I lost my first Neo in a gust of wind before Christmas and last week while doing a roof inspection for friends new home in street back from my home. Someone came up to me and said they found a drone like mine a week before. Worked straight away with new battery after been missing for about a month in snow, ice, wind and rain....😀
with no label of which was which I picked the left side thinking it was the O4 air unit, which in fact it was the Neo, so glad it was, better clarity and sharpness, I like the Neo.. Great video and editing thanks DW!!!
I guessed correctly. The NEO looks to have more post processing being done realtime, vs the 04 which looks more "raw" when it comes to sensor signal, but storage compression looks slightly higher maybe?
Thank you for your videos about the Neo drone as it helped me get one but now 2 after losing first 1 in gust of wind on 21st December but i prayed a good soul find it and i got it back the other week. I was helping friend with chimmney inspection and guy walked down middle of street where i was at saying he found drone like mine 1 week ago... 3 weeks out in wind snow and rain and Neo started straight away with battery in it 😀🙃😇 now have 2 fly more packs that now i can fly all day if needed, thanks for your advice 😆 Nephews will be happy
Great channel...Great informative videos 👍 I recently bought a Neo and love it but stuggling to control it atm...My old RC flying skills keep catching me out...Maybe I need to change the mode or just keep practicing... Another great video mate 👍
Funnily enough, I got them the wrong way around because I had automatically assumed that the O4 Air would have the better quality and chose what was actually the Neo footage!
surprised i thought the neo was better , handled the whites better as you said and was better facing the sun apart from that was fairly close. great vid ;0)
@@millermanffwd yeah in certain scenarios and if you’re careful with the lighting the O4 can produce extremely decent results and if that more contrasty look is preferred it could be deemed preferential
Was waiting for this comparison as the Neo has become my daily FPV drone. I think the o4 would be great for a traditional open prop sub250, for when it’s too windy for the Neo and you need a traditional FPV style to cut through the wind.
very much equivalent cameras with regards to lens. The o4 airunit seems to have a touch more saturation vs Neo, and the exposure is slightly different in the highlights as you noted. I wonder if the ev is slightly boosted on the o4 airunit vs neo. I couldn't tell the difference though and I've been flying the o4 airunit past few days. The Neo is lacking some video modes because it has to also be a flight controller, where the o4 only needs to record video.
The Neo Camera FTW, amazing that since the release of the O4 Unit i was wondering if that on the neo will make it the perfect drone because for me the only thing missing is maybe a better camera for one of the best budget drones to buy.... i wonder if u can do a video with the O4 air Unit Pro...that will be awesome to see the differences... Nice video
Thank you for this again mate, really appreciate the experiments. May I ask if you ever do drone experiments by dissembling drones and switching things out like for example mini 3 pro arms with mini 4 pro arms??
@ yes, exactly I wanna give you ideas and for example, you know the mini 4 pro rear two arms with lights. What if you put those two arms on a mini 3 pro and solder the light cables together?? Do you think the drone will now have 4 lights??? It’s very interesting to try..
Weird I thought the 04 looked better. But either way, I think most of us aren’t comparing the 04 air unit with anything but analog. I think we’re excited about its use in very small nimble drones like 1 and 2s tiny whoops, etc . Otherwise I think financially the way to go will be a naked 04 pro or even a naked 03
Nice test buddy was planning to try that 04 unit because of the 4k60fps but with this comparison i think i dont need to 😂😂 ill just save it and buy an avata 2 instead
These two units are for different markets. People expect the Neo to be a camera drone with the results to match, however those after a small self build fpv set up will compare the 04 against analog fpv units, in this comparison the 04 air unit is miles ahead.
@@RodgerRamjet-s8g I agree that the O4 is miles ahead of analog setups (which I use aswell). I also feel that the O4 will also appeal to people who recently entered the market with the Neo, who would like to look at building a drone and use the Goggles they just invested in. I can’t stress enough how good value the O4 is too. It probably costs about the same as many analog systems
The only difference I can tell (even hitting the pause button over and over) is that the LEFT video is a bit sharper. And turns out it's the Neo (for noobs: "sharpness" is an insider gag for Neo owners) 😄Beside from that, both look absolutely identical though. But I must say, in this case I prefer the Neo's feed because that often maligned sharpness makes small details visible that you cannot see in the other video, like small pebbles, wall imperfections etc. That "blown out" look of the Air Unit could probably be caused by a dirty lens.
