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You've now ventured into the off center lens issue which is yet another problem with P3s. I have seen a number of people whose P3s have soft / unfocused sides (as opposed to losing some sharpness at all the edges of the frame which is expected). Seems to be worse in cold weather.You are correct, but I was simply wanting to illustrate a focus issue and decided not to process the image for fear of introducing artifacts. Your pics look nice but I am not able to view them at 100%.
So far I've got about the same number of people saying send it back as I do people who say that's just the way it is and accept it. What to do...
Here is a jpeg (saved from the .DNG) of the second image linked in post #7 with a bit of sharpening. Shutter was 1/380 s. Notice how sharp it looks in the bottom left corner (and generally along the bottom of the frame) as compared to everywhere else.
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You could ** possibly ** get a better tuned camera by playing DJI roulette. You might get one with worse performance. I have yet heard from anyone who has gone in and shimmed the lens but that would be the next step. One of these days I'm going to take apart a spare Advanced camera to see if it can be shimmed but that's a bit down in the Things I'm Supposed To Be Doing department so I'm hoping somebody else will beat me to it.
DJI just might say that it is within tolerances. Again, some folks have had unreasonably high expectations for these cameras. They are just three year old cell phone cameras. One thing to do is to step back and think about what your are aiming for photographically. Do you need to print a double truck spread on a glossy magazine? Or are you going to show your pictures at 1900 or so pixels on a monitor. For the former, you're probably better off getting a drone that can hold a real camera or spending some quality time tuning up the P3 imager. For the latter, a bit of pixel peeking edge softness is fine....
Horses for courses.