Hyper-Flickering auto focus box

kanesimages · Dec 24, 2025

Curious if any Mavic 4 owners are having a problem with a hyper-flickering autofocus box in low light situations. My Mavic 3 pro does not do this whatsoever. I get that it's after sunset or before sunrise lighting, and I also get that I can go to manual focus but thats more time-consuming.

Not only does it flicker and hunt, but often the box flickers and changes sizes constantly, often extending to the parameters of the LCD. Once that box extends to the parameter of the LCD it locks and won't change. At that point, I have only one choice, I have to go to MF. Im literally switching from AF to MF 7-10 times during flights before sunrise and after sunset. Very much erodes the flying experience during the more beautiful, soft lighting hours of the day. Anyone else having this problem? I have a video of the issue but this forum won't allow videos.

Riptide · Dec 26, 2025

kanesimages said:
Curious if any Mavic 4 owners are having a problem with a hyper-flickering autofocus box in low light situations. My Mavic 3 pro does not do this whatsoever. I get that it's after sunset or before sunrise lighting, and I also get that I can go to manual focus but thats more time-consuming.

Not only does it flicker and hunt, but often the box flickers and changes sizes constantly, often extending to the parameters of the LCD. Once that box extends to the parameter of the LCD it locks and won't change. At that point, I have only one choice, I have to go to MF. Im literally switching from AF to MF 7-10 times during flights before sunrise and after sunset. Very much erodes the flying experience during the more beautiful, soft lighting hours of the day. Anyone else having this problem? I have a video of the issue but this forum won't allow videos.

I mainly shoot pictures of sunrises and sunsets and have never had this issue.
You could upload to youtube and post the link.

kanesimages · Dec 26, 2025

Riptide said:
I mainly shoot pictures of sunrises and sunsets and have never had this issue.
You could upload to youtube and post the link.

good idea.. it may be too short a video to come to any conclusions. this video show the box at about 2/3 coverage of the frame flickering. Outside of the box I would tap the screen to focus and it it will not focus. The best way for me to reset the box is to hit the MF, fly around for a few minutes then flip back to AF. Most of the time I flip back to AF the box would reset to the normal, smaller box and work for a few shots before again start flickering and freezing.