I will take my mini 4 pro to the April solar eclipse. I plan on launching it about 6 min before totality, pointing it facing SSW and catching the approaching shadow, then bringing it down when the shadow had gone...so probably an inflight time of about 15 min total.
I will not be using it to shoot the sun, just the shadow coming at me at about 1000mph. I'll have two other cameras set up for that.
If I use auto exposure on the Mini, the camera will compensate for the lower light during the eclipse and brighten things up, maybe not that big of a deal if I can catch the shadow approaching and departing.
If I use manual exposure, it will require someone at the controller to manually adjust things (thus missing some of the "experience") unless I leave the exposure at the daylight exposure and trust that during totality some detail will still be captured.
Which way would you go on this?
Also, is there a calculator that shows how many gB of data will be captured during that 15 min whether I use 12 or 48MP?
Thanks in advance and would appreciate any advice on this.
I will not be using it to shoot the sun, just the shadow coming at me at about 1000mph. I'll have two other cameras set up for that.
If I use auto exposure on the Mini, the camera will compensate for the lower light during the eclipse and brighten things up, maybe not that big of a deal if I can catch the shadow approaching and departing.
If I use manual exposure, it will require someone at the controller to manually adjust things (thus missing some of the "experience") unless I leave the exposure at the daylight exposure and trust that during totality some detail will still be captured.
Which way would you go on this?
Also, is there a calculator that shows how many gB of data will be captured during that 15 min whether I use 12 or 48MP?
Thanks in advance and would appreciate any advice on this.