So, I've held off on my review to fully test the done. I didn't want to say it's good without testing it in every condition available to me. But it's good! Especially at its price point.
First of all, I've gone running with my drone (follow mode), hiking (take a picture at the peak), desert hiking, kayaking (GPS route planned), skateboarding (follow mode), and playing tennis (left mid-air to watch from above). Plus tested the drone in different wind conditions, from level 1 to level 4 wind conditions.
The drone has surpassed my expectations. I can literally take it anywhere with me. Since it's the size of a small lunch bag, including the controller and the batteries, it's super convenient and I don't have to care. I simply charge the batteries overnight and take it with me everywhere I go. It has a permanent spot in my car. The only complaint I have is that I want more batteries since I use it pretty often and I forget to charge it or I just absolutely fly it like a madman.
Since I've started training my running form I have taken my drone with me and put it on follow mode. That way I can record my form through the whole run. It sounds kind of silly, but right now I'm trying to get faster and it works out perfectly. I can see when I'm leaning too far back, or slouching too much, or when I'm not pushing from my toes and just lifting my legs, or when my cadence is off, etc. Kinda geeky, but that's what I mainly use it for on my morning runs.
The f7 comes with 2 batteries in the bag, so you are able to fly it for 1 whole hour in two 30-minute intervals. It will alert you when you need to change the battery and go back to "home" if it dies mid-flight. It's pretty good considering you are using the camera and other stuff. It does last a little longer if it's on manual mode and you aren't actively taking video and just messing around. But if you put it in sport mode and fly like I do it will last 20-24 mins. Still, pretty good considering all the stress I put this through haha.
Talking about the battery, the drone lasts less in high wind conditions. But that's not a bad thing. It auto-corrects so it doesn't drift with the wind. In level 4-5 conditions, it does struggle. Close to 17-23 mph and I didn't feel too comfortable flying it without risking feeling like it was going to crash if I wasn't careful. I didn't want to risk breaking it after I've come to use it so much. I hope you understand...
I would honestly compare it to my friend's DJI mini 2 but at half the price.
Something that I thought was funny was the location of the SD card slot. It's on the side of the drone and it blends right in, so I just kept looking over it. I don't want to admit it but it took me looking at the manual to find it... You need to format or something on the SD card the first time you use it if you are trying to fast-speed write. But you don't have to until you are ready and you can use it at normal write speed. Thought I would share that so you didn't accidentally click on it. After it was configured for fast writing it didn't ask for anything else and hasn't asked about it since.
There is a message in the app, that you can skip over, that teaches you how to set up and use the drone. So you don't need to worry about reading the instructions every time you want to fly. Especially if you lost them. Plus it's pretty intuitive, so it works great.
I can honestly say that it's a great drone. It follows me everywhere I run, it's pretty smooth when I record my friend's skateboarding, or when I go out kayaking or hiking. It's half the price of a DJI mini 2 and has all the same features, so I'm pretty happy with it. I did reach out to BWine to buy more batteries since I wanted to have some backup ones and didn't have the link and they helped pretty quickly with that. I was honestly surprised at their customer support. I genuinely expected them to take a week to reply but they sent a reply overnight. So that was pretty cool.
Hopefully, this helps, I love when I can check out other people's reviews before I buy something :)