this is the polar pro director collection for the mavic 3. we're gonna go test it
now
so
now in full transparency polarpro did send this to me but they're not compensating me in any
other way and they don't get to see or have any input into this video before it's released hey my
name is jake and i create content here for solo creators on the go so i do tests and reviews of
drones cameras lenses video and photo related equipment and i do tips and tutorials on how
to use those so if that's something interesting consider subscribing now what i have here is the
director's collection which is uh like a lot of filters that they sent me which is very cool but
you can get almost any collection that you want or almost any sort of combination that you want and
if you're just going to start out with i would highly recommend getting the two to five stop
the six to nine stop and then maybe one of the uh morphic filters or the other filters or cpl
filter or something like that just so you've got a good collection of three and then you can add or
you know filters as you need to but they redesigned a lot of these things how cool is
this case it's metal means it's a little cold to hold on to right now but it's still very very nice
latches shut clicks nicely and yeah houses the filters really nice so what this comes with is the
uh 8 16 and 32 combination nd filter and polarizer filter so you can work with reflective surfaces
really nice and then you have the two to five stop and the six to nine stop polar uh nd filters and
then also just a circular polarizer very useful for photography if you want to get rid of the
glare on water things like that very nice and then it comes with the gold morphic which i really like
and the blue morphic also really fun to play with like if you're wanting to match anamorphic footage
these gives you those really nice streaks across the air across the screen really cool really fun
the gold is so much fun to play with and then also a miss filter so if you're wanting to make
things look a little softer maybe not quite so digital or if you're wanting to cut down a little
bit on maybe some harsh light or something like that the misfilter comes in really handy but it
these three on the bottom are really just effects filters for changing all your footage now the
cool thing is you can get the gold morphing the blue morphic and the mist also in variable nds
filters go on and off just like the dji filters do you insert them into the little slots pop it on
and then it's locked in place and then on the variable nd you can turn and rotate the ring
to whatever your desired nd strength is i love variable nds on drones because it means i only
have to carry a couple of filters with me to be able to get the full effect of like three four
five filters sometimes so variable nd is really nice especially if you have the two to five and
the six to nine for the mavic 3 because it has a mechanical aperture that you can change on flight
it's really handy because you can go up set your nd filter kind of in the middle of where you want
it to be and then control the rest with aperture without having to go to all the way to f11 or all
the way to f 2.8 so it makes it really nice the two to five stop because you can set it and then
go and fly and make any fine adjustments you need to make with your aperture in the mavic 3 but it's
still important you still need it because like behind me over here some sunlit snow you're still
going to need an nd filter no matter what because it's just so much light coming into the sensor
so you can see it's really super overexposed now i could stop down with the aperture and make it
less overexposed and that would work but the sweet spot for this drone's about f 5.6 to f 8
where it looks the best the image is the sharpest things like that so if i put the 2 to 5 on there
which i have right now it's at 2 stops right now so then if i just stop it down a little bit
turn it all off sudden nothing's overexposed now if the light changes dramatically one way or the
other i can still adjust with the aperture while i'm in the air but as it is right now everything
exposed pretty well got it where i want it and i can go ahead and fly this way and then
make any adjustments i need to as i'm going so one thing i did notice and test because
occasionally i've had trouble with it before is on the variable nds i did not get any x pattern
or anything close to the x pattern even all the way stopped down to like stop five or stop six
so that's really good and speaks to the quality of these filters and that's where we come to
these anamorphic they're not anamorphic but they're morphic filters so they give you an
anamorphic sort of feel because they will flare across the lens like you would an anamorphic lens
i really like these things this is the gold one which i like a lot this is an example
of the gold morphic filter which i really like because it kind of stands out against
the blue which is really cool but they also do a blue morphic filter which is this one here
i love anamorphic i don't shoot it that often but uh when i get the chance to i really really enjoy
it i just i love the way it makes things look i like the streaks the flares these are pretty
good they're not overly saturated or too crazy i feel like they've hit a really sweet good sweet
spot here and it depends on how bright or direct the light is into the lens so you get more direct
more bright light then obviously the flares get a lot larger whereas smaller lights less intense
they're not quite as big so you can kind of control the amount of flare you get that way the
one downside of the uh the two morphic filters is that in brighter light you can't use them because
you can't actually see the gold and blue bars especially if you have an eye a higher aperture
so if you lower the aperture down raise your shutter speed it can get rid of those bars a
little bit so you won't notice them as much but these filters are definitely something
you're going to want to use in lower light dust dawn um lower light they look amazing
now they also made a mist filter which sort of gives you a little bit of halation effect around
lights and stuff so it sure softens and cause lights to bloom a little bit i want to see here
you can see sort of an example of that and here you can see an example without it so it does give
you an effect it's sort of like a quarter mist or maybe eight eight probably eighth miss filter
on a regular camera but it's nice if you want to kind of get rid of that digital look and soften
things up a bit i do get us a lot if you really absolutely need nd filters and the truth is no you
don't if you just want to go out and shoot stuff with your drones you totally can and that's fine
but if you want to get the best footage you can possibly get or if you want to get you know a
little bit more special effects then uh nd filters will do that for you and they will help you get
the best exposure help you deal with reflections on water reflective surfaces a little bit better
than just using the drone itself the rule of thumb is that if you're filming with the drone you want
to keep your shutter speed at two times your frame rate so if you're filming at 30 frames a second
you want to keep your shutter speed at 1 over 60. even though the mavic 3 has a variable aperture on
days like on days like today where it's really bright out there because it's snow and sun
sort of sun lit out there you will still need an nd filter to be able to get your shutter speed
down to where you want it and keep your iso where you want it so this is an example of what happens
when you fly fast with a high shutter speed close to stuff you can see everything looks very uh
jittery and very and if i pause it here you can see everything looks pretty clear and pretty clean
like an individual photo whereas what you want is this which is where the shutter speed is two times
the frame rate and gives you a lot smoother looking feeling when you're flying especially
when you're flying close to stuff and fast by you know things like sand gravel anything like that
you want it to kind of blur a little bit otherwise it gets a little distracting and a little odd
looking because our eyes are used to seeing a certain amount of motion blur now if you want to
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sun's going to start going down soon so i'll see you guys soon in the next video cheers