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.

 

[chong67]

I just did a test. I only shoot in PRO, the one I did 2x, it is really 2x in.

From what I read, the 2x is actually in 50MP and the camera zoom in to the middle part. I have look at it and it is very useable and good result, just a very slight noise, thanks to its 1" sensor.

 

[Droning on and on...]

I just did a test. I only shoot in PRO, the one I did 2x, it is really 2x in.

From what I read, the 2x is actually in 50MP and the camera zoom in to the middle part. I have look at it and it is very useable and good result, just a very slight noise, thanks to its 1" sensor.

The entire sensor is 50MP. By cropping the center quarter ("zoom"), you are capturing a 12MP image.

The image pipeline then upscales the 12MP resolution image back to 50MP, with no gain in resolution. Simplified, each pixel is simply copied to 4 in the larger format image (in truth, a better upscaling algorithm lie bicubic is used, "smearing" the pixel with adjacent pixels to get the new 4 pixel result, but a detail not necessary to understand to get the gist of what it happening with M5P "zoom", or digital zoom in general).