@@MikevomMars I thought the same about the lens perhaps being dirty on the air unit but I checked and triple checked it. Regarding sharpness it’s also possible the air unit suffered from a bit of vibration due to the way I mounted it so to be fair, sharpness should probably be the same
Haha I guessed WRONG! I for sure thought the Neo would be worse. I'm shocked that the O4 Air Unit is worse than Neo. Would be interesting to see the difference between Neo and O4 Air Unit Pro.
that 04 air unit wud be perfect on my gliders. is there a way to have the gimbal on the neo to not move up and down. jst stay in one place . im guessing manual mode wud have the cam set if that makes sence
All footage was taken at 30FPS. I was wondering about condensation of finger marks on the O4 aswell but I checked it several times. Also the footage was taken over 3 days and lenses checked between
great test I never seen the diff until you labeled them then I did note the beo seems to be a tad better on that flight . hey can you design and print a Dongle 2 holder for the Neo ? no space under Neo it has to clip on top of the battery 😁
@@dronewilder5234 Hi all is now good , I found the proper DJI mount for the Flip on Aliexpress , almost the same as the mini 4 pro mount , but a slightly different base plate contoured to fit better on top of the battery ,
Wow, I got that totally wrong I thought the newer o4 air unit lite would be better. I guess they made the o4 lite for racing and for recording specific events that you may want to review later and not for actually video/filming work. Thanks for the comparison.
Thank you for the comparison. I thought so too, that the neo camera is O4 air, but apparently they are not. Your lenses are just dirty: you recognize it via the halo around the sun
@@armands672 there is a dlog m option on the O4 pro unit- the one I used in this test was the lite version. The pro version would have been leaps and bounds better. I may do a similar test on that too although it would be like comparing chalk with cheese
So ive been looking to mount an 04 air unit to my rc plane but haven't been able to find a mount let alone how to power the unit from directly from a battery like you did, any way you'd share how achieved that setup? I.e where you got the cable and the 3d print file?
The file is simply a design I made but it’s nothing special. The cable is the cable that comes with the unit - I cut the black and red power lines and soldered on a micro connector. Do you have a goggles 3 or N3 to start recording of the unit. It also overheats quickly so you’ll need to act quick then you fly or deactivate low power mode mid flight
@dronewilder5234 ah so that's how it's done, I figured people were buying power power cables to bypass using a FC, good to know that it's a custom job. And yea I have Neo+Goggles 3+FPV Controller 3 setup so I'm all good there, thanks for the info!
I could easily see a difference, but guessed wrong because I assumed the Air Unit would be better. Totally fine with me as long as this gets O4s in more tiny whoops!
@@standeely yeah in its own right it’s still extremely good for such a small size - a few years ago we could have only dreamt of this kind of quality in a tiny whoop!
Good comparison ...💙 Today i had to face a strange thing on neo. I had connected it to RCN3 controller . and it was flying withing 100m range. Suddenly my mobile screen( neo camera view) went grey color and saw a notification " lost signal with mobile " . But i could still control it with rcn3 controller but my screen had been frozen with grey color. Remote to mobile cable was properly connected. This happened two time. Have you faced this situation before & you have any advice...?
@@aselamadushanka2422sounds like maybe there was a problem with the cable (even if it was connected properly). If you still had RC control this is possible as the rc link is directly established with the drone. It’s also possible that you simply lost link quality due to perhaps intereference depending on your surroundings. It’s possible to loose video link before rc link typically
It’s surprised me, on my big TV the better quality one turned out to be the Neo, I genuinely thought the o4 lite should have been better quality, I’ll be hanging on to my Neo then!..I guess the one axis gimbal meant the electronic stabilisation doesn’t have to crop in as much…🤔😳😳😳🤯
Yeah that’s possible about the one axis stabilisation. That being said, I’m not sure if you’ve flown proper FPV drones but I can say the proper fixed camera tilt does give you a more locked in feel to flying so there are benifits in flying self built drones with something like the o4
Nice video! I have a neo, motion remote 3 and goggles n3 and o4, but I don’t have the fpv remote. could I make my own fpv drone (adding a fc) and control it with the motion controller 3 (through the goggles n3)?
