How to shoot panorama with the DJI Mini 4 Pro

I always shoot videos and photos in manual exposure, but in the case of panorama, auto exposure is handy as it reduces the dynamic range by raising the shadows

We access panorama mode via the photo-video button above the shutter, on the right part of the menu, through the icon at the bottom

The menu to the left will display four icons for the different pano modes

Sphere, 180 degrees, wide angle and vertical. Note that we can only access the panorama function when the drone is flying

The GIFLY app will automatically stitch a JPEG panorama. I will check the quality obtained with this method later on in this video

We can then choose whether we want to keep each file either in RAW or in JPEG format

to process and stitch the images using a third-party program. It is not possible to save them in both formats

In the past I would only use RAW files, but the stitching program must have the lens profile of the specific model

otherwise there will be severe banding around the stitching points due to a strong vignette, which is very hard to fix manually

As far as I know, Adobe Lightroom doesn't have, as yet, a lens profile for the Mini 4 Pro

Luckily the quality of the JPEG files of the Mini 4 Pro is excellent and they can be used with good results Then we choose the Exposure mode If we click on the bottom to the lower right of the screen we toggle between auto exposure and manual

In my opinion, auto exposure tends to overexpose a bit, therefore I adjust the EV value by minus 0.3 or 0.7

I strongly recommend using white balance to avoid shift of colors. In sphere mode, the Mini 4 Pro shoots 35 photos in rapid succession, while in the same mode

the Mini 3 Pro only takes 26 and the RF3 33 images

Horizontally, it is a 360-degree representation, while vertically the Mini 4 Pro seems to push

further up to take a larger portion of the sky. After taking the shot the software is still busy processing the auto-generated JPEG pano

The whole process of the sphere pano takes about 1 minute and 15 seconds

180 degree mode shoots 21 photos. This mode has less distortion and it is the one to use for traditional two-dimensional

views that can be cropped or reframed, thanks to the high resolution, or for large print

This mode can also be used in different times of the day, as it is possible to avoid having

the sun in the shot. In the wide-angle mode, 9 photos are taken, 3 rows and 3 colons, while vertical mode consists

of a colon of 3 photos