How we doing! Brett Garamella here. Today I'm going to look at the footage with my DJI Air 2S
and the DJI Mini 3 Pro now this comparison is going to be in 4k both at 24 frames per second and 60
frames per second so we're going to jump right into the video and look at the footage that I
shot and I have it on this monitor because it's calibrated I can look at it big it's a lot more
accurate than looking at my laptop links to all my gear is in the description below but this is
the easel monitor so in this first part it's 24 frames per second in 4k now these drones both
have a fixed aperture so I couldn't change the aperture I've seen the Mini 3 pro has a
1.7 so it lets more light in other than that I used an ND filter I try to keep it at 100
all the time so be a fair comparison and then I put on an ND filter when needed obviously to
keep the shutter double the frame rate so when I shot 24 frames per second it was 1 50th of a
second shutter speed later in this video when I shot 160th of a second it was at 120th of a
second so let's jump into the video and now we're gonna see 24 frames per second in 4k and this is
the default settings in h.265s in normal color for both of the drones so let's go have a look
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so looking at them side by side what I did notice first off the air 2s is an F 2.8 lens the Mini 3
Pro is 1.7 so I did notice a little more detail on the mini 3 Pro in the shadows maybe that was
from having more light come through the lens but it has a smaller sensor so I thought it
would actually be the opposite that the air 2s would have more detail more dynamic range but it
looks like the Mini 3 pro has more dynamic range and more detail in the shadows which I was very
surprised and then there's the focal length where the Mini 3 Pro had 24 millimeters but the air 2s
had 22 millimeters but side by side I had to move the drones in different places so I moved one way
further back than the other what I noticed was quite a bit of a difference so I had to have
the Mini 3 Pro a lot further back and the air 2s a lot forward to make it look the same side by
side as you can see in the comparison I like the air 2s having being a little wider I I did like
that by the way I did have my friend Austin filming with me so he helped me out and that
way we were able to film side by side although at the very end when I shot in D city-like and
d-log mode I did that all myself which is kind of crazy flying two drones simultaneously but
other than that I flew my friend and we tried to match it up so the footage looked almost exactly
the same so I had to use a darker ND filter on the mini 3 Pro because it let so much light in
with the 1.7 aperture and even then it still looks a little brighter to my eye or a little
more detail in the shadow and it also looks a lot warmer so I kind of like the warmer feel
to it which is the air 2s looked a lot cooler now you may be thinking oh to use Auto white
balance no I use custom white balance I set my white balance at 5600 Kelvin which is daylight
balanced and even doing that the Mini 3 Pro looked a lot warmer as you can see in all the footage I
use all custom settings I didn't do anything in Auto that way it was a controlled environment
a fair comparison now obviously I realize there's no perfect comparison but I did my
best to make it as good as I could okay with that said now we're going to look at 60 frames
per second since I'm using a 24 frame per second timeline in Premiere Pro I slowed the
footage down so it almost looks like it's not moving we were flying the drones and the whole
point of this video is to see the image quality side by side so I'm going to play it right now
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so here's some other observations obviously 60 frames per second the image quality still
basically the same as 24 frames per second because we're shooting in 4k with h.265 the same settings
etc etc what I did notice looking at them side by side is that the Mini 3 pro has a little too
much sharpening so you might get some Alias and Moray in your images whereas the air 2s doesn't
really have that as much the Mini 3 Pro I know a lot of people like sharpening especially like
beginners and people who don't do a lot of color grading things like this it is very good I mean
the image quality is exceptional for such a small drone but it's a little too sharp for
my taste but again I'm pixel peeping and most people don't have a huge monitor like this on
a laptop and especially on a phone it's going to look great you're not going to be able to really
tell the difference the image quality almost looks identical side by side but I will say looking at
the footage I noticed I was flying the Mini 3 Pro a lot faster and closer to objects so that
to me that looks a lot cooler and the reason I did that is because it's a lot quieter so the
air 2s is much noisier compared to the Mini 3 Pro so with the Mini 3 Pro it's smaller and it's very
quiet so you're able to get close to objects fly in real tight situations for that reason alone the
way I fly now I kind of prefer the Mini 3 Pro for that reason but in super windy conditions
the air 2s is going to perform much better so when I was flying over that bridge I don't think
anybody really noticed it but with the air 2s I didn't get too close whereas the Mini 3 Pro I got
really close down by the lamp posts and really close to the people and they didn't even notice
a drone was there because it's so quiet so that's one advantage with the Mini 3 Pro with the air 2s
you might get a little more detail on the sky with the clouds and the highlights might not be
as overblown you don't get as much detail in the shadow us now in the final comparison I'm going
to shoot D cine-like with the Mini 3 Pro that is in 10 bit and then 10 bit log with the air 2s and
compare them side by side and then I'm going to color grade them side by side basically I just
added my Luts which if you join any of my courses those Luts are included links down below but for
this comparison since they're so close I think it's real interesting to see what they're going
to look like in 10 bit both with DCd like and 10-bit log and I shut that mostly in 4k 24 frames
per second but I also did it a little bit with 4K 60 frames per second so let's go have a look
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so in this final side-by-side comparison the Mini 3 Pro just looked better to my eye I really like
the colors they just seemed a lot more natural and real whereas the air 2s just seemed too cold
it all depends on personal preferences I prefer a little warmer tone but if you like a little
cooler tone the air 2s is better obviously you can change that but this is the starting point
so the Mini 3 Pro is a lot warmer and the air 2s is a lot cooler in tones just right off the
bat and one of the things I did notice the over sharpening you can see it in the building any
type of pattern it really is too much sharpening and you can notice it in the buildings I noticed
it with the Mini 3 Pro is quite bad and it was also quite bad with the air 2s as well I think
DJI over sharpens its images as a whole I wish the images were a little softer or they built just a
bigger sensor inside these drones because you're going to get some aliasing moire and things like
this where it just doesn't look quite right but I realize for most beginners and people who don't
know and people aren't serious about filmmaking they may not notice or understand this so they
say oh it looks sharp it looks great for a serious filmmakers it's a little too much sharpening and
then overall in d-log and d-city like they seem very close they seem almost the contrast issue
isn't as pronounced as in just shooting normal mode they're pretty much the contrast and the
highlights is almost the same when shooting in log so if you're going to shoot in log you'll
probably get very similar results I would say the color tones look better with the Mini 3 Pro but
it has a little more sharpening which I didn't quite like if I had to pick a drone now looking
at them side by side I'd say the Mini 3 Pro I choose it because of the colors because it's
quieter so I can get closer to objects and if I'm just shooting in normal mode it has a lot
more detail in the shadows and now with 10 bit D cine-like mode the air 2s doesn't have too much
of an advantage except the fact that it sensors slightly bigger Mini 3 pro has a 1.7 lens which
is much better than the 2.8 lens aperture on the air 2s I would rather have a better lens
and just a slightly smaller sensor but get much better colors and more dynamic range it looks
like let me know what you think in the comments below I do appreciate you watching if you enjoyed
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