Brian88
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Short answer, yes.
Long answer:
To understand why an ND is important first we need to understand properly exposing our photographs with the exposure triangle. Shutter speed, aperture, and ISO. Each of these three settings affects the amount of light that reaches the sensor. Shutter speed is the amount of time light is exposed. Aperture is the size of the hole at which light passes through to the sensor (think your eyes pupil opening and closing). ISO is the sensitivity of the sensor to light. We want to adjust each of these to capture the desired effect (Motion blur, freeze frame, shallow depth of field, etc.) This is a very basic explanation of course. Feel free to read more on this if you want.
With the Mavic, we only have control over two of these to get the proper exposure. Without the ability to adjust the aperture on the Mavic, the ND filter allows us to capture the proper exposure of a scene easier. This becomes increasingly important when we talk about capturing video. Because in video, our shutter should be double our frame rate (24fps = 1/50th shutter). This creates the most natural motion blur in our videos. Because the Mavic aperture is fixed wide open, we can't achieve this rule and get a proper exposure. So we introduce an ND filter to reduce the amount of light. Which, allows us to meet our double frame rate rule.
Every rule is meant to be broken, you can achieve a great looking image without meeting the shutter rule, as long as motion is not a large factor in your video. An ND filter will not make your videos instantly fantastic, but they will help you get closer to a proper exposure.
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