Flying with the X5S in low light

deltalimatango · Sep 1, 2017

How many here, if any, are flying the X5S at night and how do you see the low light performance? M4/3 is notorious for not having the best low light performance. I am curious to how many are actually flying at night and shooting/videoing to get quality. For the most part the IQ has been okay but can require quite a bit of work sometimes. Anyone?

Florida Drone Supply · Sep 1, 2017

We do some twilight/low light shots occasionally, and yes there is some work to do after the shots are taken. We are pretty happy with the results. Calm nights, raw images, and beautiful skies always help. Here are a couple of recent examples we have taken with the I2 and X5S.

Hotshots · Sep 1, 2017

What were you camera settings for the shots?

deltalimatango · Sep 1, 2017

Florida Drone Supply said:
We do some twilight/low light shots occasionally, and yes there is some work to do after the shots are taken. We are pretty happy with the results. Calm nights, raw images, and beautiful skies always help. Here are a couple of recent examples we have taken with the I2 and X5S.

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Very nice. Thanks.

Florida Drone Supply · Sep 1, 2017

Hotshots said:
What were you camera settings for the shots?

I will try to find that info.

skybandit · Sep 3, 2017

I did a low light test recently. ProRes was pretty noisy but CinemaDNG looked great so from my experience low light = shooting in RAW.

deltalimatango · Sep 3, 2017

skybandit said:
I did a low light test recently. ProRes was pretty noisy but CinemaDNG looked great so from my experience low light = shooting in RAW.

Thanks. I'm not using those licenses so it doesn't apply to me. I shot this last night and am pretty pleased.

SanCap · Sep 4, 2017

deltalimatango said:
Thanks. I'm not using those licenses so it doesn't apply to me. I shot this last night and am pretty pleased.

Very Nice!

SanCap · Sep 4, 2017

I was contracted to video wedding aerials at 2 locations for this particular wedding. Although I have Inspire 2 X5S clips through out the video there are a couple of low light clips from the outside looking into the glass paneled reception area towards the video ending. I think the editor created a nice mix.

deltalimatango · Sep 5, 2017

SanCap said:
I was contracted to video wedding aerials at 2 locations for this particular wedding. Although I have Inspire 2 X5S clips through out the video there are a couple of low light clips from the outside looking into the glass paneled reception area towards the video ending. I think the editor created a nice mix.

SanCap, excellent video dude. I used to help out shooting weddings. I hate it. I was helping a friend shoot, and I was just doing the documentary stuff. Came time for the kiss and my friend MISSED IT. She missed the kiss. Luckily I was standing back with a 70-200mm, and caught it. Turned out nicely for my friend and the couple. Because I was at 200mm, and f2.8, there was a nice bokeh effect but this experience turned me off to weddings. My hats off to wedding shooters. Truly the unsung hero's of the photography world.

SanCap · Sep 5, 2017

deltalimatango said:
SanCap, excellent video dude. I used to help out shooting weddings. I hate it. I was helping a friend shoot, and I was just doing the documentary stuff. Came time for the kiss and my friend MISSED IT. She missed the kiss. Luckily I was standing back with a 70-200mm, and caught it. Turned out nicely for my friend and the couple. Because I was at 200mm, and f2.8, there was a nice bokeh effect but this experience turned me off to weddings. My hats off to wedding shooters. Truly the unsung hero's of the photography world.

Thanks, fortunately I was just the "Drone Guy" and not tasked with missing the kiss!! It was actually fun, I kept far away enough to not create a distraction to the wedding party. We had a signal system set up in case I was bothering them. No editing on my part was very welcome.

Hotshots · Oct 13, 2017

Could I get some opinions on which camera settings would be the best for shooting video of the city at night? Utilizing the Inspire 2 with Zenmuse X5s camera.
not using ProRes.

Drendino · Oct 16, 2017

I would be interested in some suggestions on how I could improve this low light video, which was one of my first attempts. Incidentally, I filmed a couple of days before the California Wildfire, so I wasn't able to go back to try to improve on the shots that I did not care for.

Flying with the X5S in low light

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