If you look/quote one paragraph further in my post, I already mentioned you can basically mitigate any issues relating to DR by taking bracketed shots. And when drones are in the air with such wide angle lenses on a 3-axis gimbal, it's as if you're shooting with a tripod all the time, which makes bracketing dead easy. But you can’t add too much sharpness without introducing artifacts, so I would definitely take sharpness over DR (for the use case of stills, not videos).
Adding contrast to the
A2S file actually adds a little bit a sharpness. Sharpening is basically detecting edges and adding contrast to the edges, adding contrast to the overall image adds some contrast to the edges as well, essentially sharpening the image a bit. However, despite this, the down sampled
MA2 still looks sharper than the
A2S, especially around the bricks.
That said, my point is, for still images, the
MA2 produces equal or marginally sharper images at a lower price. It also has more resolution for landscape photographers to work with, especially for larger prints. You can up sample the
A2S images and I doubt you would get better results than the
MA2.
Seems to me everyone has blindly bought into the 1 inch sensor marketing hype without actually comparing the images and not willing to entertain the possibility that the old one is better for some use cases, which in this case is landscape photography (I don't think there are landscape photographers out there who think sharper is not better).
Seems this is an unpopular opinion around these parts, but I'm just trying to find as much information as I can to make an informed decision on whether to get the
A2S or
MA2 for my specific use case.