duey101
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UPDATE #2:
Took it to the dealer today, tried the camera side by side with a new unit, the new unit was good, mine was horrible. Phantom Thailand swapped out the bad camera for the good one on the spot, no charge, superb after sales service by Phantom Thailand. DJI... learn from them.
UPDATE:
After two weeks with no replies from tech support I finally got a reply, this is what they said...
| Sophie Zhang (DJI) Oct 10, 18:04 Dear Dm, Thank you for contacting DJI Technical Support. So sorry for the late reply.
We have checked the picture attached on the forum link, it seems it's Okay.
It's suggested to use the DNG Cleaner to clean the picture and check again.
http://www.dji.com/product/phantom-3/download If you think it's still unsatisfying, please kindly send us more original photos for further analysis. Thank you for choosing DJI. Best Regards, DJI Product Application Technical Support
So, they read this thread, saw the contrasting images here including the blurry out of focus images from my camera and the sharp ones from other people's cameras and conclude my blurry out of focus images are good? Obviously, DJI has no idea what they are doing and it is clearly evidenced in the reply I received.
| First off I would like to say as a quad copter DJI hit a home run with the P3P, flying one is a joy and it is an amazing package until you try to use it as an aerial camera.
As a photographer I am extremely disappointed with this P3P image quality. Soft, blurry, chromatic abberations, not a pro quality camera as advertised by any means, not anywhere near it. I can't get a sharp image in stills or in video and even stills taken from video clips are awful. I tested it sitting on the ground with no props on it, motors off, just the remote control and the body powered on. Yes, the clear screw on lens filter is off, plastic lens protector removed... yes. No other possible issues other than the capabilities of the camera.
I took some stills and video with the bird on the ground which basically means the camera is sitting on a tripod and no possibility of camera shake (motion blur). I shoot with my DSLR on a tripod all the time so I know even if I am at f/2.8 ISO 100, shutter speed 250 (depending on your light) I'm going to get a sharp image. At f/2.8 there is going to be somewhat of a depth of field issue on close objects and distant objects in front or behind your subject until you get far enough away that DOF is no longer an issue, but I can't get any part of the image in focus on my P3P from any distance whether it be close or far away. Nothing in the frame is in focus in any shot I take whether it be video or stills. In addition, if you shoot in RAW (DNG) you get white specs all over the image requiring you to download the "DJI_DNG_Cleaner application" which tells me right there the camera is defective. The camera is clearly not up to par and has faults right out of the box and this needs to be sorted out... good luck, I know.
I bought this to use it for professional use because it was advertised as such... not even close. My iPhone 4S takes better photos than this P3P camera as does my 5 year old Sony point and shoot and this DJI camera is supposed to be 4K quality? Of course I didn't expect images like my 5D Mark III but what I get from this thing is really bad. For me, it can't be used for anything other than a toy RC Quad copter and as far as that goes it is great! The bird, DJI GO app, and all the rest it is an amazing package that is a joy to use, but as an aerial camera it is totally useless for any professional purposes, or even recreational purposes in my case. If I would have known this I wouldn't have bought it.
I have tried everything including downgrading back to FW 1.3.20 and it is the same. Blurry, out of focus images, terrible chromatic abberations, dirty white noise images, very bad quality. The camera is defective, low quality, unable to produce sharp images. At least mine is.
Did I get a lemon?
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