Grand Princess Visits Melbourne - Cruise Ship Season Starts

Cruise Ship Season has started in Melbourne and today Grand Princess from Princess Cruises visited Melbourne on this very windy Saturday morning. This is an awesome looking cruise ship and I hope their guests have fun. Many more cruise ships will visit Melbourne over the coming warmer months. It is great to see them come back.

I hope you enjoy the video and thanks for watching. Cheers, Brett - Gizmo Drones.

Drone: I used the 3 different cameras in the DJI Mavic 3 Pro drone (two with Zoom, 3X and 7X) to film this ship. From a distance I was able to get some awesome closeups using Zoom.

I used Dlog-M for all the shots except the first few when it was dark as Dlog-M only has a max of 800 ISO which is too low for dark shots. I used standard color for those darker shots. The Mavic 3 Pro is a bit grainy when it is dark and I don't really like Night Mode as it doesn't look natural.

Hopefully DJI can increase the ISO for Dlog-M plus allow adjustment of sharpness and noise (Thanks DJI). The drone did a great job of flying on this very windy day.

Wikipedia: Grand Princess is a Grand-class cruise ship owned by Princess Cruises. It was built in 1998 by Fincantieri Cantieri Navali Italiani in Monfalcone, Italy, with yard number 5956, at a cost of approximately US$450 million. She was the largest and most expensive passenger ship ever built at the time.

Launched: 22 May 1997

Length: 290 m Draft: 7.92 m

Builder: Fincantieri

Capacity: 2,590 lower berth passengers; 3,100 maximum passengers

Cost: US$450 million

Crew: 1,100

https://www.princess.com/ships-and-experience/ships/ap-grand-princess/