Mavic 3 chops, lower price

Despite the now habitual deluge of leaked specs, photos, and videos that precede the arrival of all DJI drones under development anymore, their actual launches are always red-letter occasions – and that’s definitely the case with today’s rollout of the new Mavic 3 Classic. Indeed, ambient excitation may be even greater this time around with the release making most of the tech in DJI’s top-of-the-line photography Mavic 3 UAV more affordable to budget-conscious enthusiasts who’d thus far had to go without it. 

The strategy of leading with a full-force, premium-priced product followed by a scaled-down and less expensive iteration has worked well for DJI – particularly with the introduction of the Mini SE, shorn of the RAW photography capacities and equipped with reduced video capacities of the Mini 2. The Mavic 3 Classic follows the same logic in extending the Mavic drone series with a lower-priced version ­– though this time with limited…