Parrot announced its Parrot Anafi just after I bought the Spark.
Same price as the Spark Combo. Needless to say I would have bought that one instead
What is better on the Anafi :
- High quality camera 21MP with same mechanical features as the Spark. And with all RAW capabilities. Not that the Spark takes bad and insufficiant quality pictures. It's just much better.
- no anti-collision but that doesn't work great on the Spark and finally misleads you (you shouldn't rely on it).
- same speed BUT low noise blades.
- around the same weight as Spark and mavic Air (less than 400 grams) but 25 minutes of official battery life. And that being said Parrot seems to provide closer to official autonomy than DJI.
- no instrusive nofly zone. You have to take care even if the nofly zone system is very poor at DJI. Fact is DJI wanted to avoid use of DJI Phantom by terrorist using grenades and the kind, but Spark wouldn't be of any use since it cannot lift that load and has too poor battery life.
My bet is DJI needs to upgrade the Spark with RAW pictures, and with all the in App features of the mavic Air, plus dropping the price of the Combo to stay in the race.
Also mavic Air combo needs to be brought to Parrot Anafi price.
Same price as the Spark Combo. Needless to say I would have bought that one instead
What is better on the Anafi :
- High quality camera 21MP with same mechanical features as the Spark. And with all RAW capabilities. Not that the Spark takes bad and insufficiant quality pictures. It's just much better.
- no anti-collision but that doesn't work great on the Spark and finally misleads you (you shouldn't rely on it).
- same speed BUT low noise blades.
- around the same weight as Spark and mavic Air (less than 400 grams) but 25 minutes of official battery life. And that being said Parrot seems to provide closer to official autonomy than DJI.
- no instrusive nofly zone. You have to take care even if the nofly zone system is very poor at DJI. Fact is DJI wanted to avoid use of DJI Phantom by terrorist using grenades and the kind, but Spark wouldn't be of any use since it cannot lift that load and has too poor battery life.
My bet is DJI needs to upgrade the Spark with RAW pictures, and with all the in App features of the mavic Air, plus dropping the price of the Combo to stay in the race.
Also mavic Air combo needs to be brought to Parrot Anafi price.