Recent content by Michael91

a fixed focal length is out of the question?

to be honest, your best bet is to go and do some learning about cameras and their manual settings. theres loads of different combinations of settings that work in loads of different cases (capturing a picture of landscape vs something moving, dusk vs midday, near to the subject vs far away etc)...

Possibly so. Outside of half of the photos having a magenta tinge on certain tones I've found them to be relatively straightforward to edit. tho that doesn't mean my editing is much good, I've generally been able to push them towards where I want them 9 times out of 10!

DJI_0364.jpg I did a little edit to that file and a crop. a few things - the exposure is too low, it needs to be a bit brighter tho its not really very far off. your composition is probably the bigger thing you need to work on. your a bit far away from anything in that photo. id try and get...

i think itd be fine but its just very dark. if you have the DNG version i could see what i can do with it in lightroom/PScamera raw, trying to heavily edit jpg's is a loosing battle. to be honest with you, ive gotten quite nice photos from the x5 and the x5s in quite low light, the trick is to...

bluetac and coins. works a charm

i wonder is that sensor glass/plastic responsible in part for the magenta tinting the dji x5 series cameras are guilty of? as in theyve been overcompensating for it?

youll probably want to shoot in dlog on the inspire 2, that defaults the iso to 500, and ive found it to be relatively clean. proress will be nice, but for what your looking for, the sensor size would probably make a bigger difference than the bitrate, and seeing as theyre both micro 4/3rds...

for changing lens, you should have the gimbal balanced so it doesn't move from the position you set it in when the camera is off/disconnected. if it rolls or moves at all when its not powered, its not balanced right and your gimbal will start making all kinds of funny noises when you turn on...

yea, look, going ripping is the last resort to be honest, its just what ended up working for me. i didnt realise you didnt have the latest firmware tho, it is possible that if youve been using both the x3 and the x5 on the same drone, the firmwares gotten mixed up as theres 2 different versions...

from my own experience, its probably the connector on the bottom of the aircraft. if your still able to record video and photos to the sd card, as well as get all the information about what shutter speed and settings, just with no picture on your phone/tablet screen, then its probably the same...

for video encoding, would I be correct in saying that the CPU is the biggest factor in how fast it process anything? I know premier does GPU boost that benefits the most from NVidia cards, but a faster/more powerful CPU is the biggest factor? honestly, I don't see why you wouldn't be able to...

@ OP I think a lot of your problem there is the actual lighting conditions the 2 different days you were out. the light is a lot harsher in the inspire 2 pics, it looks like it might have been around midday with strong direct sunlight with extreme contrast shadows cast vertically down as a...

Could be the frame rate settings when capturing the video too. What sings were you using and had you any filters on?

Took the jump, got the x5, it arrived yesterday. been taking it out in beginner mode to see what its like, and i must say im very happy with it so far, even in the stiff breezes we have in this part of the world! took a few photos yesterday, not as high up as id have liked, but its a start, as...