Potensic ATOM 2 Drone with Camera for Adults 4K HDR Video, 8K Photo, Under 249g, 3-Axis Gimbal, 10KM Transmission, AI Track, Vertical Shooting, AI Night Shot, QuickShots, Standard Kit (32-Min Flight)

So fun! I’ve never flown a drone before but had no problem navigating this one. Great quality photos/video. Compared to other drones, it’s also very affordable. One battery lasts 15 or so minutes, which is all I ever need to fly.

After 23 flights, I can say the Atom-2 is stable, reliable, and has good video. It's very easy to take off and land manually. Return to Home works very well. The maximum range I've flown is 2-1/2 miles and 360 feet high - no glitches with video or control. If you aren't pointing the antenna toward the drone, the RF signal bars turn red as a good reminder. I had only one problem initially, flying very low over a crop of soybeans (about 5 feet above them, 20 feet away from me) .. I stepped behind a vehicle from the front to the back with the remote, holding it above the roofline .. shortly after that the connection was lost and the drone did the automatic RTH. I was advised by Support not to fly very low, the signal will be better higher up. The stated battery life 20 minutes is about right, in any case it's plenty of time to take video shots while flying over a wide area. I only had one incident of allowing the battery voltage to get too low .. the drone was almost back to my landing spot when it suddenly announced it was 'landing now' and did just that. The video quality is great, I use mostly 25 fps and 1080p in Auto mode. Panning quickly (rotating the drone) produces a jerky-video effect though, so I rotate the drone slowly and rely more on dolly and zoom shots for best quality. The digital zoom feature produces very bad/fuzzy video, I haven't found a good use for it yet. Customer support has been very good, they respond quickly and accurately.

The snow cap mountains are 40 MI away. This taken in my first 20 minutes with this drone, without the extraordinary new firmware, and only on the 12mp setting. I hadn't yet learned how to go to the 48 mp. Two weeks ago I had no experience with any drone. What I knew was that in this area of extraordinary visual beauty, I was often situated in the city with nothing but buildings and telephone wires surrounding me. And I wanted a periscope. My greatest interest is in the Magnificent sunrises and sunsets in this Cortez colorado. I studied, I tried hard to know what I was looking for, to find what was needed. And no useful guidance was found. I did my best. I've been through two excellent drones, but they are useless to me. But now this drone. It is extraordinary. 48mp, tho the other two drones had that as well. !!!! Manuel and automatic exposure, on screen with my Android. !!!! Good to excellent low light. Extraordinary ease of use, including very intelligent and automatic downloading of appropriate firmware updates. Very aggressive and appropriate warranty, crash, lost drone protection that I will be purchasing. I'm still only 2 weeks into this drone world. What I need for my application is a $2,000-5000 drone and that's not in the budget. But I think this is going to do it. Two times the price of other excellent bottom entry level drones, but this one I think is going to work. They've certainly done their part. Well done Potrensic.

