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    Current owners, would you buy a Mavic3 without the tele lens?

    I absolutely would still buy it without the tele lens. I never use it even with the improvements DJI have made. The 3 even without the tele has so many advantages over the 2S (and no disadvantages other than cost) It's a no brainer for me.
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    Hyperlapse

    Yes. Even with the stability of the Mavic 3, hyperlapses are always shaky. Even in light winds. The drone therefore applies software stabilization which by its very nature crops the images. The greater the shake, the greater the crop. You can see that this happens if you also capture raw images...
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    New Firmware Here !

    Hi Howard. Log is intended to get the maximum dynamic range from a sensor. Sensors have what is known as a native ISO. An ISO value where it produces the greatest dynamic range. This is usually around 800 ISO although it varies. If you shoot log on most professional video cameras you are in fact...
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    Tell me why you might shoot drone video using a slow frame rate?

    I'm not a fan of the supposed "Natural" motion blur of 24 fps. I think we've all filmed moving objects at this frame rate and experienced the most unnatural effect of vehicles "jumping" between frames. (And this is using the correct shutter speed of 1/50th) I do occasionally shoot at 24 or 25...
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    Mavic 3 vs 3 Cine - ProRes? Flymore? Worth it?

    I have both versions, Cine and regular. I can say that even pixel peeping I can't see any image quality difference between Prores and H265. Bizarrely, I find I can push the H265 files more in post than the Prores files. The only advantage I can see in using Prores is how responsive they are in...
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    'Camera storage speed low' warning

    I have both a Cine and non-Cine Mavic 3. Both have this issue on SD cards AND the SSD on the Cine. Formatting makes no difference. I'm using DJI recommended Sandisk Extreme micro SD's. Given it's happening on both drones and seems to irrespective of whether the drone is recording to the SSD or...