Photo clarity with mavic question

[andymagz]

hello all,

2nd post ,

and please can someone shed some light.

I have taken the attached picture and when I zoom in it looks to be not very sharp at all. it looks blury and not good for reproduction.
I wanted to print out on A4 and give to my dad.

I have shot a 4k video before taking this picture of the same area and this was very high resolution and very clear.

my question is am I doing something wrong when taking pictures.

a lot of my pics are like this , I am tapping the screen and auto focusing but still when zoomed in it doesn't look the sharpest


any help or advice from the pros or settings I need to look at or change..

thanks you in advance

 

[jbphoto]

Are you shooting RAW? The quality difference between shooting JPEG and RAW is tremendous. Always shoot RAW on the Mavic.

 

[andymagz]

Are you shooting RAW? The quality difference between shooting JPEG and RAW is tremendous. Always shoot RAW on the Mavic.

hi there, thanks for your reply, I shot in both raw and jpg I posted the jpg as its smaller and easier to upload

ive just checked the 23mb DNG file and this too is the same when zoomed in

 

[gnirtS]

JPG looks like noise reduction has kicked in smearing the images. The DNG shouldnt have that issue.
But what was the shutterspeed used here?

 

[sar104]

I think that you are looking too closely and expecting too much. For a 12 MP jpeg that looks like a perfectly fine image to me. I ran some edge sharpening just to check, but it's pretty good as is.

 

[andymagz]

thanks all for your input and advice on this issue, you folks have helped a lot

 

[Blacksmith]

I think that you are looking too closely and expecting too much. For a 12 MP jpeg that looks like a perfectly fine image to me. I ran some edge sharpening just to check, but it's pretty good as is.

I agree. Sharpening the RAW file just a bit would polish it up. We have to remember that the Mavic camera is no better than most point-and-shoots for stills; your shot is pretty decent technically for that kind of gear, IMO.

 

[Skippy905]

I too have found that both the RAW and JPEG are pretty much the same when you start "pixel peeping" and zoom in.

Try checking out this thread:
Better stills from the Mavic

It takes some time, but it does help improve the image.