for me the flexibility of the pano features in litchi is easy worth the price, i can bracket every shot in litchi and tell it how many rows and how wide i want the pano, dji cant do any of that with user input. a bracketed pano has incredible detail
not so much a hdr pano but yes, when u merge 3 raw files or 5 if u like for every single in a pano u get incredible detail, each file in the pano is huge and detailed and stays as a raw file even after u merge them all so no loss of detail converting to jpeg, i only convert after all editing is done and i end up with a huge 14000x6000 px image. dji cant do this, also in litchi u can pano in portait mode which i like to do also cant do that in djiCan you explain what you use bracketing for in a pano? Just to have the best exposure? or are you making an HDR pano?
not so much a hdr pano but yes, when u merge 3 raw files or 5 if u like for every single in a pano u get incredible detail, each file in the pano is huge and detailed and stays as a raw file even after u merge them all so no loss of detail converting to jpeg, i only convert after all editing is done and i end up with a huge 14000x6000 px image. dji cant do this, also in litchi u can pano in portait mode which i like to do also cant do that in dji
i dont do 360 panos only 135 and 180 for very wide horizonatal panos. thats also another ffeature of litchi u can choose how wide u want, i prefer 135 unless i really want to cover a lot of ground then 180, in portrait mode i shoot 5 photos one row, if i want some ground then ill switch to reg mode and shoot 5 photos 2 rows in reg mode for a bit larger image than in portait mode, i havent played much with the angle of the rows yet to see what affect that has on imagesGotcha. I've never tried a pano in portrait mode.... in normal mode, a 360 degree horizontal pano takes 8 pics across. How many pics if I do the same thing in portrait mode?
i dont do 360 panos only 135 and 180 for very wide horizonatal panos. thats also another ffeature of litchi u can choose how wide u want, i prefer 135 unless i really want to cover a lot of ground then 180, in portrait mode i shoot 5 photos one row, if i want some ground then ill switch to reg mode and shoot 5 photos 2 rows in reg mode for a bit larger image than in portait mode, i havent played much with the angle of the rows yet to see what affect that has on images
Hoping not to get chastised for asking, but can you recommend a good "how to" source for your technique using Litchi for panos?
i culdnt find much info on litchi panos so i did the obvious and did trial and error, i shoot 5-images and 2 rows and 135 degrees, i then merge them in light room, if theres an image i really like i will shoot the pano sequence in bracket mode so thats 5images x 2 rows =10 x 3 bracketed = 30 images, i thenmerge each 3 shot image then merge the 10 hdr images to get my high res pano, very time consumiing but worth it for some images.