@@DavidSilva-er4ek control via O4 air unit with motion controller isn’t possible but you can use a standard FPV controller with a compatible receiver if you don’t want to use the FPV remote 3 but tbh that’s probably still the cheapest option if you don’t have any FPV controller
Pas mal le blind test ( paradoxalement ) où on voit l'écran côté droit et côté gauche sans spécifier de quel caméra il s'agit celle du néo ou celle de l'unité 04 lite...perso quand vous avez inscrit les origines respectives des deux images j'ai été surpris que l'04 ne surclasse pas le néo ( hors latence et 60 fps au lieu de 30) Et des enragés branchés à fond fpv race etc... disent même que l'04 lite est une meilleure affaire que l'04 pro ne serait-ce que pour le prix incroyable du lite pour l'offre qu'i représente
Simply solder a plug as required for the 1s onto the red and black wires on the o4 air unit. You will need to cut them. They can be soldered together again later if required
@@dronewilder5234Thanks so much for giving the Neo such a THOROUGH run through!!!!! These videos have been amazing for me!!! Thanks so much! I still have quite a few to watch…..
Honestly, I understand the discussion around the image quality on the Neo, but at the end of the day, it's a drone that's built to resist everything and that costs 200€ in its cheapest format, for what it costs, I think the camera is more than enough, especially considering the target audience
@@chansey161 absolutely - that’s why I also made the point that I do feel the camera isn’t that bad. The bar is set incredibly high with the other drones out there but for what the Neo is, it’s fine
They where both recorded with the same settings so I tried to keep it as fair as possible although admittedly the O4 may have had more vibration due to the mount method - this wouldn’t have helped much at 30fps
@@ronniequalls7217 obviously would have to compare the O3 to the O4 pro which is much better than the one I reviewed but people may still prefer the O3, especially with prices presumably dropping
@ I’ve seen a couple comparisons and the 03 looked better , you get a little better penetration with the 04 and they got the race mode but I don’t race , so yea it would be a waist of money 💰, I’ll wait on the 05 before I upgrade, which should be much better than both !!!
Should probably discuss the potential vibrations affecting the air unit with your setup. Nearly all the new builds for the air units are designed to absorb vibrations which seem to help image quality.
@@shuai83 yes that’s a good point - although I don’t think sharpness was in an issue with the O4 footage even at 1/60s shutter speeds. The mount I made was using TPU but obviously not optimised for vibration
If I didn't own the NEO I would have got it wrong, but what gave it away for me was the colour seemed flatter and the video had less contrast so more would need to be done in video editing. I was surprised about the definition of grass and pebbles vs the Air Unit so that nearly threw me off the scent and I could have got it wrong.
@@dronewilder5234 That's good to know, I have only just started trying the FPV mode and first flights in Beginner mode, I need to practice a lot more in the Lift Off SIM.
Well this is disappointing. I have the Neo and I like it but the noise is awful and the camera isn't great. I thought the better image was shot on the O4, I was wrong. I guess I'll skip the O4 lite and just get the O4 Pro. Thanks for the video. Maybe next one is for a low light comparison.
I do actually have a night flying video coming up in the next day or two. The thing with the Neo is, if you shoot in FPV mode and use manual camera setting to control the iso, it’s not too bad but RC2/RC-N3 control does cause a lot of digital crop and that creates some pretty awful image qualities
If I were a very cynical person, I'd say the air unit is exactly what's in the Neo, and the difference is just the software (ex., deliberately disabling 4K 60 FPS on the Neo) and lens assembly. Edit: and it seems you concluded pretty much the same thing.
Yes although we had similar things happen with the O3 air unit which supported 120fps 4k while the Avata (1) which was thought to use the same system was also capped at a lower frame rate. I believe it’s down to processing power as the air units don’t have to do any flight control processing - or it’s deliberately capped.
So I was actually wrong! I was watching for that issue with the jitter on wide swaths of like texture… and I swear I saw the O4 unit do it in spots.. so I thought right side was Neo… imagine my shock!
The O4 actually had a few moments where stabilisation (gyroflow) freaked out a bit - that could have been down to my crude mounting though so I didn’t want to unfairly make a big deal of it
Before the revel I most certainly thought it was the Neo on the Left, but on some shots it clearly showed them being much closer then some showed the Neo being much worse. But of course I am watching it on a 6.7" S22 so very hard to tell the difference, only those watching on a large computer monitor or big screen TV would see the true difference.
@@ghostdog9441 i tried to match the positions as well as possible but yes there are slight difference in places - you’re correct. A lot of the tests where done in fixed exposure settings though so shouldn’t make a huge difference and lens flare was visibly worse even in clips where the camera tilt was identical.
this is soooo infomative which i was trying to test, as th-cam.com/video/zmj8xP_44Hw/w-d-xo.html this video had extremely good dji neo camera which astonished me, but o4 dissapointed me soooo much of the blurry quality! thanx!
