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Panoramic mode

Panoramic mode

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Panoramic mode

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- Panoramic photography can be a really great way to capture a massive super wide, super high-resolution image of the world around you. Now, a panoramic image is usually extremely wide, and this doesn't mean you take a single, regular photo and then cut the top and the bottom off of it. That would give you something that was quite low-resolution. No, a panoramic is where you take multiple photos, panning the camera over a large, expansive space, and then stitch them together. You can do the stitching together in software like Photoshop, but a lot of cameras today will actually do the stitching in-camera for you. This makes it really easy to create cool panoramics. For example, in this camera here, the Lumix GX8, you'll notice at the top that there is a dedicated panoramic mode. I simply slide it into there, and the camera actually tells me what direction to pan the camera in, but I can change that as well. So if I go into the Menu settings, and then I scroll down to the page that has…

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