>>3976407You completely missed the point I was making while simultaneously proving my point.
Nobody is saying that there is no time or place for stitching. What I'm saying is that a beginner who presents his case as "I don't need a DSLR for landscape photography, I can just use my phone and stitching software for everything" is likely misunderstanding the importance of composition. Landscape photography is not about just taking as wide of a snapshot of an empty field as possible. There still needs to be some sort of artistic value to the photo or else it's just a snapshot of bland scenery. Sometimes you just need to crop in with a longer focal length to find the interesting composition.
Another example, pic related. Check the EXIF data for the focal length. This would not be possible with a phone and stitching software, but would be possible with literally any DSLR and a 24-105mm equivalent zoom lens.
The composite 27:1-aspect-ratio photo that you posted of what's basically just a bunch of bland treetops proves this. What are you going to do with a photo like that? Do you think it looks good? What benefit is there to it being 112 MP that you couldn't have gotten by taking it at your camera's native resolution? You aren't sharing it with us at that resolution, since you downscaled it for 4chan. At this resolution, it looks like boring scenery. Does it get better at full resolution, and if so how?. Do you think you're going to enlarge it so much that the extra resolution will look good enough to off-set the inconsistencies from the stitching process?
