Wde angle lens for Mavic 4 Pro

[Dogpilot]

Yes, thumbs up. I still would like to go out in the field to try it out more thoroughly. So far, with my reference image of my roof, it looks good. Too bad the weather is not the best for going out to my usual haunts to do some shots. Did drag the Mini 4 Pro with me to Kauai this week, just to take some shots of abandon sugar mills. They still have ants.

 

[Riptide]

View attachment 186572Yes, thumbs up. I still would like to go out in the field to try it out more thoroughly. So far, with my reference image of my roof, it looks good. Too bad the weather is not the best for going out to my usual haunts to do some shots. Did drag the Mini 4 Pro with me to Kauai this week, just to take some shots of abandon sugar mills. They still have ants.

How wide is it compared to the Mavic 3's 24mm?

 

[Dogpilot]

Well in terms of 35mm lenses for regular full frame cameras, which seems the standard reference; it is 108° FOV, which puts it someplace around 15° in equivalent camera lenses. Not as wide as the wide lens converter for the Mavic 3 series, which did 110° FOV. So it is a nice improvement on the roughly 28mm on the Mavic 4 Pro's wide, if you like to use wides. Just my 2° worth (couldn't resist the lame pun)

 

[Fanti]

Got the KF as well, but sending it back. Can only mount it after the gimbal self test. Total no go for me.

 

[Dogpilot]

You get used to that, but I agree it being a bit of a PIA.

 

[Filmarik]

You get used to that, but I agree it being a bit of a PIA.

I sincerely hope that M5P will have 24mm lens on the main camera.

 

[Robw_z]

I sincerely hope that M5P will have 24mm lens on the main camera.

I sometimes think the reason for 28mm on the M4P is otherwise the drone would've been "too perfect". Nowhere for the M5P to go other than increasing battery life and transmission distance, along with incremental sensor increases.

 

[fgphoto]

I purchased the K&F Concepts wide angle for for the Mavic 4 Pro and its... ok. There is some strange fringing (examples below along the windows of the white car and the windowsill in the second image) and a little loss of sharpness. The curvature isn't too bad... fully manageable in Adobe Raw.

If you want to download the raws and see what they look like with the K&F wide angle, have at it. I had a small window to get up and shoot a few with the adapter before the the cloud cover was too low. I am in California's Central Valley so we have been dealing with tule fog that has settled in for the last few weeks... so nearly constant cloud cover at around 250ft AGL. I was hoping to have more time to shoot at different apertures to see if it improved sharpness and fringing, but ran out of time due to weather.

These are only for personal use to play around with the files. Other than in this thread, please do not repost these. Thanks

link to Mavic 4 wide angle adapter DNG files

 

[mavic3usa]

I purchased the K&F Concepts wide angle for for the Mavic 4 Pro and its... ok. There is some strange fringing (examples below along the windows of the white car and the windowsill in the second image) and a little loss of sharpness. The curvature isn't too bad... fully manageable in Adobe Raw.

If you want to download the raws and see what they look like with the K&F wide angle, have at it. I had a small window to get up and shoot a few with the adapter before the the cloud cover was too low. I am in California's Central Valley so we have been dealing with tule fog that has settled in for the last few weeks... so nearly constant cloud cover at around 250ft AGL. I was hoping to have more time to shoot at different apertures to see if it improved sharpness and fringing, but ran out of time due to weather.

These are only for personal use to play around with the files. Other than in this thread, please do not repost these. Thanks

link to Mavic 4 wide angle adapter DNG files

Thanks for posting, I got the lens as well...but haven't yet used it. Didn't exactly have a lot of choices to choose from since it seems like the lens guy at DJI quit just before launch (no DJI wide angle lens or eND.....).

 

[Dogpilot]

I too have not had much chance to exercise it in the field. Actually been flying the aircraft a lot the last couple of weeks, at least when the WX cooperated. I am curious, did you try the Photoshop d-fringe in the Camera Raw Filter to see if it corrected it? Really never tried out that feature, this looks to be what is was designed for. The K&F while not suffering the poor quality control of the STARTRC offering, isn't nearly as good as any of the ones offered for the Mavic 3. The DJI and Freewell were both super. I suppose that the lens sits a tiny bit further from the prime lens on the camera of the Mavic 3 series. Not being any kind of optical engineer, but I did take a nauseating amount of Physics, harder to gain precise focus control when you separate lenses too much. To get color convergence it is even more difficult unless you use special glass, expensive glass. Used to be a big problem decades ago, then the higher refractive index glasses came a bit cheaper and the proliferation of glued multiple lens sets. Not going to happen in a $60 supplemental.

 

[fgphoto]

I too have not had much chance to exercise it in the field. Actually been flying the aircraft a lot the last couple of weeks, at least when the WX cooperated. I am curious, did you try the Photoshop d-fringe in the Camera Raw Filter to see if it corrected it? Really never tried out that feature, this looks to be what is was designed for. The K&F while not suffering the poor quality control of the STARTRC offering, isn't nearly as good as any of the ones offered for the Mavic 3. The DJI and Freewell were both super. I suppose that the lens sits a tiny bit further from the prime lens on the camera of the Mavic 3 series. Not being any kind of optical engineer, but I did take a nauseating amount of Physics, harder to gain precise focus control when you separate lenses too much. To get color convergence it is even more difficult unless you use special glass, expensive glass. Used to be a big problem decades ago, then the higher refractive index glasses came a bit cheaper and the proliferation of glued multiple lens sets. Not going to happen in a $60 supplemental.

I did. It primarily looks for green and magenta fringing. For some reason with this adapter, the fringing appears to be blue so it didn't really do anything.

 

[Filmarik]

I did. It primarily looks for green and magenta fringing. For some reason with this adapter, the fringing appears to be blue so it didn't really do anything.

I suppose the blue fringing is not present without the WA adapter?

 

[fgphoto]

I suppose the blue fringing is not present without the WA adapter?

That is correct. The fringing is not present when the adapter is not used.

 

[Filmarik]

Just a thought

That is correct. The fringing is not present when the adapter is not used.

Just a thought.. Capture One software has excellent defringing tool where you can not only pick the color but also select range of the fringing color to be removed. Not sure if Photoshop does it?

 

[fgphoto]

That is true. I shot these just as quick samples and share with other people thinking about purchasing this adapter, so I haven't done a ton of work on them... just wanted to share what a saw in uncorrected images.