Thoughts/comments on wide angle experience

[akdrone]

I've recently picked up the dji wide angle and it really looks good although I have not had much time with it. I saw a vid that said it would not work with waypoint hyperlapse but I just tossed it up in the air for a few minutes and it appears to be able to do so. I didn't have time to really confirm it. I note several vids that say it doesn't work. Perhaps there was an update that allowed it? Anyone have anything in particular to comment about it - good bad or ugly?

 

[LoudThunder]

Here and old post I saw...

DJI Wide-angle Lens attached - Unable to shoot in... almost everything!

So I have the lens, add-on lens, adapter. Whatever you want to call it, I have it. Its good. Image quality is good for this type of add-on to the default lens. The veiw is not as wide as my expectations had built up, with a bump form 84° to 108° but I have only taken a quick flight without good...

mavicpilots.com

 

[nzmikey]

I’ve had it for a few months now and in the right circumstances i love it !! It does have the distortion which can be a pain but it can be ironed out in post

One of the latest updates for the mavic 3 was to let ya use the wide angle lens on other features such as hyper lapse etc etc

Here’s my first video I did using the wide angle lens on the mavic 3

 

[LoudThunder]

Here’s my first video

If this was your first, I cannot wait to see what else you make, it was Beautiful, a couple of baubles, but Great!

 

[nzmikey]

Awww thanks

Yeah was a bit blah in some places lol

 

[LoudThunder]

Yeah was a bit blah in some places lol

No, seriously, I liked it and the couple of bobbles were are 0:47 (Gimbal rotation too fast), and at 2:03 (you yaw'd too quickly at first. But at 0:52, the sailboat passing the draw bridge was cool…

 

[Dale D]

I’ve had it for a few months now and in the right circumstances i love it !! It does have the distortion which can be a pain but it can be ironed out in post

One of the latest updates for the mavic 3 was to let ya use the wide angle lens on other features such as hyper lapse etc etc

Here’s my first video I did using the wide angle lens on the mavic 3

The exposures were beautiful with nice lighting. I thought there were too many clips of the same exact scene. The gimbal bobble was distracting too. All in all, a beautiful scene with good lighting but over done in frequency of clips.

Dale
Miami

 

[wco81]

Great video but I would imagine non-commercial drone flights are not allowed in Auckland or over the harbor?

 

[BlairAir]

The Wide angle produces more drama when closer to subjects. From high altitude, and far off subjects UT produces more of a panoramic effect. When possible, a roadway with trees or buildings and/or canopy can illustrate distortion more, but some interesting drama as well.

Before V01.00.0700 we couldn't use any autonomous flight modes, nor Focus Track. A lot has been enabled with that update.

I grabbed what may end up being a unicorn - the DJI branded wide angle lens adapter for Mini 3 Pro from Adorama in a close-out when DJI discontinued, then pulled all stock from the store. Still not sure what issue they came across; but I suspect the inability of Mini 3 to detect the lens, as Mavic 3 does allows taking some less than optimal images. Namely panoramas. A high number of frames like you get with 180° or Sphere Panos can screw up the overlap/stitching, for obvious reasons, producing multi-exposed bands in parts of the final image. This doesn't bother me, I can avoid things that don't work well. DJI probably didn't want to support an accessory that would have customers complaining, nor do they want more negative press after the Mavic 3 debacle.

I love the Mavic 3 Wide Angle, my only wish would be a way to combine ND Filters with it, as Freewell did with the anamorphic/Wide angle kit. Maybe next time!