One bag,
second bag, third
big camera bag with a little tiny...
I bought something I said I will never
buy.
This is not a sponsored video in any way.
There have been so many things I'd say I
would never do, I could never do. I could
never become a photographer, I could
never do a video...
yeah, yeah, yeah. I bought a drone. DJI
Mavic Mini 2.
This was the last piece of puzzle which
was missing to have a complete
filming kit. I was thinking about it for
a few months now and to be perfectly
honest
this is not my first drone. This is my
second
drone. I bought DJI Spark.
I had it for about two months, I flew it
once. I still have the footage, you are actually
looking at it
and then Canada came with the new laws
and regulations and that you need a
license in order to fly
so I sold it and I said, I will never
ever fly
drone again. What held me back was all
these laws and regulations,
fear of getting into trouble, fear of
somebody else getting mad at me for
even flying in the first place. It's just,
it got very intimidating
and I wasn't scared of the licensing and
all that, it's just
the laws and the regulations. And then
Richard C
came along and he emailed me
all the information I needed to know. All
the laws and all that. All the
website addresses to find all the stuff
and
I kind of changed my mind. I changed my
mind because the DJI
Mavic Mini 2 which is basically
considered a hobby or
toy drone because it's below 250 grams
and it can fly it
legally without a license in Canada. So I
said okay,
I'll give it a try. Thank you very much
Richard for your help.
Let me take you on the first flight
experience. I'm going to show you the
gimbal settings and camera settings.
Everything I tweaked
in the menu in the settings. I'll talk
about the picture quality and the video
quality and things you can do there.
This is not really a review, this is more
like a overall experience
the first flight. What I bought is DJI
Mavic Mini 2 fly more combo.
I also picked propeller guards in case I
need it in certain
conditions and settings. I got the 2
years DJI care service
and I purchased separately this filters
kit.
It's got everything I need even though
I'm not going to use the UV filter.
I'm more after the ND filters. The
shipping took a few days so what I did,
I spent one evening just watching
Jeven Dovey
video, the complete beginner's guide. It
saved me a lot of time.
When the drone arrived I knew exactly
what I'm doing. The setup was fairly fast.
What you can expect is a few hours of
charging all the batteries,
unboxing and setting up. The next day I
connected it to my phone, opened up the
account,
I did the whole firmware updates, I went
through all the settings in the app,
just wanted to review everything. I do
suggest turning it on
before you leave the house for the
flight because yesterday morning
something else was updating.
Let me share the current settings I have
in the app. First thing I tried at home
was to see how fast
the gimbal is reacting. I'm more about
the slow cinematic shots and I noticed
that the wheel was reacting a bit too
fast so I went into settings
and tweaked it a bit. This is what I have
currently set up in normal mode.
Pitch speed is 10, smoothness 18, yaw
speed
60 and smoothness 10. I did the same
for the basic cinesmooth mode.
The sports mode I just left as it is
because I'm not going to be using it for
a while. First I'm going to be using just
the beginner's mode which is the cine
smooth and then also the normal mode.
To be honest I was still freaked out a
little bit about the laws and
regulations and where to go and not to
go so I decided to find someone local
who does fly in this area for a number
of years and I happened to find a Durham
drone guy which was
very nice and he was willing to come, to
answer some of my
questions and concerns I had. That
literally put me in ease so I do
recommend to find someone local in your
area.I rechecked
the Canadian drone site selection tool
which shows clearly where you can fly
and you cannot.
I also checked DJI map which is in the
app.
It shows it there a bit differently. I'm
sticking to the official canadian one.
First evening we drove out of the city
where we found this very big
sports field ideal spot for getting the
feel of it.
I changed my frame rates to 24 frames
per second but
left it in automatic mode. I didn't
bother to use filters or anything like
that,
all automatic for the first time. It was
super simple
to set it up which I so appreciate.
Once it was up in the air, yes the whole
joystick thing, it reacts very fast. It is
very sensitive so it will take a lot of
practice to get the feel of it
to get very smooth shots and more
creative moves other than just going
forward, backwards, left and right.
I certainly felt respect, was extremely
cautious,
didn't go much high for the first time
and I was trying to learn how to use it.
Yeah, it was everything but not cinematic.
Yesterday I took it out to a different
location.
It's tiny bit windier than I thought it
would be. I should have brought a jacket,
a little bit chilly but otherwise it's
fairly good so let's give it one more
try.
No more in automatic mode. I was filming
in manual mode with an ND filter. I used
the ND32. My camera settings are those,
for those interested. ISO100, shutter
speed 1/48th
because I was filming in 24 frames
per second.
Here it goes back.
That's good. It's coming back, it's a
little bit forward,
I'm gonna put a little bit down so I see
where I'm gonna land.
How is the picture quality? How are the
photos
and the video? Photos I took for now in
automatic mode.
Everything is sharp no problems with
colors and all that.
Here is RAW from the camera and here's
the final edit.
When it comes to video I was very happy.
So far what I noticed though that when
you are filming in automatic mode
and you are doing a panning shots, you
notice
the top of the trees moving a lot. That
would be like the
rolling shutter effect. That's usually
because of this camera's sensor. It's one
of the cheaper cameras so
that's to be expected. How it could be
improved is if you film in manual mode,
you use the right shutter speed and
you just really slow down with the pen.
That should, that should help.
For me this is exactly what I need. Small,
light, compact. Nothing fancy,
nothing so everybody sees from far away.
It's easy to take it out, easy to set up,
get the shot. You pack and just go.
I think that's ideal, exactly what I'm
looking for.
I cannot wait to use it for the short
cinematic
film I started working on. It should be done
soon. I was hoping to finish it by the
end of the month but unfortunately
tomorrow we are heading into stay at
home order
for next four weeks so.... I still have to
shoot some indoor scenes anyways and I'm
working on the music. It's just very
exciting, cannot wait.
I think it's gonna turn out really
good.
If you want to check out the drone and
the filters the links are below the
video as
always. If you have any questions,
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See you in the next video. Cau... Ahoj...