I have also shot some panoramas with the 3S. The 180 degree panos are stitched from 21 images. From what I've seen the JPEG stitched images produced in the drone are somewhat soft and lose lots of detail as well as content on the edges. These attached photos are stitched in Lightroom from the DNG files. Lightroom seems to handle the files well. No additional sharpening or denoising has been added. The original panos are about 13,700 pixels wide and have an amazing dynamic range. The pano shot at dusk has very little noise... impressive. These have been resized to 4,000 pixels.
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Did you try the Free Panoramas, to avoid or minimize the bending of the horizon on the 180 degree panos.
Excellent shots! I love the sun shooting through the mist and the trees. Lovely. Nice work!
I played around with the free panorama mode today. I was interested in using the 70mm for panos and also quickly tried a vertical pano. There's a huge amount of flexibility available and I expect this will be my primary method of shooting panoramas in the future. All the files get saved as DNG if desired. The long vertical is 44 photos stitched together in Lightroom. 33,000 pixels wide (app. 240mb) and it has an amazing amount of detail! I have a fairly high end computer and the merges work well but I expect many computers wouldn't be very happy.
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Excellent, this is actually a reason I'm considering buying the air3s as i do a lot of sky panos that is a pain in the **** to do consistently, i also kind of hope this feature gets backwards compatible to to the Air3.
The sky is the limit. The 7x telephoto on the Mavic 3 and Mavic 3 Pro can produce incredibly large and detailed panos, as others have previously demonstrated. If the stitching is being done manually anyway, it's not that much more work to do the shooting manually too, using the overlaid grid pattern for overlapping adjoining images by 1/3.
Oh, I do it now and stich my own Panos
I just tend to take large ones and some help keeping track of where I'm at in that process is what I'm excited for. Haven't seen them functionality but also hoping they put them in their own custom pano folder as I also tend to switch shooting around a lot lolThe Free Pano was first introduced by DJI in the Enterprise line. Select the area you want to use the telephoto camera on for a higher resolution image. Glad it is finally making it into the consumer line, as is the 4G enhanced transmission for obstructed OcuSync4+ signals behind buildings and other obstructions.Oh, I do it now and stich my own Panos
ah, didn't know it was in the old software, hope it makes it to everyone for fly app then.
It has to be drone specific, rather than just an app capability, as each camera is different in terms of field of view and gimbal capability, so it is unlikely to be retroactively added to earlier aircraft. The processor and RAM also has to be able to handle the stitching of all the images, if it creates one automatically.
I tried doing a 360 pano with my new Air 3s. I selected 'RAW only' in the camera settings, and single photos that I took were saved as RAW, but when I did a 360 with the 24mm camera, it took 33 photos, made the pano automatically and saved a folder with the 33 photos in it, all as JPEGs! I tried the 70mm camera and it took 137 photos, again as JPEGs (and didn't actually make the 360). What am I doing wrong? How can I get it to save .dng images when doing a pano? Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I am totally new to all of this.
The camera settings for panos are separate from the settings for regular photos. If it is anything like the Mavic 3 Pro, it needs to have JPEGs for the automated stitching. Select both RAW and JPEG, if available, after selecting Pano, for an automated stitch from the JPEGs, or RAW only, if you intend to stitch the pano manually. The 70mm 360 pano will always require manual stitching, regardless of whether you select JPEG or RAW for the individual shots under Pano.
Are you still using mostly free panorama modes as opposed to the built-in 180 and 360 panos?
Are you using the wide or telephoto cameras for panos?
Are you shooting in 12 Mp or 50 Mp modes to stitch together?
Depends upon what you want to end up with, and what you intend to do with it. The 360° pano covers everything from inside the sphere, while the 180° only shows one side. Often only one side is of interest, like the beach view, while the plain ocean side is uninteresting. That's when the 180° saves time, cutting the shooting time in half.
The wider lens can cover the subject faster but will result in less detail. It's always a compromise. It's usually good enough for social media sharing where higher res files get crushed anyway. For personal use or posting to your own website, I prefer the highest resolution I can create, so I can drill down into any part of the stitched photo.
12MP is faster and the default and best for most situations.
Shooting the pano vertically manually will also result in a higher resolution file on the 70mm lens.
The free pano allows you to create smaller areas in high resolution which will then also be stitched for you.
I've been tending to use the 12MP for both wide and telephoto panos. The stitched panos are plenty wide for huge prints.
Something I use occasionally is Topaz AI to upsize images if needed. I'm really not convinced the 50MP images are much better, especially in low light areas.
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