During the last month I had the privilege to be one of the Beta-testers of the brand new DJI Mavic 3 Cine Version. For this 5 min long clip I did take over 2 Terrabyte of ProRes 422 HQ footage in Iceland. After around 200 flights with the new filmmakers dream drone I'm completely excited about the long awaited successor of the Mavic 2 Pro.
The color grading of this ProRes 422 HQ footage I did make in DaVinci 17 Studio. The dynamic range and amount of details in the footage is mindblower. Nevertheless it must be said that the two Mavic 3 Cine Versions I had have been running one of the first firmwares. According to DJI the image quality will be even better with the final firmware which will be available in November. I'm also very curious about the 4K 120FPS mode which will be coming with this firmware.
Summarized I am very happy with the M3C performance. The only things I will miss from the Mavic 2 Pro (and the Air2s) is the 4K Crop mode (4K HQ) which gave me an extra zoom. Also I'm not the biggest fan of the 24mm focal length. For photography, especially aerial multi row panoramas the 28mm of the M2P were just perfect. With 24mm the same panorama frame gives you much less megapixel and also more distortion. Despite these two points, the M3C will be my new workhorse for my future nature and landscape documentary productions (BBC, Netflix, TerraX, etc.)
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Music; Jordan Critz
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