Recent content by RobinM

Still images are not a problem - good quality video is - they are 2 different skill sets and no, not expecting to match the A1, just expecting to match other good videos of the same subject from the MP3.

Dont Hijack my whales! haha. i'm enjoying unravelling my inadequacies.

correct. the only auto i like is auto iso but clearly i'm going to have to release that obsession whilst in the sky.

A huge downside for me - i like to freeze my wildlife subjects and on the whale boats i've been shooting at 1/4000 second with some excellent results - i dont want to get a blurry or even soft whale from the drone. That's the basis of my questioning.

Thanks. Without being obnoxious - i am a stills expert - just trying to translate over to video skills. a bit about me.

can you tell i've never shot in either of those - only ever used manual :-)

Auto ISO is useful for shooting in fully Manual mode. As i shoot mostly wildlife and birds the priority setting in the triad is shutter speed - if I dont have speed to freeze the subject, i have no photo so aperture choice and iso setting are secondary. Thanks for your words - trying to master...

aah, I've never done that on my stills land camera as i shoot fully manual, but that does make sense to me for what i'm looking for- fixed iso and auto aperture and shutter speed. thanks!

I think i'm getting the idea that a polariser is indeed more trouble than its worth, so i'm better off concentrating on trying to keep the sun behind as you say ( depending on whale direction). I suspect i wasnt shooting on d-logM last whale season either.

Well, i always shoot on auto ISO on land on my a1, i was hoping it would translate to the ocean but it's not. I never ever shoot in jpg so lets dismiss that direction. If i underexpose slightly i'm missing the ability to see the whales underwater but then it all changes when they explode out of...

thanks, So how do you control the dynamic range with a breaching whale? One minute you're looking into black and the next is an explosion of white - auto ISO did nope cope with that last year for me

I'm much better at shooting whale stills from on the water than I am above the water and have no issues with technique - But i'm simply rubbish from my drone. I upgraded from an air2s to the Mavic 3PRO this year with the specific aim of improving my video and pics and understand batteries/...

thank you!

Early morning flight in Mt Wilson, up in the Blue Mts - 2 hrs from Sydney. As most of our foliage in Australia is perennial and not deciduous, the tourist track over the few weeks when autumn colours are in bloom is pretty diabolical - hard to get a decent pic on the ground so only a drone will...

oh, the pink colour you mean? As outlined in my description the pink is from an algae - last year was very wet so the lake was full. the colour is exactly as it shows with maybe a little vibrancy lifted but no saturation added for sure.