Has anyone else had this problem with the dji neo? I've been looking at getting one but not sure if this is a common problem? th-cam.com/users/shortscb1pMd_LgBM?si=kDT5sJtpzPWphauw
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I lost my first Neo in a gust of wind before Christmas and last week while doing a roof inspection for friends new home in street back from my home. Someone came up to me and said they found a drone like mine a week before. Worked straight away with new battery after been missing for about a month in snow, ice, wind and rain....😀
@@DudewithDrone that’s lucky! Bet you where over the moon!
🤣 guessing you came close to almost 'FLIP'ped.
@dronewilder5234 I was over the moon flying and now got 2 dji neo fly more packs 😉 can easily fly all day if needed now 😀
Dang....I knew Neo was built like a tank. ❤
with no label of which was which I picked the left side thinking it was the O4 air unit, which in fact it was the Neo, so glad it was, better clarity and sharpness, I like the Neo.. Great video and editing thanks DW!!!
Another great video from one of the best creators for our hobby
I guessed correctly. The NEO looks to have more post processing being done realtime, vs the 04 which looks more "raw" when it comes to sensor signal, but storage compression looks slightly higher maybe?
Thank you for your videos about the Neo drone as it helped me get one but now 2 after losing first 1 in gust of wind on 21st December but i prayed a good soul find it and i got it back the other week. I was helping friend with chimmney inspection and guy walked down middle of street where i was at saying he found drone like mine 1 week ago... 3 weeks out in wind snow and rain and Neo started straight away with battery in it 😀🙃😇 now have 2 fly more packs that now i can fly all day if needed, thanks for your advice 😆 Nephews will be happy
thanks for making this video, as soon as i saw the sensor size was the same i got curious
Great channel...Great informative videos 👍
I recently bought a Neo and love it but stuggling to control it atm...My old RC flying skills keep catching me out...Maybe I need to change the mode or just keep practicing...
Another great video mate 👍
Funnily enough, I got them the wrong way around because I had automatically assumed that the O4 Air would have the better quality and chose what was actually the Neo footage!
This is the cheap LIGHT version, there is also the significant better "O4 Air Unit PRO" already released.
@ the lite being £99 and the pro being £209
surprised i thought the neo was better , handled the whites better as you said and was better facing the sun apart from that was fairly close. great vid ;0)
@@millermanffwd yeah in certain scenarios and if you’re careful with the lighting the O4 can produce extremely decent results and if that more contrasty look is preferred it could be deemed preferential
Another awesome video, very interesting results!
Was waiting for this comparison as the Neo has become my daily FPV drone. I think the o4 would be great for a traditional open prop sub250, for when it’s too windy for the Neo and you need a traditional FPV style to cut through the wind.
@@FPVSKATEPARKS couldn’t agree more - the O4 definitely has its place. Looking forward to dropping it into one of my builds.
Can't wait to see you lay your hands on The new DJI FLIP.
Please review it
Please do dji flip video. Your videos are fun to watch.
very much equivalent cameras with regards to lens. The o4 airunit seems to have a touch more saturation vs Neo, and the exposure is slightly different in the highlights as you noted. I wonder if the ev is slightly boosted on the o4 airunit vs neo. I couldn't tell the difference though and I've been flying the o4 airunit past few days.
The Neo is lacking some video modes because it has to also be a flight controller, where the o4 only needs to record video.
@@BrandonBeans yes very much agree there more saturation on the O4. Also the fact the O4 doesn’t have to do flight controller processes - makes sense
Great comparison, different!!
The Neo Camera FTW, amazing that since the release of the O4 Unit i was wondering if that on the neo will make it the perfect drone because for me the only thing missing is maybe a better camera for one of the best budget drones to buy.... i wonder if u can do a video with the O4 air Unit Pro...that will be awesome to see the differences...
Nice video
Thank you for this again mate, really appreciate the experiments. May I ask if you ever do drone experiments by dissembling drones and switching things out like for example mini 3 pro arms with mini 4 pro arms??
You mean like a Frankenstein drone? Could be fun!
@ yes, exactly I wanna give you ideas and for example, you know the mini 4 pro rear two arms with lights. What if you put those two arms on a mini 3 pro and solder the light cables together?? Do you think the drone will now have 4 lights??? It’s very interesting to try..
Great comparison!
