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makatanav
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How about image quality for your spark photos?
Either I`m to demanding to quality as a hobbyist photographer, either it's everything OK.
My images, when zoomed, looks washed out.

This would be orginal image resized to 1:1 800x800pix
ISO 100 1/40sec
DJI_0002_resized.jpg

This 100% crop
DJI_0002_100_crop.jpg

Here again orginal image resized to 1:1 800x800pix
ISO 200 1/100sec
DJI_0132_resized.jpg

This 100% crop
DJI_0132_100_crop.jpg

At begining thought that it's washed out due slow shutter, but now I don't know.
Your opinion? Such is the quality of Spark, or I have curved arms or something wrong with my hardware.

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Wachtberger
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Just to be sure: When you refer to the "original" pictures, do you refer to those downloaded on your mobile device, or the files that are stored on the SD card of your Spark (only those on the SD card have the full resolution).
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Looks normal to me. Those are far from ideal conditions for crisp photos. low light, low contrast, low shutter speed etc. ...
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The camera in the Spark is only 12mp, not sure you would ever get that amount of detail in an image. I would say the colour's look fine, you can always do a slight edit on colour with photo software.
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makatanav
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Wachtberger Posted at 2017-11-28 05:54
Just to be sure: When you refer to the "original" pictures, do you refer to those downloaded on your mobile device, or the files that are stored on the SD card of your Spark (only those on the SD card have the full resolution).

files from SD card
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makatanav
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footage after retouching:

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They look great, what an amazing place to fly over. You should get the drone directly above an do a pano from there.
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makatanav
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jksphoto Posted at 2017-11-28 06:07
They look great, what an amazing place to fly over. You should get the drone directly above an do a pano from there.

thanks
I was already a bit scared, cause this was 300m altitude.
Yes, wanted an image directly above, but then need to go more up
And this was a H pano if I'm not wrong
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makatanav Posted at 2017-11-28 06:13
thanks
I was already a bit scared, cause this was 300m altitude.
Yes, wanted an image directly above, but then need to go more up

wow, that's high. I've not taken my spark over 106m as I struggle to see it clearly.

Why not try several lower level pano's and then stitch them together into one big one. Would look great
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jksphoto Posted at 2017-11-28 06:23
wow, that's high. I've not taken my spark over 106m as I struggle to see it clearly.

Why not try several lower level pano's and then stitch them together into one big one. Would look great

maybe will try next time, but I think it will look stretched to the corners
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makatanav Posted at 2017-11-28 06:27
maybe will try next time, but I think it will look stretched to the corners

I have had good results shooting the pano's with the camera pointing down. no issues with the corners so far. This was at 40m.  

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Where did you take the pictures? Reall like the look of it!
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makatanav Posted at 2017-11-28 06:13
thanks
I was already a bit scared, cause this was 300m altitude.
Yes, wanted an image directly above, but then need to go more up

Try a couple of -85° 3x3 Panos , dont think you need to go to 300m then!
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jksphoto Posted at 2017-11-28 06:23
wow, that's high. I've not taken my spark over 106m as I struggle to see it clearly.

Why not try several lower level pano's and then stitch them together into one big one. Would look great

Get yourself a white cloud over your position and you see it all the way up!
Also up to 150m or such, you can hear it!
;-)
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S-e-ven Posted at 2017-11-28 07:44
Get yourself a white cloud over your position and you see it all the way up!
Also up to 150m or such, you can hear it!
;-)

The UK is restricted to 120m. I have the results I need from 50-60 metres up.
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jksphoto Posted at 2017-11-28 07:45
The UK is restricted to 120m. I have the results I need from 50-60 metres up.

Only for trying/testing.
To know, what you can do, in case you need to!
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S-e-ven Posted at 2017-11-28 07:47
Only for trying/testing.
To know, what you can do, in case you need to!

Its the fear of sending it up that high that gets me, oh and flying over water.
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your photos are normal for spark....I have only one question...What is this watery place it looks artificial...
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I think this is pretty normal for Spark.
Some noise reduction that will kick in. Even at ISO 100.
If you have more contrast in your picture, it might improve.
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As others wrote - this is a typical quality for spark photos. In fact it is better that Spark's firmware does not boost saturation too much. It leaves us with more space for possible post-processing and - what is even more important - reduces probability of over-blowing color channels. Remember that Spark's sensor is just a tiny 1/2.3". One cannot expect to much dynamic range from it. Hence the digital noise kicks in quickly and so Sparks de-noises pictures quite aggressively. Too aggressively IMHO. Another noticeable problem with Spark's photo quality is that it tends over-sharpen photos. Al these issues would be gone if DJI decided to add raw support. Unfortunately this is a big `no' on their side. Pity.
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I have great pictures with my Spark, I'm impressed, often better than the mavic.

Exemplo:

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I agree, I often have better photos out of my spark than my mavic.
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Great pictures! The shape of the land is similar to some artificial pattern. Here is the info of the image size and you can check if the original pictures meet the standard.   
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Anuvis Posted at 2017-11-28 07:53
your photos are normal for spark....I have only one question...What is this watery place it looks artificial...

it's a lake in Latvia.
The channels were created by specialists of the Latvian Fund for Nature in order to protect the surrounding area from overgrowth and create suitable conditions for nesting birds
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makatanav Posted at 2017-11-29 03:28
it's a lake in Latvia.
The channels were created by specialists of the Latvian Fund for Nature in order to protect the surrounding area from overgrowth and create suitable conditions for nesting birds

Its very nice .I have not seen a lake like that in Greece and i was wondering what are theese formations...Thanks alot i wiss you good and safe flights!!!
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Real nice pictures.
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I think as long as the image is resized to social media sizes it's pretty good, but pixel piper will not like them at 100%
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