Disappointing Auto focus in low light and manual focus feature
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s0n1c87
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I have my Mavic Pro for about 3weeks now. I'm really disappointed on how the Mavic focus on low light, once the light is dim, the focusing just never sems to be accurate. The manual focus isnt helping much on this case, zooming up to 2.0X isnt close up enough to see the focus. I hope DJI can have an improvement firmware on the manual focus feature such as increase the digital zoom to 4.0x or 5.0x or include the focus distance(meter) in the manual focus, now is just some unlabel bar showing for focus distance adjustment. Seriously no one can tell which distance we are focusing at just by looking at bar without labels.
2017-2-22
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dronist
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Post some vids opf the issue.
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All those are the out of focus photo I'm getting due to the inaccurate AF and the not very helpful manual focus.
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SkyMemories
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Waiting for mavic 2 =)
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Jason Lane
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I've had similar frustrations in low light. The camera seems to really struggle to lock in AF, and I find using the MF slider to be very difficult. I'm hoping that the Focus Peaking feature that just made it into the Android app will make things easier, but I've yet to try it in low light.
2017-2-25
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Jason Lane Posted at 2017-2-25 04:57
I've had similar frustrations in low light. The camera seems to really struggle to lock in AF, and I find using the MF slider to be very difficult. I'm hoping that the Focus Peaking feature that just made it into the Android app will make things easier, but I've yet to try it in low light.

focus peaking isn't helping much for me. Really hope DJI can do something about this in their new firmware. The feeling sucks to reach home thinking you got the shot but when view on com its out of focus.
2017-2-27
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Nole4life80
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I'm having the same issue. Center focus using she button on the back and tap to focus aren't working in less than bright light and there is that weird slide to focus bar on the screen which you can't dial in quite right..... everything was fine up until the update....
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Nole4life80 Posted at 2017-2-27 08:25
I'm having the same issue. Center focus using she button on the back and tap to focus aren't working in less than bright light and there is that weird slide to focus bar on the screen which you can't dial in quite right..... everything was fine up until the update....

Definitely hope their DJI rep can passby this thread and raise the issue to their backend thing to make the AF works better.
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