DJI Mavic 3 Classic - DNG Issues

but the DNG's leave much to be desired... is it a Lightroom issue or are the DNG's just lackluster?

I see you are new to the community, but are you new to LrC?

Remember that in camera settings that will effect any in camera preview, and are cooked into the embedded JPEG and any in camera saved JPEG file, are not by default passed along to the LrC interpretation of the RAW (in your case a DNG). And as such, as you import them into LrC, the little filmstrip thumbnails will look just great, then after LrC creates the previews, they will not.  This can be mitigated thru Develop defaults, and In Camera Profiles.

1. Please use the insert photo button to place your screenshots in your posting. (some members cannot view the attachments, some members refuse to view the attachments, some members like myself have a bad habit of answering without first viewing the attachments, and it is just much more efficient if the screenshots are inserted into the posting, instead of being an attachment that has to be opened separately)

from:

• https://community.adobe.com/t5/using-the-community-discussions/community-how-to-guide-tips-amp-best-...

Also, if those screenshots are from your Library Module and/or your Develop Module, it may be best if you posted full screenshots as to include the various panels, and the filmstrip.

• In the Library module, the Navigation panel will show your current zoom in amount
• In both modules, the Histogram may show clue
• In both modules, the badges on the filmstrip thumbnails may give clues
• In the develop panel the History Panel might show oddities (many like showing the presets panel, typically useless)
• In the Develop Panel, the Profile Panel can give a clue.

2. System Info

Please post your System Information as Lightroom Classic (LrC) reports it. In LrC click on Help, then System Info, then Copy. Paste that information into a reply. Please present all information from first line down to and including Plug-in Info. Info after Plug-in info can be cut out as that is just so much dead space to us non-Techs and it takes up vast amounts of scroll space making the reply less readable and less likely that others will bother with your post.

example:

Lightroom Classic version: 13.4
License: Creative Cloud
Language setting: en
Operating system: Windows 11 - Home Premium Edition
Version: 11.0.22631
Application architecture: x64
System architecture: x64
Logical processor count: 32
Processor speed: 2.9GHz
SqLite Version: 3.36.0
CPU Utilisation: 0.0%
Power Source: Plugged In, 255%
Built-in memory: 65243.7 MB
Dedicated GPU memory used by Lightroom: 3498.4MB / 8018.0MB (43%)
Real memory available to Lightroom: 65243.7 MB
Real memory used by Lightroom: 5230.0 MB (8.0%)
Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 10060.3 MB
GDI objects count: 1216
USER objects count: 3454
Process handles count: 3424
Memory cache size: 0.0MB
Internal Camera Raw version: 16.4 [ 1897 ]
Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 5
Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX,AVX2
Camera Raw virtual memory: 2038MB / 32621MB (6%)
Camera Raw real memory: 1352MB / 65243MB (2%)

Cache1:
NT- RAM:0.0MB, VRAM:0.0MB, Combined:0.0MB

Cache2:
m:0.0MB, n:0.0MB

U-main: 139.0MB

System DPI setting: 96 DPI
Desktop composition enabled: Yes
Standard Preview Size: 2560 pixels
Displays: 1) 2560x1440
Input types: Multitouch: No, Integrated touch: No, Integrated pen: Yes, External touch: No, External pen: No, Keyboard: No

Graphics Processor Info:
DirectX: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 (32.0.15.5599)
Init State: GPU for Export supported by default
User Preference: Auto

Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Lightroom Classic
Library Path: W:\Active Projects\Photography\test\test-v13-3.lrcat
Settings Folder: C:\Users\DavidsLocal\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom

Installed Plugins:
1) AdobeStock
2) Any Filter
3) Aurora HDR
4) DxO PhotoLab 7
5) DxO PhotoLab 7 Importer
6) Helicon Focus Export
7) jf Bag-o-Goodies
😎 jf Extended Search
9) jf Metadata Viewer
10) jf Metadata Wrangler
11) jf System Info
12) Loupedeck2
13) Luminar 4
14) Nik 7 HDR Efex
15) ON1 Effects 2023
16) ON1 HDR 2023
17) ON1 NoNoise AI 2023
18) ON1 Photo RAW 2024
19) ON1 Portrait AI 2023
20) ON1 Resize AI 2023
21) Plugin Parameters
22) SmugMug
23) Topaz Photo AI

3. Aditional Info

Please post in your reply from LrC your /Preferences/Presets/

and your /Preferences/Performance/