Weird I thought the 04 looked better. But either way, I think most of us aren’t comparing the 04 air unit with anything but analog. I think we’re excited about its use in very small nimble drones like 1 and 2s tiny whoops, etc . Otherwise I think financially the way to go will be a naked 04 pro or even a naked 03
Waiting for your review on the Flip
THATS GREAT TEST ON THE WAY MY 04 AIR UNIT ❤
that makes me wonder if it's possible to "upgrade" the neo by using it's electronics to build a larger drone.
@@RichM1967 possibly to some extent althoug speed controllers will be a limiting factor
Save the headache is just buy a O4 air unit + cam and pair it with a betaflight ready Flight controller and ESC :)
The 04 lite is the neo camera
The pro is the Avata camera
Thanks 👍
Yeah!! Thank you for this great vide.! Can you explain how you mount this air unit on the neo. Where can i found the infos? thank you for your work.
I like the Neo but when the Neo2 will arrive with better camera quality I will happily upgrade and give this one to my kids.
I’ve genuinely never been more excited about the idea of a second iteration of a drone
Nice test buddy was planning to try that 04 unit because of the 4k60fps but with this comparison i think i dont need to 😂😂 ill just save it and buy an avata 2 instead
These two units are for different markets. People expect the Neo to be a camera drone with the results to match, however those after a small self build fpv set up will compare the 04 against analog fpv units, in this comparison the 04 air unit is miles ahead.
@@RodgerRamjet-s8g I agree that the O4 is miles ahead of analog setups (which I use aswell). I also feel that the O4 will also appeal to people who recently entered the market with the Neo, who would like to look at building a drone and use the Goggles they just invested in. I can’t stress enough how good value the O4 is too. It probably costs about the same as many analog systems
love your vids , thanks
The only difference I can tell (even hitting the pause button over and over) is that the LEFT video is a bit sharper. And turns out it's the Neo (for noobs: "sharpness" is an insider gag for Neo owners) 😄Beside from that, both look absolutely identical though. But I must say, in this case I prefer the Neo's feed because that often maligned sharpness makes small details visible that you cannot see in the other video, like small pebbles, wall imperfections etc. That "blown out" look of the Air Unit could probably be caused by a dirty lens.
@@MikevomMars I thought the same about the lens perhaps being dirty on the air unit but I checked and triple checked it. Regarding sharpness it’s also possible the air unit suffered from a bit of vibration due to the way I mounted it so to be fair, sharpness should probably be the same
Thanks much 😊❤
I guessed correctly
Neo is great for going into FPV's, because it can slowly move like one
Haha I guessed WRONG! I for sure thought the Neo would be worse. I'm shocked that the O4 Air Unit is worse than Neo. Would be interesting to see the difference between Neo and O4 Air Unit Pro.
What a funny idea/construction for comparing! And yupp, most of the time, the neo was a tiny bit nicer.
I need O4 Plus, a version of O4 Lite with wider FOV
Its possible to mod the o4 lite so it has a wider fov
that 04 air unit wud be perfect on my gliders. is there a way to have the gimbal on the neo to not move up and down. jst stay in one place . im guessing manual mode wud have the cam set if that makes sence
What FPS was the neo footage ? That air unit looked like it had condensation on the lens.
All footage was taken at 30FPS. I was wondering about condensation of finger marks on the O4 aswell but I checked it several times. Also the footage was taken over 3 days and lenses checked between
@dronewilder5234 ok I thought the footage was 50 or 60fps, it's smooth. Thanks.
@ all cases shown where gyro flow stabilised
great test I never seen the diff until you labeled them then I did note the beo seems to be a tad better on that flight . hey can you design and print a Dongle 2 holder for the Neo ? no space under Neo it has to clip on top of the battery 😁
3D design isn’t really my strongest point (as you could see from my rustic mount I printed). Do you have a link to the dongle you’re referring to?
@@dronewilder5234 Hi all is now good , I found the proper DJI mount for the Flip on Aliexpress , almost the same as the mini 4 pro mount , but a slightly different base plate contoured to fit better on top of the battery ,
The O4 was definitely smoother looking, but the Neo seemed to expose the shot better in certain situations.
Wow, I got that totally wrong I thought the newer o4 air unit lite would be better. I guess they made the o4 lite for racing and for recording specific events that you may want to review later and not for actually video/filming work. Thanks for the comparison.
Absolutely - the O4 air unit it really not that bad - it simply doesn’t handle some situations as well as the Neo but it’s got other clear advantages
good vid, mate 👍
dynamic range for the win. Clarity, sharpness and so on is a matter of taste and can be adjusted in post so i think O4 is better for filming.
