Parrot’s Anafi is a backpack-friendly drone that’ll capture your outdoor adventures in glorious 4K HDR

Anafi is a remote and extraordinarily attractive Greek Island. Untouched by mass tourism, it’s unlikely to be your last-minute summer holiday booking, but if you did end up there, we reckon you’d want to bring along the new Parrot drone with which it shares a name. A supremely compact flyer with four foldable arms (making it look kinda like a grasshopper), Anafi will slip into your bag with minimal fuss. Once airborne, it can shoot 4K HDR videos at 30fps in all light conditions, as well as 21MP stills. A built-in 3-axis gimbal is on hand to de-wobble your footage, while the inclusion of a lossless zoom up to x2.8 means you can watch animals go about their business from above without getting having to get too close. The dedicated FreeFlight 6 app is designed to make piloting simple, and provided you can avoid bashing your mechanical insect into a tree, you should be good for 25 minutes on a full charge. Pick one up for £649 from July 1.

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I'm fascinated by all things tech, but if you were going to leave me on a desert island, I'd probably ask for my Nintendo Switch, a drone, and a pair of noise-cancelling cans to block out the relentless seagull racket. When I'm not on Stuff duty you'll probably find me subscribing to too many podcasts, playing too many video games, or telling anyone who will listen that Harry Kane is never going to leave Spurs.

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