With my curiosity having been aroused from another thread, I decided to go to my front yard today and take two photos of my neighbor's house across the street. One was taken with a Canon 5DIII (roughly 20MP) with the newer f/4 16-35L. This lens is much sharper than the f/2.8 16-35 Mk II, BTW.
The second was taken with my Phantom 4 Pro, being handheld like a really awkward camera. The shutter speed for this was 1/1000 so any movement associated with awkwardly holding the drone while pressing the shutter should not appear. I did use the ''half press" auto focus with the Phantom.
This crop is from the center of the frame. I also looked at the edges on both photos. In the edges the Canon clearly wins the battle, but not by as much as you might expect. If anyone is really interested, I can post a sample of an area that is off center.
I opened both RAW files in ACR and used the default sharpening settings. Color was tweaked a bit to try to get the two images a bit closer to each other.
I will let readers come to their own conclusions...
The second was taken with my Phantom 4 Pro, being handheld like a really awkward camera. The shutter speed for this was 1/1000 so any movement associated with awkwardly holding the drone while pressing the shutter should not appear. I did use the ''half press" auto focus with the Phantom.
This crop is from the center of the frame. I also looked at the edges on both photos. In the edges the Canon clearly wins the battle, but not by as much as you might expect. If anyone is really interested, I can post a sample of an area that is off center.
I opened both RAW files in ACR and used the default sharpening settings. Color was tweaked a bit to try to get the two images a bit closer to each other.
I will let readers come to their own conclusions...