Mavic 2 Pro "fine art" style shots/edits. Not so off the fence vs P4 Pro...

[Gemini8026]

View attachment 45855 Hlo all. Jeff from Canada here. I enjoy doing various styles of photography. I like doing fine art style photos/edits using drones. So if you dont like processing then feel free to ignore. I went from a Phantom 4 Pro that I sold for the Mavic 2 pro. I am not sure if that was the smart move. I lost a fair bit, and the image quality actually suffers so far in my opinion. Im not sure if it is my copy or what, but my Mavic photos seem softer and a fair bit weaker in the corners. I havent ever fully experimented with the various apertures but after trying a bunch, and comparing them to my p4 pro photos, I just feel that it took a better sharper photo.

The portability is awesome.......

But I hate giving up image quality, it is like that holy grail that we will sacrifice other qualities for. I do my landscape photography with a Nikon D850 with my 14-24 F2.8 as well as my 20mm F1.8 Nikon lenses, so I am REALLY spoiled by having essentially some of the highest quality equiptment you can buy for landscape photography,

So I am on the fence. It isnt TERRIBLE, but the P4 Pro wasnt MORE terrible.

I need the sharpness of an inspire with a quality M4/3 lens. I actually owned an Inspire 1 with the olympus 12mm lens. It was great for the month that I owned it. I quickly sold it when I realised I was WAY too anxious when flying that thing. 5500$ Cdn was way too much for a hobbyist to spend on something that can be EASILY lost or destroyed (I had a P4 Pro drop on me randomly that DJI replaced, I know this lesson).

Anyhow, will be curious to see what others think about the camera vs the P4 Pro. I think those of us who bought them appreciate higher quality photography.

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[Goof]

Those are gorgeous, what settings did you use? I've read somewhere that people are getting the most sharpness around f/4 - f/5.6. Now we finally have a mavic with a variable iris there's still a good case for using ND filters.

 

[Fleek]

So nice. If you can do that sort of photo with M2P then should be happy. You have great eye for this.

 

[gnirtS]

Now ive worked out optimum apertures and so on im really impressed with what the M2 can do.
Its still a small sensor, small lens etc but the quality is decent enough. Its not DSLR quality but then it never can be given its size but more than capable a device.

 

[Fleek]

Now ive worked out optimum apertures and so on im really impressed with what the M2 can do.
Its still a small sensor, small lens etc but the quality is decent enough. Its not DSLR quality but then it never can be given its size but more than capable a device.

How did you work out best aperture settings?

 

[gnirtS]

By taking a series of photos of the same thing with controlled settings varying the aperture than inspecting the centre and corner details after the event.
Same for ISO ranges.

 

[Gemini8026]

Lower left corner of one of my images. Compared to my P4 Pro, the sharpness is a fair bit weaker. Corners especially. Possibly a cheaper lens, or possibly I have a copy with focus/de-centering issues. Either way, for this amount it will appeal to a lot of people, but the hardcore pixel peepers may be quite discouraged.

I regret selling my P4 Pro though, I took a loss in hopes that the new Mavic would equal for still photography. However I only have my drone as a comparison. Looking forward to seeing others RAW files to look into.

 

[Gemini8026]

This picture doesnt really do much justice because you cannot see the slight misalignment very well. IT appears the element is almost shifted a slight bit to one side more then the other and you can see it when u look from various angles. Very slight but perhaps causes issues?! . Im not sure how much impact this would have, but I am just trying to figure out if I have a weak copy or its just the way things are on this drone.

 

[Fleek]

Lower left corner of one of my images. Compared to my P4 Pro, the sharpness is a fair bit weaker. Corners especially. Possibly a cheaper lens, or possibly I have a copy with focus/de-centering issues. Either way, for this amount it will appeal to a lot of people, but the hardcore pixel peepers may be quite discouraged.

I regret selling my P4 Pro though, I took a loss in hopes that the new Mavic would equal for still photography. However I only have my drone as a comparison. Looking forward to seeing others RAW files to look into.

That is seriously blurred. Must be something wrong with how I’m seeing it on iPad?