iphone 5 28 megapixel panoroma, what am is missing?

[Oyeve]

Ok. I took another pic. Turned real slow. 3 min slow and got a pic 18mb. The novelty has worn off. I was under the impression you would get hi res all the time not hi res if you have to hold the camera for five minutes.

 

[Mopetar]

Buy a effing camera if you don't like it. And why bitch about what you got for free?

Because if someone else is considering buying an iPhone for this feature, it might be worth knowing that there's a problem. And if it turns out there's a way to fix this, that's probably worth knowing as well.

 

[cheezy321]

http://www.anandtech.com/Gallery/Album/2381

After checking out some comparison photos of the panorama feature, it seems like Apples implementation is far superior than what HTC and Samsung are doing.

On the SGS3 one, there are blurry bits between each stiched shot. Specifically one going right thru the downtown area and also to the left of it by the tree.

HTC does a horrible job of stitching together the mountains in the horizon. Its not even close.

The iPhone panorama shot looks the best by far. No easily noticeable stitching effects.

Could be user error, but only 2 out of those 4 photos are worthy of hanging on a wall. It's a big difference.

 

[bearxor]

You got some freaky looking animals there, bearxor....

They're faster than the speed of light!

It is always cool to get a glimpse of just how the iPhone stitches the pictures together. You can tell how narrow each shot is by looking at where it caught the dogs running.

When the feature leaked last year and was activatable through a jailbreak, I enabled it on my iPhone 4 and then sat in my chair at work and spun around really quickly. The resulting picture was definitely a trip.

Ok. I took another pic. Turned real slow. 3 min slow and got a pic 18mb. The novelty has worn off. I was under the impression you would get hi res all the time not hi res if you have to hold the camera for five minutes.

It's not that slow. It took 45-50 seconds of being delibarate. You can do it quickly just fine for general ideas, but if you know you're taking a picture for more than a Facebook post, just be a little bit more careful. If I did it often enough, I could get my hand to be more level and probably hit a good 18-20MP consistently in under 30s or so.

But I don't think there's anyway someone's hitting 28MP by hand.

 

[lothar]

Because if someone else is considering buying an iPhone for this feature, it might be worth knowing that there's a problem. And if it turns out there's a way to fix this, that's probably worth knowing as well.

Don't feed trolls...

 

[elitejp]

windows phone has a program called photosynth that does 3d panaramas....really really cool.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

windows phone has a program called photosynth that does 3d panaramas....really really cool.

That's on iOS too. I like(d) it. I think one of the things about the iOS implementation that's better is that the exposure doesn't get messed up as badly as the photosynth one and that you don't have to wait for it to be stitched.