Mavic Air Lens Distortion
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ntxbowhunter13
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I've had my Mavic Air for a while now and love it but have always noticed in a certain part of my pictures and videos I always have this blurry distortion.  It's always in the same spot so I would have to believe my lens is somewhat not perfect.  I wouldn't doubt after some editing that your everyday person wouldn't notice it but I constantly notice it now.  Is there anyway to just get a new lens or what do you think the problem would be?  Thanks.

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Hi there, sorry for the trouble. Can you please upload a sample file here so that we can check it on our end?  You can use google drive or drop-box for you to upload it. Thank you.
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I also noticed something like this. Especially when turning left or right. There is a sort of wave visible. Not so much a distortion tough. I did some online investigation, and it turns out every mavic has this "problem". Luckily it's weak, so most people will not notice. I noticed this when lightroom made a lens correction from a raw dng file from the mavic. Compared to the original you can see the difference quite well.
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miketmtpro
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It's actually normal, but many don't really see it as easily. In Raw you can really see it. Jpeg the MA uses a stretching process for the image. It's not a bad thing, but it is there to accommodate some lens edge distortions.

My MA also had a slight curvature on some images in the corners. For photos I could crop most of it out. Just have to learn to work with it. The cameras on these are not over spectacular, but they are much better than other flying products with a lens. Even my video had that "cream" look to highly detailed areas that many YT clips reported. Some tend to think this is a flying super camera, but it's not. It's a 1/2/3 sensor which is nothing all that great, and the lens is what it is.. 2.8 ap fixed, so you work with it. I sold my MA because my MP had the extra capabilities I needed in photo shoots. P4P is in a different camera realm if you really want it for the camera quality. Air, Spark, MP are more or less for increased portability, and a semi decent, though limited use (spec) camera.
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ntxbowhunter13
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Maybe I didn't explain it well enough.  In my images and in my videos there is like a general area from the right side of the video/photo that moves into the middle of the image and anything that passes through that area of whatever is in view will be blurry, even things that are far off in the distant have more detail than the area in that part of the screen.  I notice it in every single image or video I take but of course it depends on what I'm shooting for it to really stand out or not.  I've uploaded some files, one is a jpg and the other is screenshot from video.  Hopefully that will explain it better.

https://drive.google.com/open?id ... iZlamD_DbVbLsZBNIPt

https://drive.google.com/open?id ... yWB1xutnhgJGhLSEMDB

https://drive.google.com/open?id ... pdSbA9pzG_n5AAjUX4N

https://drive.google.com/open?id ... yuEPJUlRIGvK7m_HhiZ
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