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<blockquote data-quote="spartavel" data-source="post: 54184" data-attributes="member: 10896"><p>Not sure about the Parrot Anafi, since most of the tests are on beta products. It seems the lossless zoom in not working on these beta products as they only have a less than 300m range. Parrot mentioned to those (who posted it) that these are features that will work on the final version, and you can count on some bugs and updates in the future for probably the next 6 months to come as one poster here mentioned. New product is never at its best when it comes out.</p><p>Release is in July and we're still in June and probably the betas are from may or something before. Betas for media may be very conservative to avoid some accident and misjudgement.</p><p>Consider that with that hardware it's not a big deal for the Parrot to make all these specs happen on the final release. The lossless zoom is to compare to the Pureview specs of the Nokia smartphones. This is hardware implemented in most of the ARM GPU. needs an APi provided by the ARM products for the feature to work.. If there are enough pixels and that the movie (or photo inside is smaller enough), you can get lossless zoom. The other thing to keep quality against noise, is to be in a rather sunny environment.</p><p>Hasn't tried yet too much filming with the Spark (I'm a photo guy) but 12MP hardware should provide such lossless zoom at 2.4x in Full HD mode. The Anafi provides 2.8x for 20MP when it should have 3.1x, but it also uses some border pixels for the anti-shake system. That's the maths.</p><p>Nokia used it's lossless zoom years ago (in 2012) on a huge (for a Smartphone) 1/1.2 inch 40MP sensor with Zeiss optics. It was using a separate chip for the Pureview feature, but now it's all inside most of the ARM GPU. A friend of mine has this smartphone and he gets impressive real 40MP pics. He still uses it despite being not Android (Symbian) and only 3G.</p><p>Would be great if a small drone could be using such a camera today.</p><p></p><p>Frankly, I hope the reaction of DJI vs Parrot Anafi, will be to officially release all the Mavic features for the Spark in DJI 4 Go and reduce the no fly zone to a very limited dangerous situations (planes, military and officially forbidden areas to shoot photos like nuclear plants), since the Spark cannot do any harm. You cannot even slice your skin with the blades (tested by youtubers) and the Spark combo is delivered with blade protections. The Spark isn't heavy enough for all this and cannot carry obvious lethal objects. Also would be great to make an XL battery with 50% or even 30% more flight time. Not a big deal regarding the specs, and the Spark may have a little bit lower performance but all okay to fly. People have hacked the spark to use bigger and heavier batteries and it works well.</p><p>Not sure if DJI reads this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spartavel, post: 54184, member: 10896"] Not sure about the Parrot Anafi, since most of the tests are on beta products. It seems the lossless zoom in not working on these beta products as they only have a less than 300m range. Parrot mentioned to those (who posted it) that these are features that will work on the final version, and you can count on some bugs and updates in the future for probably the next 6 months to come as one poster here mentioned. New product is never at its best when it comes out. Release is in July and we're still in June and probably the betas are from may or something before. Betas for media may be very conservative to avoid some accident and misjudgement. Consider that with that hardware it's not a big deal for the Parrot to make all these specs happen on the final release. The lossless zoom is to compare to the Pureview specs of the Nokia smartphones. This is hardware implemented in most of the ARM GPU. needs an APi provided by the ARM products for the feature to work.. If there are enough pixels and that the movie (or photo inside is smaller enough), you can get lossless zoom. The other thing to keep quality against noise, is to be in a rather sunny environment. Hasn't tried yet too much filming with the Spark (I'm a photo guy) but 12MP hardware should provide such lossless zoom at 2.4x in Full HD mode. The Anafi provides 2.8x for 20MP when it should have 3.1x, but it also uses some border pixels for the anti-shake system. That's the maths. Nokia used it's lossless zoom years ago (in 2012) on a huge (for a Smartphone) 1/1.2 inch 40MP sensor with Zeiss optics. It was using a separate chip for the Pureview feature, but now it's all inside most of the ARM GPU. A friend of mine has this smartphone and he gets impressive real 40MP pics. He still uses it despite being not Android (Symbian) and only 3G. Would be great if a small drone could be using such a camera today. Frankly, I hope the reaction of DJI vs Parrot Anafi, will be to officially release all the Mavic features for the Spark in DJI 4 Go and reduce the no fly zone to a very limited dangerous situations (planes, military and officially forbidden areas to shoot photos like nuclear plants), since the Spark cannot do any harm. You cannot even slice your skin with the blades (tested by youtubers) and the Spark combo is delivered with blade protections. The Spark isn't heavy enough for all this and cannot carry obvious lethal objects. Also would be great to make an XL battery with 50% or even 30% more flight time. Not a big deal regarding the specs, and the Spark may have a little bit lower performance but all okay to fly. People have hacked the spark to use bigger and heavier batteries and it works well. Not sure if DJI reads this. [/QUOTE]
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