Zoom for Mini 2

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Dear developers,

now as I own a Mini 2 which has the capability to zoom the camera, I am missing this function in Litchi.
In Rainbow and DJI Fly it is existent, but I wonder, why it is not existent in Litchi.

I believe, zooming is available on the controller (I maybe wrong!), is there a reason, why Litchi got no slider on the screen? Or did I miss something?

Thanks for feedback.

Best regards

Hans

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Search for ‘mini 2 zoom’.
(magnifying glass upper right corner)

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to be clear the camera doesn’t have optical zoom. It just enlarges the current pixels.You can do this in software at home

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Searched, but found no magnifying glass in Litchi. Neither on the surface nor in the settings. Maybe I missed something.

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The Mini 2 spec says, the Mini 2 got 2x zoom in its camera and this is working with Func + wheel. Rainbow additionally can do 4x zoom, however, this is only optical on the mobile and you can not record this. For the mini 2 you should be able to record 2x zoom in video mode, and, as far as I read (but here I might be wrong) 4x zoom in picture mode - all natively. However, it is not made clear by DJI if they do it in hardware or in its software.

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There is one on THIS page !?

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Oh, understood! You meant the search magnifying glass! Yes, that is well known. I thought, you meant some icon in form of a magnifying glass, which got the function of zooming.

Shit happens…

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It’s not entirely clear what you mean by that. When referring to digital cameras, there are traditionally two types of zooms:

  1. Optical zoom
  2. Digital zoom

Unfortunately, DJI has often mis-used the term “Zoom” in their literature confusing a lot of people.

An optical zoom lens uses a complex system of movable components to alter the focal length and angle of view with no trade-off in quality when “zooming”.

A digital zoom simply uses a scaling algorithm to simulate what a true optical zoom lens does. The same thing can be accomplished in post-production. In this case, “zooming in” is just scaling the image.

The only DJI drone with a true optical zoom is/was the Mavic 2 Zoom. All other DJI drones that are claimed to have a zoom lens employ a digital zoom. For example, the new Mavic 3, despite DJI saying that it has a zoom lens, really has two fixed focal length lenses (one wide-angle and one telephoto) and uses digital zooming to transition between the two.

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And I would like to add to that, ‘scaling up’ is typically referred to as ‘cropping’ in post-processing SW… Thanks for your very clear explanation!