While the hundreds of videos that people have posted of the mini appear to be very good, I have not had as much luck with still images.  The images seem to be over sharpened out of camera and provide little room to edit in lightroom.  I have tried a few HDR photos by manually adjusted the shutter speed (ISO 100).  Using lightroom and Aurora HDR to process the images the results are terrible.  DJI, please give some attention to some updates for photographs.

All said and done that still looks pretty nice, might I recommend Drone Film Guide's video for taking HDR pics (if you haven't seen it already)?

stubbietubbie Posted at 12-31 06:03
All said and done that still looks pretty nice, might I recommend Drone Film Guide's video for taking HDR pics (if you haven't seen it already)?

MAVIC MINI // HOW TO TAKE AMAZING SUNSET PHOTOS!

Thanks...I've seen it. I might be expecting too much in relation to my P4P and dSLRs.  That being said, some additional image control on the mini would be greatly appreciated (as others have mentioned).

That's a great video, stubbietubbie!  Thanks for sharing it!  I knew of the "Bracketing" concept, but didn't really understand its use, at least not in relation to HDR photos.

I think the MM will never meet the photo quality of the P4P and dSLR cameras.  Yet it still produces a pretty good image for it's size and cost.  

Stubbietubbie, thanks for sharing that video. I picked up several tips while watching it.

Hi. I am sorry for the trouble this has caused. With regards to this concern. I would recommend to please try resetting the camera settings and try a different location with better lighting to isolate the issue. Please keep us posted for further assistance. Thank you.

I’m reasonably happy with the images out of the Mini

Me too I think they even rival the Mavic Pro 2. Have had no one comment on blurry edges which was a big issue with the Mavic Pro 2
If you want to improve images from the Mini unning them through Topaz Gigapixel can do wonders for "some" images.

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves with the M2P comparisons

The Mini uses a small image sensor, most likely to keep the weight down.  And photographers know that small sensors tend to have more noise and lower resolution (even for the same number of pixels) than larger sensors.

So the in-camera JPG conversion tends to lean towards oversharpening.  And naturally, with that sharpening, we get exaggerated noise.

Your shot was taken in fairly low light, so that's the most difficult case, of course.  I've noticed the noise, too, when shooting stills in low light with the Mini.

While there's not much they can do about the hardware, what DJI could do for us with only a firmware/software change, is to give us RAW mode shooting.

RAW would let us get the most possible from the sensor we have.

Of course, Adobe would have to play ball, too, and update ACR to do RAW conversions of the Mini's camera's files.  Or DJI would need to supply a stand-alone RAW converter for us.  That's all doable, however!

My mini has render decent jpg images and Im able to edit them a bit in Luminar 4 just fine. Here is one I took the other day.

I'm not upset with the still image quality.   Here's a 3-shot sunrise panoramic I shot on the 26th (Indianapolis on the right).

the MM does it verry well i think

Studio66, nice still pictures.  Out of curiosity what is the abandoned building in the 5th picture down?

we call it a ‘roterij’. its where they wash and dry the flax (vlas)  used in linen.
i have a little movie also

https://youtu.be/jC1gaaAFbWo

hope you can understand my english.

stubbietubbie Posted at 2019-12-31 06:03
All said and done that still looks pretty nice, might I recommend Drone Film Guide's video for taking HDR pics (if you haven't seen it already)?

MAVIC MINI // HOW TO TAKE AMAZING SUNSET PHOTOS!

Thanks for sharing!

I’ve had good luck with the mini, especially sunrises..

Very well done

Excellent photos

stubbietubbie, Thanks for the video. Why did you change the shutterspeed (in the MM-Fly App /Camera) instead of the EV (like in example with the Camera)?

I'm new to photography and drone images but I managed to produce this with the mini...

ERC Posted at 1-2 04:46
I'm new to photography and drone images but I managed to produce this with the mini...

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Nice job, it’s all about location and time of day.