Thank you for the comparison. I thought so too, that the neo camera is O4 air, but apparently they are not. Your lenses are just dirty: you recognize it via the halo around the sun
@@GhVost I thought that too but did check several times. Unless the smaller outer lens on the O4 is maybe more prone to condensation/misting?
@dronewilder5234 yes. I bought myself a kit for optics cleaning.
Weird ... I'd 3xpect o4 camera to show leaps and bounds over Neo... But they are on par on my view.
Is there D Log option for o4 units?
@@armands672 there is a dlog m option on the O4 pro unit- the one I used in this test was the lite version. The pro version would have been leaps and bounds better. I may do a similar test on that too although it would be like comparing chalk with cheese
How did you wire up the 04 lite? Did you just run the 1s to power or did you have to wire up more?
Just an HV 1s wired onto the red and black wires ensuring correct polarity.
@dronewilder5234 and you used the goggles to start and stop recording. Amazing idea by the way.
So ive been looking to mount an 04 air unit to my rc plane but haven't been able to find a mount let alone how to power the unit from directly from a battery like you did, any way you'd share how achieved that setup? I.e where you got the cable and the 3d print file?
The file is simply a design I made but it’s nothing special. The cable is the cable that comes with the unit - I cut the black and red power lines and soldered on a micro connector. Do you have a goggles 3 or N3 to start recording of the unit. It also overheats quickly so you’ll need to act quick then you fly or deactivate low power mode mid flight
@dronewilder5234 ah so that's how it's done, I figured people were buying power power cables to bypass using a FC, good to know that it's a custom job. And yea I have Neo+Goggles 3+FPV Controller 3 setup so I'm all good there, thanks for the info!
So were you able to connect to the o4 to change any camera settings?
@@SkyReelsFilms absolutely - I used a friends goggles 3 to set the O4 to match settings on the Neo
I could easily see a difference, but guessed wrong because I assumed the Air Unit would be better. Totally fine with me as long as this gets O4s in more tiny whoops!
@@standeely yeah in its own right it’s still extremely good for such a small size - a few years ago we could have only dreamt of this kind of quality in a tiny whoop!
Good comparison ...💙
Today i had to face a strange thing on neo. I had connected it to RCN3 controller . and it was flying withing 100m range. Suddenly my mobile screen( neo camera view) went grey color and saw a notification " lost signal with mobile " . But i could still control it with rcn3 controller but my screen had been frozen with grey color. Remote to mobile cable was properly connected. This happened two time. Have you faced this situation before & you have any advice...?
@@aselamadushanka2422sounds like maybe there was a problem with the cable (even if it was connected properly). If you still had RC control this is possible as the rc link is directly established with the drone. It’s also possible that you simply lost link quality due to perhaps intereference depending on your surroundings. It’s possible to loose video link before rc link typically
@ Thank you sir. I will try to connect it another mobile through type C cable. It was lightning cable.
Brilliant Thank!!
I like the color tone of the O4 Air, but the picture quality of the Neo is definitely sharper
very nice! Can u please share the 3D printed files for 3D printer? Thank you
@@JohnJay_24 I’ll look into it 🙂
It’s surprised me, on my big TV the better quality one turned out to be the Neo, I genuinely thought the o4 lite should have been better quality, I’ll be hanging on to my Neo then!..I guess the one axis gimbal meant the electronic stabilisation doesn’t have to crop in as much…🤔😳😳😳🤯
Yeah that’s possible about the one axis stabilisation. That being said, I’m not sure if you’ve flown proper FPV drones but I can say the proper fixed camera tilt does give you a more locked in feel to flying so there are benifits in flying self built drones with something like the o4
@ I have a number of FPV drones, but at this time they are all analogue, I , plan to get one designed for the 04 system soon though 👍
@ took me a while to take a liking to digital FPV - latency etc
Awesome.
Hi, all videos from Neo white balance AUTO?? Thanks
@@Alexander_Maltsev the one in the park I set manually as white balance was doing some weird things
Nice video! I have a neo, motion remote 3 and goggles n3 and o4, but I don’t have the fpv remote. could I make my own fpv drone (adding a fc) and control it with the motion controller 3 (through the goggles n3)?
