Great Use of Mavic 3 Telephoto

stevearends · Jul 10, 2022

You can see in this setting with Kite Surfers it could be disruptive and outright dangerous to fly close enough to these Kite Surfers to film them. However, with the Mavic 3 Telephoto the Mavic 3 can stay away at a very safe distance and yet capture this very nice film!

dozzn · Jul 10, 2022

Excellent!
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Phantomrain.org · Jul 10, 2022

Nicely captured, safe yet some nice views.

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REStewart · Jul 11, 2022

Very nice work; enjoy my M3 also. My question on the kite surfers is how they keep from running into each other rather than dodging overzealous drones.

ifr · Jul 11, 2022

Very well done. Good video length and nice capture of the activity. Thanks for sharing!

Lets Fly · Jul 11, 2022

stevearends said:
You can see in this setting with Kite Surfers it could be disruptive and outright dangerous to fly close enough to these Kite Surfers to film them. However, with the Mavic 3 Telephoto the Mavic 3 can stay away at a very safe distance and yet capture this very nice film!

Great video, that's the first time i've seen someone jump over some land at 1:14 kite surfing.

stevearends · Jul 11, 2022

REStewart said:
Very nice work; enjoy my M3 also. My question on the kite surfers is how they keep from running into each other rather than dodging overzealous drones.

Look at the 1st few seconds of the video - you can see the drone is way up and far away from the kite surfers. The purpose of my sharing this video was to expound upon this very reason to have the M3 telephoto - one could stay safely back from the action yet have engaging video capture. Thx!

fguthrie · Jul 11, 2022

What gets me is how sharp the footage is - I'm impressed! Well done, thanks for sharing.

Lets Fly · Jul 11, 2022

stevearends said:
Look at the 1st few seconds of the video - you can see the drone is way up and far away from the kite surfers. The purpose of my sharing this video was to expound upon this very reason to have the M3 telephoto - one could stay safely back from the action yet have engaging video capture. Thx!

I think he knew that. His question was, (and I imagine everyones) how do they avoid each other, but I guess at times they don't.

icesailr · Jul 16, 2022

stevearends said:
You can see in this setting with Kite Surfers it could be disruptive and outright dangerous to fly close enough to these Kite Surfers to film them. However, with the Mavic 3 Telephoto the Mavic 3 can stay away at a very safe distance and yet capture this very nice film!

Great video....you used the 7X regular lens....or the Explore...and how much zoom if the explore ?

Suren · Jul 16, 2022

Nicely done. I also find myself flying mostly and videoing using the tele lens now days. Amazing what you can see zoomed in from far away.

GadgetGuy · Jul 17, 2022

icesailr said:
Great video....you used the 7X regular lens....or the Explore...and how much zoom if the explore ?

The 7x telephoto is the secondary camera. It offers up to a 4x digital zoom on the 7x telephoto in both Normal mode and in the Explore mode. In Normal mode, it also allows full control of the exposure.

icesailr · Jul 17, 2022

Thank you for that explanation !

GadgetGuy · Jul 17, 2022

icesailr said:
Thank you for that explanation !

Highly recommended, where you can't always safely or legally fly closer!

stevearends · Jul 19, 2022

OK Mavic 3 owners, take a look at what can be done with the telephoto by a very experienced filmmaker. I was blown away when I saw this.

Skywatcher2001 · Jul 20, 2022

stevearends said:
OK Mavic 3 owners, take a look at what can be done with the telephoto by a very experienced filmmaker. I was blown away when I saw this.

Amazing . . . we may have the same equipment but (as for me) . . . I'm lacking his skills. He definitely has an eye for cinematography. Nicely done!!

Logger · Jul 23, 2022

REStewart said:
Very nice work; enjoy my M3 also. My question on the kite surfers is how they keep from running into each other rather than dodging overzealous drones.

It is easier than you think. Relatively speaking all the kites and lines are at much the same angle downwind from each kiter & roughly 30 degrees above horizon in a flyable window of the sky . So if I am sailing head on to another kiter and elect to pass downwind of him, I would expect my lines to pass beneath his. Works provided upwind kite does not do something stupid, like fly kite low in the window while downwind kite flies theirs unnecessarily high. World of pain if kite lines cross and near impossible to recover without some degree of damage.