**** UPDATE: Waypoints, although initially advertised as included, then later they said would be added in a future update, have apparently been scrapped and WILL NOT be added! Potensic have deceived customers who made a buying decision based on this feature. Instead they added lame Cineroll and Pano-sphere features (gimmicks). They could have at least carried the waypoints function over from the previous Atom instead of ditching it! **** Firstly, I am disappointed that the updated app (Potensic Eve) for this drone STILL DOES NOT HAVE MPH (miles per hour) as the unit of Speed when Imperial units are selected, like the previous Potensic Pro app did. Instead it uses ft/sec. Here in the US we measure speeds in mph, NOT ft/sec. Why on earth did they take that away? They could at least provide it as an option (mph or ft/sec) like they did for metric (km/h or m/s). Sorry, Potensic but this is an unacceptable blunder that you have been told about numerous times by myself and others. You need to fix it ASAP! Should be easy. Have your app programmers look at how it was in the previous version app. Also, the telemetry data (D, H, VD, VH) should use a BIGGER character size (we’re not all young with perfect vision!) and be located at the bottom of the screen (like in the previous version app). Also, telemetry data units (ft, ft/s) are tiny and too high up. They should be bigger and immediately to the right of the numbers. Also, the telemetry data (D, H, VD, VH) jumps back and forth as the numbers change. Would be better to use the stacked format at bottom of screen like in the previous version app. Also, because telemetry data is at top of screen, in white text, it is hard to see against light blue sky or white cloudy sky background, especially as it is so small! Again, would be better at bottom of screen. As the number of satellites changes (such as between 20 and 21) the camera tilt angle and satellite icons jump left & right. Annoying! Didn’t they test this? Potensic advertises the Atom 2 as having Waypoints, but IT DOES NOT! The previous version did and, although basic point-to-point, I used it. They could have carried over the previous version’s waypoints as a stop-gap instead of taking that function away completely. Many Atom 2 owners in the “Official” Potensic Atom group on Facebook have complained about this missing feature but Potensic have remained silent about when, or even if, it will be reinstated. UPDATE: Potensic responded denying that they ever claimed the Atom 2 would include waypoints. That is NOT true! They are also saying that there are NO plans to add waypoints. In other words, they've back-tracked. Camera is still only 30fps at 4K resolution. It really should be 60fps. I don’t want to have to decrease the resolution below 4K to get 60fps. There is also no way that I’ve found to adjust camera settings. The video quality is very good though. Uses same batteries and charging hub as previous Atom, which is good. Previous version’s carry case won’t accommodate newer controller though. New controller is bigger and heavier than the previous version. I’m sorry to say that I prefer smaller and lighter. It does have some extra function buttons though. But....I'm disappointed that it is It is STILL necessary to use an extension cable to use a tablet as the included cable (proprietary) is not long enough and one-piece, third-party cables won’t work with the controller. They could have made the included cable a little longer (by one measly inch, how hard could that have been!) so as not to need an extension cable. Or they could have moved the USB socket on the bottom of the controller 1-2" to the right as most tablets have their USB socket on the bottom (faces to right when rotated). Don't their designers think and test? Its not like there haven’t been many, many complaints about this for the previous Atom! I wish Potensic would pay attention to its owners and address their commonly reported issues! Drone icon does not stay centered in bottom left mini-map window. It goes off the edge so is hard to see the green signal strength triangle. This was a common complaint with the previous version app. It should remain centered. Also why is the mini-map now square when it was previously rectangular and showed more area! SD card is hard to remove because of the battery retaining clip. I accidentally turned controller off with my thumb joint that briefly pressed the power button resulting in loss of connection! Should require short then long press to turn off. When I turned it back on I had to go through the initial pairing and excessive warning messages during which time the drone entered RTH mode and I was flying blind! Repeated wind warnings very annoying. Unable to dismiss or mute them. Lots of other annoying warnings and messages too! I don't need to keep being told I've reached maximum height of 393ft. It's a perfectly legal height! Don’t need all that screen clutter on takeoff either. I want to be able to see what I’m doing, not dismissing unnecessary messages and warnings! When tilting camera all the way down then back up again the camera image in the app screen pixelates. After cancelling RTH it reverts to initial default at takeoff, rather than what was in effect prior to RTH kicking in. So if I take off with the default (V), then switch to N, then S in flight, and RTH mode kicks in, it goes back to V when RTH is cancelled. Should really go back to S. Drops out of Sport mode to Normalwhen battery level drops below 30%. Highest speed is then only 25ft/sec (17mph) which makes for a very slow return from 1-2 miles away! Even in Sport mode the Atom 2 is slower than the previous Atom 3-axis. Plus it cam barely ascend (very slowly) while flying forward at full speed! You must first stop if you need to ascend rapidly. Weaker motors perhaps. When distance > 9,999ft the units change from feet to miles. I don't want that, I want feet like in previous version app (and other drones). For example: 10,000ft. Managed to fly over 2 miles (each way) with a few RC disconnecs and video freezes.. Battery level is impossible to read against background, especially in bright sunlight, when it drops to 10% and below because it is Red text on a transparent dark background. Such a ridiculous color choice! You need to see the battery level when it is getting critical. Didn’t Potensic test this app before release? Seems not! The method for selecting Quick Shots is rather obscure! AI is just hype! Circles aren’t very circular/smooth. Spirals also aren’t very smooth. Boomerangs are circles with height change (should be elliptical/oval with a 2:1 aspect ratio). Did they even test this? Also, should default to AI Quick Shots rather than AI Track if that is what I keep choosing by default. The path color used in the flight viewer is useless against background that it is green or brown fields of grass in Satellite mode (White or Light Blue would be better). Flight viewer provides no indication of which Quick Shot has been invoked and is in effect. No way to delete unwanted flight records. Unfortunately this drone is spoiled by the terrible presentation of the telemetry data (font size too small, badly located, poor choice of colors, no mph units, jumps to L & R as numbers change, miles instead of thousands of feet if > 9,999ft, units too tiny). Sorry Potensic but this new Eve app has been very badly developed and poorly tested relative to the previous Pro app which was MUCH better. The developers and testers should be ashamed of it! Didn’t they test it in real-world situations? They get 5/10 or a C grade! I wish it were possible to use the previous Potensic Pro app with the Atom 2 as it was MUCH better than the new, buggy, poorly tested Eve app! NOTE: I also have a Potensic Atom 3-axis drone so have it for comparison. I became unhappy with it after a firmware update earlier this year adversely affected its range. There were many complaints about this in the “Official” Potensic Atom group on Facebook but Potensic ignored the complaints and have refused address the problem. Maybe their goal was to drive people to the newer Atom 2. I also own a DJI Mini 3, Mini 4K and HS900. The Atom 2 doesn't come close to the DJI Mini 3 or even the Mini 4K

I couldn't feel nor experience any difference between Potensic Atom 2 and Potensic Atom 3-Axis Gimbal. I just took it for a first flight this evening. I would think the only difference between Atom 2 and Atom is within the transmission and signal. Of course perhaps the camera had been upgraded as well, with 8K photo. Potensic Atom 2 feels clumsy as the previous model. When I had the Atom drone I purchased later Specta camera drone (DJI rebrand of Mini 4), to compare the feel between both. DJI feels smoother and more controllable in flight when near the ground. Nor there was much of a price difference. Videos taken when moving the gimbal looked better from DJI camera drone (Specta), less causing sea-sickness. It is like a fetish thing with Potensic. I bought the Atom 2 to have a Potensic after I got rid of Atom when the price went on sale. I do not deny Atom was my first drone before being able to fly 5 inch FPV drones, thus respects I give to Potensic drones. Potensic Atom drones look similar to FIMI MINI 3 Camera Drone. Perhaps a rebrand, or sourced from the same factory; or they just look similar. Potensic selling point for me is the higher altitude limit, higher than DJI. I saw' a video where clouds are closer to the ground in their area, some do fly Potensic Atom up to the clouds exercising 'cloud surfing'. Had it been an 'FPV' experience, I would perhaps thought they were to their way to heaven; this how majestic the sight was. Customer service is superior from Potensic; and I admire their customer service where they did gain a loyalty from my self as a consumer. I am not too impressed with Atom 2, yet I could tell the transmission and the range is better than the previous model.