LONG EXPOSURE

Ray101 · Feb 12, 2018

Hey guys,
I have been trying to take long exposure pics on my mvp. I have seen pics with the light streaks and they look amazing.

I was wondering whats the longest exposure i can use on the mavic? And do i achieve this my simply slowing down the shutter speed?
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Simmo · Feb 12, 2018

I think its 8 seconds??? But using a filter will help.

borislip · Feb 13, 2018

Its really a matter of getting lucky. A vast majority of the pics come out blurred, i got about 1 out of 10 pics semi-acceptable at about 1 second exposure.

borislip · Feb 13, 2018

This is an example of a pic i consider successful. Its ISO400, 0.6 second.

Simmo · Feb 13, 2018

Nice photo Borislip, this is the sorta stuff I want to play with!!

Ray101 · Feb 13, 2018

Woaw that looks amazing borislip.

Ray101 · Feb 13, 2018

Simmo said:
Nice photo Borislip, this is the sorta stuff I want to play with!!
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How did u get the green streak?

Simmo · Feb 13, 2018

LOL! Its not my photo dude! But its a Mavic in a long exposure, so you can see the red nav lights and the green status light spinning... good flying eh?!

Simmo · Feb 13, 2018

Id say it was done with Litchi or something, maybe a helix flight plan or similar?

borislip · Feb 13, 2018

Simmo said:
Nice photo Borislip, this is the sorta stuff I want to play with!!
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This is not a long exposure ON the Mavic, as in long exposure taken by a camera flying through the air, but a long exposure taken by another, stationary camera, with the Mavic flying THROUGH THE FRAME.

Mr. Salty · Feb 13, 2018

borislip said:
This is not a long exposure ON the Mavic, as in long exposure taken by a camera flying through the air, but a long exposure taken by another, stationary camera, with the Mavic flying THROUGH THE FRAME.

Exactly. That photo was taken with a DSLR on a tripod.

Awhile back there was software being developed to fly drones do make light paintings like this. I even signed up to be part of the testing, but i never heard anything back. I don't think the software was ever released.

borislip · Feb 13, 2018

Mr. Salty said:
Exactly. That photo was taken with a DSLR on a tripod.

Awhile back there was software being developed to fly drones do make light paintings like this. I even signed up to be part of the testing, but i never heard anything back. I don't think the software was ever released.

Well, not necessarily DSLR ;-)
Pockets can do a really nice job too. I am an amateur, i don't own a DSLR because of it's size (doubt i'd take it with me anywhere), but look what can be done with a pocket. And a mini-tripod ;-)

I wish Mavic would have this kinds of image quality... and a tripod-like gimbal stability... i really wish i could shoot THIS, from the Mavic...

borislip · Feb 13, 2018

I wonder if this is even remotely possible, technologically speaking... Mavic size drone carrying a camera with 1" sensor? Will require a total gimbal redesign, but payload capability speaking, far from impossible. Stabilizing to a point you can actually take multi-second exposures with no motion blur whatsoever? Now that sounds like an impossible challenge to me :-/

Cbslagle · Feb 13, 2018

I shot this last week with the mavic...wish it could be a little sharper though.

borislip · Feb 13, 2018

Cbslagle said:
I shot this last week with the mavic...wish it could be a little sharper though. View attachment 31285

Now compare that to my stationary shot, see how much sharper and better exposed it is, and you will understand what kind of magic i want from my drone

Airborne24 · Feb 13, 2018

Could you strap a GoPro to your mp.

Mr. Salty · Feb 13, 2018

borislip said:
Well, not necessarily DSLR ;-)

True, but it's a professionally shot promotional image from Intel, so they probably weren't using a point-and-shoot camera!

borislip said:
I wish Mavic would have this kinds of image quality... and a tripod-like gimbal stability... i really wish i could shoot THIS, from the Mavic...

The Mavic can be improved upon but it's not horrible:

borislip · Feb 13, 2018

Airborne24 said:
Could you strap a GoPro to your mp.

You could, but whats the point?

borislip · Feb 13, 2018

Mr. Salty said:
True, but it's a professionally shot promotional image from Intel, so they probably weren't using a point-and-shoot camera!

I didn't realize it was a professionally shot promotional image.

borislip · Feb 13, 2018

BTW, Mavic camera IS pretty bad in my point of view. On par with mid-end phones, not even high end ones. Not getting any near a good pocket camera, which is a shame, cause i see no technical reason, other than price cutting, to use phone-like sensor on it.