the best zoom?

[johndrone33]

Wich drone have the best zoom?

When i say "best", i mean it have to be sharp en high magnification.
I have the mavic 3 pro and its great but 7x zoom is not that much when you try to film animals.
There have been man times i have used the 7x zoom but then i have to come very close, like 10m on a smaller animal and then it just flies or run away beccause it gets scared.

Would like to have like 14x instead or even more.
maybee i can put my nikon p1000 on some drone? Would actually be fun to see.

 

[PINEBARON]

I'm no expert but my Mavic 4 Pro has an amazing zoom

 

[johndrone33]

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I'm no expert but my Mavic 4 Pro has an amazing zoom

seems to be the same as mavic 3 pro

 

[PINEBARON]

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seems to be the same as mavic 3 pro

The main zoom difference is the telephoto camera's sensor; the Mavic 4 Pro has a much more powerful 50MP sensor compared to the Mavic 3 Pro's 12MP sensor, resulting in sharper details at long distances. The Mavic 4 Pro's new long telephoto camera also offers better performance with more detail, a larger sensor size, and the ability to shoot in true DLOG, which was not possible on the Mavic 3 Pro's zoom lenses. While the Mavic 4 Pro's mid-range telephoto is described as having a 2.5x zoom versus the Mavic 3 Pro's 3x, this is due to a change in focal length for the main camera and the image quality from this mid-range lens is largely unchanged, though the focusing issues found on the Mavic 3 Pro have been fixed.

 

[MS Coast]

Wich drone have the best zoom?

When i say "best", i mean it have to be sharp en high magnification.
I have the mavic 3 pro and its great but 7x zoom is not that much when you try to film animals.
There have been man times i have used the 7x zoom but then i have to come very close, like 10m on a smaller animal and then it just flies or run away beccause it gets scared.

Would like to have like 14x instead or even more.
maybee i can put my nikon p1000 on some drone? Would actually be fun to see.

You really can't expect to fly a drone within 10, or even 20 meters, of most wild animals without spooking them.

 

[PINEBARON]

I was able to take real closeup images and videos of Herons nesting with their baby chicks in several nests on top of 100' high trees behind our home. I primarily hovered the drone at around 200'-300' and zoomed in for very clear images. No herons or their babies were alarmed or concerned with the drone since it was a decent height away from their nests. I used my Mavic 4 Pro.

 

[jaja6009]

The best zoom for less than $10K is the Matrice 4 E or an Autel Evo Max. The Matrice 4 E is only a notch below the Matrice 30 series. It is truly a creeper zoom.

 

[PINEBARON]

Why is DJI Mavic 4 Pro better than DJI Matrice 4E?​

• 6 km longer flight distance
  2.08x more megapixels (main camera)
  100 MPvs48 MP
  41 kmvs35 km
• 4 m/s faster flight speed
  25 m/svs21 m/s
• Has a gyroscope
• 3.13x better video recording quality (main camera)
  3384 x 60 fpsvs2160 x 30 fps
• 171.8 mm shorter
  135.2 mmvs307 mm

Same optical zoom except the Matrice 4E has x112 Hybrid zoom vs x28 Digital on the Mavic 4 Pro

 

[jaja6009]

His question referred to the zoom.
The Mavic 4 Pro indeed has a better main camera, but it does not have a better zoom.

 

[PINEBARON]

Agreed. However, zoom alone may not serve him well since his wildlife photography also needs high quality recording capability where the 100MP MP4 may be a better choice.

 

[GadgetGuy]

Agreed. However, zoom alone may not serve him well since his wildlife photography also needs high quality recording capability where the 100MP MP4 may be a better choice.

Natively, it's actually only 25MP or 12.5MP depending upon the camera.

 

[GadgetGuy]

Why is DJI Mavic 4 Pro better than DJI Matrice 4E?​

• 6 km longer flight distance
  2.08x more megapixels (main camera)
  100 MPvs48 MP
  41 kmvs35 km
• 4 m/s faster flight speed
  25 m/svs21 m/s
• Has a gyroscope
• 3.13x better video recording quality (main camera)
  3384 x 60 fpsvs2160 x 30 fps
• 171.8 mm shorter
  135.2 mmvs307 mm

Same optical zoom except the Matrice 4E has x112 Hybrid zoom vs x28 Digital on the Mavic 4 Pro

112x hybrid beats 28x hybrid on the Mavic 3 Pro or 26x on the Mavic 4 Pro, especially when it is enhanced by image stabilization and other clarity-boosting features like electronic dehazing. DJI claims the Matrice 4T can read a license plate from a distance of 250 meters (about 820 feet).

 

[Meta4]

It seems that everyone on this thread doesn't know what zoom means in photography.
Everyone is using the word zoom when they mean telephoto.

Wich drone have the best zoom?

When i say "best", i mean it have to be sharp en high magnification.
I have the mavic 3 pro and its great but 7x zoom is not that much when you try to film animals.

