I just wanted to brag on the Mini 2, I recently took it out to get some shots of the choppy river waters, I checked my app and there were gusts of 50mph, with a steady 30-35mph wind, I took my Mini up to about 200 feet and it performed well, you could hear it fighting the wind, it did drift at about 0.2 mph and I was keeping a close eye on it just incase I needed to perform an emergency landing, and this was probably a worst case scenario but even fighting that hard, I did manage to get a couple decent pictures.

Props to DJI, however I do look at purchasing an Air2S for situations like this.

(Images may look a bit crappy, had to compress them to upload)

Picture need to be under 2mb and jpg to attach here.   Would be nice to see them.

DAFlys Posted at 12-12 02:46
Picture need to be under 2mb and jpg to attach here.   Would be nice to see them.

Compressed them and attached!

Hawkeye Photography Posted at 12-12 03:00
Compressed them and attached!

Nice looking shots,   you'd never guess it was windy from them.   It did its job well.

DAFlys Posted at 12-12 03:07
Nice looking shots,   you'd never guess it was windy from them.   It did its job well.

I love it, the only complaint is the sensor size, if it wasn't for that, I'd consider it the perfect drone.

That and the obstacle avoidance is why I'll be purchasing an Air2s in the future, the video feature on the Mini 2 is awesome but I mainly do stills and I feel the Air2s takes better stills.

But yes, it did its job, it was fighting hard.

Hawkeye Photography Posted at 12-12 03:12
I love it, the only complaint is the sensor size, if it wasn't for that, I'd consider it the perfect drone.

That and the obstacle avoidance is why I'll be purchasing an Air2s in the future, the video feature on the Mini 2 is awesome but I mainly do stills and I feel the Air2s takes better stills.

I have the Mavic 2 Pro and now the Mini2 due to the stricter rules here,  and to push the mini 2 a bit further I mostly shoot AEB and take some over lapping shots that can be stitched later,   a little more work but Im getting some good results from it.

DAFlys Posted at 12-12 03:31
I have the Mavic 2 Pro and now the Mini2 due to the stricter rules here,  and to push the mini 2 a bit further I mostly shoot AEB and take some over lapping shots that can be stitched later,   a little more work but Im getting some good results from it.

What does the AEB do differently? I've sorta messed around with it.

Hawkeye Photography Posted at 12-12 03:35
What does the AEB do differently? I've sorta messed around with it.

AEB gives you three exposures,  under, correct and over,  I then blend those in Lightroom for more dynamic range.  

Nice shots.    Mini 2 did extremely well considering the wind and gusts you were experiencing.

DAFlys Posted at 12-12 03:39
AEB gives you three exposures,  under, correct and over,  I then blend those in Lightroom for more dynamic range.

Oh wow, okay! I've did that before but manually doing ground-photography

DowntownRDB Posted at 12-12 04:09
Nice shots.    Mini 2 did extremely well considering the wind and gusts you were experiencing.

Handled it like a champ

Hawkeye Photography Posted at 12-12 04:15
Oh wow, okay! I've did that before but manually doing ground-photography

If you have Lightroom,   you can select the images,  right click and select Photo Merge -> HDR or HDR Pano if you took overlapping shots.

Heres an example taken with min2 -

DAFlys Posted at 12-12 04:33
If you have Lightroom,   you can select the images,  right click and select Photo Merge -> HDR or HDR Pano if you took overlapping shots.

Heres an example taken with min2 -

Wow that's amazing, I'm going today to get some shots and I'll have to try that. Thanks for the tip.

Hawkeye Photography Posted at 12-12 04:34
Wow that's amazing, I'm going today to get some shots and I'll have to try that. Thanks for the tip.

Its a 45mb jpg so the quality is much better than I can show here.   the downside to HDR and stiching is moving objects,   sometimes I'll need to clone out half a car from the shot.

Hi there. Hawkeye. We really appreciate you for sharing your awesome experience also sharing these great shots of yours with the DJI Mini 2. Thank you for your valued support.

Hawkeye Photography Posted at 12-12 04:15
Handled it like a champ

Without a doubt.