Bad photoquality (jpg) on Mavic Platinum?

jonpetersen · Mar 2, 2020

I need some help; I bougth a secondhand Mavic Platiumum and have an issue with the photoquality:.

Photo's of my Mavic Platinum seems to be less sharp compared to my (sold) DJI Spark. Attached some examples. IMHO the sharpening when generating the JPG gives a strange "painted" result. Setting for JPG was 0/0/0.

What's your opinion, needs it repair and/or what can be the cause? Does the Mavic needs repair, if so, which parts?

1: JPG as created by Mavic (settings 0/0/0). Sharpness?
2: detail = (approx 30%) of this JPG, strange "painted" effect?
3: same detail of the RAW image exported in GIMP as PNG (could not upload the RAW/DNG file)
4: another JPG as created by MPP

Please help.

Number 2 as thumbnail:

MAvic_South_Oz · Mar 2, 2020

Try + 1 on sharpness, that one step is quite a lot.
Get your histogram up, and reduce exposure a bit.

jonpetersen · Mar 2, 2020

Hi, I tried all settings, see attached photo and settings 1/1/1.
I think it has the same problem. Please check, your opinion?

Kilrah · Mar 2, 2020

Either you haven't focused properly, you have outdated firmware or you have one of those Mavics that had the blurry camera bug.

jonpetersen · Mar 2, 2020

- focus: all photo's do show this effect
- firmware is up2date (using Assistent2)
- never heard of "blurry camera bug". What is it?

LivinLarge · Mar 2, 2020

The JPG images from the M1 have some smoothing done to them in the processor and you can't really turn it off. It is especially noticeable in areas with a lot of detail like trees and also in low light. It can't be fixed in firmware as it is baked into the chip. There has been a lot of discussion about the "watercolor effect" in the past but no solution.
If you shoot DNG instead and do the post processing, the images will look very good.
Just to satisfy yourself that there is nothing wrong with your lens or focus, just take the same shot in JPG and DNG and do a little post processing on the DNG. You will see all of the detail that is being lost i the JPG.
M2 uses a different chip and does not have this problem.

AlbertJH · Mar 6, 2020

I had try jpeg repair software which repair raw image file exported in jpg. It's easiest way to fix bad quality jpg, raw files from mavic drone. I used Stellar Photo Repair software which fix distorted, split, blurred, and pixelated raw JPEG images.