Mavic 4 Pro gear we actually recommend

Freewell All Day 8-Pack (ND + ND/PL)

The set most Mavic 4 Pro pilots should buy first. Covers ND4 through ND64 plus polarised versions, which means you are never grounded waiting for the light to match your one filter.

Freewell Split ND 4-Pack

Split filters — half ND8, half ND4 in a single element — so the bright sky and the darker ground expose closer to each other. A smaller, cheaper kit than the 8-pack if you mostly fly in even light.

Freewell Bright Day 4-Pack (ND/PL)

Polarised throughout. Worth it if you shoot over water, glass, or wet roads, where glare rather than brightness is the thing ruining the shot.

Freewell Split ND 4-Pack for Air 3S

Split densities in a single element, so a bright sky and darker ground land closer together. The sensible first filter purchase for an Air 3S doing landscape work.

Freewell Bright Day Split ND/PL for Air 3S

Polarised throughout. Worth it over water, glass and wet roads — but the polarisation shifts as you yaw, so check your sky mid-orbit before committing to a take.

K&F Concept ND/PL 4-Pack for Air 3S

The budget option. Optically fine for most work; coatings are less consistent than Freewell or PolarPro, which shows up as a colour cast you correct in the grade rather than as softness.

DJI Mavic 4 Pro Intelligent Flight Battery

The genuine DJI cell. Third-party Mavic 4 Pro batteries barely exist yet, and the ones that do will not report health data correctly to the aircraft. Two spares is the number most people settle on.

Tenergy Fire-Retardant LiPo Bags (2-pack)

Cheap insurance. Drone batteries are lithium polymer and they do occasionally vent; storing and charging them inside a fire-retardant bag costs about as much as a couple of coffees.

DJI Air 3S Intelligent Flight Battery

The genuine cell. Third-party packs will not report health and cycle data to the aircraft correctly, which on a battery that is also a structural part of a flying object is the wrong place to economise.

SanDisk Extreme 256GB microSDXC (V30)

V30 is the speed class you actually need — anything slower will drop frames on high-bitrate recording. 256GB is the sweet spot for a day of shooting.

SanDisk Extreme PRO 512GB microSDXC (V30)

For anyone recording in D-Log M or at the highest bitrates, where 256GB disappears faster than you expect. Buy this instead of two smaller cards you have to swap in the field.

Lekufee Waterproof Hard Case for Mavic 4 Pro

Moulded specifically for the Mavic 4 Pro and its combos, with room for the RC 2 or RC Pro 2. The right choice if the drone travels in a car boot or gets checked as luggage.

Smatree Professional Backpack for Mavic 4 Pro

Hard-case protection in a shape you can actually hike with. Pick this over the case if your flying involves walking to the spot rather than parking next to it.

Lykus Titan MA310 Hard Case for Air 3S

Moulded for the Air 3S and the RC 2 or RC-N3, with room for a Fly More Combo and up to four batteries. The choice if the drone travels in a car boot or gets checked as luggage.

Lekufee Waterproof Hard Case for Air 3S

The lighter, cheaper alternative to the Lykus. Takes the RC 2, RC-N3 or RC-N2 — check which controller you own before ordering, because the foam layouts differ.

Hoodman Weighted Trifold Landing Pad

Weighted, so it does not need stakes and will not fold itself up in prop wash — the failure mode that makes cheap landing pads useless. Keeps grit out of the gimbal and dust off the lens.

DJI RC 2 Tempered Glass Screen Protector

The RC 2 has a built-in screen and no replacement path if you scratch it. Comes with an alignment frame, which matters more than it sounds when you are applying glass to a controller.

VIFLY Drone Strobe Light

If you fly at night under Part 107, FAA rules require an anti-collision light visible for three statute miles. This is the one most US pilots end up with.

DJI Mavic 4 Pro Propellers

Genuine DJI props. Blades are a consumable — a nicked or stress-marked propeller should be replaced, not inspected optimistically before takeoff.

Ground Control Point Markers, 24in (6-pack)

High-contrast aerial targets with a center eyelet, for mapping and survey work. Placing and surveying GCPs is what turns a photogrammetry model from a nice picture into something with real-world accuracy you can defend to a client.

Ground Control Point Markers, numbered (10-pack)

The numbered version, which matters more than it sounds — identifying which target is which across a few hundred images is tedious enough without having to work it out from position alone.

Propeller guards.They add weight, cut flight time, and disturb the airflow the Mavic 4 Pro’s obstacle sensing relies on. Useful indoors or around children; a downgrade everywhere else.

Range extenders and signal boosters. The Mavic 4 Pro already transmits further than you can legally fly it. In most countries you must keep the aircraft in visual line of sight, which you will lose long before the signal does.

Lens filters sold as “UV protection”.A holdover from film cameras. The Mavic 4 Pro’s sensor is not UV-sensitive in a way that matters, and you are adding a sheet of glass in front of a Hasselblad lens for no optical gain.

Gimbal “upgrade” guards. The supplied gimbal cover does the job. Aftermarket versions are mostly a way to sell you plastic.