milksteak
lvl.2
Flight distance : 137369 ft
United States
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Just creating a thread to share my findings as I play with the drone.
Shallow Focus:
I really like the idea of this function, similar to the iphone7, except it's not easy to take selfies with it to get that effect. DJI's implementation is kind of genius, as a hobbyist photographer the results aren't very natural, a bit heavy handed, not entirely clean (look under my right arm/elbow). As a regular jane, my gf really likes the effect though. Also if you're off-center of the frame then there's a high chance of mis-focus. I personally feel the point of these photos goes against what I want from a selfie taken from a drone (wide, showing the environment from hard to reach angles). However, this function is still valuable to me as at least I finally have "someone" to take vacation selfies of myself and my gf, and this function lets me do these faux-portrait shallow focus shots if I felt like it.
PANO:
I did a pano test to see how it worked. The vertical pano looks to be two photos stitched, not very "tall". Horizontal is done by what looks like a stitch of 4 shots. Pressing the shutter will make the spark first yaw right, take a photo with a level gimbal then the gimbal pitches down and takes another, then it yaw's to the left and then takes two more at different pitches. It's actually a longish process, but the effects impress me. I'm amazed this can be done from mid-air in the wind without any manual input besides point and click. Attached photo has slight color editing. Also, users doesn't seem to get access to the individual shots. The pano is also only stitched by the processer when you tap to view it within the playback section. You'd need to view/stitch each pano individually, as group download does not work for panos. Kind of slow things. Quality of the pano is good, but moires easily.
Wishlist:
1. Vertical pano: this is a drone we're talking about, let's get more height for a taller pano !
2. Shallow Focus: Unless I'm missing how to enable it. This needs a self-timer. If I wanted a shot like this, I don't want to always look like i'm tapping on my phone in these types of photos.
Next post will be about the gesture controls. I want to put another session or two into this function before I comment, and let my gf have a go at it to see if it's just me that struggles with the hand wave.
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