Hi-
I've written before and I know you swear nothings different in terms of focus between the old map pilot and the map pilot pro, but there has to be. We consistently get bad photos since moving to the pro version. Some flights are good, some are bad and there seems to be no way to know what we are going to get from flight to flight. We started using Pix4Ds app which works without fail however Map Pilot Pro app is really the best one out there and I want to try to figure this out.
Yesterday we flew 7 short missions of about 36 photos. Same area, same altitude, all automatic settings. After each mission we downloaded the photos, looked at them and flew again. The first mission was all bad photos. The next six missions were fine. The first mission had no warnings. The next six all had a "Detected Camera Mismatch" warning, which I had not seen before however one of the other pilots had. The options were Skip or Update. We selected "update" each time... The message details were that the app detected the P4P Camera and does not match the Mavic Pro camera used to save the mission.
The original mission was planned using the P4P/Adv/RTK/X4S camera. When the message appeared on the second mission test, I created a new mission of the exact same area ensuring that we had selected the proper camera. Each of the six following attempts we continued to get the same warning message and we selected "update". The photos were fine.
I think we are getting to the heart of the issue, but I want to know why the app thinks we are using the Mavic Pro camera for planning when the P4P camera is selected in the settings? We always pre-plan the missions. I'll do more testing, but so far, my thought is when we don't have any warnings the pictures are crap. When we do get a warning, the pictures turn out good.
Your expert help to resolve this issue would be appreciated. Thanks!
Update 10-31-23:
None of the app updates to date have solved our issues. I noticed that another user has the same focus issues along with the "camera mismatch" and the "radius" error. Our work around for quite some time is that for every single time the drone takes off we have to manual focus. We do this once the drone reaches altitude and starts to travel to first waypoint. We pause the drone, let it settle and double-tap the camera view. A quick "focus success" displays in the upper right hand corner of the screen. If you forget to do this each time during multi-battery missions, you have an entire battery worth of blurry photos. We also have the camera mismatch error come up every time we pre-program in the office and then go fly in the field. We overcome this by selecting "update" from the warning box. The only work-around we found for the maximum radius error, which plagues us during every multi-battery mission is to force close the app and restart it. Luckily the abandonment point is robust enough to survive the force closure of the app. I don't think any of these issues are related to the DJI software, hardware or settings because we've double, triple and quadruple checked them all every flight. I think there are some MapPilot Pro issues that are obviously hard to find since they persist through each app update. I hope this helps other users with work arounds until these issues are finally resolved.
