Geebax
Captain
Australia
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I was doing some investigation today and I figure the P4 Pro sensor has to be the same as fitted to the Sony RX100 Mark V, and that is a pretty impressive camera. The reason it has to be that sensor is because DJI have said it is a Sony Exmoor R sensor at 1", and the only version of the RX100 that can shoot 4K at 100 Mbs is the latest one. So it should have a superior low light performance to the previous sensors used, due to the back-illuminated stacked sensor. If you look up any review of the RX100 V then you should see some good reviews. What is not known (by me at least) is the image processing chip used by DJI, as the Sony RX100 V does not appear to offer the option of H.265 encoding or 4K frames rastes up to 60 fps (in H.264) that DJI is offering. In terms of stills, the burst shooting performance is truly amazing, and coupled with the mechanical shutter, it should deliver stunning stills.
It will need a higher level of SD card though, the old 'class 10' specification is just not going to cut it any longer, you will have to pay attention to the sustained writing speed of the card you buy, as anything less that 15 Megabytes per second won't be enough. And I suspect a minimum of 32 GB will be the new norm for capacity due to the larger files created by 100 mbs video recording and the larger sized stills.
This then begs the question of whether the new lens on the P4 Pro is up to the standard of the new sensor. But even so, with this new camera, DJI have streaked light years ahead of the competition. I was not really tempted by the Mavic, as it offered nothing to me in terms of an improvement over my P3P, but the P4 Pro now has me thinking of how I can fund this new machine... |
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