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This should wrap up this thread.
I am a very happy with the outcome because I have a bird that flies well and takes a great image as my last one did.
I did get a different bird rather than a repaired version of mine which made me a little nervous because I have two P4s and the one that got in the accident was my favorite of the two. I would imagine I just have to get the lens focused on the other.
But I got it back in rather quick time, I found support to be very communicative and fair. I still don't know how or why it crashed into the tree, and I would have paid twice the amount I did to know that but I will be much more careful for future WP missions and probably just use Litchi for future ones although, as I said, they did sort of split the difference with me and I got away with only paying $271 and they covered shipping and labor so I am happy with that.
All in all, (with some exception in this thread ;) ), I am very pleased with the outcome and the support, contrary to what I've been told has been magnificent and I even got some things that i thought I would have to wait on for my I2 pushed through even faster so I really could not be much happier.
Back to my point on the bird being as good as the one I turned in even though I was afraid it would not be since it's a different unit, I am going to suggest that either people need to work on their settings or maybe need a focus on their lens because I often get "How did you get your image to look that good using D-Log, I can never" and I never had an answer. Now that I have got the second bird, and am able to use my settings to get as quality an image as I was with my other and I still have one that looks a little better than the other, I can only imagine that there the lens needs to be refocussed, and I am hoping that it's only that on the other bird. Unfortunately, with the P4 running it's course out on me now, and I with the Mavic and soon to be I2, I can't imagine spending the money to tune up my other P4.
I have enoyed and still enjoy the P4. It's a wonderful platform and even my unfocused P4 still is 10x better than the Yuneec Typhoon H and maybe on par with Yuneec's flagship H920 Tornado, which is sort of amazing, I will end that I just absolutely love the p4 (and the Phantom in general) platform and it will forever hold a place in my heart and indeed history of photographic UAS technology. No matter what happens, it will always be the first really good bird for aerial photographers. The future is bright and again, I have been heartened by DJI's performance as a company as well. Once you get to the person that knows what they are talking about, you get what you need to know and they are super fast. I am not sure where the "slow response" mantra comes from. I had to do no pushing and it came in and out about as fast a I would imagine it could.
Thanks for everyone's thoughts, suggestions, and effort. You guys are great!
Happy flying and fly safe!
Adam
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