Long exposures with the Mavic 2 Pro

wco81 · Mar 18, 2019

Seems people mostly shoot videos, including at night.

Has anyone shot a lot of long exposures using base (lowest) ISO, resulting in shutter speeds of 15-30 seconds or longer?

Can it hover without moving in order to attempt such long exposures?

Has anyone also tried long exposure panos, either using any automated capture modes or manually capturing (manually moving/turning/pivoting and shooting) and stitching for post-processing?

racerx43 · Mar 18, 2019

I tried a “long” exposure 100iso 6 seconds
Bird needed a calmer night to pull it off - had too much blur

noosaguy · Mar 18, 2019

wco81 said:
Seems people mostly shoot videos, including at night.

Has anyone shot a lot of long exposures using base (lowest) ISO, resulting in shutter speeds of 15-30 seconds or longer?

Can it hover without moving in order to attempt such long exposures?

Has anyone also tried long exposure panos, either using any automated capture modes or manually capturing (manually moving/turning/pivoting and shooting) and stitching for post-processing?

I see images posted here of longish exposures (5-12 seconds). Some look okay but many movement is evident. I've had little success over 3-4 seconds.

wco81 · Mar 18, 2019

Hmm, found a lot of night shots but most of them are with ISO 100 or 200 and shutter times under a second.

Some go up to 2-3 seconds but it seems longer exposures aren't needed? Though these are mostly of skylines so I guess there was enough light from the buildings:

中都空探│台中七期│Taichung

Fenghuang Ancient Town

Ride the Lightning

The Big Buddha

November Dusk

Last one is really nice, a 9-shot pano at dusk, 1-second exposure.

Porky · Mar 19, 2019

I took this last night, not brilliant, Sutter 8.0s, Iso 100, f/2.8, Raw
When I shoot at dusk I take a single shot but set the camera to “multiple” 3 photos then pick the sharpest one.

wco81 · Mar 19, 2019

Porky said:
I took this last night, not brilliant, Sutter 8.0s, Iso 100, f/2.8, Raw
When I shoot at dusk I take a single shot but set the camera to “multiple” 3 photos then pick the sharpest one.

Three at the same exposure or bracketed for HDR?

Seems like you could increase the ISO in order to try to bring up the shadows more. That is merge them for HDR.