Picked up a DJI Spark last week, the fly more bundle for £275 2nd hand. Really enjoying it so far. The form factor is perfect for the little tankbag I have on the motorbike which is one of my primary reasons for getting it.
I know others have better speed, higher resolution, longer flight time, but as a test to see if I want to invest more significantly I have been very pleasantly surprised.
They're surprisingly fun to fly, it's interesting seeing places you know well from totally different viewpoints. I've a mavic pro and a parrot anafi, the anafi gets the most usage as it's small and people tend to not even notice it. I can sit in the car and launch it from hand, do a flight and have it land back on my hand without ever getting out of the car
. The only thing about it that annoys me is getting it to connect to the phone and controller can be hit or miss, sometimes i turn the drone on and it almost seems to not "boot up" all the way and as a result it doesn't broadcast a wifi signal for the controller to connect to.
Case in point, last night i had a 10 minute flight, turned it off and went to my next location to film. When i got there i turned it on and spent a half hour trying to get it to connect with no luck. Just seems really random and looking online it's been an issue for parrot drones over the years with no real fix.
The mavic is bigger, louder but has more range and due to the size of the props is a bit more steady when it comes to hovering. I really wish these drones had some sort of parachute system as standard (they're available separately but at a stupid price and imo they don't make the drone fall slow enough to mitigate damage\injury), the mavic is a fair bit heavier than the parrot so i dread to think what damage it could do if it dropped out of the air and somehow hit someone or something on the way down.