Enabling multiple field of view image capture within a surround image mode for multi-lense mobile devices

A user activation of an image capture function of a mobile device is received. The image capture function is for a surround image mode. Two or more camera lenses are approximately concurrently activated. A front-side image from a first camera lense and a rear-side image from a second camera lense can be optically captured. A second front-side image from the first camera lense and a second rear-side image from the second camera lense can be optically captured responsive to a manual pan/tilt/zoom operation of the front-side or rear-side lense. Content from the front-side images and content from the rear-side images are recorded in a non-transitory storage medium of the mobile device within a single file for a surround mode image.