the Air 3S's two lenses can frame without flying closer.
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Posts published in October 2026.
The Mavic 4 Pro's 168mm tele lens reaches well past the Air 3S's single 70mm medium tele, covering distant subjects, wildlife or restricted-access sites neither of the Air 3S's two lenses can frame without flying closer.
The L3 mounts exclusively to the Matrice 400, DJI doesn't list it as compatible with the Matrice 4 Series, Matrice 350 RTK or Matrice 300 RTK.
DJI Dock 4 swaps in a charged battery in 25 seconds, not 27 minutes. Here’s everything new in the launch, from the Matrice 5TD’s camera system to FlightHub 2’s AI Copilot.
Maximum flight time extends to 59 minutes against the Matrice 4TD's 54, with 48 minutes as the Matrice 5TD's practical operating figure once reserve margins are accounted for.
A 25-second battery swap against a 27-minute charge cycle, a jump to 2,000W input power, and an RTK base station that’s moved outside the dock. Here’s what’s actually changed.
NTRIP, Networked Transport of RTCM via Internet Protocol, is a delivery mechanism, not a correction method in itself.
Dock 3 is the first DJI dock rated for mounting on a vehicle rather than a fixed pad, opening up temporary sites, mobile patrol routes and rapid redeployment between jobs without a permanent installation.
The headline number is identical, 1-inch 50MP on both main cameras, so image quality from the wide lens is genuinely comparable between them in good light.