Camera strangeness

[CraigVMN]

Just got the M5P today, took it up and took two RAW images of a church spire, one at normal magnification, and one at 2x. In Windows Explorer view, the 2x is magnified as it should be. In Windows Photos it's at 2x.

However, when I open it in Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop, it's only at 1x?

 

[Kilrah]

It's only got a single camera. You get nothing but a "digitally zoomed" crop when you zoom in the app. RAW gives you the whole sensor, even if the embedded preview might be cropped as requested.
I.e. crop again in LR.

 

[waynorth]

Like Kirah said. Explorer and Photos can not read RAW, and show only the JPG that is embedded in the RAW file.
LR reads the RAW (DNG) file, and since a RAW file is a (mostly) unaltered read-out of the sensor, it ignores all the image modifications in the camera settings, including cropping ("magnification" as you call it).

 

[Felix le Chat]

Concur with both replies. It's a DNG (RAW) shot - the digital zoom is never present. If you want a tighter image: you're better off trying one of two options:

a) carefully fly the drone in closer to target, or

b) crop in on your original shot using a versatile photo editing suite (you'll get better quality)

'Digital zoom' is horrible, no matter how it's marketed.

A high percentage of the shots I take are architectural and close detail shots of historic architectural components (camera set to 'JPG+DNG' then the JPG's dumped afterwards). Closer to target is better as long as you take it slow and careful and use prop guards.