dng jpg

Hi everyone, New owner of a Mavic 4 Pro here. I was testing capturing photos directly into the sun, and for some reason, I'm finding that the JPG photo is giving a much more pleasing representation of direct sun glare than the RAW photo. Any ideas why this would be? I am already aware that...

The same picture made in JPG and DNG. The DNG is extremely noisy, remarkable worse than the JPEG. This is not a processing issue. The screenshots below are both from Photoshop Camera Raw. There is clearly an issue with the DNG capture. Is there a setting I'm missing? Perhaps a setting...

Summary: It's often difficult to characterize the effect of vignetting in normal photographs; sometimes it's apparent, other times not so much. Outdoor movie screens offer a big, uniform target for testing. Here's what I learned: JPG photos from the Mavic Air show quite uniform illumination...