Air 2s Pano

[Mavic-Max]

Hiya. Just tried out the pano feature on my air 2s. Is it normal to have the top third blurred as seen in my photo

 

[GFields]

No. I've not seen that before

 

[Mavic-Max]

Could it be that I have 'Allowed Gimbal Upward Rotation' in the settings. It doesn't appear when taking normal shots.

 

[Felix le Chat]

Could it be that I have 'Allowed Gimbal Upward Rotation' in the settings. It doesn't appear when taking normal shots.

Have you tried repeating the exercise to see if subsequent pano's turn out the same?

 

[Mavic-Max]

Unfortunately im back home now, so I will have to wait till I go again. Just wondered if its something glitchy with DJI or if I have a problem with my drone

 

[Felix le Chat]

Unfortunately im back home now, so I will have to wait till I go again. Just wondered if its something glitchy with DJI or if I have a problem with my drone

I forgot to ask: is the final image what the DJI pano stitch process kicked out as a JPG, or have you assembled it through third party pano stitching software?

I shoot 'super resolution' pano's regularly (3x3 12mp with Mavic 2 Zoom). The DJI assembly process screws up from time to time. To counter this, I'll shoot JPG+DNG with 'save original RAW shots' enabled and then run the DNG's though either ICE (batch rendering the DNG's to uncompressed JPG's) or Autopano Giga (which will handle DNG's).

You really need to repeat the shoot process a number of times before questioning whether there's something wrong with the camera.

 

[Mavic-Max]

Thanks for your reply. Yep this is direct from the drone. I'll take note of your comments and try different settings next time.

 

[Felix le Chat]

Thanks for your reply. Yep this is direct from the drone. I'll take note of your comments and try different settings next time.

I also shoot single shots with a slight yaw, aiming for a 30% horizontal overlap and then assemble with a dedicated pano stitcher (simple manual linear panoramic). If you use a complex Pano stitcher (Hugin or Autopano Giga) you can manually replicate the 'top row: middle row: bottom row' layout to produce gigapixel images. It's a fiddle: but the end result can be outstanding.

 

[GadgetGuy]

Hiya. Just tried out the pano feature on my air 2s. Is it normal to have the top third blurred as seen inView attachment 185212 my photo

That's the result of the cloned in ceiling from the stitch.
Allow upward gimbal rotation and it will be a smaller portion of the image.

 

[Mavic-Max]

Hi GadgetGuy. I did have 'Allowed Gimbal Upward Rotation' turned on in the settings and this is the result. I'm out with again tomorrow so I will try a few other settings and what I get.

 

[GadgetGuy]

Hi GadgetGuy. I did have 'Allowed Gimbal Upward Rotation' turned on in the settings and this is the result. I'm out with again tomorrow so I will try a few other settings and what I get.

Make a point to have your settings changed to save the original images, which involves selecting Sphere and then going into the Camera settings and selecting save JPG originals.

You'll see in the original images that the blurry parts were not photographed, but are "created" during the stitch "out of thin air." Therefore, just blurry and smeary because of the adjacent clouds in the sky. No clouds, no blurry smears, but it will still not be sharp because it is made up, to create a full 360x180.

 

[PanoVolo]

Hiya. Just tried out the pano feature on my air 2s. Is it normal to have the top third blurred as seen inView attachment 185212 my photo

The top is blurred because the drone did not capture that part of the sky - the gimbal has a restricted pitch angle. The blurred part is interpolated in software.

 

[Rovi]

Hiya. Just tried out the pano feature on my air 2s. Is it normal to have the top third blurred as seen inView attachment 185212 my photo

Very nice picture, beautiful location!

 

[Paulomatic]

You don't need to test it again, that is just the way the Air2s and some other drones work. Their gimbals will not tilt up enough to include the zenith in a photo. If you can't shoot the zenith, you cannot do a real 360 degree spherical panorama. DJI says you can, that is a lie.

That blurriness is DJI's idea of how you complete a spherical panorama- you do the top third in digital (fake, fake, fake) watercolors.

The Air3s and some newer models do tilt up enough that they do not have this problem.

 

[BingBong]

Yup, that's how it stitches spherical panos by default. The equirectangular JPGs are not designed to be viewed flat like this, but in a 360 viewer app. I use FSPViewer on PC. If you upload them to Kuula or similar hosting service, their viewer is great, and the link can be posted to forums etc for full-screen viewing. Other Air 2S pano modes are designed for flat viewing, and don't have the blank strip. The Wide pano is worth a try (3x3). And yes, if you save the component files as JPG or DNG, you can try other pano stitching software.