freewell sent me the all day pack for the mini three we're gonna test these out
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subscribing today we're testing out the bright day filter pack nd filter pack for the mini 3 pro
something i'm really excited about because this is a fantastic drone but because it doesn't have
a variable aperture you absolutely need nd filters in full disclosure free will did send these to me
but they're not paying for this review they don't have any input in this video and they
don't get to see this video before it's released now free will did send me two different filter
packs this is the bright day pack which has an nd4 and nd8 nd16 nd32 nd64 and an nd1000
which will cover what that nd 1000 might be useful for here in a second they also sent me the bright
day pack which is a combination of polarized and nd filters which starts with nd4 16 32 64 and a
just circular polarizer very useful for photography one of the best things about
the mini 3 pro is the new filter design for the mini you snap it on by doing just a little turn
so and then of course they snap right back on just like that and because of its size the gimbal guard
will still fit on the drone without having to take the nd filter off so to start off with
i'm going to shoot with the nd 64 because it is a fairly bright day out here with lots of sunshine
and you can see my settings here on the screen i've got my shutter speed of 160th because i'm
shooting in 4k30 and it's important that to get the right motion blur you want to keep
your shutter speed at two times your frame rate i have a whole video explaining about how to
the reasons for nd filters and all that right up here it'll click up pop in the corner but let's do
a quick flight with this showing you what proper motion blur looks like then we'll do one without
so one thing you'll notice with motion blur proper motion blur is the blur on all of the little
details which is what you want because otherwise it looks very unnatural to our eyes so if you
look at the grass and if we pause it right here you'll see natural looking motion blur and that's
what you want to emulate because that is what our eyes see in our brains interpret when we're
looking at things in motion normally well here is when the drone is orbiting around a subject
the subject should stay fairly sharp in the frame but everything else in the frame should change
all right now let's take the nd 64 off and we'll ramp up the shutter speed to compensate for our
exposure and i'll show you why you want to use nd filters especially when you're shooting in video
modes then we'll talk about photos so you can see on the screen already it's way too bright so what
we're gonna have to do is take our shutter speed and turn it way way up to get our proper exposure
800 1200 2000 so we're gonna start there actually i might lower just a hair maybe sixteen hundred
so one over sixteen hundred we're gonna do the same flight as we did last time just fly down this
uh meadow here hopefully ideally without hitting any trees all right so again flying forward
sport mode you can see here everything looks a little bit more jittery and a little bit more
uh stuttery and that's because there's no motion blur so again if we pause it right here you'll see
that obviously there's no motion blur um that's what causes it to look jittery and stuttery is
because the shutter speed is so high it makes every single thing look like an individual picture
not what you want for video now for photos it's not as crucial to have obviously the same amount
of motion blur unless that's something you're going for but there is a place where the nd 1000
that freewells included with this pack comes in extremely handy and also the circular polarizers
come in handy the circular polarizers are useful for dealing with saturation how much blue how much
green you want in the sky because they cut out the amount of reflected light so if you especially
want to deal with reflections off a surface like water if you film a lot over water then this the
polarized versions will be very useful for you and in this case freewheels included a little white
line on the polarizers so if you line that line up with the direction that you're going to be flying
and line that line up in the direction that the sun will be relative to where you're flying
it will do the most amount of polarization and the nd1000 is extremely useful for things like
hyperlapses where you want to blur out traffic or slow the motion or get a lot more motion blur
and things that are moving around like cars but it's also extremely useful when you want to get
the sense of motion for example water when you want to get the sense of water flowing
through you want to slow your shutter speed way down and get the motion the blur in waterfalls
beaches any place like that that's where the nd1000 is going to come in extremely useful nd
filters are really crucial for something like the mini 3 pro because it doesn't have an adjustable
aperture and because it does have such a wide open aperture of f 1.7 it's even more important to use
nd filters to get the right exposure and the right amount of motion blur or the motion effects that
you want depending on if you're shooting video or photo now i've purchased a lot of freewell
filters including the one i'm using on my camera right now they've sent me a lot all of them have
been fantastic i've abused a lot of them and they hold up well they have minimal color shift and a
really great value there of course affiliate links in the description if you want to purchase a set
for yourself now if you want to learn other ways to improve your videography and photography click
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and ways you can improve your videos and your photos using drones i'll see in one of those
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