12. STRETCH OUT WITH PANORAMAS

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SOME SCENES ARE too expansive to fit into the standard rectangular image frame. For those, you can use the iPhone’s Panorama mode to capture the wide landscape. With the 12-megapixel camera on the iPhone 6S and later, you can capture panorama images that can contain up to 63 megapixels (Figure 12.1).

Horizontal Panoramas

As with most things in the iOS camera app, using Panorama mode is very easy. Select the mode and position your camera in a vertical orientation. An arrow on the left side of the screen indicates which direction to pan the camera when shooting the panorama. If it’s more convenient for a particular ...

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