Recent content by js47

Very interesting, thanks for sharing. Does the dongle increase the weight to over 900g (the C1 limit)?

I will say that no sharpening was applied to any of these images, though other edits were. I'd guess the Mavic 3 Pro tele camera would have looked somewhere between the Mavic 3 Original tele camera and my Fujifilm with its tele lens. Unfortunately the Mavic 3 Pro (being an EASA C2 Class drone)...

Yes, this is precisely what I was trying to illustrate. I used a worse lens/sensor (Mavic 3 wide camera) from closer and it produced a superior image to a better lens/sensor (Fujifilm APS-C) that was used from farther away.

The name of the lens is "55-200mm" but it is an APS-C sensor so shooting at 200mm has an effective focal length of shooting 300mm on full frame. I am comparing 3 cameras with 3 different sensor sizes so it just makes sense to normalize all focal lengths to full frame terms. Otherwise I'd have...

Correct, different lenses but also very different sensors. Technically 2 different cameras entirely which just happen to share a gimbal. The wide camera uses a 4/3” sensor and the tele camera uses a 1/2” sensor. Doesn’t sound like a huge difference but by area the wide camera’s sensor is more...

I've had this screenshot sitting on my desktop for a while now, figured this is as good a time as any to share it. All images were taken within a few minutes. The top left image was taken with my Fujifilm X-T3 with 55-200mm lens @ 150mm from 1500m distance. The top right image was taken with my...

I would say that CPLs are: Essential for Photography Potentially Annoying for Drone Video When a CPL is used properly your results will be better than without, but when used improperly your results will be worse than without.

In the EU and UK you need to be able to keep sight of the drone + it must be no more than 500m distance from the pilot.

Is the in-camera stitching only for JPEG?

I usually use Capture One’s built-in pano stitching, but I recently started using AutoPanoGiga which is free software and generally has been working better than Capture One. Sometimes the built-in stitching struggles with image sets that APG has no problem with...

I don’t know anything about the Mavic 2 but I’m a pixel peeping photographer and the corner sharpness from my Mavic 3 is very acceptable in real world use from f/4 or f/5.6. Dynamic range is good but even shooting raw I find you can get some weird looking results if you mess with exposure or...

I shot a brick wall about a year ago with my Mavic 3, and the results were: Center sharpness sweet spot is f/2.8 to f/5.6. Corner sharpness sweet spot is f/4 to f/5.6. The image is fine up to f/8 but diffraction starts to be noticeable. Diffraction is heavy by f/11. I pretty much just leave it...

Assuming the Mavic 4 follows the trend of being >900g, the original Mavic 3 will be the best drone ever made that you can fly with basically no restrictions in Europe. That theory doesn’t help answer your question about new US stock though.

I am a big fan of GND filters and love that this exists, unfortunately it is just not a good filter and consequently I can confidently not recommend it. 2 Major Problems: There is a strong blue color cast over the entire image. This is fixable in post, but the bigger issue is that the color...

There are definitely some RID bugs in my experience. I get that message whenever I turn the drone on first, rather than turning the controller on first and then the drone. Any chance you are turning the controller off between flights?