Some of my favourites from last week’s holiday to sunny Menorca.
All shots taken with the Mini 3 Pro in 48mpx mode and edited in PS from RAW files.
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Is the fourth pic , Cuitadella ?
@JockyB It is indeed, good spot!
Thought it looked familiar. Went there about 15-17 years ago. Stayed at Sa Caleta, just down the road and visited Cuitadella nearly every day. Lovely place. 
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really good quality images
@grandad1950 Thanks very much 
They look really great, looks a lovely place
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@johnb78 Thanks very much. It’s a lovely place, hoping to go back again next year. 
@robwestpix ah thats cool. Hope that you manage to go. Ive heard some nice things about Menorca but its not a place ive been yet but maybe in the future.
Looks like the Mini 3 Pro takes some decent pics, i heard such good things about that drone and im looking to invest in one in the very near future
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Impressive sharpness. A friend just got a Mini 3 Pro, and his 48MP shots look a bit soft at the top with some chromatic aberration. Did you have to do much editing on the Raws? Do you get better results from the 48 versus 12MP Raws?
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@johnb78 yeah, we’re really hoping we can get back there, prices have gone crazy though.
The Mini 3 Pro is a fantastic little drone, really worth investment, I hope you take the plunge!
Thank you. I’m really impressed with the picture quality. From the RAW files I generally do a little sharpening and noise reduction, pull the highlights and lighten the shadows.
Bright scenes can throw up a little purple fringeing on high contrast areas, but easily sorted using the optics slider. I sometimes use NIK Effects to add a little texture, but not always.
I’ll have to admit, I’ve pretty much exclusively used the 48mpx option so don’t have a lot of comparison between the two. I prefer the ‘squarer’ shape of the 48mpx shots though.
Fantastic photos. The close up boat is awesome 
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Thanks for the detail. I thought DJI might have done more pre-processing on the 12MP files on chromatic abberation and so on with the pixel-binning. I’m surprised the format ratio is different. Maybe they can be set separately for 12 and 48MP? I have grown fond of the native 3:2 format on my Air 2S, and of course, it’s 22mm equivalent rather than 24mm. I could do with a sub 250g beastie too, but might wait to see what the Mini 4 Pro brings
@robwestpix that is the trouble with things at the moment so many prices going sky high. Fingers crossed for you though that you get to go back.
I have heard a lot of good things about tge Mini 3 Pro. I am really considering it, hopefully within the next couple of months, just making sure have the money together to allow me to purchase it
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Great photos, did you get any hassle when taking the photos?
@FoleyMrs Thank you. I love a ‘top down’ shot of a boat. This was a pretty big boat too, quite an impressive thing!
@BingBong I’ll have to have a deeper look into the differences. As far as I can tell, the aspect ratio is fixed for both 12 and 48 mpx.
I’m intrigued into what the Mini 4 will bring. Likely the omni directional sensors from the Air 3 and the newer RC controller. Can’t see them changing the lens/ sensor/ gimbal too much.
I’ve got my sights on an Air 3 next )although not for a while!)
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@heronlen Thanks very much.
No, quite the opposite. I had a few people- tourists and locals chat to me about the drone, all were really interested to see the area from above and had no issue at all.
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Useful thread here on aspect ratios.
The Mini 3 Pro sensor is native 4:3, and 48MP won’t let you change as it needs the full frame. It sounds like you have 12MP set to 16:9, which is just a crop of the 4:3 frame, so could be changed to 4:3 when connected to the drone. No 3:2 option strangely. The Air 2S sensor is 3:2 native which I like, but all recent ones including the Mavic 3 range are 4:3 (a 4/3 sensor obviously has to be that).
I think you are probably right about Mini Pro 4 changes. I wonder what they’ve got in mind for the Air 3S in a year or so. I doubt they’ll have room for a 1" sensor with two cameras, and they would be different sensor sizes. The Air 3 looks a classy beast, but not much smaller than a Mavic 3 Pro!
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