49 seconds in the entire background is blown out.
As it has to be if you need to properly expose skin tones while shooting into a setting sun without a fill light. Anyone who films people knows in a scene like that proper skin exposure is more important than the background. If you were implying an ND filter would have fixed the background then that is incorrect; an ND filter would have simply lowered the shutter speed; but to properly expose for the skin tones without a fill light the background would have looked the same.
Each scene in the video was chosen and shot specifically to showcase a feature of the drone or the camera as well as the camera's limitations...that scene was composed and shot to show skin tones when the dynamic range of the scene exceeds the capabilities of the camera. Obviously for a commercial shoot, a different time of day would have been chosen, that scene would have been shot from the ground with proper fill lighting, or it would not have been composed in a way that had a sunset directly behind the model.
I specifically first filmed the model in a normal DR scene to show the skin tones and the scene in a setting that the camera could handle, then I switched to a composition that I knew far exceeded the DR of the camera so that I could show viewers how the camera and ALOG would handle an extreme scene when the model's skin tones had to be properly exposed.
It’s not all about motion blur but strobing as well. I run them when it’s brights and you can’t keep the shutter from banging away.
I have been in the game Many, Many years.. even helped design and test some of the early brushless gimbals, when we still used servos. I have never had a failed gimbal.. brushless motors do not “burn” out. Maybe the drivers (esc) but not the motors. If anything you would see poor performance before this type of failure anyways.
While I respect your opinion, ND filters have MANY uses on drones shooting video. It should always be in your toolkit and don’t buy cheap!
From my perspective, if the gimbal stopped properly stabilizing the camera then it has burned out; I guess a better term would be prematurely failed. I saw many reports from other users back in the DJI P1 - P3 days where they consistently ran unbalanced loads due to ND filters and other attachments on the front of their camera lenses that caused the gimbal to be front heavy. I myself experienced this as well when I put a different lens on my GoPro in the P2 days....the gimbal would go into limp mode (pointing straight down) until the load was removed.
The reports I saw from other users stated that eventually it would just stop lifting even the stock camera; so for them some aspect of the gimbal had prematurely failed. Obviously the newer ND filters and drone generations simply replace the UV filter with an ND filter; for my original post I was simply adding context to why I initially did not follow the rush to buy drone ND filters and from there it evolved into realizing after years of commercial aerial projects that I had not encountered a single situation where I needed them for the aerial photography and video projects that I had completed.
I still do not understand your strobing statement.....and I also completely respect your opinion as well but have simply never encountered a single scenario using daylight lighting that results in strobing simply due to a higher shutter speed. I have literally shot at everything from 1/200s - 1/2000s at framerates between 30FPS and 60FPS since 2014 with drone cameras in every situation imaginable (direct sunlight, fast moving motion, slow motion, orbit, dolly, pan, tilt, pedestal, etc. etc) and never once had strobing.
I also extend my same challenge to you....provide a link to a single reputable source that discusses a single scenario where a high shutter speed causes strobing when the key light is daylight...or even better yet...get out there and test it for yourself; I will even go a step further.....if you manage to shoot a single scene with a high shutter speed that results in strobing and you provide the source raw footage along with the camera settings it was shot at I will test it in my NLE using my post production process and see if the strobing is still in the final footage.
I have absolutely no problem stating I was wrong....but to date not one person has been able to prove strobing exists due to high shutter speed when using sunlight as the key light. If it did; the Olympics, Red Bull, the NFL,, UFC, and many others would have unusable footage because I can tell you in those situations shutter speeds start at 1/320s and go up from there. Also in my referenced video the shutter speed was anything from 1/30s (night footage), to 1/1250s+ (sunset footage) and there is no strobing in the video.
As I have stated many times in this thread...I love ND filters, I use them nearly daily for both photography and video and I am intimately familiar with their benefits and limitations; yet I have never needed one after hundreds of hours of flight time and many hours of aerial video shot for hundreds of projects all over the country and overseas.