4K Drone footage of the Lahaina Maui Fire - Finally a good look at what happened there.
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Lahaina, Maui Fires
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4K or not, there's no depth of field, no motion blur, and the trees and water, which are difficult to get right, are right outta uncanny valley. Also the lighting just looks off to me, like a bad mix of ray tracing and ambient sources applied to large flat texture mapped polygons.
But the quick -1 tells an even more compelling story.
Some food for though:
Depth of field requires three things: A large sensor, which only the higher end drones have (most are essentially point/shoot camera or phone level sensors). A large aperture lens, also only on higher end and cinematic drones, both because of cost and weight. A fairly close subject. Anything more than 10-20 feet away requires the lens to focus to ∞, and only much closer subjects get blurred. You rarely see landscapes with depth of field, and when it's added in some other way, you get the tiny-world "tilt shift" effect.
Motion blur is undesirable in drone footage, and rare in bright daylight (very fast shutter speeds).
This is recorded and playing back in 60 FPS (typical in video games, and not so much in filmed content), which coupled with uncommon subject matter (flying, burned town) gives an unusual feeling to the video.
These is also a lot of sharpening in this which tends to give highly detailed subjects (trees and water) an uncanny shimmer.