How to achieve best results shooting at night using the drone?

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All night shots, not only drone ones boil down to shutter speed in the end, It controls how much light you collect in what timeframe. More time creates more of a glow which looks nice, but at the cost of risking it getting blurry especially with drone. At night I use an Air3s which I prefer over the mavics as it seems to be more stable in the sky in my experience.
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All night shots, not only drone ones boil down to shutter speed in the end, It controls how much light you collect in what timeframe. More time creates more of a glow which looks nice, but at the cost of risking it getting blurry especially with drone. At night I use an Air3s which I prefer over the mavics as it seems to be more stable in the sky in my experience.
 
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3olone said:
All night shots, not only drone ones boil down to shutter speed in the end, It controls how much light you collect in what timeframe. More time creates more of a glow which looks nice, but at the cost of risking it getting blurry especially with drone. At night I use an Air3s which I prefer over the mavics as it seems to be more stable in the sky in my experience.
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agree, I know drone have fixed aperture and you can’t do much about it. Maybe for photos you can adjust some settings, for videos you will get blurry videos and some noise because of high ISO
 
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Nighttime is very tricky to get good results. The sensors aren't large enough unfortunately and motion blur and high noise is common.

I like to use night shots mainly for longer exposures, such as cars passing and it can be achieved when it's not so windy. Then I'll use Topaz to de-noise.

Also hyperlapses are cool. Of course no ND filter and I opt for 1/2 second exposures for nice motion blur.
 
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Nighttime is very tricky to get good results. The sensors aren't large enough unfortunately and motion blur and high noise is common.

I like to use night shots mainly for longer exposures, such as cars passing and it can be achieved when it's not so windy. Then I'll use Topaz to de-noise.

Also hyperlapses are cool. Of course no ND filter and I opt for 1/2 second exposures for nice motion blur.
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Images I do shoot in manual, but with videos, is tricky to record in manual. As you said, small sensor. and high noise. Tend to switch to auto, but even then, the quality isn't great at all.
 
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