Hello, I would like to know if the DJI go4 has option to manually focus on spark photos, it does the autofocus very well but sometimes I want to focus on another subject

I am not 100% sure, but I don't believe that it focuses at all?

RobertWSimpson Posted at 2018-2-20 15:15
I am not 100% sure, but I don't believe that it focuses at all?

What a shame, I'm a wedding photographer and it would help a lot to have this option for photography, I think a product worth more than $ 600 not having a manual focus option is ridiculous, even the low value cameras have, I hope DJI thinks about an upgrade in the next firmware update, I do not know if it is good to use Litchi from what I saw it does this manual focus, can you tell if it is reliable?

The spark does have a "shallow focus" function that you may be interested in.  I'm not sure how it works since I've never used it.  Hopefully others can chime in here?

Have you tried to touch the screen into the area you want to focus on?
And since youa are a photogrpher maybe you can help me with this..do you know a $600 camera that can fly?

dj_dread Posted at 2018-2-20 15:51
Have you tried to touch the screen into the area you want to focus on?
And since youa are a photogrpher maybe you can help me with this..do you know a $600 camera that can fly?

My 5DII can fly once.  My 1DIII can fly a few times.  This is assumption of course as I haven't tried throwing either yet.

Would you afford to fly the 1DIII?? )

dj_dread Posted at 2018-2-20 15:51
Have you tried to touch the screen into the area you want to focus on?
And since youa are a photogrpher maybe you can help me with this..do you know a $600 camera that can fly?

I'm not judging the possibility of flying, but the camera options, I use a Nikon D3 for photographs and the focus for me is very important, and I still have not had the puzzle to play mine too kkkkkkk

RobertWSimpson Posted at 2018-2-20 15:34
The spark does have a "shallow focus" function that you may be interested in.  I'm not sure how it works since I've never used it.  Hopefully others can chime in here?

Thanks for the comment I'll try this.

I think you might like the shallow depth of field function

This artificial, software bokeh in Spark look terrible, IMHO. Pure daub.

As for focusing, I thing Spark has a constant focus. With its tiny sensor and wide FOV almost everything is in focus all the time.

I haven't had issue with the Spark or focus. But I don't fly it much anymore....

Spark's camera focus is fixed: no focusing is needed at all