Review and sample video and photos of DJI's new Mavic Air 2 Drone.
DJI released the Mavic Air 2 in late April 2020, with DPREVIEW calling it the “best all-around drone for most people.”
A lot of reviewers saw its 1/2″ CMOS 12- and 48-megapixels (MP) image sensor, a game-changer for many photographers. Although it was one of its selling points, I have not observed any significant image quality difference between the 12- and 48-MP.
Perhaps DJI is cooking up some useful functions for the 48MP in future firmware updates?
Estuaries, Brackish Water, Ecosystems and Wetlands With the DJI Mavic Air 2
I have a little obsession with estuaries and their surrounding coastal wetland ecosystems. Below are some estuaries in Ghana and their connecting network of rivers and lagoons with the new DJI Mavic Air 2:
The Korle Lagoon is recognized as one of the most polluted1 water bodies on earth. It links to the Gulf of Guinea, the northeasternmost part of the tropical Atlantic Ocean.
12 August 2020 — Aerial view of Agbogbloshie and the u-shaped Korle Lagoon with the Sodom and Gomorrah settlement in the middle. More than 70,000 urban poor live inside the Sodom and Gomorrah slum (also known as Old Fadama). Copyright @ 2020 Muntaka Chasant
Photos: Ranching in an area once listed alongside Chernobyl and Norilsk. Beef from Agbogbloshie's contaminated environment is entering Ghana's food chain.
Fish processors in Ghana trade-off between their livelihoods and exposure to cancer-causing toxicants such as PAHs. Climate-related shocks, overfishing, and other human activities are also shaping the mobility of migrant fishers.
Nicknamed after Ghana's current president, the 8 years old 'Akufo-Addo' is engaged in hazardous child labour on the margins of Accra, Ghana's capital city. See how he navigates the fringes of Agbogbloshie, an area once listed alongside Chernobyl and Dzershinsk.
Recently shifted my focus towards highlighting the economic and environmental role the urban poor in Accra, Ghana’s capital city, play in the country’s plastic waste crisis.
The urban poor in Accra roam streets, dumpsites, visit homes and swim in polluted waterways to recover waste recyclables generated mostly by the city’s wealthy residents.
But the role the urban poor play in reducing waste and helping to clean up the environment remains unrecognized.
Here is a photograph of this situation shot with the DJI Mavic Air 2:
Urban poor men risk injury and drowning to swim in the heavily polluted Korle Lagoon — float alongside human remains sometimes — to recover recyclable plastics, which they sell for around $0.17 per kilo.
Hi, Muntaka Chasant here. I'm, among many other things, an entrepreneur and a multiple international awards winning documentary photographer. I'm here on the front lines of urban struggle — only with my wits and cameras — capturing key moments, collecting untold stories, and helping to forge new paths.
