Lol, leave it to DJI to whine about your manual settings. It does make sense however. Twisted sense, but sense.
That's a funny way of seeing it. The drones camera interface isn't whining, it's
informing. All cameras that have manual settings do this, in one way or another, but they don't necessarily give you the exposure value.
Try this. If you put shutter, ISO and Aperture all in manual mode, you will see the exposure meter change as the camera gathers more or less light. Now toggle aperture mode into auto. You can now adjust EV and watch aperture compensate for it. Instead, you should leave EV alone, and dial shutter speed up or down. Aperture will adjust to compensate for your changes. Every click faster (less light) will cause the aperture to open slightly to compensate leaving EV the SAME VALUE.
This is Shutter Priority mode. Now do the inverse: Put shutter into auto, leave aperture in manual. This is aperture priority.
It's not a DJI thing. It's how all cameras work.
I appreciate that DJI gives you full auto, full manual, and everything in between, including Shutter Priority, Aperture Priority, and even ISO priority. Extremely granular control over the exposure, and the look your output. It can be more challenging to get the perfect look, but the ability to finely control exposure is there.
DJI now must add controls for:
- Saturation
- Contrast
- Sharpness
DJI switched all products from the GO App to Fly App for a simpler interface, then spent the last 3 years adding back all the stuff that they removed to the Fly App, since it has to serve everyone from a
Mini 1 owner to someone with the
Mavic 3 Cine - "DJI's Flagship Camera Drone" as the site says. A bit ridiculous, I say.
A truism of software design is that you can have powerful software, with complexity that goes along with it or Simple Sofware with missing or hidden power user tools. It's very rare to have it both ways in a single GUI. One solution I suggested to DJI is to build in an Advanced Mode. Enabling it would not just switch to manual camera settings but would enable an additional tab along with the current:
"Safety, Control, Camera, Transmission & About. An "Advanced" tab
Alternately they could just enable advanced item sections on the existing tabs.
I spend way too much time thinking about this stuff. It kills time while I wait patiently (not) for updates.