Today I attempted filming a robin in flight in Slow Motion (x8). The little blighter knew I was there, only about 3 metres away, with the Pocket 2.
When I played the footage back, he looked quite small and distant in the frame.
So I played around with Davinci Resolve, cropping and zooming to try for more detail.
The limitation of the SloMo function on the P2 is that it only records at 1080.
So the resulting zoom and crop loses sharpness dramatically.
I got the shot I wanted, but not the quality, unfortunately.

Very cool how it sometimes glides with the wings folded in at the beginning. To clear the branches maybe.

Nice try.
We need a tele addon for the P2

Depp Posted at 11-28 22:40
Very cool how it sometimes glides with the wings folded in at the beginning. To clear the branches maybe.

Hi Depp. Yes it seems to be half leap, half flight, doesn't it. Particularly the second one, where it jumps and  then just uses its wings to kill the speed and land.

Montfrooij Posted at 11-28 23:54
Nice try.
We need a tele addon for the P2

Thanks Peter. Yes it would help.  Or if the P2 could shoot SloMo in 4K, the crop might have better definition - particularly if the zoom fubction could be made to work when in SloMo mode.  But those are the limitations of the device we have,

Blériot53 Posted at 11-29 00:26
Thanks Peter. Yes it would help.  Or if the P2 could shoot SloMo in 4K, the crop might have better definition - particularly if the zoom fubction could be made to work when in SloMo mode.  But those are the limitations of the device we have,

Funny thing is, they could have added 'good' digital zoom (cropping the frame while zooming in, remaining decent quantity).
But they chose not to.
It will be better to get a tele lens for sure.
But fiddly.....

I can't find a tele / zoom for the P2 unfortunately.

Montfrooij Posted at 11-29 00:28
Funny thing is, they could have added 'good' digital zoom (cropping the frame while zooming in, remaining decent quantity).
But they chose not to.
It will be better to get a tele lens for sure.

That would be desirable  - better than a fiddly "add-on"

Blériot53 Posted at 11-29 00:39
That would be desirable  - better than a fiddly "add-on"

The lens add-ons (such as the supplied wide angle device) are fiddly, and since they're only held on magnetically I always worry about them becoming detached and easily lost.

Blériot53 Posted at 11-29 00:39
That would be desirable  - better than a fiddly "add-on"

It would be better than what they have right now for sure!

Blériot53 Posted at 11-29 00:41
The lens add-ons (such as the supplied wide angle device) are fiddly, and since they're only held on magnetically I always worry about them becoming detached and easily lost.

They are very fiddly.
But I would love to give it a test if I could find one.

Montfrooij Posted at 11-29 00:46
It would be better than what they have right now for sure!

Couldn't agree more

Montfrooij Posted at 11-29 00:46
They are very fiddly.
But I would love to give it a test if I could find one.

Do you mean the wide-angle?  It's part of the do-it-all combo.

The take off is so sweet in slomo.   I think he was teasing you though.

Blériot53 Posted at 11-29 00:53
Couldn't agree more

One thing for DJI to add to the list

Blériot53 Posted at 11-29 00:54
Do you mean the wide-angle?  It's part of the do-it-all combo.

I ment the other way around.
So the same adapter type, but then tele.

DAFlys Posted at 11-29 01:07
The take off is so sweet in slomo.   I think he was teasing you though.

It was a bit of a stand-off. Eventually he just turned his back on me, as you can see,

Montfrooij Posted at 11-29 01:07
One thing for DJI to add to the list

Quite so.

Montfrooij Posted at 11-29 01:08
I ment the other way around.
So the same adapter type, but then tele.

Ah yes I see.

Blériot53 Posted at 11-29 01:10
It was a bit of a stand-off. Eventually he just turned his back on me, as you can see,

I make bird feeders like this and they love to stand inside and taunt.

DAFlys Posted at 11-29 01:30
I make bird feeders like this and they love to stand inside and taunt.

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Neat. How on earth is that supported?  It looks to be hovering in mid-air. Or is it glued to a perspex sheet in a hide?

Blériot53 Posted at 11-29 01:11
Quite so.

Let's hope they add it.

Blériot53 Posted at 11-29 01:11
Ah yes I see.

Can't find it unfortunately.

Very cool SloMo.    The Robin almost appeared to be having a stare off with you.  It is unfortunate that DJI decided against writing code to allow 4K while in SloMo.  Anyway, still a great capture.

Blériot53 Posted at 11-29 01:44
Neat. How on earth is that supported?  It looks to be hovering in mid-air. Or is it glued to a perspex sheet in a hide?

Its hanging on some string.

DowntownRDB Posted at 11-29 02:59
Very cool SloMo.    The Robin almost appeared to be having a stare off with you.  It is unfortunate that DJI decided against writing code to allow 4K while in SloMo.  Anyway, still a great capture.

Hi RDB. It was the best I could do with the equipment available.  Yes he was definitely at a stand-off with me only 3 metres away   They're a very bold bird.  If the code for the P2 would allow 4K I think I could have got a more satisfactory result from the crop.

DAFlys Posted at 11-29 03:02
Its hanging on some string.

Ah. I see !

Blériot53 Posted at 11-29 03:34
Ah. I see !

The strings a bit blurred out and the low quality on here doesn’t help either.

Certainly being at the right place at a right time. Shame that the Pocket 2 didn't allow for better zoom quality.

Blériot53 Posted at 11-29 01:44
Neat. How on earth is that supported?  It looks to be hovering in mid-air. Or is it glued to a perspex sheet in a hide?

Having the string blurred out certainly made it look like some magic-space-hovering thing

HGDC84 Posted at 11-29 11:33
Certainly being at the right place at a right time. Shame that the Pocket 2 didn't allow for better zoom quality.

Yes it showed its limitations, unfortunately.

HGDC84 Posted at 11-29 11:34
Having the string blurred out certainly made it look like some magic-space-hovering thing

It had me fooled

Amazing footage Blériot Capt! He looks very curious from 1:20  . Thanks for sharing!

Blériot53 Posted at 11-29 03:33
Hi RDB. It was the best I could do with the equipment available.  Yes he was definitely at a stand-off with me only 3 metres away   They're a very bold bird.  If the code for the P2 would allow 4K I think I could have got a more satisfactory result from the crop.

Despite the limitations of the P2 you made it perform quite well in capturing that video.  Keep up the great work.  

QQRUCH Posted at 11-30 04:33
Amazing footage Blériot Capt! He looks very curious from 1:20  . Thanks for sharing!

Thanks QQ. Yes! We stood there for a few moments looking at eachother, before he turned his back  on me

DowntownRDB Posted at 11-30 04:41
Despite the limitations of the P2 you made it perform quite well in capturing that video.  Keep up the great work.

Thanks RDB. It's hard to see how I can improve on that with the P2 as it is at the moment.

Blériot53 Posted at 11-30 04:46
Thanks QQ. Yes! We stood there for a few moments looking at eachother, before he turned his back  on me

you're welcome Capt.

Blériot53 Posted at 11-30 04:48
Thanks RDB. It's hard to see how I can improve on that with the P2 as it is at the moment.

You're very welcome.  

Video is unavailable unfortunately

Phantasma5 Posted at 12-13 18:59
Video is unavailable unfortunately

No. I only posted it to demonstrate the limitations of the Pocket2. I don't like to clutter my YT account with too much stuff. So I delete those with little response.