Brand new P3A, camera out of focus / too soft ?
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andrec00
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Hello there
Just made my second flight on my Phantom 3 Advanced, shot some footage and while on the iPad everything seems to be good, when editing the footage on Premiere I saw several problems. Everything seems to be very soft and the left side of the images (both on photo and video) seems to be sharper than the rest.

I'll post some DNG and also some screenshots (without resizing) from  video footage so you guys can help me figuring out if this is the normal  P3 camera quality or not.


(original DNG, you must save as..)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11676385/DJI_0010.DNG
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11676385/DJI_0003.DNG
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11676385/DJI_0005.DNG
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11676385/DJI_0013.DNG


(screenshots from 1080p footage and 2k footage, some of this footage was is LOG with the sharpness down to -1 and the later screenshot was everything set to none , included sharpness)

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11676385/Untitled-2.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11676385/Untitled-3.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11676385/Untitled-1dji.jpg


2016-3-11
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DJI-Tim
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Did you fly your drone in the cold conditions ? It is really blur... you will have to send it back to DJI for repair
2016-3-12
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andrec00
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I have been flying with temperatures around 10ºC (52ºF), is that too cold?
Also did you found the raws (DNG) also too blurry  ?
2016-3-12
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pi-inthesky
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Have you removed the protective film from the camera lens
2016-3-12
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bobasbury
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The protective film on the lens.  Also, look to see if the lens itself is dirty.  The outside ring can be unscrewed to clean the inside AND outside.
2016-3-12
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andrec00
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I have removed the plastic film, in fact , I even fly witouth any UV filter just to see if it was a UV filter problem and the quality is the same.
Since RAWs are the best quality image we can get from this sensor I think it is the best way to evaluate if everything's OK or not. What do you guys think of the pictures I posted ? Normal for a P3 ? Out of focus ? Or focused on one side, and out of focus on other. Still can't tell if I have a defective lens/sensor or not...

Edit: here is it one more DNG from today:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11676385/DJI_0005%202.DNG
2016-3-12
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andrec00
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So yesterday I made some shots to see if this out of focus problem was visible on a 1080p video. I shot on 2k and edited everything to 1080p.
LOG , sharpness on -1. Here it is the result:


Feedback is welcome. On photos I can see that the left side is always sharper , on focus. On video is that also visible ? Should I send it back to DJI ?
2016-3-13
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andrec00
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Any feedback regarding the latest DNG ?

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11676385/DJI_0005%202.DNG
2016-3-16
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