It's very early in the morning
so I finally arrived in beautiful Sardinia precisely I am in the island of
San Pietro which is a very tiny island in the southwest of Sardinia Italy it's
beautiful you can see, the coast it's fantastic the weather today is a little
cloudy so I thought let's try some new ND filters that I have with me on my
drone and see how they work in these conditions
I received some new filters this kit was sent me by Freewell so I didn't pay for
them but also I'm not paid to talk well about them so I never tested them before I
thought this is a perfect location to give it a try I will tell you what I
think but mainly you will see the images for yourself the very first filter I
will try is just a polarized filter so these are circular polarized filter
I just saw the images from the first filter which was just a polarized filter I
could tell you that on the controller I had to set the shutter speed at 640
which is very high usually you want to use a shutter speed that is twice the
frame rate you are using so I was using a 24 frame per second frame rate so
ideally you want to be in the in a shutter speed of 50 possibly not the
ideal filter for these light condition right now I'm going to try another
polarized filter but this will be the nd 16 polarized so it would be a
little darker it will allow me to lower the shutter speed and have a smoother
motion blur in my images let's see how it looks
nd 16 polarized as you can see it is a darker filter so these will allow me to
lower the shutter speed let's put it on you can see right away how the image
would look if I keep the same shutter speed at 640 this 100 iso 640 shutter
speed as you can see with this filter on the image is very dark if I keep the
same shutter speed at 640 so let's have a look at what is going to happen if I
lower the shutter speed
so 500 400 320 240 200 160 120 100 80
60 50 and as you can see at 50 this is just
perfect so let's fly the drone
nice no I saw that the ND 16 polarized was good for this condition I want to
try now the nd8 polarized and see the difference this is
the image that you will have with the same shutter speed I used on the nd 16
polarized so 50 shutter speed 100 ISO and is a little overexposed but it's not
too bad I have to say because this flat overexposed look actually will possibly
give me even more options in post-production so all the footage
you're looking at anyway is ungraded let's fly
low battery
the very last filter I want to try now is the ND16 non-polarized hi let's see
how this look especially compared to the ND16 polarized so this is very
interesting I put the nd 16 non polarized and
apparently is much brighter than the nd 16 polarized because right now the image
as you can see is almost overexposed actually it is overexposed, bizarre
because the light didn't really change that much with the same shutter speed of
50 the image is brighter I don't understand why
I understand that it might be boring to see the same image over over again but I
kind of want to be consistent with the light and the scene so hope you don't
mind that
because it got brighter I think I should try very the last one this is the darkest
filter I have in this kit which is the ND32 very dark
I like the way these filters slide in and it's also very easy to take them off
this is good plus right there okay let's fly this so this is the image coming
from the drone ungraded with the nd 32 non polarized and the same shutter speed
of 50 I'm surprised the image is still overexposed with other filters I used
like the Polar Pro ND filters the ND 32 I almost never use because I only
I'm only able to use it when it is very very very bright which is not the case
today so I have to say compared to those these
filters I think are little lighter possibly the ND16 polarized was the
filter was more consistent in terms of darkness with the filter I'm using
normally anyways let's fly this now
the scenery is pretty stunning isn't it even for the fifth time, not sure about that...
let's sum up this quick review of the Freewell ND filters kit for the
DJI Mavic Pro I'm very pleased with the quality of the images that are
coming from the polarized ND filters at the same time I have to say
that that non polarized I think they are too bright and I can say that because
compared to the Polar Pro there is a huge difference as you could see even
with the nd 32 non polarized I was not able to use a very low shutter speed
even if it's not a super super bright day is actually kind of dark it's cloudy
so that's kind of strange the nd 16 polarized instead was dark and good and
worked very well so mixed feelings maybe I need to use them more let me know in the
comments what do you think about the images you saw and also if you are using
these filters let me know and let the other people that are watching this
video know what what is your experience I hope you enjoyed this video and you
found this information useful thanks for watching I will see in the next one