
all without degrading the pixel quality in the process. the whole purpose with raw is to give you the possibility to make exposure changes after the picture is taken & ad on other enhancements. It looks like you are searching for a "quick & dirty" raw workflow where you just take the DNG file through a converter without any picture specific adjustments & out comes a pic of higher quality then the in camera converted jpeg.


I suspect that you misunderstand the use & benefit of a RAW image, but again I can be wrong. Maybe I'm wrong here but I have already from the beginning in this thread been a bit puzzled when I read your different statement like that in the quote above. I don't have any expectation of ever making money with this drone, I just got it for exploring and personal enjoyment, so I really don't want to spend alot on software if I don't need to. > is there other (free, Windows) software that might do a better job of handling the DNG images? > can I change settings of some sort, to solve the blossom-halo problem? but for *these* images, it is performing very badly - frankly, the resulting conversions from DNG are much less sharp than the jpg images. I have always used Faststone Image Viewer for this task, which has been an excellent program in the past.

So I switched it to shoot JPG + RAW, and tried converting the RAW images to JPG myself. images which have flowers in them, have a halo around all the blossoms so everything in each image is razor sharp - except for the blossoms, which seem to all have this fuzzy halo around them (see the attached image, cropped from the full image). However, I've noticed an anomaly with the jpg images. I have a new Mavic 2 Pro, which is already disrupting my life because I don't want to do anything but fly around and take pictures !!
