1. Split ND8/ND16: Ideal for moderate lighting, providing the right amount of light control to prevent overexposure.
2. Split ND16/ND32: Best for brighter settings, ensuring balanced exposure when shooting in midday conditions.
3. Split ND32/ND64: Perfect for extreme brightness or high-altitude shots, offering maximum light reduction.
4. Split ND64/ND128: Designed for intense sunlight, ensuring sharp, clear footage even in the brightest environments.

1. Moderate Lighting: ND8/ND16
2. Bright Light/Midday: ND16/ND32
3. Harsh Sunlight/High Altitude: ND32/ND64
4. Intense Sunlight: ND64/ND128

1. Precise Light Control: Each filter is tuned to provide smooth exposure adjustments, ensuring uniform image quality across different lighting conditions.
2. Perfect for Dual Focal Lengths: Optimized for the DJI Air 3S’s dual lenses, allowing for seamless exposure adjustments no matter which focal length you use.
3. GimbalSafe Technology: Guarantees no impact on gimbal performance, ensuring stable and fluid footage throughout.
   

1. GND0.9 (3 stops): Ideal for managing bright skies in dawn, dusk, or midday shots, while maintaining accurate exposure in darker areas.
2. GND1.2 (4 stops): Best suited for extreme contrast situations like midday sun, ensuring the sky remains balanced while the foreground retains detail.

1. Dawn/Dusk/Midday Sun: GND0.9
2. Harsh, High-Contrast Lighting: GND1.2

1. Balanced Light Transitions: These filters allow smooth transitions between bright and shadowed areas, preventing overexposure of skies without underexposing the landscape.
2. High-Resolution Clarity: Multi-coated optical glass ensures professional-level clarity and detail in both photos and videos.
3. GimbalSafe Technology: Thoroughly tested to ensure stable drone operation and smooth footage.
   

4. Freewell DJI Air 3S Black Glow Mist 1/4 Filter

Product Overview: The Black Glow Mist 1/4 Filter adds a cinematic, dreamy glow to your aerial shots by softening harsh highlights and reducing the intensity of light contrasts. It’s ideal for photographers and videographers looking to achieve a professional, artistic effect in their footage.

When to Use:

1. Daytime Cinematic Shots: Perfect for adding a soft glow to portraits, landscapes, or cityscapes in bright conditions.
2. Nighttime Shoots: Excellent for creating subtle, diffused highlights, making light sources appear softer and more atmospheric.

Benefits:

1. Cinematic Highlights: Softens the harshness of bright areas to create a dreamy, cinematic look.
2. Light Diffusion: Distributes light evenly, reducing hard shadows and strong contrasts for smoother transitions.
3. GimbalSafe Technology: Maintains smooth gimbal operation, ensuring stable, high-quality footage.
   

In the box: Glow Mist 1/4, Filter Case, Cleaning Cloth

5. Freewell DJI Air 3S Light Pollution Reduction LPR Filter

Product Overview: The Light Pollution Reduction Filter is specially designed to minimize artificial light interference, enabling you to capture clear and detailed night sky photography. It helps reduce the yellow or orange glow from city lights, allowing for more natural night-time footage.

When to Use: Night Photography: Ideal for shooting stars, the moon, or cityscapes in urban or suburban environments where artificial light affects image quality.

Benefits:

1. Minimizes Light Pollution: Reduces the impact of artificial light, enhancing the clarity and detail of night shots.
2. Accurate Color Reproduction: Helps maintain the natural colors of the night sky, stars, and landscapes by blocking unwanted light wavelengths.
3. GimbalSafe Technology: Ensures smooth drone performance by preventing any interference with the gimbal.
   

In the box: LPR, Filter Case, Cleaning Cloth

6. Freewell DJI Air 3S UV Filter

Product Overview: The UV Filter protects your DJI Air 3S lens from harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays while improving image clarity by reducing haze in outdoor environments. It also shields your lens from dust, dirt, and scratches, ensuring longer-lasting equipment.

When to Use: Outdoor Shooting: Best for bright, sunny, or high-altitude environments where UV rays are strong, causing haziness in images.

Benefits:

1. Lens Protection: Shields your lens from damage caused by UV light, dust, and scratches, preserving your equipment.
2. Improved Image Clarity: Reduces haze and enhances sharpness, especially in bright outdoor conditions.
3. GimbalSafe Technology: Maintains perfect gimbal balance and operation.
   

In the box: UV, Filter Case, Cleaning Cloth

7. Freewell DJI Air 3S PL Filter

Product Overview: The PL (Polarizer) Filter reduces glare from reflective surfaces, such as water or glass, while enhancing the natural color and contrast in outdoor scenes. It is perfect for aerial photographers looking to capture vivid, glare-free images in sunny environments.

When to Use:

1. Over Water / Snow / Glass: Ideal for reducing reflections and glare in bright outdoor environments.
2. Landscape Photography: Enhances color vibrancy and contrast in skies, greenery, and water.

