Creating Spherical Panoramas - Tips and tricks

[Chrislaf]

If only the Neo could more reliably keep in touch with a sufficient number of satellites!

Yeah, I hope the NEO2 improves this.

Chris

 

[spacewizard]

Wish DJI would have a pano function on NEO but I know it unlikely.

What I *want* is an automated way to take the photos. Having the drone stitch them for you is fine and all but I don't care that much and am happy to do it myself.

But they can't really sell people on the feature unless the drone stitches the panos itself, and that is probably more than they can make a simple little Neo do easily. So, those of us who just need automated picture taking don't get it, even though it would be trivial to implement, because the complete feature would be non-trivial to implement.

If only there were some way to just program it with a series of moves and shots. A scripting language we could use. That would be enough. Not likely to ever happen.

I remember years ago there was (still is) this wonderful third party firmware hack for Canon point-and-shoots called "CHDK". It could do intervalometers, exposure or focus bracketing, anything you wanted. That's the kind of thing it would be awesome to see for DJI drones someday. (I don't know if it'd even be possible, I'm sure it would be a massive amount of difficult work for someone to create it.... but it's the kind of thing that would unlock so much potential if it existed.)

 

[Chrislaf]

What I *want* is an automated way to take the photos. Having the drone stitch them for you is fine and all but I don't care that much and am happy to do it myself.

Me too! I never use the built in stitching the drone does other than as a preview of what the pano will look like.

But they can't really sell people on the feature unless the drone stitches the panos itself, and that is probably more than they can make a simple little Neo do easily. So, those of us who just need automated picture taking don't get it, even though it would be trivial to implement, because the complete feature would be non-trivial to implement.

Agreed.

If only there were some way to just program it with a series of moves and shots. A scripting language we could use. That would be enough. Not likely to ever happen.

If the NEO had the ability to do Waypoints it might be possible. Wes Barris over at MavicPilots has a pano creator that uses DJI Waypoints to create panos.

Chris