Air 3S photo quality is... disappointing

[Droning on and on...]

This is not a private conversation between you and me. This is a public forum, so your posts are read by others. When you contribute with something of a value, everyone else here benefits from it. But so far you have sadly contributed with nothing worthy to read and if you do not care about others why you are even here and posting?

All true.

It is also true that you are the one demanding proof, which just strengthens my determination to deliberately refuse.

If I haven't been clear, it's your rude, insulting approach that motivates me NOT to satisfy your demand. This could have gone very differently in several of the previous exchanges, but you didn't get the hint, and that horse has left the barn now.

 

[wco81]

QB images will continue to improve as computational techniques improve. An interesting side effect of this is RAW QB images that are problematic today after demosaicing may be superb, amazing high detail shots in the future when pushed through the HAL super AI demosaicing process that doesn't exist yet.

So take all your QB high-res shots in RAW. You can use a better demosaicing algorithm than the drone does in post and often get a good image with a bit more detail than the ¼ resolution image from the sensor in Bayer mode, and in the (likely near) future reprocess that image with a new and better demosaicing algorithm that brings even more detail out of an image from the same capture.

That may happen but Lightroom you just use the generic DNG processor.

They don't seem to have dedicated RAW processors for the DJI cameras?

For instance, my Mavic 2 Pro, which I've had for 7 years, still just puts out DNG files and of course Adobe updates its DNG processor.

However, I would think optimized RAW processors are driven by the camera manufacturers, so Nikon, Canon, Sony etc. all have their proprietary RAW formats and collaborate with Adobe to make sure that Lightroom and Photoshop does the best RAW processing for their cameras.

It doesn't seem like DJI has that kind of cooperative relationship with Adobe.

Plus, as I noted, DJI doesn't use the best available sensors, like BSI or Stacked CMOS, so maybe they don't get the most attention from Adobe and other photo editing software companies.

 

[Droning on and on...]

@wco81 I don't see any reason QB computational algorithms wouldn't follow the same evolution that Bayer did. After all, they're becoming pretty widespread.

 

[Filmarik]

All true.

It is also true that you are the one demanding proof, which just strengthens my determination to deliberately refuse.

If I haven't been clear, it's your rude, insulting approach that motivates me NOT to satisfy your demand. This could have gone very differently in several of the previous exchanges, but you didn't get the hint, and that horse has left the barn now.

I am happy to see that you got over throwing tantrums and posted something worth reading.