I've upgraded to the
Mavic Air 2 and have just started to explore some of the camera video settings.
Here in Ontario, Canada the landscape for the beginning of April is still very bland with no colours, so its a great time to see how much contrast and color I can pull out of the sky and farmers fields.
I'm one to always have my settings in manual, and even with the ND16, it is very difficult to achieve the richness of the HDR settings. And I think when you have the ND filter on and set it to HDR mode, the filter will help the auto setting of HDR to adjust to a lower frame rate yes?
I do think the HDR results are very good. Sure its adding to the contrast, but what a difference without.
The bland skies show blue with white clouds, and the earth has some color and tone to it.
Having said that, it does have a somewhat over-saturated look, but even in iMovie I can adjust that with the color correction (saturation slider) to ever so slightly and take that edge of saturation down. It looks great!
While we are talking video looks here, I'm somewhat not too worried to try too hard to bring my shutter speed down to the standard everyone follows with doubling the frame rate.
Using a slightly faster shutter speed can produce a very slight strobing effect that is also very cinematic. I have personally used shutter speeds of 1/120th of a second and can confirm that the look is very cinematic – arguably more so than with slower shutter speeds, due to the slight strobing that we normally only see with motion picture film.