@@DavidSilva-er4ek control via O4 air unit with motion controller isn’t possible but you can use a standard FPV controller with a compatible receiver if you don’t want to use the FPV remote 3 but tbh that’s probably still the cheapest option if you don’t have any FPV controller
@@dronewilder5234thanks! I was suspecting that! I love your videos, Thanks to them I’m not scared to crash my Neo 😂
Pas mal le blind test ( paradoxalement ) où on voit l'écran côté droit et côté gauche sans spécifier de quel caméra il s'agit celle du néo ou celle de l'unité 04 lite...perso quand vous avez inscrit les origines respectives des deux images j'ai été surpris que l'04 ne surclasse pas le néo ( hors latence et 60 fps au lieu de 30)
Et des enragés branchés à fond fpv race etc... disent même que l'04 lite est une meilleure affaire que l'04 pro ne serait-ce que pour le prix incroyable du lite pour l'offre qu'i représente
It was quite a harsh test filming straight into the sun. In better lighting conditions the O4 air unit performs very well
How did you connect the 04 air unit to the 1s lipo? I have an 04 lite and my friend has an RC car I want to put it on top of
Simply solder a plug as required for the 1s onto the red and black wires on the o4 air unit. You will need to cut them. They can be soldered together again later if required
Nailed it
Really enjoyed your reviews of Neo. So I’m surprised you’re not onto the Flip as yet ?
@@CURZONDAVID it’s purchased and sat next to me so just catching up on some other videos and then I’ll be onto giving this one a blast
@@dronewilder5234Thanks so much for giving the Neo such a THOROUGH run through!!!!! These videos have been amazing for me!!! Thanks so much! I still have quite a few to watch…..
@@dronewilder5234 Can't wait for you to torture test the Flip like you did to the Neo
The DJI Neo 2 is expected to be released, hopefully competing with the O4
not too bad for the Neo at some scene i thought neo was the 04 air.
Nice vidio❤
Well ! I got them wrong!! I’m very surprised, as I have a good eye for Quality!!
The neo is great for the price.I wouldn't be able to build a drone like this for the price.Is a perfect little fpv cruiser.
Honestly, I understand the discussion around the image quality on the Neo, but at the end of the day, it's a drone that's built to resist everything and that costs 200€ in its cheapest format, for what it costs, I think the camera is more than enough, especially considering the target audience
@@chansey161 absolutely - that’s why I also made the point that I do feel the camera isn’t that bad. The bar is set incredibly high with the other drones out there but for what the Neo is, it’s fine
Neo lacks dynamic range, but yest seems to handle direct light better.
Maybe the Neo has a lens coating which the O4 is missing
Why you did not turn down the sharpness on dji neo??? its not fair comparison!
They where both recorded with the same settings so I tried to keep it as fair as possible although admittedly the O4 may have had more vibration due to the mount method - this wouldn’t have helped much at 30fps
wow... just wow...
The 04 units or overrated hype , I still prefer the 03 🎉
@@ronniequalls7217 obviously would have to compare the O3 to the O4 pro which is much better than the one I reviewed but people may still prefer the O3, especially with prices presumably dropping
@ I’ve seen a couple comparisons and the 03 looked better , you get a little better penetration with the 04 and they got the race mode but I don’t race , so yea it would be a waist of money 💰, I’ll wait on the 05 before I upgrade, which should be much better than both !!!
agree
Should probably discuss the potential vibrations affecting the air unit with your setup. Nearly all the new builds for the air units are designed to absorb vibrations which seem to help image quality.
@@shuai83 yes that’s a good point - although I don’t think sharpness was in an issue with the O4 footage even at 1/60s shutter speeds. The mount I made was using TPU but obviously not optimised for vibration
It’s the same EXACT camera between the two. So why does the Neo look so much better?
If I didn't own the NEO I would have got it wrong, but what gave it away for me was the colour seemed flatter and the video had less contrast so more would need to be done in video editing. I was surprised about the definition of grass and pebbles vs the Air Unit so that nearly threw me off the scent and I could have got it wrong.
The Neo does produce much better quality footage in FPV mode, gyro flow stabilised than when using RC2/RC-N3 control.
@@dronewilder5234 That's good to know, I have only just started trying the FPV mode and first flights in Beginner mode, I need to practice a lot more in the Lift Off SIM.
The angle of the 2 cameras are different, it's a pity you couldn't match them more carefully.
Tbh I preferred the image quality of the Neo
Well this is disappointing. I have the Neo and I like it but the noise is awful and the camera isn't great. I thought the better image was shot on the O4, I was wrong. I guess I'll skip the O4 lite and just get the O4 Pro. Thanks for the video. Maybe next one is for a low light comparison.
