DJI Air 3, Manual Panorama with the Telephoto Lens

Sadly, the panorama functionality in the R3 only works when the wide-angle lens is selected

but we can take advantage of the 3x zoom factor of the 70mm lens

for shooting a manual panorama. Here is how we do it. Before starting the shooting, make sure to have the rule of thirds overlay

by going to the camera tab of the settings. To stitch the image properly, two adjacent photos must overlap by more than one third

and no more than two thirds. Let's say we want a panel made of three rows of six photos each

We start with the left edge of the middle row. We frame the shot making sure we have

a reference point matching the left line of the grid. After hitting the shutter

we pan to the right until the reference point is just outside the left edge

We make sure we have another reference point on the left line

and continue this way for the six photos forming the middle row

After shooting the last photo of the middle row, we take a reference point on the bottom edge of

the image and tilt the camera down until the point is just above the lower line of the rule of thirds

We can now take the first image to the right of the bottom row. We do the opposite of what we did in the first row

We take a reference point on the left edge of the frame, take the first shot

and then pan to the left until the point is beyond the first vertical line

At the end of the bottom row, we take a reference point below the first vertical line

tilt the camera up until the point is just outside the bottom of the frame

and we can now take the six photos of the top row in the same way we did before

This is the result