Your Mavic 3 pro is one of only two current or recent DJI consumer drones with substantial telephoto cameras.
It has a 166 mm (equiv) lens and the Mavic 4 pro has a marginally longer effective focal length of 168 mm (equiv).
The Mavic 4 pro long tele camera has a larger sensor 1/1.5 inch vs 1/2 inch) and is a better camera.

You aren't going to find a drone with a noticeably greater magnification than what you already have, but the long tele camera in the Mavic 4 pro produces better images..

Why is DJI Mavic 4 Pro better than DJI Matrice 4E?​

• Has a gyroscope

Every DJI drone has a gyro sensor in the IMU.
The drone can't work without it

Same optical zoom except the Matrice 4E has x112 Hybrid zoom vs x28 Digital on the Mavic 4 Pro

No current DJI consumer drone has optical zoom.
The only zoom is digital zoom and that's junk.

 

[BossBob]

What said. I’d rather crop an image than zoom in digitally.

 

[johndrone33]

You really can't expect to fly a drone within 10, or even 20 meters, of most wild animals without spooking them.

Thats why im asking for a drone with big and good zoom....

 

[johndrone33]

What said. I’d rather crop an image than zoom in digitally.

But the result will be the same, right?

Beccause at 10x zoom, the mavic 3pro crops the image, and at 15x zoom, it crops it even more.
Thats my understanding of it at least.

 

[Meta4]

But the result will be the same, right?

Wrong

Because at 10x zoom, the mavic 3pro crops the image, and at 15x zoom, it crops it even more.
Thats my understanding of it at least.

When you shoot with your drone, you get the full resolution.
With the main camera of your Mavic 3 pro, that's 5280×3956.
You could crop in one quarter of the frame and you have a nice sharp 2640×1978 image.

You could use 4× digital zoom get a similar image, but digital zoom stretches the 2640×1978 image 4 times to give you an unsharp 5280×3956 image.
If you were to use 10× or 15× digital zoom, the camera will be blowing up very small parts of the original image, resulting in very soft, unsharp low quality images.
The greater the magnification, the poorer the image quality will be.

This is what I mean about digital zoom being junk.
It gives you crummy, unsharp, poor quality images.
That's fine if that's all you want, but if you assumed that digital zoom would give you similar to what you get with the 1×, 3× or 7× cameras, you'll be very disappointed.

Digital zoom is good for marketing cameras to people who don't know better.
Digital zoom isn't for photographers who want to capture quality images.

 

[GadgetGuy]

Wrong

When you shoot with your drone, you get the full resolution.
With the main camera of your Mavic 3 pro, that's 5280×3956.
You could crop in one quarter of the frame and you have a nice sharp 2640×1978 image.

You could use 4× digital zoom get a similar image, but digital zoom stretches the 2640×1978 image 4 times to give you an unsharp 5280×3956 image.
If you were to use 10× or 15× digital zoom, the camera will be blowing up very small parts of the original image, resulting in very soft, unsharp low quality images.
The greater the magnification, the poorer the image quality will be.

This is what I mean about digital zoom being junk.
It gives you crummy, unsharp, poor quality images.
That's fine if that's all you want, but if you assumed that digital zoom would give you similar to what you get with the 1×, 3× or 7× cameras, you'll be very disappointed.

Digital zoom is good for marketing cameras to people who don't know better.
Digital zoom isn't for photographers who want to capture quality images.

This raises an interesting question.

Photography is always a series of compromises.

The 112x hybrid "zoom" on the Matrice 4T is using a smaller sensor than the Mavic 4 Pro 6.5x telephoto camera, but when the image is enhanced in the camera by image stabilization and other clarity-boosting features like electronic dehazing, DJI claims the Matrice 4T can read a license plate from a distance of 250 meters (about 820 feet), achieving what appears to be superior result than a mere crop of the image from the 6.5x Mavic 4 Pro telephoto would produce at that distance. Is this just marketing hype, or is there something to that claim?

What are they sacrificing to be able to achieve such a high resolution magnification on a smaller sensor?

 

[BlueHeeler]

This

This raises an interesting question.

Photography is always a series of compromises.

The 112x hybrid "zoom" on the Matrice 4T is using a smaller sensor than the Mavic 4 Pro 6.5x telephoto camera, but when the image is enhanced in the camera by image stabilization and other clarity-boosting features like electronic dehazing, DJI claims the Matrice 4T can read a license plate from a distance of 250 meters (about 820 feet), achieving what appears to be superior result than a mere crop of the image from the 6.5x Mavic 4 Pro telephoto would produce at that distance. Is this just marketing hype, or is there something to that claim?

What are they sacrificing to be able to achieve such a high resolution magnification on a smaller sensor?

 

[Riptide]

I upgraded from a Mavic 3 Pro to a Mavic 4 Pro. The sharpness of the Mavic 4 Pro's 168mm lens is a significant improvement over the Mavic 3 Pro's 166mm lens. There are a few videos on youtube comparing them you should watch if you are considering upgrading.