Jason... you being a bitter little boy. Grow Up Bro... I have the P2 with Hero 3, 3+ and 4.. and I just flew my buddy's P3 yesterday.. Comparing the footage I would say the P3 is on par with image quality comparing it to the Hero 4. The P3 camera is also spitting out another 2-4 mbs more data as well.. Furthermore, the P3 holds on to 4k a bit better than the Hero 4 does. Combine that with auto exposure lock, a locked ISO of 100 the Hero 4 does not have and soon to be released ND filter packs and your gonna be even more bitter.
Personally, I can't stand people like you that come visit the forum just to stir up ****... You would feel a lot better if you were honest with yourself...
Here's my comparison of MY Hero4 footage vs the footage from the P3...
The Hero4 has about a half stop more dynamic range in the shadows than the P3, but unless you crush the blacks it's a bit noisy, so that's a wash..
The Hero4's native ISO is 400.. that's the lowest. The P3 goes down to 100. Less noise on the P3 and better contrast, but as I said at a slight loss of dynamic range.. I believe for a dedicated aerial camera, that's ok.
You can't lock the exposure on the Hero4, so as the lighting in the scene changes so does your exposure.. With the P3, you can turn on Auto Exposure Lock.. Pretty important unless you wanna spend hours in speedgrade setting keyframes along the timeline to fight the autoexposure changes on the Hero4..
Yes there is distortion at the edges of frame in the P3, but same with the Hero4 in Med FOV.. One good thing about the Hero 4, if you want a fisheye look you got it..
Those points are the exact reasons why I'm **** close to pulling the trigger on a P3, Inspire or possibly just waiting on the Hero5, or a S900.. I can't decide... The one thing IMHO the P3 has going against it is that I don't like the idea of not being able to change out the camera.. I would personally feel more comfortable with the vehicle being separated from the camera so I can upgrade the camera if I want...
You made yourself look like a donkey... Because there is Jello, prop strobing and frame strobing on the Hero 4 just like there is on the P3.. You just gotta use certain techniques to avoid it.. Your comment about a bad exposure looking into the sun is a joke.. If I pointed my H4 into that scene, it woulda underexposed as well.. The P3 can avoid that if the operator who shot that video locked the exposure.
The bottom line is this.... When you take everything into consideration, including image quality, at this point in time the P3 is a better aerial platform than the P2 H4 combo period. If I was going to shoot for a client and I had both platforms at my disposal, right now I would choose the P3.