I found this post:
As relates to the new
Mini 2. I LOVE the Pano shots. If you transfer the images to your phone, they come out as a sphere, a 180, and a wide angle .. but they are not stored this way on the memory card - which means the ONLY way to get this image (without manually building it) is through your...
forum.dji.com
Again...not sure of accuracy in the post but it seems that you need to use additional s/w to do the DNG stitching.
Exactly as the poster above has said. I think it boils down to the fact the Mini2 needs to harness the power of your smartphone to stitch the panos together. To do this is, it first makes 2000x1500 JPEGs from whatever JPEG or DNG was originally shot, then stitches those.
Trouble is, these are low res so look fantastic on the phone but less so on a PC monitor.
For the best results, you need to take the panos in JPEG & RAW (check that toggle switch in settings after selecting pano mode as it doesn't carry over from single image mode). Now the PANORAMA folder on the card will fill with subfolders of high quality DNGs that you can stitch in post. Microsoft ICE will do this for free but other software is avialable. Unfortunately, there is some problem with the metadata in the DNGs taken this way and, at present, Lightroom & Photoshop can't properly read the file leading to a colour issue where only a quarter of the image is OK - see https://forum.dji.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=228896&extra=page=1&filter=typeid&typeid=766&typeid=766 and look at the sky on the first image.
Toward the end of the pasted text there is a reference to a color issue. If you look towards the end of the earlier link I sent, it appears that problem was fixed in a later firmware release in early 2021.
So I have actually just started a new thread, dealing with this issue and it totally concurs with your statement above. I am going to copy/paste that post here:
So I have been trying to learn my new
Mavic 2 Mini to reproduce what I was easily able to do with the
Mavic 2 Pro, I have finally had success. Here are the steps Have used and the resultant image;
1) Put the drone into the air an position it for taking three images
2) settings on Photo
3) adjust exposure
4) activate JPG+RAW
5) grid on
6) take three images, overlapping by at least 30%, left, middle, and right
7) Book-end before the first and after the last image on the ground with two images you will not use or keep, used as markers
8) Open the SD card files on my iMAC. - Separate JPG from DNG so you have three DNG files
9) open Photoshop
10) open Bridge
11) highlight the three images in bridge
12) Select all (CTRL+A)
13) right click on any of the three images
14) hit Merge to Panorama
15) In dialogue window, play with the settings to your best judgement
16) in the final image, open into Photoshop for final editing
17) file>save as..... JPG of a small enough resolution for e0mailing- usually <1.5MB.
Here is the result of three RAW files stitched in Photoshop
www.skypixel.com
