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cinematic filters for your maverick Pro
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let's see if they're worth it
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Dave kala here and I gotta say I really
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like my DJI maverick pro it's just a fun
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drone it's small portable has a long
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battery life takes great video and it's
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easy to fly even in the wind right but
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if you're watching this you probably
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already have one so good on you really
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fun drones but in some situations I
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wonder am I getting the best possible
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video footage so enter the polar Pro
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Mavic filter set that's what these are
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these are six different filters now the
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set I have is what they call the cinema
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series and that turns out to be
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comprised of both their vivid collection
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and their shutter collection so you can
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get any of these you know in pairs of
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thin sets of three if you want to buy
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them differently now each filter is
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little and incredibly light they're 1.3
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they're made out of multi coated glass
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so that there's no lens flare issues or
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anything which you don't want and
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they're so light that they don't
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actually affect gimbal startup so what
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I've done is I actually put the filter
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on you'll see there I'm done how easy is
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that I put it on before I do anything
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with the drone so now I'm ready to fly
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and to actually have the filter in place
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speaking of which let's look at some
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footage and see if you can tell the
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difference between the different filters
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so there you have it that's an example
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of three different filters and I gotta
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say personally I was a little
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disappointed I thought I'd see more
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difference I thought it seemed more
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dramatic differences in the different
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footage but you know there might be
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different scenarios in which those
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filters would work great I will say
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polarizing is a classic example of a
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filter that's going to make a huge
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difference if you're near a body of
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water right if you're doing that sort of
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classic drone shot where you're going
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down the beach and on one side is the
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ocean the other side is the sand and
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people hanging out and stuff that's a
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great use of a polarizing filter because
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that's a situation where you're gonna
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get so much glare and reflection off the
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water so maybe I just wasn't in a good
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situation to demonstrate the filters but
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you can see those are the differences
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between them now the set ships with an
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ND 4pl which reduces the shutter by two
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F stops and has a polarizer it has an
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nd8 filter also polarizing and that's a
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three stop reduction an ND 16 which is
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reducing it by four F stops and also has
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the polarizing and then there's three
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that don't have polarizing there's an
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nd8 three stops an ND 16 four stops and
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an ND thirty-two which drops down five s
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f stops on your camera so if you're in
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that sort of situation and if you're a
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pro then this sort of stuff can be
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really good now for me I'm not a pro
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photographer so I don't know that I
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would recommend this set it's probably
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just beyond what I would actually
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normally use but again if I was in those
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situations where I might be doing a lot
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of shooting at dusk or dawn or I was you
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know doing a lot of shooting where
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there's just crazy reflections
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everywhere then these filters could make
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a world of difference in the kind of
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footage you get now they're not
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inexpensive so this set of six filters
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will put you back a hundred and forty
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but if this is what you need to be able
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to get the right footage and if you can
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differentiate between whether you need
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polarizing or not you could also back up
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to doing like the vivid collection or
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the shutter collection for
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less but this is the full set gives you
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everything and it's in a nice handy
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little case easily portable works
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beautifully with the Maverick it's just
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you can see they put a lot of effort
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into getting this to work just so-so
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if you are the right person and if this
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is the right thing for you to check out
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then I encourage you to check it out so
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this is the polar Pro Cinema Series DJI
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maverick filter set one hundred and
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forty nine ninety nine you can learn
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more about it and check it out at polar
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Pro filters dot-com this is Dave Taylor
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and my Mavic and I are off for another
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adventure so I'll catch you in my next
