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How do you set the correct exposure values?

lomposlapos

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Using the smart controller with Mavic 2 Pro.
How do you set the exposure to the correct value, or intentionally at slightly (-0.3 or -0.7 EV) underexposed?
Given the notorious screen brightness issue, the variable ambient light (from bright sun to night flight), just looking at the screen seems very unreliable. How one does it?
 
That's not exclusively to the drone/sensor in the M2P ... this problem is still a generall one in photography (and a tricky one to balance), however as (the better) sensors now are capable of getting information roughly between 14 - 15+ EV, we are getting there, but slowly and still not comparable to our eyes.

If you have a high contrast scene (bright sky, dark foreground), if would suggest that you level your exposure as good as possible with the histogramm in view (that's maybe EV +0,0 or some slight deviation), so that no parts are overexposed. Underexposed areas can be processed much easier normally. You could then could still pull back the highlights and lift the shadows or as I do and recommend, bracket the shots with the M2P if you already know, that the contrast is blowing the dynamic range of the sensor no matter what setting you choose.

The setting is called AEB (Auto Exposure Bracketing), where the drone then shoots a picture on neutral balance and continues to take 2 over- and 2 underexposed images (with the program of 5 in a series, there's also the setting with just 3) which you can combine in later for processing (usually called HDR). Although the sensor is good in the Mavic 2 Pro, sometimes, you really need to get these extra details of the shots (but nowhere as much as I have thought previously).

All these presume that you shot in RAW (DNG) for best quality though. ;)
 
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