Leaks both official and unofficial for DJI, as it promises a new drone announcement for next week and details spill of a forthcoming 360-degree camera.
First the official stuff. This short seven-second trailer announces details of a new product launch coming May 13. based around a triple Hasselblad camera system, smart money is on it being the long-rumoured Mavic 4 Pro.
Other decent bets surrounding it include the likelihood that it can spin that triple lens array in mid air to select a different lens, that it will enable simultaneous landscape vertical video recording, and that if it is the new Mavic Pro that the imaging system will be impressively high-end after a run of content creator-oriented products.
Is this DJI's first 360-degree camera?
As per The Verge, it's a small, compact rectangular design about 9 by 6 cm (3.5 inches by 2.6 inches) which features three buttons including power, recording, and menu controls, plus what looks to be a tap-and-swipe touchscreen. Internal pics seem to show camera sensors bouncing light off a 45-degree mirror in the same way that the Insta360 operates.
Thera are caveats here. It is obviously a prototype and may not even be headed to the market according to one source that swears they would normally have heard something by now if it was launching in the US. But then, maybe, along with other manufacturers DJI might be giving the US a wide berth for now until the tariff situation stabilises somewhat.