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You CAN open the original and cleaned DNG files in Photoshop CS2 and other version using the free Adobe DNG Raw converter. I am able to open all raw out of the Phantom 3 and the DJI processed Cleaner files by first running them through the Adobe DNG Converter 9.1, and making sure that the DNG-->Adobe DNG conversion is compatible with my version of Photoshop. For Photoshop CS2, I set the converter to Camera Raw 2.4. You may also need a plug-in for CS2 to open the Adobe Raw files and more recent versions of Photoshop will probably not need the plug-in.
You can find the Adobe Converter on their home site: https://www.adobe.com/support/do ... 06&platform=Windows
Something totally unexpected when comparing raw and JPG is that the raw output at 12MP in DJI raw shows a wider frame size (field of coverage) than the same 12MP JPG image taken at the same time (P3 with latest firmware as of Nov 2015). This makes me believe that the JPG only output from the camera is not a true 12MP (11.9MP sensor) photo but a slightly scaled up ~10.9MP crop from the center portion of the Sony sensor to 12MP. This might explain why it takes so long to take a photo in the air, if it has read out the full 12MP image, crop the data to the center portion, upscale back to 12MP, denoise, and finally compress to JPG before saving. I measured the difference in lost frame edge in Photoshop of JPG vs RAW, and the JPG is missing about 80 pixels on all four sides compared to the 12MP Raw image. This translates to roughly a 10.8MP crop that is being upscaled back to 12MP.
Please don't be upset that DJI may removed some information in the native JPG from the edge, as this portion of the lens has much more distortion, so in fact they are kind of doing the average user a favor by doing this very slight cropping. Attached below is a crop of the bottom right corner of a single JPG + RAW image capture to illustrate the lost sensor information in JPG. Additioonally, because the JPG is upscaled in camera to 2000x3000 pixels, even though these are 1:1 crops of the originals, the JPG will appear slightly larger.
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Compare DNG vs JPG
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