Inspired by a thread from earlier this month, I decided to do some camera testing.
A user has claimed that the D-Log is baked into your RAW/DNG photos. I finaly found the time and weather to test the drone/camera with our current firmware (V01.03.0600).
The good news is that D-Log is NOT baked into your DNG files (at least not in my case). The bad news is, there's still something going wrong when shooting photos with cameraprofile set to D-Log...
I did a JPG+DNG shot with every profile selected, and generally the DNGs looked the same, completely independent of profile selected. But there was one strange exception. The version when D-Log was selected...
Apparently the camera with D-Log selected is underexposing approx 1.5 stop compared to shooting photos with another profile selected!
I have made an overview with DNG+JPG pairs of the first 6 cameraprofiles:
When D-Log is selected, the camera underexposes your photos
During my testing I discovered another thing. I have heard people talking about a "watercolor painting effect", but never noticed anything like that on my own photos. Apparently that is because I have been shooting in RAW/DNG mode. Because at a closer look, the JPGs here are all REALLY bad. It is especially visible in the green trees and bushes behind me, but generally details are few in the jpgs:
JPG vs DNG. Really bad "watercolor effect" in JPG.
I have decreased highlights in the DNG file a tiny bit, but besides that, it is default settings in Adobe Camera Raw.
Camera has sharpening set to -1. I have read that setting sharpening to +1 should decrease noise-reduction and remove the watercolor effect, but that is not a solution I would be satisfied with if I was shooting JPGs. Default sharpening is already rather high in my opinion.
CONCLUSION: Shot RAW/DNG and avoid using D-Log when taking photos.
BTW, cameraprofiles for video and photography/jpgs are not independent. Neither is for example whitebalance which I prefer fixed in video (to avoid it changing in the middle of a recording), but prefer in Auto for photography.
Please DJI, (also) try to fix that...
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