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)

I have been flying RC helicopters for over 20 years and drones for over 10 years. Recently my original DJI Mavik died after nearly 10 years of faithful service. I went on a quest to find the best drone in the under 249 grams category. I did not want to bother with registering and licensing. This drone fits every category very nicely. Price point, advanced features, quality, flight characteristics and fluidity of controls, ease of use and easy connectivity. I believe anyone would do well with this drone from beginner to advanced. The pictures are high quality as is the video. The only place it falls a little short is the speed of flight. This is definitely not a deal breaker for me as I am not chasing cars or motorcycles. I mainly use it for construction documentation and personal photography. Don't let the price fool you this drone is great in the wind and comes with 3 batteries so you get plenty of flight time. It does not have object avoidance system, which I do not want because I get close to things on purpose. If you are looking for a small travel drone that is packed with features and quality at an affordable price, this one is worth every penny! The pictures below are in standard hi-res mode. The 8k photos are even better, but larger file size.

Let me start off by saying I am by no means an expert drone pilot. I will say, however, at that the ease of use of this drone, the stability and the quality of the images is outstanding. I took it on a vacation flight. And I got some of the most amazing images of a small town tucked between the mountains in Puerto Rico with amazing sunsets. I can't wait to keep honing my skills and learn all the features. For the price tag, compared to other drones of the same quality. You're not gonna get a better deal. I'd truly like the flight time, which is roughly thirty minutes per battery. I got three with the extended flight package. And it also has a training flight tutorial for people like me with very limited experience. Highly recommend you won'regret it.

I love this Drone. It has great features, easy to learn to fly and great features. Excellent videos and app that will have you flying like a pro in no time! Potensic also offers several insurance packages to protect your investment. I have more expensive drones but this Potensic is as good as any of them. Make sure to order the updated Atom 2. It’s worth the extra $60 for the better controller and distance.

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.

This is a very nice and affordable drone. I bought it because I was not able to obtain a DJI drone for a reasonable price at the time due to the shortage. I am pleasantly surprised with this unit. For the price, you get the extra batteries and multi-charger for the same price as you'd usually pay for just the base drone package with DJI. The controller is pretty decent, and fits my phone easily. You could potentially mount a tablet with some creative use of mounting brackets. Feature and performance wise, I would say this drone compares very closely with the DJI Mini 2.the reason for that is like the Mini 2, this drone only has proximity sensors on the bottom. So unfortunately you don't get collision prevention that many more advanced DJI drones have. This is the only reason I removed a star. Everything else about this drone is great and still for the price I would buy another. The software for the drone is easy to use, and pretty intuitive. Not quite as polished as the DJI app but it doesn't make a huge difference to me and I haven't had any problems with it. Flight performance is great. It might be slightly more sensitive to windy conditions, but I was able to fly in relatively high winds without to much trouble. The video quality is also quite good honestly. It's definitely good enough for cinematic use. Overall for the price I think this drone performs well enough for first time flyers to have a good experience without spending a small fortune. I'm quite satisfied with it.

The Potensic Atom 2 punches above its weight. It gives a lot of very usable features for the price, is travel-friendly, and fun to fly. The picture and video quality is great too. I love it!! Highly recommended for beginner and experienced pilots alike.

This is an amazing drone. I am using it for my business Eagle I Drone Imaging. For the price you get some pretty amazing features and even some things that higher priced drones don't have. With DJI being banned in the U S. It is good to have a good drone company we can count on. This drone is great for beginners and advanced pilots alike. The video quality is amazing. The connection between the drone and controller is great. The drone works great even in strong winds and the stability is top notch.

**** 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