Recent content by michaeldk

Berk, It might be your third drone, but it's the Mavic's first flight. So besides that it's about the pilot, it's certainly also about the machine - is it properly designed? No production errors? Is the battery able to go from 100% to 30% properly, without issues? Is your phone or remote 100%...

Sharpening is inhibiting succesfull operation of JPG-like compression algorhythms. Without sharpening the compression can take place in areas that lack fine detail, with (strong) sharpening there are effectively very few such areas and hence the filesize will go up :)

For those people who associate waterpainting with ND / pola filters : You are reducing the amount of light that reaches the sensor. The camera software hence assumes that it's getting dark, because shutterspeeds are low. It will probably respond diferently to 1/1000th shutter speed than...

I have a 15 day old Mavic (that I'll be sending back by the way for an issue it has with flickering shaddow brightness) which looks absolutely stunning on -1 or 0 sharpness. I can take still captures from foresty areas and it looks wonderfully sharp. I guess there must be some inter-mavic...