I do actually have a night flying video coming up in the next day or two. The thing with the Neo is, if you shoot in FPV mode and use manual camera setting to control the iso, it’s not too bad but RC2/RC-N3 control does cause a lot of digital crop and that creates some pretty awful image qualities
1:07 I think he is using TinkerCad as a designing software, gets the job done. 😅
@@YangLovecchio guilty as charged - I’m far from a pro at designing stuff 😂😂
Why we still dont have new video about crappy dji Flip ? :)
@@gamenwl it’s in the making 🙂
If I were a very cynical person, I'd say the air unit is exactly what's in the Neo, and the difference is just the software (ex., deliberately disabling 4K 60 FPS on the Neo) and lens assembly.
Edit: and it seems you concluded pretty much the same thing.
Yes although we had similar things happen with the O3 air unit which supported 120fps 4k while the Avata (1) which was thought to use the same system was also capped at a lower frame rate. I believe it’s down to processing power as the air units don’t have to do any flight control processing - or it’s deliberately capped.
So I was actually wrong! I was watching for that issue with the jitter on wide swaths of like texture… and I swear I saw the O4 unit do it in spots.. so I thought right side was Neo… imagine my shock!
The O4 actually had a few moments where stabilisation (gyroflow) freaked out a bit - that could have been down to my crude mounting though so I didn’t want to unfairly make a big deal of it
Before the revel I most certainly thought it was the Neo on the Left, but on some shots it clearly showed them being much closer then some showed the Neo being much worse. But of course I am watching it on a 6.7" S22 so very hard to tell the difference, only those watching on a large computer monitor or big screen TV would see the true difference.
@@dronewilder5234 It does seem like the O4 wins in some areas… others go to the Neo. Very cool test,sir!!
the position of the camera is different towards the light, therefore different results, i think so
@@ghostdog9441 i tried to match the positions as well as possible but yes there are slight difference in places - you’re correct. A lot of the tests where done in fixed exposure settings though so shouldn’t make a huge difference and lens flare was visibly worse even in clips where the camera tilt was identical.
pa cuando el dji flyp
I will do some Flip content very soon
@@dronewilder5234 espero el video I'm waiting for the video
Personally speaking, I found the Neo footage better...and I didn't get it right before the reveal.
👍
Neo is gimbled, you can see the 04 struggling on the horizon, you can see it in the distance so it is effecting everywhere.
FOV, STOPS, NOISE, FPS, ISO - ALL 😁
The image quality in the forest is better on the air unit. It’s blurry on the Neo..
@@Indy64738 I thought that too after later examination. Also the footage on the shingle beach
@@dronewilder5234love your video btw!😎😎
Привет ты пророк я как раз об этом думал😅
Glad to have been of help!
Seems to be cooling down there…..
@@shawnstone4949 yeah we had snow last week
@@dronewilder5234 .5C here..and frosty! Got some beautiful ice on the windows at work last few nights! -7.2C last night!
I live in Oregon,USA
Well... oke.... Good job neo i geuss
Both produce decent video for the weight. With better controlled light I’d say they are on par with the O4 having some nice extra features.
@@dronewilder5234 Well maybe, so far the neo took a win IMO with no skils of editing.
huy me sorprendio pense que era neo y no el neo tiene buena calidad mejor el neo si
They look extremely comparable footage quality wise.
@@AtortAerials yes to a large extent they are
The air unit was a lot better! Into the sun the Neo was better. All other shots the O4 was better.
So basicallly people could buy a Neo to fly FPV or gut a Neo and stick that to a selfbuild? 😂
@@JasperEllens other than sacrificing 60fps 4k - yes. Again would need two controllers though 😂.
Я сразу угадала кто где!
Stereo drone, fly in 3D!
😂
I'm wondering when someone will actually do that, I'm sure for flying fpv stereoscopy would be better to see perspective.
this is soooo infomative which i was trying to test, as th-cam.com/video/zmj8xP_44Hw/w-d-xo.html this video had extremely good dji neo camera which astonished me,
but o4 dissapointed me soooo much of the blurry quality! thanx!
Has anyone told you that you look quite a lot like Henry Cavill?
@@dostz661 haha yes it’s normally either Henry or Elon Musk. I prefer you’re take on it 🙂
Has anyone else had this problem with the dji neo? I've been looking at getting one but not sure if this is a common problem? th-cam.com/users/shortscb1pMd_LgBM?si=kDT5sJtpzPWphauw
First 😂🎉 hahaha
@@emilyarcher9578 lol trigger happy!
Lightning fast