Not selling the Mini 2 , because of the zoom in picture mode.

psmcgladdery · Dec 4, 2021

That’s the take off icon. You press that and a big take off button appears. You press and hold that and a circle goes round it in about a second. If the circle completes and you let go the propellers start and it takes off and hovers to about 1.2 metres. It’s helpful for hand launching.

RC_Adik · Dec 4, 2021

Applicable to the Air 2 & Air 2S it is a sideways flight button above the Auto take off & return to home button.
It inhibits L & R side movement, (roll).

Biodarwin · Dec 6, 2021

or you could put the camera in manual mode and manipulate the light as all photographers do.

pinballwiz86 · Jan 19, 2022

Biodarwin said:
or you could put the camera in manual mode and manipulate the light as all photographers do.

Not all DJI drone owners are ‘photographers’.

I would wager 80% of DJI drone owners are probably just people that enjoy flying a drone and snapping the odd picture for Instagram. Auto is fine.

scro · Jan 19, 2022

Phantomrain.org said:
Look at this picture below, that is the Same shot with no zoom,
There is no way recreate the picture below with editing or zooming on the time line.

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Now look at this exact same Sunset using the 2 X Zoom as shown below , you cannot make this picture above into this one below with editing you need the 2 x Zoom to make that happen and this is just 1 Example of Thousands.

Look at how that picture Transformed with the 2 x Zoom , Thus why Mavic 3 Zoom in Photos is such a big step if it worked a little better. The fact is the Mini 2 has a better Zoom than the Mavic 3 and thats a hard pill to swallow for now but were all waiting for the Prophecy to take place . lol

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Phantomrain.org
Gear to fly your Mini 2 in the Rain.

2x zoom isn't needed to capture the 2nd picture, just a little better understanding how to use the photo mode of the drone. All that is happening to make the 2nd picture more photogenic than the 1st is a little exposure compensation and cropping. Having the silhouetted trees/shoreline in the foreground helps, but that could have been included in the 1st picture by panning the camera down a bit. Exposure compensation is best done up front when taking the photo to avoid blowing highlights or underexposing dark areas, but the cropping can be done later.

I have a mini 1 and in full auto mode a simple tap on the screen in photo mode makes the autoexposure adjust for the area you tap on rather than the whole scene. In the 1st picture above there's a lot of medium grey cloud in the frame and that's what the auto exposure is metering for, resulting in the colours from the sunset getting a bit "overcooked" and washed out. A simple tap on the brighter orange tinted glow in the clouds will make the autoexposure meter for that instead. The result is a darker exposure that captures the subtle colours much better. I use this technique all the time when taking sunrise/sunset photos and very often it makes all the difference. In the 2nd example above the autoexposure is only metering for what's in the zoomed in frame, so is less influenced by the surrounding grey sky that's now been cropped away.