When DJI announced the Mic 3 just 18 months after the excellent Mic 2 , I didn’t really get it. The Mic 2 has been my own go-to wireless microphone (bought with my own money, no less) for over a year now, and it still feels new to me. What could justify yet another iteration so soon?
It took about five seconds with the Mic 3 in my hands to understand exactly what DJI was thinking. The transmitter units are dramatically smaller and lighter than those on the Mic 2, so much so that they feel like entirely different products. Taking a page from the more recent Mic Mini , they're light enough at 16 grams that you can genuinely forget you're wearing one.
But the real revelation came when I opened the charging case. This time around, DJI has designed a case that can actually hold all the a