3 7x Mav3 pano of AK mtns 100images

waynorth · Mar 18, 2023

Does 7x mean that this is taken with the tele lens?
If so, that proves this lens can deliver excellent image quality when used correctly. Many people think the tele lens is a silly toy, but your photo (and others here) prove the opposite.
What stitching software did you use?

PAW · Mar 18, 2023

Impressive!
In-drone processed or did you use a 3rd-party stitcher?

akdrone · Mar 18, 2023

waynorth said:
Does 7x mean that this is taken with the tele lens?
If so, that proves this lens can deliver excellent image quality when used correctly. Many people think the tele lens is a silly toy, but your photo (and others here) prove the opposite.
What stitching software did you use?

Yes. It was shot with the tele. Unfortunately it doesn't (last I looked) do pano automatically. I shoot set of AEB images then move to the right using the tic tac toe marks to overlap by a third...repeat...as many shots as I want then I drop down (or up) and repeat. If it's done carefully very little is lost to cropping out misaligned areas. If you look at some of my videos on my youtube channel you'll see a lot of similar tele lens images, in particular, panos of mountains done with the tele. It's a super useful tool in my book. The Denali Hwy July 22 video has a good example of this. https://www.youtube.com/@digibud/videos

akdrone · Mar 18, 2023

PAW said:
Impressive!
In-drone processed or did you use a 3rd-party stitcher?

The tele can't be used to shoot panos automatically so it's not done "in drone". I took 20 images with each image shot as a 5 image AEB. Each of those is turned into an HDR version using Aurora HDR plugin within Lightroom. After the 20 HDR images are done they are combined in LR as the final pano. The original pano is 168MB. I think the one I posted here was 2.5MB

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