Well I'm about to become a defector too.
Having seen the surprisingly good jpeg images that my wife's five year old Canon Ixus 95 produces, I was seduced by DJI's claims of the P2V having a 'High End Camera' and the imminent release of a DNG firmware update (at the time of ordering, last week, that is). I thought, "Blimey, if a 1/2.3" sensor can produce jpegs like that, what sort of images would I get from a 'High End' 2013 camera with a similar size sensor but no zoom, no variable aperture, no LCD, no 'Modes', and no flash, but with RAW capabilities? Surely good enough for website use and prints up to A4, at least?" But as soon as the DNG firmware was released I found the answer to be a big fat "NO!"
Unfortunately, what I also discovered (from a comparison of numerous 100%, centre-crop, DNG images aupplied by other P2V owners), was that the P2V's camera has serious quality control issues. Some images were what I would have expected (i.e. good), some were not so good, and some (like mine) were disappointingly bad.
So armed with this photographic proof, I was able to persuade my reluctant French supplier to take back the P2V (and I have just chased them for the returns form they promised to email me yesterday).
Because I’m not at all confident that a straightforward replacement will bring anything better, this time I’m going for a Phantom 2 (non-Vision) combined with a DronExpert Sony RX100 FPV platform and I’m now looking for the lowest priced Sony RX100 I can find. I KNOW I KNOW, the DronExpert thing is expensive, in fact in total, it’s going to cost me around twice as much as I first expected when I dipped my toes into aerial photography with the P2V just one week ago. However, this is not a hobby for me, it's my passion and livelihood, and if I’m going to introduce this new aspect into my photography, I have to do it in a way that enables me to produce saleable images. Going down the P2+RX100 road will most definitely give me that; it’ll just take me longer to get my money back, that’s all.
I know I will have to give up some cool features such as flight telemetry, low-battery warnings, and the ability to switch back and forth from stills to video after I've taken off - plus, of course, I will get shorter flight times than with the P2V. But, as I'm always telling our photography guests here at PPF, everything in photography is a compromise, and in return for giving up those things I will at least be 100% sure of getting superb quality still images shot at the classic FOV produced by a 28mm lens (in 35mm terms). Plus, from what I've seen on the web, with more practice in terms of my flying skills, together with the help of my Pinnacle Studio 17 software, I should be able to get some pretty good video too.