Anyone seen this before?

Mike-m1911a1 · Mar 25, 2016

I have been flying a P3A for several months and have had zero problems. Just got a P3P and on it's maiden flight, took some video and pics. I noticed on the video I would get random red and green dots or static. Also these can be seen in the pics. Any ideas of might be causing this?

alokbhargava · Mar 25, 2016

If these dots appear on the same spot, they indicate camera sensor issues like dead sensing pixels or settled dust particles. Was it a brand new P3P?

Mike-m1911a1 · Mar 25, 2016

They aren't in the same spot and appear as static randomly. Sometimes there aren't any and others, there all over but mostly in darker areas of the photo or video.

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Mike-m1911a1 · Mar 25, 2016

It is a new P3P.

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msinger · Mar 25, 2016

Did you try a different memory card?

alokbhargava · Mar 25, 2016

If not on the same spot, your camera is ok, next check your SD card. Use stock card and one more high speed card.

Mike-m1911a1 · Mar 25, 2016

Yep, just tried I different memory card. It appears to always be there just can't see it as well in lighter areas. It's like static in the image and on video.

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wlkngmachine · Mar 25, 2016

yikes, have u contacted dji about it?

Mike-m1911a1 · Mar 25, 2016

Not yet.

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LuvMyTJ · Mar 25, 2016

Are these on the images from the card or from the device?

Mike-m1911a1 · Mar 25, 2016

They are on the images on the card. Just got off a chat with DJI. They had me reset the camera settings and that seems to have resolved it. Will try some longer videos tomorrow.

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msinger · Mar 25, 2016

What exactly did you reset?

Mike-m1911a1 · Mar 25, 2016

Under the little wrench in camera settings, there's a reset settings button. That what I pressed. Images are clear now even the dark areas.

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msinger · Mar 25, 2016

Well, that was easy

Thanks for sharing your fix. Hopefully it'll help other people.

blue_venetian · Mar 26, 2016

Looks like zebra stripes (highlight alert) was somehow saved to the image on the card.

Weird.

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Toph · Mar 26, 2016

I had something similar when doing long exposure shots at night. I'd get those noise particles. They'd be in the same spot in each photo. So I unscrewed the lens and held it up to the kitchen lights and sure enough there were tiny little dust specs. Cleaned the lens inside and out and all good now.