Thank you, Robert. To quote the manual (and it's not very well written)
"Pano: Choose from Sphere, 180 Wide Angle, Vertical, Quickshots Choose from Dronie, Rocket, Circle, Helix, Boomerang and Asteroid."
I don't think that it was written by a technical author, and it doesn't really explain the 'Big Picture' and then launch into the detail.
So I'm still trying to get my head around it.
I'll try your Stewart and Alina videos. Many thanks.
In the DJI advert movies they show you these various clips, in order that you can see what the drone is doing and the what the filmed outcome looks like. That is the best thing for you to watch, regarding the video aspect of these various moves.
As for still shots, the pano mode shows you the various modes for that sort of thing. The sphere will make the world you are shooting look like a mini earth. This is okay for some things but rather useless for the most part. It's just a cool effect. The 180 wide-angle pano will make the drone hover and then the camera will shift around the visible area, taking a number of photo from your far left side to your far right side, getting in a vast 180 degrees of view of a scene and then stitching them all together to make a large viewing field.
Imagine standing on a mountain and then looking at the sky and valley below. Stick out your arms to each side of you. This is the field of view the 180 (degree) Pano will capture as a still image. Now, if you could draw out into the viewed area and you could make a huge rectangle, then divide that area up with lines across and straight up and down until you have a sort of grid in front of you, say 8 or 12 sections or more, the drone camera will create a photo of each one of those sections as an individual photo.
The drone yaws from one side to the other and the camera takes one shot each of your 8 or 12 or more sections within your rectangle. It then stitches all those individual images together to make one huge photo. THAT, is what the 180 wide-angle pano (Panorama) mode does with your drone and camera.
If you were hovering in front of a waterfall and you wanted to get the whole tall waterfall in one photo, then you would choose Vertical from your options. This would turn the camera sideways and shot from the bottom to the top, or top to bottom, of your waterfall. It then stitches all those images together to give you one single tall image, showing you the entire waterfall in a long photo.
As I mentioned, for the video portion of those shooting modes, you'd be best to look at the video examples that DJI show in their advert videos. They do a great job of showing these examples to allow the user to understand what is happening.
