I recently did a cinematic video with my air 2s where every clip was shot with about 1.3-1.4x zoom. I really like the field of view and compressed look you can get, similar to m2p hq mode.
What I don't like is the normal colour profile xP ... actually, it's not as bad as I thought it would be, makes nice colours, can still be graded a bit but the the blacks look pretty bad and obviously, well, d-log is just better.
To my surprise, the zoom appears to be completely lossless up to a certain point, at about 1.4x zoom it's roughly the same fov as 5.4k cropped to 4k and I can't distinguish the difference between the two.
Well I did a bit of research and learned about sensor cropping. Today I noticed another post on here that pretty much expresses also my experience with the zoom:
"I currently have an Air 2s and find I can digitally zoom 2X without much loss of video quality. I like to do this when tracking my kids. The Air 2s has 5472 pixels horizontally to deal with, meaning the 4k video is nicely oversampled until about a 1.4X digital zoom. Digitally zooming further, DJI claims to use algorithmic wizardry to make it look better than a crop from a 5.4k shot".
Imagine if we could have d-log AND zoom, like a dynamic hq mode! Is this too much to ask for? Would it make the air 2s too good and make the m2p 100% redundant and as such DJI would never do it (like putting adjustable aperture on a future air 3s)?
My video:
What I don't like is the normal colour profile xP ... actually, it's not as bad as I thought it would be, makes nice colours, can still be graded a bit but the the blacks look pretty bad and obviously, well, d-log is just better.
To my surprise, the zoom appears to be completely lossless up to a certain point, at about 1.4x zoom it's roughly the same fov as 5.4k cropped to 4k and I can't distinguish the difference between the two.
Well I did a bit of research and learned about sensor cropping. Today I noticed another post on here that pretty much expresses also my experience with the zoom:
"I currently have an Air 2s and find I can digitally zoom 2X without much loss of video quality. I like to do this when tracking my kids. The Air 2s has 5472 pixels horizontally to deal with, meaning the 4k video is nicely oversampled until about a 1.4X digital zoom. Digitally zooming further, DJI claims to use algorithmic wizardry to make it look better than a crop from a 5.4k shot".
Imagine if we could have d-log AND zoom, like a dynamic hq mode! Is this too much to ask for? Would it make the air 2s too good and make the m2p 100% redundant and as such DJI would never do it (like putting adjustable aperture on a future air 3s)?
My video: