Meet Hover Camera Passport

The Hover Camera Passport, the Zero Zero Robotics’s first camera drone, is setting out to be an affordable option against the premium brands GoPro Karma and DJI Mavic Pro.

The Hover Camera Passport is described as ultra-lightweight and ultra-compact.Its folded dimensions is 182 x 132 x 33mm and it weighs only half a pound,while the DJI Mavic Pro is about 1.62 pounds heavy. The Hover Camera Passport is designed to fold up like a book when you’re not flying. There’s a slim “spine” that houses all the machine’s electronics, and a pair of enclosed propellers under the spine that swing out like pages.It’s perfect for the casual everyday flying camera drones shootout kind of thing.

On to its most important specs, the camera, the Hover Camera Passport sports a 13MP snapper that can shoot videos in 4K resolution. Of course, it comes with pretty cool features as well. It can lock onto an object and orbit around it or follow it around. The Hover Camera uses its front camera to lock onto a person (using face detection technology), and has a feature called ‘Orbit’ to film yourself autonomously as the drone circles around you, while a “360 Spin” feature allows you to shoot panoramic 360-degree videos, capturing footage of you in your chosen environment.

The Hover Camera Passport still does not match up to the big brands, though.It connects to an iOS device over direct Wi-Fi, which limits its range. The WiFi connection will drop when it gets about 60 feet away from you, and it’s just not meant to fly that high. The WiFi connection did drop once or twice on me, but this was before I even asked the company what the limit was – so it was definitely occurring when I was pushing past that 60 feet boundary. But of course Hover camera Passport isn’t a full-featured drone like DJI’s Inspire or Phantom. It’s meant to be more of a close-up camera or tripod – not a true aerial camera.

Even so, it can be rather useful inside homes, where bigger drones would not dare to fly. The inclusion of a flash also emphasizes that it is meant for close-up shots. It also has only about 10 minutes of battery life, so you need to always be armed with extra batteries if you plan to use it longer.

It should also be mentioned that it does not come with a remote, unlike the DJI Mavic Pro, which has a remote bundle option.

So will you go with the Hover Camera Passport at $599 or add $399 more to get the more powerful and feature-packed DJI Mavic Pro?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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