Sunshine on the moors

4wd · Nov 29, 2016

It's usually blowing a gale or foggy up here at the Lion Inn on Blakey Ridge - if not snowing.
Today with something of an inversion it was actually better higher up than in the valley where frost persisted all day.

4wd · Nov 29, 2016

This is about as good video as you can get from the Mavic.
While at first the image is startlingly crisp there is an awful lot of digital smoothing going on in the fine detail.
With closer subjects this does not matter but expansive scenes on a larger screen do not bear close scrutiny.

Nonetheless the tiny Mavic is a delight to use and incredibly capable.

jamgabbi · Nov 29, 2016

wow this is so beautiful looks amazing.

thank you for the share

Pedro · Nov 29, 2016

Where were you?

Anthony · Nov 29, 2016

This exactly where i would have been at the weekend if i had my drone

also scaling dam would have been nice to shoot

4wd · Nov 30, 2016

Peterev said:
Where were you?

There's a link in first post

Pedro · Nov 30, 2016

4wd said:
There's a link in first post

Sorry I meant where were you standing while filming? I couldn't see you in the shot..

4wd · Nov 30, 2016

Peterev said:
Sorry I meant where were you standing while filming? I couldn't see you in the shot..

Sitting in the pickup with trailer on. (warm)

Pedro · Nov 30, 2016

Ha, nice! No signal issues?

4wd · Nov 30, 2016

Full signal throughout.
I didn't go far probably 1000 feet max - it doesn't make much difference especially to the front.

Pedro · Nov 30, 2016

Cool.. I'm going here today to try her out properly:

Arundel Castle & Gardens

TonG · Nov 30, 2016

4wd said:
This is about as good video as you can get from the Mavic.
While at first the image is startlingly crisp there is an awful lot of digital smoothing going on in the fine detail.
With closer subjects this does not matter but expansive scenes on a larger screen do not bear close scrutiny.

Nonetheless the tiny Mavic is a delight to use and incredibly capable.

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It is nice to see the differences between your image and footage.
The smoothing (woolliness) happens in the low contrast-area's. In high contrast transitions the details are still preserved.
These are the artifacts of H.264 processing.

daithi23 · Nov 30, 2016

4wd said:
This is about as good video as you can get from the Mavic.
While at first the image is startlingly crisp there is an awful lot of digital smoothing going on in the fine detail.
With closer subjects this does not matter but expansive scenes on a larger screen do not bear close scrutiny.

Nonetheless the tiny Mavic is a delight to use and incredibly capable.

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Nice work. What video settings are you using? Is it color graded in post?

4wd · Nov 30, 2016

daithi23 said:
Nice work. What video settings are you using? Is it color graded in post?

Art Mode with sharpening on -2
So that's -2, 0, 0
With bright sun you might drop contrast to -1 too, but art is quite flat to start with.
It had slight increase in saturation afterwards and adjustment to exposure trying to compensate for strong backlight mainly.
Colour balance locked manually on 5800

Pedro · Nov 30, 2016

I need to remember to focus and the experiment with the video settings and more practise with editing..

Was a lovely day.. This thing is incredible though.

Dan Pancamo · Nov 30, 2016

why doesn't someone plant some trees?

4wd · Dec 1, 2016

Dan Pancamo said:
why doesn't someone plant some trees?

Moorland: North York Moors National Park

The open peat moorland has a unique ecology and covering with trees (if they'd grow) would destroy it.

Kilrah · Dec 4, 2016

4wd said:
This is about as good video as you can get from the Mavic.
While at first the image is startlingly crisp there is an awful lot of digital smoothing going on in the fine detail.

Just watched that video (finally) and there must indeed be something in your settings or processing chain that causes an awful lot of noise reduction to go on or something, finely detailed stuff is awfully blotchy. My footage has a LOT more detail, even if it's indeed at the cost of a bit of noise.

4wd · Dec 4, 2016

Kilrah said:
Just watched that video (finally) and there must indeed be something in your settings or processing chain that causes an awful lot of noise reduction to go on or something, finely detailed stuff is awfully blotchy. My footage has a LOT more detail, even if it's indeed at the cost of a bit of noise.

Do you have an example - to be honest I think it's the type of vegetation doesn't have enough texture to be recorded half a mile away at the Mavic resolution.