Wide Angle Lens or Panorama?

[cb24nz]

Interested in getting the Wide Angle Lens for my Mini Pro 4.
How much better will it be be using this lens than just taking a panaroma photo?

Also if you use this lens while taking a panaroma photo, would it be extra wide?

 

[Meta4]

Interested in getting the Wide Angle Lens for my Mini Pro 4.
How much better will it be be using this lens than just taking a panaroma photo?

Using a supplementary lens will give inferior results compared to what you get with the camera's native lens.

Also if you use this lens while taking a panoroma photo, would it be extra wide?

A panorama is as wide as you make it.
There's no need to use a supplementary wide lens if you are making a wide panorama.

 

[CadrePilot]

Pano.
Shooting a pano pulls in much more data, multiple frames of data.
Using a wide angle increases the field of view without increasing the data, meaning less detail.

 

[RangerEd]

Using a supplementary lens will give inferior results compared to what you get with the camera's native lens.

A panorama is as wide as you make it.
There's no need to use a supplementary wide lens if you are making a wide panorama.

That's a nice shot. Where is this?

 

[Cymruflyer]

Don't get a wide angle lens, you will get better results by shooting more frames of the scene you want and then stich them together, to create a panorama to what ever size you wish. You will have a much larger, more detailed image. When you shoot multiple frames for making a panorama, be sure to overlap each frame by at least 20% from the previous frame, to get the best results, when stitching it all together.

If you have a drone that allows for vertical camera position, use that when taking multiple shots to overlap, to stitch together for a large panorama. That will give you the best results and highest quality.

 

[CadrePilot]

...you will get better results by shooting more frames of the scene you want and then stich them together, to create a panorama to what ever size you wish. You will have a much larger, more detailed image. When you shoot multiple frames for making a panorama, be sure to overlap each frame by at least 20% from the previous frame, to get the best results, when stitching it all together.

If you have a drone that allows for vertical camera position, use that when taking multiple shots to overlap, to stitch together for a large panorama. That will give you the best results and highest quality.

Yup.

I've shot panos that were 3 frames tall by 10 or more frames wide. I use the grid lines to overlap mine by about a third, both vertically and horizontally.

 

[wco81]

Using a supplementary lens will give inferior results compared to what you get with the camera's native lens.

A panorama is as wide as you make it.
There's no need to use a supplementary wide lens if you are making a wide panorama.

That's a nice shot. Where is this?

Also how long were the exposures and what was the ISO?

 

[Meta4]

Also how long were the exposures and what was the ISO?

ISO 100 .. Shutter was 1 sec or 0.8 sec depending on the brightness of the individual frame.

 

[wco81]

ISO 100 .. Shutter was 1 sec or 0.8 sec depending on the brightness of the individual frame.

Automated pano or manually shot?

Did you de-noise in post?

 

[Meta4]

Automated pano or manually shot?
Did you de-noise in post?

I always shoot panoramas manually.
No de-noising was done.

 

[PanoVolo]

The "look" of panorama may be different from what wa lens will give you. You can play with different projections though when stitching. But the resolution will be hands down better with the pano.

 

[GFields]

Good read. Thanks for sharing everyone