Shadowing Practice: Best micro drone of 2025? Pavo Femto, Meteor75 Pro, Pavo Pico, or Pavo20 Pro - Learn English Speaking with YouTube
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This is the Pavo Femto.
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This is the Pavo Femto.
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It's a tiny little micro drone that fits in the palm of your hand with its 40 millimeter props,
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but it runs on two-inch batteries so it can rip.
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And this is the Meteor 75 Pro.
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It's a tiny whoop that's not so tiny with 45 millimeter props that runs on 1S batteries,
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which means it's quiet and easy to fly.
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Lately, I've been getting a lot of questions from new pilots trying to decide which DJI 04 drone they should choose.
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So in this video, we're going to take a real close look at the Pavo Femto.
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We'll compare it to the Meteor 75 Pro,
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and we'll also talk about some other options like the pavo 20 pro
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which is rocking the dji 04 pro and the pavo pico
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and the pavo 20 because even though these drones are from last year they're very similar
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and they can run dji 04 with the pavo femto bracket
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so keep watching because by the end of this video you'll be in a better place to decide
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which dji 04 drone is right for you and
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if you want to learn more about any of these drones
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i have in-depth reviews on all of them on my channel
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i'll put links to those videos in the video description all right let's get into it
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the pavo femto weighs in at 54.8 grams and with the recommended 2s 450 milliamp battery it weighs
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82.4 grams
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and with this setup I can get about five minutes of
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flight time depends on how I'm flying we'll talk a little bit more about batteries and flight times in just a minute.
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The Meteor 75 Pro weighs in at
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37.1 grams and with the recommended 550 milliamp 1s battery it weighs 51.4 grams
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and I usually get four to five minute flights on this setup.
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Again, it really depends on how you fly.
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The Femto has a 75 millimeter wheelbase with these relatively small 40 millimeter props on 1102 14,000 kV motors.
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The Meteor 75 Pro has an 81 millimeter wheelbase with these relatively large 45 millimeter props with the same size 1102 motors,
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but since the Meteor 75 Pro is designed for 1S voltage,
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these motors are 22,000 kV.
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With these larger props and a lightweight design,
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the Meteor 75 Pro doesn't make that much noise.
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Here's what it sounds like.
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And with smaller props and a heavier design,
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the Pavo Femto does make a little bit more noise.
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Here's what it sounds like.
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Both of these micro drones are relatively quiet and lightweight,
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but the Pavo Femto is much faster with that 2S power system.
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And since it is a heavier design,
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it has more inertia when you're ripping around,
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which makes it much more agile and much more capable for freestyle flying.
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The power to weight ratio is very high and it doesn't feel like a normal tiny whoop.
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It's a little ripper and it's a blast to fly in public places or at your local park.
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and that small form factor is great for hitting gaps and it just cuts right through the wind.
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What really makes this drone shine is that DJI-04 light.
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The FPV feed is crystal clear and the range is more than you could ever need on such a tiny drone.
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You can fly the Pavo Femto indoors and it's very stable
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when you put it into angle mode and since it's
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so tiny it does do very well in tight indoor spaces without creating hurricane force winds
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but that power is there when you want it to rip around outdoors or in larger spaces.
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Now the Meteor 75 Pro is much more stable and easier to fly with its larger props and 1S power system.
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And since it doesn't make as much noise,
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it's great for flying around in public places or around people because most people will just look at it as a toy.
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It doesn't do nearly as well outdoors or in the wind as the Pavo Femto.
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It just doesn't have the authority that the Pavo Femto does
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and that combination of larger props and a lighter weight design means
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that the meteor 75 pro feels floaty where the pavo femto
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cuts right through the wind the meteor 75 pro catches the wind like a kite
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and i found myself having to really compensate for the wind a lot more
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so i wouldn't get blown into the trees
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but since it is very tame it's great for new pilots
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and it can be really fun to do close proximity flying
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and you can get some super fun shots with
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that dji-04 system the femto is the smallest drone in beta fpv's pavo series
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which all use a carbon plate with a camera bracket bolted on top and plastic ducts on the bottom
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this carbon plate is two millimeters thick and it is nice
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and stiff to prevent vibrations
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and these plastic ducts do have a little bit of give to them to provide durability to survive crashes
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These are functional ducts, not just prop protectors,
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and they do add a little bit of efficiency for longer flights.
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The plastic ducts are pretty durable,
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but if you do break them, replacements are just $4.
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If you get a drone without a DJI-04,
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you will need to assemble the camera mount,
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but it's not very difficult to do,
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and there's loads of videos on YouTube showing you how to do it.
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Here's a tip though, make sure to put this bracket on the OV-04 camera the right way way.
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These little clips go on the sides, not up and down.
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It's kind of a pain to remove it if you put it on wrong.
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Ask me how I know.
