I mentioned in my other thread issues I had with mismatching S/N on my M3Cine. It caused me all sort of dramas with registration and insurance but than on top of these dramas I found out what bothered me much more. My main camera had blurry region in the image in the left half of the frame and one bottom corner looked like having terrible motion blur. So, I decided to return it, claiming unsatisfactory IQ. It was accepted by my local supplier, and I was kindly provided with a brand new replacement M3Cine Premium Combo box. All SN were this time matching, a good new start, I thought to myself. I unpacked the new drone and started to update to the latest FW via WiFi, following the prompts. But despite having fast home WiFi network the pace was painfully slow and the download speed went to 0 b/s, the bar showing progress stopped moving. After numerous attempts and about 1hour of trying I went to my laptop and tried Assistant 2. The aircraft FW to .0800 went nice and fast but then I connected RCPro and the pace was again painfully slow. The download of FW .0900 took over one hour!!! Anyway, it was close to midnight, so I thought I had enough excitenent for one day. I took my new Mavic out early next morning to the nearby park and took a few test DNG still shots at all apertures, as I always do to mainly test the lens, top down shots of grass from about 5 meters, distant shots etc etc. The drone performed flawlessly in the air. I even managed first hand launch and first hand catching landing. Run home, downloaded, opened in LR and examined. To my astonishement this time the top left corner was blurry as hell at all apertures and top right corner to lesser extent also much worse than the two bottom corners which were not great but acceptable. The blurred top left corner area extended far enough to be pretty obvious on 3:2 crop and still noticeable on 16:9 crop!! I thought to myself this can not be right!!! That I was disappointed is a massive understatement!! Am I just one very unlucky customer, I asked myself?? Then I re-visited some of the samples kindly provided to me by some of the readers of this forum, and upon closer examination of those I noticed similar issues in those samples! Blurry area like motion blurr double image kind of effect in left side region of the frame, badly blurry top left corner area etc etc.
I am begining to ask myself if the really good ones, such as M3TEST posted samples from his and KN-6 now has (his third by the way...) are rare and perhaps even in minority whereas those with minor or even serious optical flaws in majority??
I am currently anxiously awaiting my third Mavic3Cine replacement drone but I am really worried if I am going to get a good one or another one plagued with IQ issues.
I am begining to ask myself if the really good ones, such as M3TEST posted samples from his and KN-6 now has (his third by the way...) are rare and perhaps even in minority whereas those with minor or even serious optical flaws in majority??
I am currently anxiously awaiting my third Mavic3Cine replacement drone but I am really worried if I am going to get a good one or another one plagued with IQ issues.
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