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Flying with the X5S in low light

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How many here, if any, are flying the X5S at night and how do you see the low light performance? M4/3 is notorious for not having the best low light performance. I am curious to how many are actually flying at night and shooting/videoing to get quality. For the most part the IQ has been okay but can require quite a bit of work sometimes. Anyone?
 
I did a low light test recently. ProRes was pretty noisy but CinemaDNG looked great so from my experience low light = shooting in RAW.
 
I did a low light test recently. ProRes was pretty noisy but CinemaDNG looked great so from my experience low light = shooting in RAW.

Thanks. I'm not using those licenses so it doesn't apply to me. I shot this last night and am pretty pleased.
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I was contracted to video wedding aerials at 2 locations for this particular wedding. Although I have Inspire 2 X5S clips through out the video there are a couple of low light clips from the outside looking into the glass paneled reception area towards the video ending. I think the editor created a nice mix.


SanCap, excellent video dude. I used to help out shooting weddings. I hate it. I was helping a friend shoot, and I was just doing the documentary stuff. Came time for the kiss and my friend MISSED IT. She missed the kiss. Luckily I was standing back with a 70-200mm, and caught it. Turned out nicely for my friend and the couple. Because I was at 200mm, and f2.8, there was a nice bokeh effect but this experience turned me off to weddings. My hats off to wedding shooters. Truly the unsung hero's of the photography world.
 
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SanCap, excellent video dude. I used to help out shooting weddings. I hate it. I was helping a friend shoot, and I was just doing the documentary stuff. Came time for the kiss and my friend MISSED IT. She missed the kiss. Luckily I was standing back with a 70-200mm, and caught it. Turned out nicely for my friend and the couple. Because I was at 200mm, and f2.8, there was a nice bokeh effect but this experience turned me off to weddings. My hats off to wedding shooters. Truly the unsung hero's of the photography world.

Thanks, fortunately I was just the "Drone Guy" and not tasked with missing the kiss!! It was actually fun, I kept far away enough to not create a distraction to the wedding party. We had a signal system set up in case I was bothering them. No editing on my part was very welcome.
 
Could I get some opinions on which camera settings would be the best for shooting video of the city at night? Utilizing the Inspire 2 with Zenmuse X5s camera.
not using ProRes.
 
I would be interested in some suggestions on how I could improve this low light video, which was one of my first attempts. Incidentally, I filmed a couple of days before the California Wildfire, so I wasn't able to go back to try to improve on the shots that I did not care for.
 

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