I bought a P4P this weekend specifically for its larger imager and higher resolution camera. My application is photogrammetry as it applies to gold exploration so still image quality is more important than movie quality.
The good news - resolution is better than the P4.
The bad news - its not as good as I had expected.
The photo below shows a comparison between the P4P (left), the P4 (middle) and an iPhone 6 Plus (right).
Photos were taken from a distance of 9 metres with both drones static on a table (similar results were obtained when the drones were flown 10 metres above the target).
The increase in resolution over the P4 is significant but what is disappointing is the amount of colour fringing in the P4P image. The target was purely monochrome and yet parts of it in the P4P image appear coloured.
Also disappointing was the comparison between the P4P and an iPhone 6 plus. The P4P is better than the iPhone 6 Plus but the difference is not as great as I would have expected considering the comparison is between an 8mp image and a 20mp one and between a 1/3" sensor and a 1" one.
In order to minimize the colour fringing, I stopped the P4P down to F11. This did produce substantially less colour fringing but did little to improve overall quality.
The good news - resolution is better than the P4.
The bad news - its not as good as I had expected.
The photo below shows a comparison between the P4P (left), the P4 (middle) and an iPhone 6 Plus (right).
Photos were taken from a distance of 9 metres with both drones static on a table (similar results were obtained when the drones were flown 10 metres above the target).
The increase in resolution over the P4 is significant but what is disappointing is the amount of colour fringing in the P4P image. The target was purely monochrome and yet parts of it in the P4P image appear coloured.
Also disappointing was the comparison between the P4P and an iPhone 6 plus. The P4P is better than the iPhone 6 Plus but the difference is not as great as I would have expected considering the comparison is between an 8mp image and a 20mp one and between a 1/3" sensor and a 1" one.
In order to minimize the colour fringing, I stopped the P4P down to F11. This did produce substantially less colour fringing but did little to improve overall quality.