Hopefully soon I will be doing a quick video of the town Xmas lights before the council tear them down.
I don’t know whether to use a shutter speed of twice the frame rate or half it to let in a bit more light.
For those who have experience of shooting at night with the Mini 2 what might you suggest?
Whatever speed you need to get image.
You’ll be needing to keep it really low. I’d consider dropping your frame rate to no more than 30.
Remember you can never have a shutter speed faster than the frame rate.
If you think about it, shooting at 60 fps the longest you can expose each frame is 1/60th of a second.
That would be a 360 degree shutter.
If you’re shooting at 60fps and you want the classic 180 shutter look you’d expose for 120th of a second - but that’s a very short amount of time to gather light so likely won’t give you enough exposure at night (without very high iso which degrades quality.)
So you’d be better off shooting at a lower frame rate and a longer shutter speed.
Worst case, if you shoot at 25fps and have 1/25th shutter speed you’ll find you get slightly more motion blur than is optimal. But with slow moves that will hardly be noticeable and getting enough light is the most important thing.
Hope that makes sense.
Said it better than I was trying to! That’ll teach me to try and reply in-between mario kart races. This short clip was filmed exactly like that. IIRC the ISO was around 400
Very smooth!
I did give thought to frame rates around 24 but I didn’t really want a ‘movie’ sort of look to the footage.
In all honesty I intended to fly extremely slowly so perhaps blur won’t be too much of a concern.
I’m guessing manual camera mode would be advisable to get things like WB right?
Personally, I only use manual. Auto is going to try and crank up your iso and shutter speed. On reflection, I should have cooled this down more I’m post as the lights are a bit yellow
The colour looked good to me, sometimes footage can be a bit too cool.