Tell me why you might shoot drone video using a slow frame rate?

[mrprawn]

I shoot 25fps because I live in Australia and we are on a PAL power network @ 50 Hertz. 25fps syncs with 50 hertz.
America is at 60 hertz so they shoot 30fps as a standard for real time play back.
24fps is for TV.

I shoot 50fps and 120fps for slow mo.

I shoot 5k for reframing and dynamic zoom, also 5k with little motion blur is great for vfx.

 

[canadian drone videos]

A dead give away is moving water, or tree leaves blowing in the wind, cars moving around. I can shoot in 60fps and it just does not look natural. This is from 50 plus feet away.

So it doesn’t look natural when you watch sports?

 

[baddog]

So it doesn’t look natural when you watch sports?

Not really....If you were to take an avid sports enthusiast, who watches lots of fast action sports on a 4K monitor at 30fps, then one day switch it out to 24fps they would think their eyesight was going bad. Sports don't look natural at 30 FPS to me at all. If I go outside and play tennis and if I could see the action of the ball as clearly as I see on a televised broadcast, that would up my game 10 fold.