![]() ![]() It’s something you’ll notice if you’re shooting, say, dark objects in the same frame as a bright sky in the background: The HDR will help pull out more details in the dark areas without you having to manually raise the exposure, which would blow out the sky.Įverything you record lives on a micro SD card mounted underneath Anafi’s battery. (Note that the 2.8x is only in HD in 4K, more of the sensor gets used, so the zoom drops to 1.4x.)įinally, Anafi’s camera optionally shoots in HDR, with an increase in exposure range of about two stops. When “zoomed out,” the video is downsampled from across the entire sensor, and “zooming in” reduces that downsampling until you’re using just the middle of the sensor with a pixel ratio of 1:1, so the quality stays the same. This is possible because the sensor is large enough that the whole thing isn’t being used all at once when you’re recording video. Note that the zoom is digital, not optical, but it’s also lossless. Parrot put a lot of work into the lens system as well-it’s been carefully constructed to maintain image quality and optical stability within a very wide temperature range, which can be more of a problem than you might think.Īnafi’s camera also features a 2.8x zoom. At standard HD, you can shoot 60 fps, and it’ll also shoot 12-megapixel rectilinear photos that are distortion free. It can record video in P-LOG at 100 Mbps and take RAW photos. The 21-megapixel (5344x4016) Sony IMX230 sensor (with an Ambarella vision processing chip) shoots 4K video with room to spare. One of Anafi’s main selling points is its camera system. I’d also have preferred a little extra space in there to carry extra props. My only critique would be that you need to somewhat carefully position the props to fit into those spaces before you zip the case closed, and I think I may have inadvertently pinched the tip of one of the drone’s props by not paying close enough attention. The gimbal rests in a little cradle so you don’t have to worry about a clamp, and there are spaces hollowed out in the top for the props. It’s just so satisfying-a hard shell, with fabric on the outside, perfectly sized to carry the folded up Anafi all safe and snug, along with a USB cable and SD card adapter. Speaking of cases, the case is one of my favorite things about Anafi. ![]() The drone in its case plus the remote are compact and (relatively) lightweight, so it’s not very difficult to rationalize carrying it around just in case.įolded Anafi drone in its case. The arms snap in and out briskly, and since it folds into a slim rectangle rather than a square, it’s much easier to slip into a bag. Anafi is light and efficient, just like insects, and it’s also deliberately designed to be small and safe, so that people enjoy both using it and being around it. Even the folding behavior is modeled on insects. The idea, Seydoux said, was to build a drone like an insect, with a head (camera), thorax (electronics), and abdomen (battery). (Disclosure: Parrot covered our expenses to attend the Anafi launch event in NYC.) It’s officially available today, so here’s a detailed review to help you understand whether Anafi is the right drone for you.Īt Parrot’s event in NYC, CEO Henri Seydoux introduced the drone with pictures like this: We got a pretty good look at the drone in New York City, and have been trying one out over the past weeks. It’s not like this caught Parrot by surprise or anything-two years ago, they saw the direction that the market was trending, and started working on a completely new consumer platform designed to be exceptionally easy to use and exceptionally portable, with the ability to produce exceptionally good aerial videos.Įarlier last month, Parrot announced the Anafi, a US $700 consumer camera drone with a unique design and some unique features, coupled with the sort of thoughtful usability that we’ve come to expect from Parrot. But at this point, most consumers probably think DJI when they think of camera drones, because of how pervasive Phantoms and Mavics are. Since then, we’ve seen the Bebop, some clever flying toys, and had a bunch of fun with the fixed-wing Disco. The AR Drone came out in 2010 (!), and Parrot followed it up with a solid upgrade in the AR Drone 2.0 a few years later. ![]() Parrot was one of the first (if not the absolute first) companies to take a crack at the consumer drone space. ![]()
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