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Panorama

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.

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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.

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