My dear friend Vittorio:
I'm right there with you Dale. I've got a little longer to sit and ponder being below freezing in Michigan for awhile.
I can say this much. I have an Air 2 and an M2P and while the air 2 gets good clean video, anytime I'm doing anything I'm serious about I launch the M2P. I like the images I can produce better. It has to do with color and dynamic range control. Having said that, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Ogre- I don't have weather as an excuse for not acting. I could walk outside right now and fly in the 60-70 degree temps we have been enjoying in our glorious winter. The benefits of the M3 frankly do not overwhelm me compared to my trusty M2P. Aside from the better colors, better sensors for details in the shadows and increased dynamic range, and the variable aperture (which I already enjoy with the M2P), what are the other benefits? And I am losing some of the intelligent flight modes and way point benefits I already have. I still need some convincing.
lol, again right there with you. Maybe over coming months there will be more modes added, who knows. I agree with you, my MP2 has never let me down and never disappointed with the exception of some exposures where I could not get sky and shadows in the exposure. If I do get the MP3, I will keep the MP2 as a viable back-up and give the Air 2 to my son-in-law. If I do make the purchase it will be the bird plus one battery and a charging hub. I feel that two batteries will be fine for my needs. That at least brings the tag down to 2,500. I haven't invested into nd filters yet although it's on the list. That will be on hold now until I make a final decision on the m3. I guess the draw for me is what the 4/3 sensor does in my BMCC 4k. Obviously that doesn't mean that the M3 will ever be able to perform like that camera, but the potential intrigues me. I have a lot of respect for that size of sensor. But until I can prove to myself that the M3 is a major upgrade in image quality I'll stay pat. 3G would also get me a new zero turn and I'm limping and old zero turn that could croak at any time. Decisions, decisions.
I was following you well until the last two comments. What is your "BMCC 4k? What is a new zero turn?
OooPs, sorry. A BMPCC 4k is a Black Magic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K. Impressive unit. The zero turn is a lawn mower, lol. It's how my head works. A Cub Cadet Z1 Zero turn falls right in the 3K range. I think one battery for the M3 is just over $200, so you would be talking about 2.4K. I get the money no issue part. I have to equate it to something else of the same cost to wrap my head around it. Otherwise it's just a number.
I totally agree. I don't and obviously can't know this without a comparison but I doubt there is a big difference between the D-log h.265 and the prores. I think the prores is more desirable or maybe necessary if you work in a video factory and are tooled for prores.
I don't use Final Cut so I can't produce ProRes deliverables but with Davinci Resolve Studio, I can certainly input/edit/grade the footage. For me, the only usable output is what I can play on my LG OLED TV. I process all 10-bit source in the HDR workflow. Results are great. I took Billy Kyle's 5.1K PRORES footage an played with it. The results are very nice. However, there are a number of hurdles for me to overcome before I buy it and frankly I probably would buy the Cine version. My main hurdles are: 1) M3 is not yet a finished product. Much has to be done on the firmware level. 2) DJI created a really good and "finished" drone when they released the Air2s. THAT makes it very hard indeed! I sure do like the Air2s size/weight in comparison. Finally, I very much like the 5.4K/30 either HLG or DLog video performance on the Air2s allowing a lot of post production freedom when produced into 4K (UHD). DJI made a big mistake releasing the Air2s as simply too good a drone before releasing a half finished M3.