Benefits:

1. Glare Reduction: Minimizes reflections for clearer, sharper images.
2. Vibrant Colors: Enhances the natural colors of outdoor scenes, especially in bright sunlight.
3. GimbalSafe Technology: Ensures stable, smooth drone operation without affecting gimbal balance.

In the box: PL, Filter Case, Cleaning Cloth

8. Freewell DJI Air 3S ND1000 Filter

Product Overview: The Split ND512/ND1000 filter is designed for extreme light control, reducing light by 9 and 10 stops respectively. It’s perfect for capturing long-exposure shots in very bright conditions or when you want to achieve dramatic motion blur in bright daylight scenes.

When to Use:

1. Split ND512: Ideal for very bright environments where you need to reduce light significantly to capture dynamic scenes. Use the ND512 side when you require moderate long-exposure effects, such as capturing moving clouds or smooth water, but still want to retain some detail in the highlights. It works great for bright midday or slightly overcast conditions.
2. Split ND1000: Perfect for extreme brightness where full control over light is necessary. Use the ND1000 side for intense long-exposure shots, ideal for creating dramatic motion blur effects, whether it's smoothing out flowing water or adding a streak effect to fast-moving elements like vehicles or clouds.

Benefits:

1. Extreme Light Reduction: Controls harsh lighting and allows for long-exposure photography, even in very bright conditions.
2. Creative Motion Effects: Ideal for capturing motion blur effects, such as smooth water or dynamic clouds, in daylight.
3. GimbalSafe Technology: Ensures no interference with the DJI Air 3S gimbal, maintaining stable and smooth footage during flight.
   

In the box: ND512/ND1000, Filter Case, Cleaning Cloth

9. Freewell DJI Air 3S ND2000 Filter

Product Overview: The Split ND1000/ND2000 filter provides ultra-extreme light reduction, with 10 and 11 stops of light reduction, enabling creative long-exposure shots even in intense sunlight. It’s perfect for situations where precise light control and long exposure are essential for capturing dramatic, professional footage.

When to Use:

1. Split ND1000: Excellent for extremely bright sunlight where long-exposure shots are desired. This side is perfect for capturing smooth motion effects like water flowing or clouds moving in high-contrast environments, such as beach or desert scenes.
2. Split ND2000: Use the ND2000 side for ultra-bright conditions, such as shooting in high altitudes or intense midday sun, where light reduction is critical. This setting is optimal for creative shots with extreme motion blur or surreal long-exposure effects, perfect for capturing artistic imagery in the brightest lighting conditions.

Benefits:

1. Ultra-Light Control: Offers significant light reduction, making it possible to shoot long-exposure shots in the brightest environments.
2. Creative Photography: Perfect for producing artistic effects, such as extended motion blur in bright daylight.
3. GimbalSafe Technology: Each filter is rigorously tested to ensure smooth operation of the DJI Air 3S gimbal for stable, high-quality footage.
   

In the box: ND1000/ND2000, Filter Case, Cleaning Cloth

10. Freewell DJI Air 3S ND4/PL Filter

Product Overview: The Freewell Split ND4/PL Filter for DJI Air 3S is designed to reduce light and minimize glare in soft lighting conditions, such as dawn, dusk, or cloudy days. This filter combines the functionality of an ND filter (Neutral Density) with a Polarizer (PL), allowing you to control exposure and enhance color vibrancy in low-light settings.

When to Use:

1. Soft Lighting Conditions: Ideal for dawn, dusk, or cloudy day shooting where light is limited but glare from reflective surfaces is still present.
2. Split ND4/PL: Use this side to reduce light by 2 stops, perfect for early mornings or late afternoons when light levels are low but glare reduction is still essential.
3. Split PL: Use the polarizer side to cut glare from reflective surfaces such as water, glass, or wet ground, enhancing color saturation and maintaining image clarity.

Benefits:

1. Balanced Exposure: Reduces light by 2 stops, preventing overexposure while maintaining vibrant, balanced images.
2. Enhanced Color and Contrast: Cuts down reflections and enhances the natural colors of your footage, especially in soft lighting conditions like overcast skies.
3. GimbalSafe Technology: Each filter frame is rigorously tested to ensure smooth, stable footage with no interference to the DJI Air 3S gimbal.

In the box: Split ND4/PL, Filter Case, Cleaning Cloth

Conclusion

Freewell DJI Air 3S filters offer a comprehensive range of solutions designed to enhance your aerial photography and videography. Whether you need to control light with ND filters, reduce glare with PL filters, balance exposure with GND filters, or add artistic effects with Glow Mist and Light Pollution Reduction filters, Freewell provides high-quality, GimbalSafe technology to ensure smooth, stable footage. Each filter in the collection is carefully optimized for the DJI Air 3S, allowing you to capture stunning, professional-grade footage across varying lighting conditions. This knowledge base serves as your guide to understanding when and how to use each filter effectively.

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