On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 09:55:26 -0700, Kevin Wampler wrote:

> On 6/26/2014 12:10 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>>
>> I would love to find something like this as well - my Galaxy S5 phone's
>> camera can do HDR and it can do panoramas, but like you note, it can't
>> do both for some reason.
>>
>>
> One guess for why it doesn't do both is that the two photography modes
> have contrasting requirements.  For HDR you want to hold the camera
> still so it can easily align the different exposures, but for panoramas
> you need to move the camera.  Not that solving this is impossible, but I
> bet getting really nice results would be trickier than with either
> alone.
> 
> Barring the possibility that some app already exists to do this, if
> you're (or rather if Nekar's) willing to spend some time on it, the
> easiest option I can think of is to capture a bunch of independent HDR
> photos, then stitch them into a panorama after the fact.  The images
> might have to be downloaded to the desktop to do the stitching though.

Possibly, though the way the app for the S5 works, you have to hold still 
for each exposure in a 360° picture (as well as a panorama), so it 
shouldn't be completely incompatible.

Though maybe the variance in light levels between exposures would/could 
create an inconsistent image.

Jim



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