Launched virtually a 12 months in the past, the Mini 3 Professional continues to be a extremely popular Mini drone. As such, it’s straightforward to fly and ideal for rookies. It’s light-weight, moveable, and ideal 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 amazing backup for skilled work.
The “Professional’ within the Mini 3 Professional, partially, is because of its 1/1.3-inch CMOS digicam having 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’ll go over how you can change the assorted photograph settings throughout the DJI Fly app, by getting out of Auto and into Handbook Mode, utilizing the digicam to its fullest potential.
DJI Mini 3 Professional Picture Settings
The Mini 3 Professional comes with a digicam that, out of the field, shoots 12MP nonetheless images, which is identical megapixel depend because the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus.
Digging deeper into the settings, you’ll see that the Mini 3 Professional also can shoot 48MP stills, just like the iPhone 14 Professional and Professional Max. We’ll focus on how you can entry this capturing mode, shortly.
If you need to know extra about drone pictures usually and a extra in-depth dialogue of a few of the terminology used on this article, be happy to move over to our article Drone Images: Newbie’s Information to Getting Began.
Picture Mode
For this text and video, we’ll make our settings adjustments in Picture Mode.
To entry Picture Mode, whereas within the DJI Fly app:
STEP 1: Press the icon above the shutter button on the correct.
Right here you’ll see Picture, Video, Mastershots, Quickshots, Hyperlapse, and Pano.
STEP 2: Select the Picture possibility/icon.
Nonetheless Images Modes
When selecting Picture Mode, you’ll see that there are numerous nonetheless pictures modes that may be set on the left facet of the Picture Mode space, much like some discovered on customary DSLR and Mirrorless cameras.
These modes are:
- Single – a single-shot photograph
- 48 MP – Utilizing Quad-Bayer Know-how, 48MP are produced on the 12MP sensor, creating 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 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 images, you’ll need to take management again from the Mini 3 Professional (Auto Mode) and go into Professional Mode.
To modify to Professional Mode:
On the underside proper of the Stay View display screen, you will notice an space the place the digicam settings are situated.
In Auto Mode, you’ll solely see the next digicam settings accessible: Format (J, J+R) and EV (Publicity Worth).
STEP: Faucet the digicam icon that claims Auto and it’ll then routinely change to Professional Mode.
After coming into Professional Mode, you’ll see that there are actually fairly a number of choices accessible so that you can regulate.
Be aware: After switching into Professional Mode the display screen could go darkish, because the settings is not going to be adjusted for the present lighting situations.
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. Apart from MM (handbook metering) and F (the fastened aperture of 1.7), all of the choices are adjustable and assist in getting the proper publicity and the perfect image potential.
To alter these values, merely press the realm on the backside of the display screen.
J+RAW
J+RAW denotes JPEG and RAW, that is your image file format. Should 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 possibility (16:9 or 4:3), that format will present right here. You’ll be able to change the ratio by tapping on this quantity.
Though the 4:3 ratio picture doesn’t take up the complete 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 possibility.
You’ll be able to crop the picture to the size you’d like to make use of in photograph enhancing software program.
W (White Stability)
White stability evens out the colour temperature in a photograph to make the picture’s colour look extra pure and more true. That is accomplished by making the picture Cooler or Hotter, from 3000k (kelvin) to 8000k.
Within the DJI Fly app, the White Stability is not represented by Sunny, Cloudy, Incandescent, and Customized, because it was within the Go4 app.
White Stability is now adjusted utilizing a White Stability slider. The slider is in numerical kelvin values.
Tip: You may also forgo manually altering the kelvin (okay) values and simply select Auto. In Auto, the Mini 3 Professional will attempt to determine what White Stability values are greatest for the present capturing situations.
S (Shutter)
This controls how lengthy or how brief the shutter is open. Decrease numbers let in additional mild, whereas Larger numbers decrease the sunshine allowed into the digicam.
When taking photos, you should use the shutter velocity to regulate the brightness of the sunshine within the picture.
The shutter can be used to control movement blur in movies, one thing we’ll focus on in our video article.
ISO
ISO is the worth of measure for a digicam’s sensitivity to mild. As you enhance the ISO quantity (the bottom being 100) the brighter your picture shall be.
Bear in mind 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 images and movies.
When potential, 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 much like the Publicity Worth (EV) in Auto mode. Nevertheless, in contrast to the EV in Auto Mode, you can not 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.
