DJI Mini 3 Professional – Find out how to Alternate Photograph Settings (Video) – Droneblog

Launched nearly a yr in the past, the Mini 3 Professional is still a highly regarded Mini drone. As such, it’s simple to fly and highest for novices. It’s light-weight, moveable, and highest for commute bloggers and social media content material creators alike. Additionally, for extra skilled operators, it has a couple of “professional” options that make it a perfect backup for pro paintings.

The “Professional’ within the Mini 3 Professional, partly, is because of its 1/1.3-inch CMOS digital camera having the ability to take 48 MP photos in addition to shoot video in resolutions as much as 4k 60 FPS, among different issues.

On this article and the integrated YouTube video, we can cross over how one can trade the quite a lot of photograph settings inside the DJI Fly app, by means of getting out of Auto and into Guide Mode, the usage of the digital camera to its fullest doable.

DJI Mini 3 Professional Photograph Settings

The Mini 3 Professional comes with a digital camera that, out of the field, shoots 12MP nonetheless pictures, which is similar megapixel depend because the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus. 

Digging deeper into the settings, you’ll see that the Mini 3 Professional too can shoot 48MP stills, just like the iPhone 14 Professional and Professional Max. We’ll talk about how one can get right of entry to this capturing mode, in a while.

If you need to understand extra about drone pictures normally and a better dialogue of one of the crucial terminology used on this article, be happy to move over to our article Drone Pictures: Amateur’s Information to Getting Began.

Photograph Mode

For this text and video, we’ll make our settings adjustments in Photograph Mode.

To get right of entry to Photograph Mode, whilst within the DJI Fly app:

STEP 1: Press the icon above the shutter button at the proper. 

Right here you’ll see Photograph, Video, Mastershots, Quickshots, Hyperlapse, and Pano.

STEP 2: Select the Photograph choice/icon.

Nonetheless Pictures Modes

When opting for Photograph Mode, you’ll see that there are quite a lot of nonetheless pictures modes that may be set at the left aspect of the Photograph Mode house, very similar to some discovered on same old DSLR and Mirrorless cameras. Those modes are:

• Unmarried – a single-shot photograph
• 48 MP – The usage of Quad-Bayer Generation, 48MP are produced at the 12MP sensor, developing sharper pictures
• AEB (Auto Publicity Bracketing) – shoots 3 or 5 bracketed frames at 2 publicity values. Utilized in HDR photograph merging 
• Burst – takes as much as 7 photographs inside of a couple of seconds
• Timed Shot – set a timer (between 2 and 60 seconds) and the Mini 3 Professional will take a photograph when the timer expires

To switch between those nonetheless pictures modes, merely select the only you’d like to make use of.

Professional (Guide) Mode

To get essentially the most from your pictures, you’ll wish to take keep watch over again from the Mini 3 Professional (Auto Mode) and cross into Professional Mode.

To change to Professional Mode:

At the backside proper of the Reside View display, you are going to see a space the place the digital camera settings are situated.

In Auto Mode, you are going to most effective see the next digital camera settings to be had: Structure (J, J+R) and EV (Publicity Price).

STEP: Faucet the digital camera icon that claims Auto and it’ll then robotically transfer to Professional Mode. 

After getting into Professional Mode, you’ll see that there at the moment are fairly a couple of choices to be had so that you can regulate. 

Notice: After switching into Professional Mode the display would possibly cross darkish, because the settings is probably not adjusted for the present lighting fixtures prerequisites.

At the backside of the Professional Mode display, you’ll see J+R, 16:9 or 4:3, WB, S, F, ISO, and MM.  Excluding for MM (guide metering) and F (the mounted aperture of one.7), all of the choices are adjustable and assist in getting the right kind publicity and the most efficient image conceivable. 

To switch those values, merely press the realm on the backside of the display.

J+RAW

J+RAW denotes JPEG and RAW, that is your image document structure.  In case you faucet J+RAW it is possible for you to to modify to both JPEG most effective or stay the structure as each J+RAW (JPEG and RAW), with the Mini 3 Professional capturing and saving each codecs concurrently to the SD card.

16:9 or 4:3

That is the facet ratio of the image you’ll be taking.  Relying in your choice (16:9 or 4:3), that structure will display right here.  You’ll be able to trade the ratio by means of tapping in this quantity. 

Even supposing the 4:3 ratio symbol doesn’t absorb all of the Reside View display, in case you are having a look to get essentially the most out of the Mini 3 Professionals symbol sensor, select the 4:3 choice. You’ll be able to crop the picture to the scale you’d like to make use of in photograph enhancing device.

W (White Steadiness)

White steadiness evens out the colour temperature in a photograph to make the picture’s colour glance extra herbal and more true.  That is performed by means of making the picture Cooler or Hotter, from 3000k (kelvin) to 8000k.

Within the DJI Fly app, the White Steadiness is no longer represented by means of Sunny, Cloudy, Incandescent, and Customized, because it was once within the Go4 app.  White Steadiness is now adjusted the usage of a White Steadiness slider.  The slider is in numerical kelvin values.  

Tip: You’ll be able to additionally forgo manually converting the kelvin (ok) values and simply select Auto.  In Auto, the Mini 3 Professional will attempt to come to a decision what White Steadiness values are easiest for the present capturing prerequisites.

S (Shutter)

This controls how lengthy or how brief the shutter is open.  Decrease numbers let in additional mild, whilst Upper numbers reduce the sunshine allowed into the digital camera.

When taking photos, you’ll use the shutter pace to keep watch over the brightness of the sunshine within the symbol.

The shutter could also be used to keep an eye on movement blur in movies, one thing we can talk about in our video article.

ISO

ISO is the price of measure for a digital camera’s sensitivity to mild.  As you building up the ISO quantity (the bottom being 100) the brighter your symbol will likely be. 

Bear in mind that the upper the ISO is raised, the extra noise or grain is offered into the picture.  The Mini 3 Professionals ISO vary is between 100 and 6400, for each pictures and movies.

When conceivable, stay the ISO at 100 and, as discussed prior, use the digital camera’s shutter pace to regulate symbol brightness.

MM (Guide Metering)
That is very similar to the Publicity Price (EV) in Auto mode.  Alternatively, in contrast to the EV in Auto Mode, you can not trade the Guide Metering cost in Professional Mode. 

Guide Metering is a value-based information that tells you when your publicity is right kind in response to the ISO and Shutter.