TickTockNik

chasm said:

That said, Andrew appears to be unaware that the iPhone has had “ultra wide” for years — it’s called the Pano setting. Hint: you don’t have to take an entire full pano — you can stop shooting at any point in the process. I’ve used this a number of times to get “wider” shots without them being full panoramas.

That said, having it as a separate option on the S10 is a plus, but that’s like saying the iPhone’s “square” (Instagram-friendly) setting is a plus for the iPhone.

This isn't a "setting," it's a dedicated third lens that is wider than the others, and wider than what we have on our iPhones.

Yes, you can use pano to get a wide shot with the iPhone. Like you, I have been doing that for a long time. It's not the same thing as a dedicated ultrawide lens, because if you shoot the same pano with an ultrawide lens, you get an even wider shot still.

And if you have been using the iPhone pano mode to work around getting getting really wide shots, you know how situational its use is to work well. If there is no motion of any kind in your shot, you're golden. If anything at all is moving in it, you've got a problem. Being able to capture a wide shot in the span of a single shutter click is infinitely preferable to having to have a perfectly still several seconds of scenery.