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The camera bracket is bolted onto the carbon plate with rubber grommets
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and step screws to prevent over tightening since those rubber grommets
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need to be soft to isolate the DJI 04 system from vibrations.
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This bracket does a very good job protecting the DJI 04,
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yet we have easy access to the USB port and the bind button on the other side.
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This camera bracket allows for unlimited camera tilt,
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which is great for people who want to fly fast,
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but it's a little bit tricky to adjust the camera angle because as you tighten down this screw,
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the camera itself will want to turn.
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So you need to hold it in place with your finger as you tighten that screw.
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The soft mounting system does a great job of isolating the camera from vibrations and it is super soft,
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but the DJI 04 is so sensitive to vibrations that it's hard to eliminate jello completely.
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We'll talk about jello in just a minute.
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The Meteor 75 Pro is a tiny whoop style drone which means it uses a one-piece molded plastic whoop frame like this.
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It's very soft and durable so you're not likely to break it
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but if you do a new frame will cost you five bucks.
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The Meteor Canopy does use the same soft mounting system as the Pavo Femto
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but the canopy itself is much more minimalist and lightweight
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and it's not is strong and doesn't protect the air unit nearly as much.
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As you can see there's a lot of flex and these mounting points are a potential weak spot.
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When you compare the frame
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and camera mounting systems side by side you see where the extra weight is in the Pavo Femto.
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The Femto uses Beta FPV's F4 20 amp all-in-one board.
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This is the same board you'll find in the Pavo 20 Pro,
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the Pavo 20,
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and version 2 of the pavo pico it does have a
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beefy 3 amp battery eliminator circuit to power the dji-04 it also has a built-in elrs receiver
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and this little red wire is the elrs antenna the antenna comes from the factory tucked underneath this battery mount
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but i did carefully bend mine out like this to allow for space for a battery strap
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and also to get better reception Even with this tiny little antenna,
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the range is very, very good,
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and it's more than most people would ever need for a tiny little drone like this.
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All of these drones have plugs for the motors,
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which means if you do burn up a motor,
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it would be easy to replace.
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This board doesn't have a standard USB connector,
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and you do need to use this provided USB-C dongle to connect to Betaflight,
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so don't lose it.
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The Meteor 75 Pro uses the Matrix All-in-One board,
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which has most of the same features,
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but it is a 12-amp board designed for 1S,
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and it has a special BEC designed to power the DJI 04 without brownouts all the way down to 2.8 volts,
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and it's what allows the Meteor 75 Pro to power the DJI 04 on 1S batteries.
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The Femto frame comes with a Tiny Whoop style molded plastic battery mount,
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and you're supposed to slide your battery in and out of this plastic cage.
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It works fine if you're using Beta FPV's 2S 450mAh batteries,
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but other battery sizes or brands won't fit.
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And since I have a pile of 2S batteries,
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on my Femto, I cut the battery cage and use a battery strap
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so I can use different size and brands of 2S batteries.
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This is similar to the amount that you'll see on the other Paavo drones
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like the Pavo 20 and it works much better.
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On the recommended 2S for 50 milliamp batteries I am able to get five minute flight times
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which I think is pretty good for such a powerful little drone.
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With this battery mod I can easily fit larger batteries for longer flights
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and these 525 milliamp and 650 milliamp batteries do fit fine but if you're shopping for batteries
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I would recommend the Beta FPV Lava 450 milliamp
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or 550 milliamp 2S packs for a good balance between flight time and power to weight ratio.
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I wouldn't go over 550 milliamp because these 650s felt a little bit heavy to me.
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When it comes to the FPV feed that you see in your goggles,
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the range and penetration of the DJI 04 system is awesome.
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It's more than you would ever need on such a tiny little drone
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and the image you see in your goggles is crystal clear.
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The field of view is about 117 degrees which is narrower than most other FPV systems.
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I found this to be a little bit limiting
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when I first started flying the Pavo Femto
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but I got used to it after a few flights and now I don't mind it.
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It does help to set the aspect ratio to 4 to 3 to avoid the additional crop you get with 16x9.
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I usually record all of my footage in 4K
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because it does look so much better
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but some of the footage you're seeing in this video was recorded in 1080
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because I didn't have much space left on the onboard storage.
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Having no SD card to record to is a real limitation of the DJI04 Lite
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and when you film in 4K you can fill up that onboard storage very quickly.
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Normally I would use ND filters to control my shutter speed
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but unfortunately you can't use ND filters on either of these drones at least not that I know of.
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If you guys know of any ND filters that will fit the Paavo Femto I would love to hear about them.
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You can use Rocksteady to smooth out your footage
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and it will create some usable clips but the results are far from perfect.
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You can also run your footage through Gyroflow
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which did give me much better results than Rocksteady
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and made my footage much nicer to watch but again my results weren't perfect.
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All the marketing words like 4k
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and 60 frames per second make you think the DJI 04 footage is gonna look like a cinema camera
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but the truth is that the footage looks more like a cell phone from 10 years ago.
