Panorama
Also known as: pano, panoramic photo, wide angle photo
A panorama is a single wide photo built by sweeping the camera across a scene and stitching the frames together. The result is a very high-resolution, elongated image that takes more storage than an ordinary photo.
- Stitches a sweep of frames into one wide image
- Very high resolution, so larger than a normal photo
- A few panoramas can match many regular photos in size
How a panorama is made
In Pano mode, you pan the phone slowly across a view while the camera captures a continuous strip and merges it into one image. This lets a single photo span a wide landscape, skyline, or large group that would not fit a normal frame.
Because the camera combines many frames, a panorama ends up with far more pixels than a standard shot — often several times the width — which is what makes it so detailed.
Why it matters for storage
All those stitched pixels add up. A panorama is one of the largest still-image types a phone produces, since its resolution can be many times that of a regular photo.
A handful of panoramas can occupy as much space as a much larger set of normal photos. If you are clearing a camera roll, high-resolution panoramas are worth reviewing for ones you no longer need at full size.