Recent content by jayeldee

just a bit of followup...the drone did well, but I need to edit a bit to bring up the shadows during totality. I set my exposure during "daylight" according to the histogram. I was outside of Gatesville, TX and we had some clouds. I let the exposure during totality just fall where it would, but...

thank y'all very much...clear skies!

@Droning on and on, Thanks for the tip. I did not know that, but had changed both, so I was there in Manual mode...in the excitement of totality, I know myself well enough to know I could screw that up, appreciate the insight. This thing is way cool!

Thank you! Couldn't find that anywhere. I had the histogram displayed before I went fooling with the exposure, then histogram was shut off...turned it back on. In that PRO setting, I see shutter speed and ISO that can be adjusted, WB temp is 5600 which is appropriate for right now in College...

Maybe I haven't searched enough, but I tried... I am trying to set a manual exposure for my mini 4 pro, eg not AUTo exposure. I have searched for it and cannot find an answer. I want a fixed exposure that will not correct for lowered light levels during totality for the solar eclipse, I want the...

@Thmoore Thanks for the reassurance, very helpful. John

What are your feelings about the mini 4 pro? I will be attending the solar eclipse in Texas, south of Waco is the plan. My plan is to go up to about <400ft for about 8 minutes, straight overhead, then rtn to home, IOW straight up then straight down, no distance travel at all and with the...

yep, upload to youtube and link

Thanks again, That's a real risk, part of what dlog is supposed to help with by extending dynamic range at the low light end. Got it; would that, dlog, setting tend to overexpose the daylight setting and that is why you suggest -1 exposure compensation? Best strategy would be to go out and...

Thanks ^ >1,500 mph is 2,200 ft/s. While it will make file sizes much bigger, I'd shoot this at 4K/100 or FHD/120 which the Mini 4P is capable of.< So, higher is better for a longer view. Any suggestions how high that should be? right now I am set to 300 ish feet. >In 4k/30 you'll have like 3-5...

All good points, MS Coast, but I would like to have some shadow detail and not just a black screen. I was thinking about performing the exact experiment you suggest, ie get a manual exposure on a sunny day at around 1pm, then, using the same setting see what it looks like just after sunset. I...

@Illuminata Photo My telescope has a clock drive and I will run that through an inverter from my car battery. I did that for the annular eclipse in October and it worked well enough. It did require fine tuning often enough, but probably because I didn't have it polar aligned well enough...but it...

to respond and many thanks for the input yes, I am going to test beforehand. I will just left the Mini hover—extended battery—at 4k and see how long it lasts...if it lasts anything over 16 min, I think that part is good and will likely shoot 4k. My main focus will be a two camera setup, one...

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...

Thanks all for the educative replies...appreciated