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Feature improvement with digital zoom-recommendation
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tpallai
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To DJI:     Now with digital zoom, I think this will be a nice improvement and a feature that is long awaited. But now instead of having to pinch the screen, what if you could use the gimbal wheel tilt to control zoom in and out instead, and the C1 and C2 could be programmed to switch between gimbal tilt and zoom control. This would allow for much smoother and very useable zoom in video. I think this would be a great improvement DJI!


2016-3-21
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4StateFlyer
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I think add it to one of the custom buttons be able to zoom out max, and zoom in max.  If one button could zoom in and out quick, that would be a neat feature.
2016-3-21
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Geebax
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All it will do is make the picture look like crap and jump all over the place because the gimbal stabilisation will not work properly when zoomed in. You might be long-awaiting it, but serious users are not.

This has been asked many times before. The answer is to fly closer, and if you want crap pictures from digital zoom, then do it in post production. If you do it on the camera, then you don't have any way of undoing it, whereas in post you do. Bad idea.
2016-3-21
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C_LUU
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In my opinion digital zoom is useless, You can simply zoom in post production to get the exact same effect. If it were an analog zoom then that would be different as you are zooming in without loss.
2016-3-21
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DJI-Tim
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That is a great suggestion!  I'll pass it to our R&D
2016-3-22
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Show Me Drone
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C_LUU Posted at 2016-3-22 13:05
In my opinion digital zoom is useless, You can simply zoom in post production to get the exact same  ...

you mean Optical Zoom ?
2016-3-22
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pfalcon
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No, it is digital - not optical zoom that is useless.  As stated already, the effect of digital zoom can be done post production, so can be considered useless as a camera function.  We would all like to see optical zoom on our cameras, but there are many cost and technology hurdles that stand in the way of that...
2016-3-22
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C_LUU
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Apoogies, yes optical zoom is what i ment.
2016-3-22
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Geebax
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Little ol cynical me would point out that the official DJI response was exactly the same as the last time this was raised, and probably the same as the time before that.....
2016-3-22
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Kyokushin
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Is digital zoom works also in Phantom 3 pro?
2016-3-24
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Geebax
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Kyokushin Posted at 2016-3-24 19:26
Is digital zoom works also in Phantom 3 pro?

No......   
2016-3-24
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I believe this is they way to think about the difference in Optical vs. Digital zooms..   Optical Zoom will get your (picture/view) closer without degradation in quality . Think of this as in using binoculars. Digital zooms works great up to a certain point without loss of quality but once you reach THAT point and zoom out farther the pixels become distorted and blurry do to the computer portion of digital "guesses" what should be in that pixel  vs. what is actually there.
2016-4-1
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quaddron3
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Are you using the drone for surveillance purposes?

Otherwise what is the point of reducing your field of view further with a digital zoom?

There is nothing that can't be had for imaging purposes with post processing of the pictures.

The only tangible reason one will need digital zoom on their drone is for surveillance purposes in real time as it allows you to get a better easier on the eyes picture of the video feed in real time on a screen of limited size.

Otherwise, everything can be done to the data AFTER with image processing.

So why do you need digital zoom? Not that I'm against adding extra features per se. I think more features in general is better.
2016-4-1
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