![]() ![]() Fully loaded with props, battery and the Olympus 17mm f/1.8 it came in at a hair under 2kg for me – which is pretty light for a drone with this kind of capability. This combination not only looks pretty sexy but provides a lot of strength while minimising the total weight. It’s made from a single monocoque carbon fibre body with a magnesium alloy underside. It’s not compact by any stretch of the imagination and there are no folding legs to make it smaller, either. The Evolve 2 is a beefy drone (as you can see from the photo above). You can also buy extra accessories like batteries, props, etc. It also brings your total propeller count up to four sets, giving you plenty of spares in the event of prop damage. There’s also an optional Cine-Pack available for $1,200 which adds an Olympus M.Zuiko 25mm f/1.8 lens, three batteries for the drone, two ground station batteries, an intelligent charger, a neckstrap, a Filter Kit, two spare sets of propellers, and a Fuerte hard-case. The basic XDynamics Evolve 2 package costs $3,699 and includes the Evolve 2 drone itself, the “Ground Station” (the controller – which is pretty sexy), one battery for the drone, one battery for the ground station, the Astra M4/2 camera, an Olympus M.Zuiko 17mm f/1.8 Micro Four Thirds lens, six propellers (four to fly and two spare), a dual charger for the drone and ground station batteries, and a 64GB microSD card all contained within a custom-padded backpack. ![]() It offers the same modes for your stick configuration and the usual altitude, position and sport flight modes for how it acts in the air, but if you want to create decent footage with it, there are more things to learn and settings that need to be tweaked in order to get the best out of it and we’ll get to some of those later. The flying part of the Evolve 2 is quite similar to many other drones on the market, including ones you might already own. It’s a lot of drone for the money but flying it definitely takes some getting used to. What makes it even better is that it can shoot 4K video at up to 120fps and it can even shoot ProRes video natively – no additional licenses to pay for or external hardware to buy, although you will need a CFast 2.0 card. This gives you a wide range of options for how you can film or photograph the scene before you. What makes the XDynamics Evolve 2 so good for filmmakers and aerial photographers is that it packs an interchangeable lens Micro Four Thirds camera attached to its gimbal. ![]()
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