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  1. BobaFut

    Oh Dear my first altercation, Poor Fella

    Well, for public space to work there has to be some priority given to government tasks. A municipality can close a park for maintenance, for example, and we generally agree that that's a necessary prioritization of a government task over the public's right at access that space. But that is less...
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    Oh Dear my first altercation, Poor Fella

    You both sound like jerks, so setting tone and attitude aside I'll say that I'm with the other guy in this situation. If a person is there to do a job, seemingly at the request of the local government, I think it's polite to defer to them, especially if you're just out for fun. Again, not...
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    Normal vs D-Log

    So the issue with Resolve is the H265 codec and not LOG footage specifically (DJI records LOG footage using the H265 codec). My understanding is you can download the HEVC/H265 codec from the Windows store for $1 and then you can edit your LOG footage (although whether your computer can handle it...
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    Get stable long exposures

    6-8 seconds is a looooong time. Obviously there's no hard-and-fast rule, but I try to keep my long exposures under about 3 seconds. I think with my Air2s I could get sharp 2 second photos fairly consistently, 3 seconds required a few attempts, and any more than that there was a very low chance...
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    Normal vs D-Log

    I get what you're saying, but raw video is the equivalent of raw stills and D-Log (or just LOG footage in general) is basically just a flat color profile (and not necessarily 10-bit, although newer DJI cameras pretty much all do LOG as 10-bit only). I don't say this to be pedantic. For video...
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    Is this an Avata?

    Highly doubt an Avata, as Avatas typically aren't used by FPV pros. Probably a small, custom-built cinewhoop? I'm very curious what camera they might have used as the footage looks too clean to be a GoPro or DJI Air Unit in such low light. I guess they could run it through Topaz, but even then...
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    I Need Your Recommendations for Power Bank to charge Mavic 3 Batteries

    I suspect Anker didn't understand the question, assuming that the batteries are charged on their own and not through a hub, perhaps? The power bank will work fine.
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    Lipo safety.. I lost it all. Please read.

    Because your post implies, through a very narrow use of the term "li-ion" (you say: "all DJI drones use lithium-ion chemistry batteries") that all of DJI's batteries are Li-Ion batteries. But there is a distinct difference between lithium-ion batteries and lithium-polymer batteries (similar...
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    Lipo safety.. I lost it all. Please read.

    Uhhh... that's exactly what I said. What you said is true strictly on a pedantic level. But saying Li-Pos and Li-Ion batteries are the same is like saying toilet paper and copier paper are the same thing because they are both made out of cellulose fibers.
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    Lipo safety.. I lost it all. Please read.

    Except on a strictly pedantic level, this is false. DJI uses a mix of LiPo and Li-Ion batteries (the only Li-Ion battery I can think of offhand is the Avata). I mean, techincally LiPos are "lithium ion" batteries in the sense that they use lithium, but they are not the same as Li-Ion batteries.
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    What am I doing wrong?

    You can certainly adjust the screen brightness of the controller, but it's just a cheap LCD so it's not exactly a good rendering of the scene compared to a good monitor. I just keep my controller set to max brightness so I can see it in sunlight and then gauge exposure based on the histogram...
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    What am I doing wrong?

    The outdoor shots are a recipe for AE to underexpose. At the risk of oversimplifying, the camera wants big areas of white to be gray and prioritizes that over pretty much everything. So the sensor will see white clouds and say "those should be gray so I will compensate for that by lowering the...
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    What am I doing wrong?

    Mini 3 doesn't have a variable aperture and the tiny sensor gives an enormous DOF. Not sure what exactly the Mini 3 Pro's hyperfocal distance is, but I would imagine it's about 15 feet out to infinity.
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    What am I doing wrong?

    The 1m shot looks a little soft, I suppose, but the other ones look fine from a focus perspective (they are severely underexposed though, which does not help). I don't think you've said, but are you either tapping on the subject to focus or manually focusing, or are you just letting the camera...
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    What am I doing wrong?

    The only issue I see is the subject is out of focus? I don't really consider that a quality issue (absent some sort of hardware problem) and seemingly is just user error (no offense). Also you don't say what model you are using or the settings or anything that might diagnose a potential problem...