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Exposure and white balance

Exposure and white balance - Mavic Tutorial

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Exposure and white balance

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- Now when it comes to exposure, we have a lot of those same auto versus manual issues to cover. The Mavic Pro's automatic exposure features do a good job in most circumstances, but you also have some controls that can help them along. One of those controls is to set the exposure based on a specific part of the image. Normally, the drone's light meter sets exposure based on what's at the center of the frame. In the photo world, that's called center-weighted metering. To set the exposure based on a different area, just tap the metering focus box and then tap the area that you want to adjust the exposure on. You can see that the whole image got a little bit darker because I tapped on that bright highlight of the drone that we're pointing at. This little indicator remains on the screen to remind you that you've set the exposure based on that arrow. If you tap that little x, the drone's light meter again reverts to its center mode. One very useful feature for fine tuning the exposure is…

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