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 6 photos forming the middle row

After shooting the last photo of the middle row, we take our reference points 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