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To be fair the DJI 04 Lite is a very impressive camera system
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when you consider it only weighs 8 grams
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and it only costs about 110 bucks
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and it's what makes it possible for beta FPV to create these super capable and pretty cheap little digital micro drums.
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And if you're just flying for fun or if you're a new pilot,
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you will love the DJI-04 Lite.
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But if onboard image quality is a priority for you,
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you might want to have a look at a system with the DJI-04 Pro.
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This is the Pavo 20 Pro,
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which uses 2.2 inch props,
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it runs on 3S batteries,
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and it has a much more robust frame and camera mounting system and most importantly it's rocking the DJI 04 Pro.
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When it comes to the quality of the onboard footage the
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DJI 04 Pro is a giant leap above the DJI 04 Lite.
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There really is no comparison.
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04 Pro footage just blows 04 Lite footage out of the water.
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Not only is the image far superior
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but the DJI 04 Pro has D-Log M color profile
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which gives you much better dynamic range you can record to an sd card
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and you're not limited to just the onboard storage
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and most importantly there are no jello issues so rock steady
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and gyro flow work very well
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and the footage you end up with is pretty usable in
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the right hands the pavo 20 pro can be a professional video production tool i would never say
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that about these other dji 04 light drones but and there's There's always a but.
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With the DJI L4 Pro,
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the Pavo 20 Pro also costs twice as much,
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which means it's in a different category.
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So why am I even mentioning it in this video?
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Well, if your priority is getting high quality cinematic FPV footage
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and you're put off by the limitations of the DJI 04 light,
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I want you to be aware of this option.
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I do have detailed videos of the pavo 20 pro already on my channel
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so feel free to check those out if you're considering this drone
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and if you want a fun little ripper and you're on a budget
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or you just like to tinker you might also want to consider the pavo pico
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or the pavo 20 now these drones are from last year
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and they were designed for the dji 03 but they can both be upgraded to dji 04 with the pavo femto canopy.
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They do have the same all-in-one board as the newer Paavo drones and they actually have some advantages over the Paavo Femto.
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You can get them in Crossfire if that's your thing.
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I got my Paavo Pico with Crossfire which is why I have this blue antenna in front.
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The Paavo Pico has the same 1102 14,000 kV motors as the Paavo Femto
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but the Paavo Pico has 45 millimeter props like the Meteor 75 Pro,
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so in a way it's a happy medium between these two drones.
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The Pavo Pico also comes with a battery in the box and the Femto does not.
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The Pavo 20 has larger 2-inch props and 1103 8000 kV motors and runs on 3S batteries,
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so it's more capable in larger outdoor spaces.
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It also comes with an LED light strip which you don't get with the Femto.
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Keep in mind that both of these drones
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were pretty heavy with the DJI 03 and that weight was a real limitation on their performance.
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But with DJI 04 you're going to save around 30 grams so they'll fly so much better.
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I actually prefer the way my Pico Femto flies over the real Pavo Femto
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because it's basically the same drone with larger props.
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And the Pavo Pico and the Pavo 20 are on sale right now
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because they're from last year so if you like a bargain check out the links in the video notes.
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Alright you guys it's time for my conclusions.
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The Pavo Femto is a super fun little ripper.
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The power to weight ratio is insane and flying this drone is a blast.
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If you're looking at the Femto as a new pilot make
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sure to practice in the simulator first then take it out to an open field
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or somewhere where you won't lose it in a crash.
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And if you're looking for something a little bit more forgiving
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and easier to fly especially for your first drone you might want to consider the meteor 75 pro with
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that 1s power system it's not nearly as powerful but for learning
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or flying indoors that can be a good thing
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and these 1s batteries are cheaper and they're easier to charge on the go
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and if you want to save a little money you might want to grab a pavo pico
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or a pavo 20 and a femto canopy and just make yourself a Franken-Femto like I have here.
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It's cheaper and it has some advantages over the real Femto like larger props and more extras in the box.
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And if your priority is getting the highest quality cinematic FPV shots possible and you've got the budget,
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have a look at the Pavo 20 Pro.
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It's on a whole different level as these DJI 04 light drones,
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but when you're ready to step up to DJI 04 Pro,
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the footage you can get from it is miles above any of these other drones.
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Which drone is best for you is going to come down to your specific use case
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and the space you have to fly in.
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I live in a city and I have to drive pretty far to fly my larger drones,
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but I can fly the Pavo Femto just about anywhere,
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including in crowded city parks like you saw in this video.
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And when it comes to flying just for fun,
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it's pretty hard to beat the weight and price of the DJI-04 Lite.
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What do you guys think of these options?
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Which one is best for you?
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If I missed anything, please let me know,
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and don't forget to check out the video description
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because I do have detailed reviews of all of these drones on my channel.
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All right, you guys, that'll do it for this one.
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I'll see you guys next time.
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Thank you.
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