DJI announces Air 3 drone with dual 4K cameras that can shoot simultaneously.

The Air 3 has gained a number of interesting new features, but the major improvement is a dual camera system, which has become a popular feature of the Mavic 3 Pro — but there are some enhancements. The camera sensors are identical and offer the same capabilities so footage will naturally match, but they differ in the focal length and aperture of the lenses.

Each camera has a 1/1.3-inch sensor with dual native ISO for shooting 4K@60fps HDR or 4K@100fps (non-HDR) video and 48MP photos. The lens configuration provides a wide-angle lens equivalent to 24mm with an F1.7 aperture, and a 3x medium tele lens equivalent to 70mm with an F2.8 aperture.

Both cameras can shoot in the typical modes at up to 4K resolution, but DJI also added a new dual-camera shooting mode that captures 2.7K vertical video with the tele lens and a second video with the wide angle lens. This produces a tight shot of the main subject that can be shared without cropping to social networks that prefer portrait orientation, all while the wide angle camera captures a full view that can fill out the edges when the video is posted to places that prefer landscape orientations.