the mavic 3 is a beast with the telephoto camera and the four thirds sensor camera it's amazing
what sort of stuff that drone can capture but i've had one major issue with all of the nd filters on
the market until now hey my name's jake and i create content here to help solo creators
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sponsored by free well but they did send me these filters to test they don't get any input in this
video and they don't get to see it before it's launched one of the coolest things about the
mavic 3 is the telephoto camera it gives you so much creative power to be able to compose shots
differently than you otherwise would and then of course the four thirds sensor camera gives you
spectacular imagery with the 10-bit color and just great depth and also the variable aperture
the problem with filters up to this point for the mavic 3 is that they've been the same strength on
the top and bottom so you can see here this is an nd16 on the top and on the bottom it's nd 16. it's
not normally a big deal except for that the mavic 3 has two cameras so you have the telephoto camera
which is an f 4.4 and it's a half inch sensor and then you have the four thirds inch sensor
camera which has an f 2.8 aperture because it's also a larger sensor it means it's just
dramatically better at gathering light because it's much larger and so that caused an issue
when you're wanting to shoot with these kind of nd filters on both you had to kind of find the
balance between what you could use and shoot with on the four thirds inch sensor but also still be
able to get usable footage out of the half inch sensor i'm gonna show you some examples in a
minute but freewell has gone and released these filters which i think are absolutely fantastic
i've been using them for a couple of weeks they are two different strengths so on the top here
you have an nd2 and on the bottom you have an nd16 which sets it up perfectly to be able to use the
best settings to get the best footage out of both of the cameras without having to come back and
trade nd filters and this is especially useful when you're shooting in very dynamic lighting
situations because you do have the aperture on the main camera you can close it down or
brighten it up not a big deal but the the top camera you're pretty much solely reliant
on iso and nd filters to make it look correct and that can really cause issues because that
camera doesn't look good at high isos 100 is okay 200 is all right 400 starts to get noisy at 800
is really noisy so these filters have made a huge difference now i want to show you some examples
of what i mean so i've put on the nd8 which is pretty good because i'm shooting at f 6.3
and as you can see it's a tiny bit overexposed but as soon as we point back to where it's more
ground it's going to be about right so the nd8 is about right for what we want
okay so you can see here on the screen that i'm shooting at iso 400 which is the default lower
native iso when you're filming in d-log which i like filming in d-log but even if you switch
it to um regular you're still going to be filming around 100 iso and maybe not quite as deep f-stop
so i'll switch out real quick so we're filming 5.1 k we're filming in normal mode
we're going to lower this down to iso 100 and then we're going to open up our aperture a little more
to get a little brighter right in there probably is what we want
and now we're going to film so you can see here we're we're a little overexposed but that's
mostly due to the sky like we want we want this to be not quite super brightly exposed because
when we end up pointing straight at the ground then everything's a little dark so now i'm going
to rewind and we are going to or we go back and reset and we're going to do the telephoto camera
and what i want you to do is pay attention to these settings because the telephoto camera
settings are going to be dramatically different with this nd8 same nd filter
but definitely a lot higher iso so we'll switch to the 7x zoom or the telephoto zoom and now already
you can see we're at 1000 iso if you i have it set to automatic but if you turn that off we're at 800
1600 is pretty much where we'd want to be as we're doing the same shot with the telephoto camera so
1600 iso is going to be ridiculously high because this camera does not perform well at really high
isos so now we're going to put on the new split filters from freewell and see what a difference
that makes on the settings between the telephoto camera the zoom camera it's a telephoto camera and
the regular camera these are really nice machined aluminum really great the nd8 has uh three stops
lower so it's just a uv filter clip in just like the regular mavic 3 filters and there you go all
right so again as you see here we're going around iso 100 f 2.8 these are maybe touch darker than
the the standard dji filters that i was using but you can see here we're getting great footage this
is in normal mode um just so we can match up with the telephoto camera well and everything looks
good now let's switch to the telephoto camera and see how that looks alright so already we can tell
that it's way overexposed because we still have it set to iso 1600 so let's drop that down to 100
and look how much better that looks now yes it's a little tiny bit underexposed so we could maybe
go up to 200 just because it's kind of dark it's really overcast and it's getting more overcast
as i go but already we went from iso 1600 to iso 200 to get a proper exposure which means
we are going to have a much less noisy image and everything we shoot with this is going to look
considerably better as we you know use this to film our subject so basically every one of these
filters that this pack comes with has a three stop less filter on the top so in this case here you
have the nd8 with a clear filter or uv filter on the top you have an nd16 with an nd2 filter on top
nd 32 comes with nd4 on top and then nd 16 or 64 nd 64 comes with an nd8 filter on top and what
that enables you to do is shoot in a really wide variety of conditions but still be able to get
good footage and good video out of both cameras this doesn't matter so much for photos but if you
do a lot of video shooting and you like to use the telephoto camera which i do because it's fantastic
now that they've given us manual control over it then these filters in my opinion are a must
for the mavic 3. now there are links in the description the pricing is right here i think this
is probably the best filter set you could put your money into if you're especially if you're a video
shooter not so much for just photos but if you do video work and you like to use the telephoto
camera which i do because it gives you so much different options to be able to compose shots
and how you reveal and show information to your audience these are the best nd filter set that i
think you can invest your money into right now if you do a lot of video shooting with the mavic 3.
now you want to watch this video right here for some other fantastic accessories for the mavic
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