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Brightontl:
Drone footage: How to expose correctly and how to avoid difficult light situations
https://youtu.be/i5bV49e3Aio

dragonblade:
Another informative video and a very interesting topic. Yea it's a pity that with many drones, your exposure options are pretty limited though I expected as much. I guess the DJI Inspire would be pretty versatile in that regard. And I'd imagine the Spark would be extremely limited by comparison. Being able to change the aperture would certainly be a big plus.

For my own filming from quadcopters, Ive used a GoPro Hero 3 Silver strapped to a Syma X8C. Of course the exposure on the GoPro was fully automatic so I had no control at all. And when recording landscapes, regrettably, I wasn't able to do so in the late afternoon when the light is softer (even though I wanted to.) This is because late in the day, there would be large areas of shadow over the landscape and this would fool the GoPro's autoexposure into overexposing everything. So I was forced to do my flying / recording earlier in the day. The light was harsher but it was the only way to get correctly exposed footage with such a camera.

Brightontl:
Thank you,
I didn't know that the GoPro is auto only.
I agree that shooting in auto causes a lot of problems

dragonblade:
Yea the GoPro that I was using was quite an old model. I believe that later GoPro models have some degree of control over exposure but I don't know how much.

I do know that many people mount cheap action cameras and GoPro clones to their quadcopters for budget based aerial videography and unfortunately, just about all of those cameras rely on auto exposure.

PeterChigmaroff:

--- Quote from: Brightontl on March 24, 2019, 06:08 ---Thank you,
I didn't know that the GoPro is auto only.
I agree that shooting in auto causes a lot of problems

--- End quote ---
Auto exposure and auto white balance has ruined a lot of what otherwise would have been great footage. It doesn't work so it's best to learn manual techniques.

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