More than I'm seeing here, considering how much they charge for it ! I'd hoped that if there was a dedicated 'Night mode', it might actually be helpful in getting night footage in some way, perhaps by being a specifically designed 'low-noise' mode or something... but apparently not. What it seems to give us instead is so much noise you can't get a usable result ! The noise reduction algorithms in our favourite image editors are going to struggle to rescue that...How much performance should we expect from a fixed aperture, fixed focal length, micro sensor camera?
I’m not sold on the high quality for the price thing. What we pay for an entire camera and gimbal with the CGO-3 is less than a good DSLR wide angle lens. As long as we use what is in essence a cheap 4k security cam we should accept image quality equal to higher quality, higher priced cameras isn’t gonna happen.
Of course I do accept it's never going to be like a DSLR, but given that people like DJI can produce awesome night footage from a lens and sensor in a similar class (or at least size) as our own, and given the presence of a special mode for it, I had just hoped the results would be less awful than that !
These are from my pals p4 camera setting is auto when he was in Poland last monthI understand what you’re sayin but there’s a big difference in the way companies go about things. Until the E-90/C-23 Yuneec has been using cameras only slightly modified from the security cam platform they started out as. DJI started “purpose building” cameras quite some time back. Taking that a step further DJI appears to have recognized that camera design requires people that truly understand cameras so they bought Hassleblad to further expand payload design.
I’m not faulting Yuneec in their camera designs as most of what they have done had been close enough to “industry standard” to remain generally competitive. Heavy focus on night imagery is sort of counter productive as few people fly at night. Where I will fault Yuneec is in the area of forward planning, but such planning might be restricted to what can be done with available resources. DJI has a whole lotta money to throw around, which provides a great many options.