Hey Vindibona,
The
Mavic 2 Pro has an aperture between f 2.8 to f 11. That is the same as the
Phantom 4 Pro.
The
Mavic 2 Zoom f 2.8 to f 3.8
The other Mavic's have a fixed aperture at f 2.8
For night photography a low f-stop number is necessary.
Best shoot in RAW for best result in post production.
I know of a trick to artificially create "night" photographs.
Shoot the pics in the twilight, when the ambient lights have come on.
In post production you can change the shadow and the highlight sliders in such a way that it seems the photographs were taken much later during the night.
Ruud
Perhaps I wasn't clear. I have a
M2P so I know about the variable aperture, one of the reasons I went for the
M2P. I don't know how the mechanics of the
M2Z lens, but functionally it is similar to zoom lenses that lose 1/2 stop when zoomed out. . But in terms of night shooting under very low light conditions it is irrelevant as the camera would want to be full open except for special effects shots requring ultra long shutter speeds. What I was trying to say is that at night, barring those special effect shots, the aperture will be pinned open to its widest setting, in this case f2.8, leaving the exposure controls entirely in the realm of shutter speed and ISO. FWIW in the past week or so I've done a couple test night flights.
In thinking about this thread I learned some details I hadn't paid attention to before. While the
M2P has a max ISO of 6400 (video) and 12800 (photo), the
M2Z has max ISO of 3200 (video and 3200 (photo). Interestingly the
MA2 has a max ISO of 6400 for video but only an ISO of 3200 for stills. The
Mini 2 is limited to ISO 3200 across with a minimum shutter speed of 4 seconds, compared to 8 seconds of it's bigger brothers.
I'd posted a clip in another thread in regard to handling noise in Davinci Resolve, so I dug it up and the original footagge and did a screen shot with the camera settings listed which I think it might illustrate what I was saying in conjunction with the noise reduction in the video. It was shot with a
M2P, the ISO bumped to 1600, the aperture pinned open at f2.8 and shutter at 1/25. It was pretty noisy.