Chest Rockwell
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United States
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Hi Folks,
I received my Mavic 3 a little over a week ago and have done a couple of flights. So far I'm loving it, but I'll admit I'm a bit rusty as it's been a couple of years since I've flown my M2P.
On the flights I've done so far, I used DLOG and exposed to the right on the histogram, about 2/3 to the right for most of my shots, and according to the screen I saw no overexposure indicators and the histogram I believe did not show any clipping in the highlights. However, once I pulled the files into Premiere Pro, the highlights are not recoverable.
On my M2P, I remember exposing in DLOG using the histogram and getting overexposure/highlight indicators in the Go 4 app. I'm new to the fly app - I don't mind it as much as other people seem to, I do miss some elements of Go 4 but I appreciate the clean real estate of Fly and I'm getting used to it.
So what I'm wondering is this:
- For those that have tried, is the histogram working correctly in DLOG?
- If it is working correctly, how do I confidently not over-expose highlights? I was thinking I could set my exposure using the normal color profile and then just switch over, but that seems like more work than should be necessary. I think yesterday when I was flying I was somewhere around +2.0 or +3.0 EV, but again I didn't see any overexposure in the histogram (it was cold and I was doing a quick test during my lunch break so I didn't want to run inside and grab the ND filters).
- Unrelated to histograms but related to the Fly app -- is there a way to lock auto focus? Or do people usually shoot in manual focus with peaking?
Sorry if some of these questions are overly basic, I got some great videos with my M2P but mainly only fly on vacations and with COVID I haven't been on vacation for a couple years. Bringing the M3 to the Caribbean next month so I want to be ready and not come home with disappointing footage.
Thanks!
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