DJI Drones

I spotted this week DJI, which if you’ve followed some of my recent posts over recent times, my drone and my action camera are both DJI. Actually my microphone is DJI as well. So, I’m not a fanboy of any companies these days, but DJI stuff is very good. It just happens to be that they’re producing some stuff that I’m using. 

And they released a new drone recently that I didn’t know they were going to do. It’s a version of a drone I’ve seen before on social media and kind of went, “Uh, that’s interesting.” It’s their new DJI NEO and it’s kind of a follow-me-along drone. I remember many years ago there was an Air Hogs drone and its main purpose, the controller of it was literally to tag on to the person with a carry along bit of kit, an actual tag and the drone would follow them along. So for doing follow along shots of cyclists and skiers and all that sort of stuff, it gave us fantastic type of footage. 

Now roll forward on to the world of TikTok. There was this little drone with a cage over the rotors and it flew off the palm of your hand, it was tiny, you could slip it in your pocket. Its sole purpose was to fly away from you, off your hand, and take set things, either the follow along or spirals and rocket shots from where you stood. 

It was marketed as a personal drone camera and I was like, for social media, for somebody on the road just wanting to create some content, I quite like the idea of it. But I think for the money at the time, it just didn’t stack up as a bit of kit that I could add to my arsenal. I’m not a gearhead anymore, but novelty things are always interesting. 

Roll forward and DJI’s gone and released one. And it’s perked my interest in the sense of following along at things I do outside quite a lot. For behind the scenes, it’s a very interesting bit of kit. If you could have a little mini drone in your pocket that you could just pull out, press the button, fire it off your hand and it followed along and recorded without you really doing anything other than kind of walking along, would you use that? 

Does that sound good for the content creators out there? What are your thoughts?