Polarized filter has 100% effect at 90 degree angle to sun direction. It is great remove glare from sky, water, glass and plastics. I think matching the WB in post would've been a good idea for a more accurate comparison!
Thank you for the comparison! I personally prefer without the filter! You saved me a couple of bucks and some bad footage, as I was just about to go get a Freewell polarised filter.
I always fly with a polarized filter--happens I use the freewell. What you should address is that the filter can be rotated to change the nature of the polarization. This impacts the nature of the effect. You can try this with your sunglasses since many are polarized too. as you rotate the glasses you see a different image. If you want to do a video on this aspect of polarizing filters I think it would be quite helpful to users. I also think you will be surprised by the impact of a properly set up filter is.
thanks for the comparison here, appreciate it! was the CPL footage "warmed up" in post or do you find the filter to change the color temp? There's an apparent difference in the color of the sand, foliage, etc that wouldn't normally be affected by the benefits of the polarizer. I've never had a CPL that changed the color temp and wanted to reach out for your input here.
great comparisons man!! it'd be great if you compare it with the pgytech. I'm pretty sure the filter is "failing" by changing the tonality as that is not part of what a CPL filter should do
[We~FeelFriends🐢] Your CPL filter really works quite good, I love to use PL filter regardless of the strength of Sunlight, Great comparison with the beautiful flight along the shore, Thank you my friend, Have a great day and Stay in touch !!
Just ordered one. I only need one for filming over the water. Had a feeding frenzy of dolphins on bait run today, but can't see them because of the glare. Came straight home to get a Polarizing filter for the drone.
A suggestion - could you please normalize audio in this video? At 4:08 I had the volume up quite high to hear your commentary, and then the sharp volume hike blew me out of the water.
@@AerialMotionPhotography most video editing software will have an auto normalize feature that should set all your clips to the same level. I use cyberlink powerdirector because I'm not rich, i just hit f9 and then "normalize audio" and bob's your uncle.
Looked to me like everything with the filter pretty much sucked in comparison without. This has not been my experience in photography outside of drones. A polarizing filter nearly always takes the glare out of the sky and the reflections off the water. Your video pretty much convinced me that this is NOT a good polarizing filter. Thanks for putting it together, I found it very enlightening. I will definitely not be purchasing the freewill filter.
@@AerialMotionPhotography Sorry if my opinion seemed harsh. Your video was excellent, and I forgot to mention that. I've been working on my social media skills. Looks like I have more work to do. Thank you for your kind response.
I tip I have is if you purchase an individual filter from freewell it comes in a case that holds 4 filters. I bought a clear night filter and now use that case for the filters I use the most.
Your videos are literally split, meaning I can't see one side fully vs the other. I would have liked to see the color difference when in Long Beach but the ND filter side was cropped
ohh sorry about that. if I remember right the results were pretty similar to the other examples. The Long Beach water had a darker/deeper green look to it compared to Laguna Beach.
@@AerialMotionPhotography It seems like having the filter on caused the auto settings to adjust the white balance - I'd have preferred a true comparison using the exact same settings.
@@Shadowspawn66 that's a good point I wonder if it did. and i will keep that in mind if I do a new test. I have been doing more Mavic 3 videos lately. thank you!
Non filter looks way better to me. The filtered looks very green or too warm.
Yep, Freewell are garbage, the cheapest you can get. This guy is just shilling for them because they gave him a free set.
Polarized filter has 100% effect at 90 degree angle to sun direction. It is great remove glare from sky, water, glass and plastics.
I think matching the WB in post would've been a good idea for a more accurate comparison!
Thank you for the comparison!
I personally prefer without the filter!
You saved me a couple of bucks and some bad footage, as I was just about to go get a Freewell polarised filter.
I always fly with a polarized filter--happens I use the freewell. What you should address is that the filter can be rotated to change the nature of the polarization. This impacts the nature of the effect. You can try this with your sunglasses since many are polarized too. as you rotate the glasses you see a different image. If you want to do a video on this aspect of polarizing filters I think it would be quite helpful to users. I also think you will be surprised by the impact of a properly set up filter is.
thanks I will keep that video topic in mind!!
