Okay so I knew that I would be compromising a bit with getting the Air over the Mavic 2 series, but I didn't know that the image quality would suffer this much (and I'm hoping it's just dumb user error).
I needed the portability of the Mavic Air so that I can stick it right in my camera bag, but the image quality that I've been getting from a few flights is making me reconsider portability.
There is a strange issue with saturation (I've found a few threads online but haven't really found a solution or a reason/answer for these things).
I'm filming in D-Cinelike to try to flatten the image out for post, etc. etc.
Whenever I take the videos into post (I'm using PolarPro ND filters, keeping ISO at 100, 180 degree rule, etc. etc.), there are selective areas (shadows) that don't have any saturation data in them, so things like trees look gray, no matter how much I ramp the saturation (even unnaturally) to see if there is any color information in the shadows.
Is this a widely known issue (only looks like a select few online) that has a solution or one coming in something like a future update? I don't think a small sensor can be blamed for complete loss of saturation information or else things like our phones and such would have the same issue if it was just due to having small sensors.
Also get some frame skipping/jitters occasionally when panning/tilting the gimbal.
I am using the SanDisk Extreme 32GB microSDs if that might have to do anything with it, but this was a recommendation when I looked up memory for the Mavic Air: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XWMQ81P/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I have noticed some people are saying just shoot in Normal mode because trying to color grade from a low quality codec with a flat profile in 8-bit completely destroys the image.
I needed the portability of the Mavic Air so that I can stick it right in my camera bag, but the image quality that I've been getting from a few flights is making me reconsider portability.
There is a strange issue with saturation (I've found a few threads online but haven't really found a solution or a reason/answer for these things).
I'm filming in D-Cinelike to try to flatten the image out for post, etc. etc.
Whenever I take the videos into post (I'm using PolarPro ND filters, keeping ISO at 100, 180 degree rule, etc. etc.), there are selective areas (shadows) that don't have any saturation data in them, so things like trees look gray, no matter how much I ramp the saturation (even unnaturally) to see if there is any color information in the shadows.
Is this a widely known issue (only looks like a select few online) that has a solution or one coming in something like a future update? I don't think a small sensor can be blamed for complete loss of saturation information or else things like our phones and such would have the same issue if it was just due to having small sensors.
Also get some frame skipping/jitters occasionally when panning/tilting the gimbal.
I am using the SanDisk Extreme 32GB microSDs if that might have to do anything with it, but this was a recommendation when I looked up memory for the Mavic Air: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XWMQ81P/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I have noticed some people are saying just shoot in Normal mode because trying to color grade from a low quality codec with a flat profile in 8-bit completely destroys the image.
