True, however, C1 has a lot of profiles, IMO very very close to the colors required for the 1" Sony sensor, same as in the RX100, etc.
What is more interesting/concerning, is C1 allows you to see just how much distortion correction needs to be done to the files. Just shoot a
MP2 and aim upwards, or downwards, if you are anything but level, the same issues that show up on D-log occur, curved horizons. Lightroom is attempting (very poorly) to add in the lens corrections, but even LR has no base color profile for any DJI drone. All revert to Adobe color. Adobe's lens corrections have extreme distortion corrections applied, and you can't undo them (which is a huge disadvantage). In all of the
MP2 raws I have, where the camera has been aimed up or down, Adobe is not able to really correct for the amount of distortion without inducing a lot of softness. Adobe is cutting image off the edges also when it applies the auto lens corrections and since you can't turn them off, no way to get that image material back. Just open a file in C1, expand it fully and compare the same file in LR, look to the side edges and see if you get the same image materials.
Capture One, I have found loads all DJI raws, either
MP2 or
P4 Pro with massive crops applied to the files, you can see this in the browser, with the dark black frames around the images. It's very simple to get the full image, by using the crop tool and expanding the image, then you can save this as a style and apply to all remaining images.
Capture One also attempts to load a manufactures lens profile to the raws, this "fixes" the bent horizons but at the expense of a lot of details towards the edges of the images. Since the
MP2 only works in 3:2 ratio you need to have as much sharpness to the edge as possible.
Personally, I have found the "generic" lens profile adds a huge amount of details to the edges, and allows you to use the edge sharpness falloff slider, which the manufactures profile does not. The generic adds more sharpness, but also brings back the curved horizons and light falloff at top and bottom of the frames. Adobe does a better job of correcting light fall off. With the C1 files, and the generic lens profile, you will need to open them in Photoshop and slightly warp them back, very simple step, and no loss of details that I can see.
C1 pulls less overall noise from the images, than LR or ACR, and has more color corrections available and they are in layers.
For now I use 1 of three color profiles, P1 tricolormatic does very well on skies pulling back a much more natural blue, less red tint, and Several of the Olympus profiles, C7070 is one I use again very nice colors. Any of these give you a huge gain over the default "Adobe dng" color profile that loads now for the
MP2
Due to the fact that the camera in the
MP2 is a "Hasselblad", not sure if P1 will ever really open true support for it, however recently they added the Fuji GFX to C1 support so there is hope. But their color support for the DJI
P4 Pro is really not any better IMO. Still loads the IQ 250 color profile, which sometimes is fine, others not.
No doubt the two color engines,
P4 Pro and
MP2 are different as you really can roll over profiles between the two very often.
Overall I also find the
MP2 lens less than stellar as it's often seems to find more sharpness to one side than the other. So I often take a lot of shots moving the focus point around (using AF in DJIgo4). The
MP2 does not YAW in hover at all so you have no problem lining up multiple shots, unlike the
P4 Vr 2.0 which still is very prone to slight yaw while hovering.
Paul C
