This week DJI announced the newest quadcopter in their Phantom series, the DJI Phantom 4.

Now I've had the DJI Phantom 3 professional for about six months now.

I've used this a lot.

I've gotten a lot of footage on this that I really like and I've really enjoyed using it.

So I want to talk about what some of the I actually shot on the phantom three professional

the DJI phantom four is not available yet but it will be out in the Apple store

on March 15th so it is coming up very soon.

There's been some redesigns and some upgrades of features,

and the most obvious will be the body size.

It's the same form factor as the earlier phantoms,

but it actually is a little bigger,

which will allow for a few different things.

One of the things they've redesigned is the way the propellers and the motors sit on top of the

aircraft. Now if you've flown one of the phantoms before you know that when you move forward

the aircraft tilts forward and if you're going fast enough and there's enough tilt you actually start to get propellers in the frame and that's not really what you want when you're shooting video and so they've alleviated that by actually creating motors that are more efficient and they set up higher so no longer will you have props in the frame.

The other thing that's interesting is the propellers on the previous spantoms were kind of a spin to lock mechanism and the new ones it's a simpler motion of just

simply push and twist to lock them into place. Also new is the battery and it's

been completely redesigned and on the Phantom 3 depending on how hard I'm pushing it and what I'm doing, on a good day I'll get about 15 minutes of flight time at best.

And so for that reason I have several batteries so I can land and put a new battery in and take back off and continue to work.

Now the DGI Phantom 4 has a redesigned battery that will give you up to what they're saying

is about 28 minutes of flight time.

So the good news is that you do get more flight time. The bad news is a

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