It doesn’t happen often, but here is a first: our first drone camera lab test has arrived! When we heard about DJI’s newest addition to the Inspire line back in April with an 8K full frame sensor in combination with ProRes RAW on board – the Zenmuse X9-8K Air – we couldn’t resist putting it through the paces in our lab. Curious to see our results? Then read on … A lot has been written about the DJI Inspire 3 drone with the new Zenmuse X9-8K Air camera module. You can read the announcement with all the specs by my colleague, Jakub Han, here, and another article with everything you need to know here. Also, CineD awarded the NAB 2023 Best of Show Award to DJI – read about it here. A more in-depth video review of the Inspire 3 is currently in the works as well. Hence, we were quite curious to see how it would fare in our standardized lab test. Now, this was not a straightforward task. We needed to align it properly with our Xyla21 chart (no tripod mount available, obviously ;-), and, it came with the DL 50 mm F2.8 LS ASPH lens. Hence, Florian and I were unsure if our studio light setup would be strong enough to bring the red channel close to clipping at our subject’s face using the F2.8 aperture to test the exposure latitude. Thank you Florian for all your help! The DJI Inspire 3 in our CineD lab. Image credit: CineD So without further...
Published By: CineD - Tuesday, 11 July, 2023