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

Launched nearly a yr in the past, the Mini 3 Professional continues to be a very talked-about Mini drone. As such, it’s simple to fly and excellent for learners. It’s light-weight, moveable, and excellent for journey bloggers and social media content material creators alike. Additionally, for extra skilled operators, it has a number of “professional” options that make it an excellent backup for skilled work.

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

On this article and the included YouTube video, we are going to go over find out how to change the varied picture settings inside the DJI Fly app, by getting out of Auto and into Handbook Mode, utilizing the digicam to its fullest potential.

DJI Mini 3 Professional Photograph Settings

The Mini 3 Professional comes with a digicam that, out of the field, shoots 12MP nonetheless photographs, 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 may also shoot 48MP stills, just like the iPhone 14 Professional and Professional Max. We’ll talk about find out how to entry this capturing mode, shortly.

If you need to know extra about drone pictures on the whole and a extra in-depth dialogue of a few of the terminology used on this article, be at liberty to move over to our article Drone Images: Newbie’s Information to Getting Began.

Photograph Mode

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

To entry Photograph Mode, whereas within the DJI Fly app:

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

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

STEP 2: Select the Photograph choice/icon.

Nonetheless Images Modes

When selecting Photograph Mode, you’ll see that there are numerous nonetheless pictures modes that may be set on the left aspect of the Photograph Mode space, just like some discovered on customary DSLR and Mirrorless cameras. These modes are:

• Single – a single-shot picture
• 48 MP – Utilizing Quad-Bayer Expertise, 48MP are produced on the 12MP sensor, creating sharper photos
• AEB (Auto Publicity Bracketing) – shoots 3 or 5 bracketed frames at 2 publicity values. Utilized in HDR picture merging 
• Burst – takes as much as 7 photographs inside a number 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 alter between these nonetheless pictures modes, merely select the one you’d like to make use of.

Professional (Handbook) Mode

To get essentially the most out of your photographs, you’ll wish to take management again from the Mini 3 Professional (Auto Mode) and go into Professional Mode.

To change to Professional Mode:

On the underside proper of the Stay View display screen, you will note an space the place the digicam settings are positioned.

In Auto Mode, you’ll solely see the next digicam settings obtainable: Format (J, J+R) and EV (Publicity Worth).

STEP: Faucet the digicam icon that claims Auto and it’ll then mechanically change to Professional Mode. 

After getting into Professional Mode, you’ll see that there at the moment are fairly a number of choices obtainable so that you can alter. 

Observe: After switching into Professional Mode the display screen could go darkish, because the settings is not going to be adjusted for the present lighting circumstances.

On the underside of the Professional Mode display screen, you’ll see J+R, 16:9 or 4:3, WB, S, F, ISO, and MM.  Aside from MM (guide metering) and F (the fastened aperture of 1.7), all of the choices are adjustable and support in getting the right publicity and the perfect image attainable. 

To alter these values, merely press the world on the backside of the display screen.

J+RAW

J+RAW denotes JPEG and RAW, that is your image file format.  When you faucet J+RAW it is possible for you to to change to both JPEG solely or hold the format 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 side ratio of the image you’ll be taking.  Relying in your choice (16:9 or 4:3), that format will present right here.  You possibly can change the ratio by tapping on this quantity. 

Though the 4:3 ratio picture doesn’t take up all the Stay View display screen, if you’re trying to get essentially the most out of the Mini 3 Execs picture sensor, select the 4:3 choice. You possibly can crop the picture to the scale you’d like to make use of in picture enhancing software program.

W (White Steadiness)

White steadiness evens out the colour temperature in a photograph to make the picture’s coloration look extra pure and more true.  That is achieved by making the picture Cooler or Hotter, from 3000k (kelvin) to 8000k.

Within the DJI Fly app, the White Steadiness is not represented by Sunny, Cloudy, Incandescent, and Customized, because it was within the Go4 app.  White Steadiness is now adjusted utilizing a White Steadiness slider.  The slider is in numerical kelvin values.  

Tip: You too can forgo manually altering the kelvin (okay) values and simply select Auto.  In Auto, the Mini 3 Professional will attempt to resolve what White Steadiness values are finest for the present capturing circumstances.

S (Shutter)

This controls how lengthy or how quick the shutter is open.  Decrease numbers let in additional mild, whereas Greater numbers decrease the sunshine allowed into the digicam.

When taking photos, you should utilize the shutter velocity to manage the brightness of the sunshine within the picture.

The shutter can also be used to manage movement blur in movies, one thing we are going to talk about in our video article.

ISO

ISO is the worth of measure for a digicam’s sensitivity to mild.  As you improve the ISO quantity (the bottom being 100) the brighter your picture will likely be. 

Remember that the upper the ISO is raised, the extra noise or grain is launched into the picture.  The Mini 3 Execs ISO vary is between 100 and 6400, for each photographs and movies.

When attainable, hold the ISO at 100 and, as talked about prior, use the digicam’s shutter velocity to regulate picture brightness.

MM (Handbook Metering)
That is just like the Publicity Worth (EV) in Auto mode.  Nonetheless, in contrast to the EV in Auto Mode, you can’t change the Handbook Metering worth in Professional Mode. 

Handbook Metering is a value-based information that tells you when your publicity is right primarily based on the ISO and Shutter.