Could you possibly give an indication where yours is set to for a general flight on sunny day around the ocean / beaches? Thanks
It's much better without the filter
I bought a set of the Freewell's previously and hated what they did to the image quality
that’s not good to hear
thanks for the comparison here, appreciate it! was the CPL footage "warmed up" in post or do you find the filter to change the color temp? There's an apparent difference in the color of the sand, foliage, etc that wouldn't normally be affected by the benefits of the polarizer. I've never had a CPL that changed the color temp and wanted to reach out for your input here.
Hey thank you I just saw this comment after 8 months lol. so the footage in this is video is straight from the camera without any adjustments.
great comparisons man!! it'd be great if you compare it with the pgytech. I'm pretty sure the filter is "failing" by changing the tonality as that is not part of what a CPL filter should do
thank you! that would be a good test too. I love seeing products side by side!
I'm voting filters help,, I have not shot anything without, great job as always Adam, Air2S is rocking
Thanks Eddy. filters seem to make a big difference. And I’m loving the Air 2S as well!!
[We~FeelFriends🐢] Your CPL filter really works quite good, I love to use PL filter regardless of the strength of Sunlight, Great comparison with the beautiful flight along the shore, Thank you my friend, Have a great day and Stay in touch !!
Why do it say 5k when the max resolution on youtube is 4k to view this? Clickbait or did you downscale the 5.4k to 4k? Just a thought.
Downscaled it. Back then I don’t think I knew how to upload 5k.
Just ordered one. I only need one for filming over the water. Had a feeding frenzy of dolphins on bait run today, but can't see them because of the glare. Came straight home to get a Polarizing filter for the drone.
nice!! sounds like a cool thing to shoot!!
A suggestion - could you please normalize audio in this video?
At 4:08 I had the volume up quite high to hear your commentary, and then the sharp volume hike blew me out of the water.
thank you and sorry about that. audio is the one part i struggle with most.
@@AerialMotionPhotography most video editing software will have an auto normalize feature that should set all your clips to the same level. I use cyberlink powerdirector because I'm not rich, i just hit f9 and then "normalize audio" and bob's your uncle.
Looked to me like everything with the filter pretty much sucked in comparison without. This has not been my experience in photography outside of drones. A polarizing filter nearly always takes the glare out of the sky and the reflections off the water. Your video pretty much convinced me that this is NOT a good polarizing filter. Thanks for putting it together, I found it very enlightening. I will definitely not be purchasing the freewill filter.
thank you. one thing that I love about photography and art is that everyone has their own styles and preferences. :)
@@AerialMotionPhotography Sorry if my opinion seemed harsh. Your video was excellent, and I forgot to mention that. I've been working on my social media skills. Looks like I have more work to do. Thank you for your kind response.
@@nogrey hey no problem! take care!!
Holy cow, I just ordered t hat 8 filter set. They really put them in that big of a case?
Yep it’s a big case they come in
I tip I have is if you purchase an individual filter from freewell it comes in a case that holds 4 filters. I bought a clear night filter and now use that case for the filters I use the most.
Your videos are literally split, meaning I can't see one side fully vs the other. I would have liked to see the color difference when in Long Beach but the ND filter side was cropped
ohh sorry about that. if I remember right the results were pretty similar to the other examples. The Long Beach water had a darker/deeper green look to it compared to Laguna Beach.
Do you leave the settings in auto with this filter?
Thanks for that video 🤩
I subscribe 😀
thanks yes I did!
@@AerialMotionPhotography It seems like having the filter on caused the auto settings to adjust the white balance - I'd have preferred a true comparison using the exact same settings.
@@Shadowspawn66 that's a good point I wonder if it did. and i will keep that in mind if I do a new test. I have been doing more Mavic 3 videos lately. thank you!
@@Shadowspawn66 thats why you can maybe leave iso on auto but not on WB it changes