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Chasing Light & Shadows Posted at 2018-8-31 00:14
When taking photos, instead of increasing the aperture (f), increase the shutter speed to reach the desired exposure level. For photos you're gonna want a faster shutter speed than 1/60 as it'll reduce the chance of motion blur. 1/60 is great for cinematic video at 30fps but not so good for photos unless you want a blur effect. As an example for your picture... f2.8 (always for night shots) shutter speed 1/200 (estimate, you need to experiment and it will always be different depending on the available light), iso 100. If you can't get a fast enough shutter speed to stop the motion blur this is when you need to increase the ISO as a last resort. It's better to have a noisy image than no image at all and you can work on reducing the noise in software afterwards.
As a sidenote. Your picture looks absolutely fine noise wise for general social media, if you can only see the noise when zoomed right in then don't worry about it.
This is a bit late, but I've finally had time to do some more low light testing. I see the same noise no matter the aperture/shutter sped combination. While yes, this is fine for general social media, my standards need to be higher. I'm a real estate photographer and was hoping to use this drone for some twilight photos at times. This level of noise isn't acceptable for that, imo. Maybe my expectations are too high, but from what I've seen of other Mavic 2 photos, I'm not seeing the same noise (admittedly they may be post processing). Maybe I'm getting what I'm supposed to get. But I was just shocked to see so much noise at ISO 100.
On a possibly related note, I'm also seeing uncool artifacts around the sun that I'm not seeing on other Mavic photos. The orange banding around the sun is what I'm talking about.
It did not matter what aperture/shutter speed combo I was at, I was getting the same result:
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