Recent content by Jfvdenning

The M2P had poor QC on the lens too. I looked at 20 copies of it and I would only keep 3 of them.

It would be better if he could test those high ISOs in a real world situation we would use them, which is at night.

Bbased on the corners of your M3 being better than the M2P it seems you got one of the many bad M2P out there with optical flaws. from what I have seen compared to my M2P the mavic 3 has great quality but worse corner detail. But I tested many to find a good one. you mentioned chromatic...

Flying the drone up to 100m above a detailed scene like a housing estate and shooting straight down is a far simpler way to find any issues as you can look across the entire frame to check for sharpness in one shot.

I have been through 20 Mavic 2 pro drones to find 3 good ones, it was not an error in testing. I know how to test. My first M2P was perfect, I was lucky, my second was dreadful. Decentering is not normal, it is bad lens production or from dropping a lens. I have plenty of lenses that are not...

My Mavic 2 Pro is sharp edge to edge wide open, as is my Sigma 65mm f2 lens, and 100-1400mm. These are all cheap lenses.

A brick wall isn't a good test for a drone as it is very close and is not that easy to see flaws, and you will most likely be much farther away in real world shooting. Optics can behave differently depending on where it is focussed. 70-100m away with fine detail is best. Above lots of houses or...

I don't need to post samples of good images to compare, you can compare from the centre of the images to the edges themselves, it is not consistent. I can see flaws in the shots posted even in the small sizes, so at 100 percent it must look terrible on the 1x lens...

Fly up 70-100m and shoot straight down at some with with detail across the frame, shoot at f2.8, f4 and f5.6, that will tell you how good your lens is. The Mavic 2 Pros has terrible quality control with the optics, I tested 20 to get the 2 good ones I have now. From looking at reviews the...

I mean I can see the flaws in the lens at These small sizes, its nothing to do with your jpegs.

You can see the Moire disappears just off centre where the lens goes soft which is a shame!

Based on these samples, I may never buy a Mavic 3, the lens looks terrible. It seems to be soft quite close to the centre. I know f4 & f5.6 may help, but I use f2.8 a lot to get low light shots so it would be useless.

You are luck to get an acceptable lens in 2! Hasselblad only helped design I think, they certainly do not have anything to do with the manufacture.

I tested 20 different M2P because the quality control of the lens is so poor to find the 2 perfect models I have now! These 2 are sharp edge to edge at all apertures. From my testing there is a 1 in 10 chance of getting a perfect lens. In the 20 I tested I saw a lot of issues with mid field...

The shots from the main camera in your samples look bad even at these small sizes!