Originally posted by alohadave Count me in. I had a tripod for years even though I was doing P&S. It's an awful arrogant thing to say that P&S shooters are completely ignorant.
I never said they were what I said (I think) is that the average P&S user does not have a tripod and so its an exspense on top of the gadget.
The wonderous software supplied with this is just another pano software there are lots of them around so on that front nothing new. also I'm pretty sure other people have used DSLR's on automated mounts and obtained panos so the idea is not new either. all this company has done is just abouts managed to put this together into a package thats widely available. technology ? its not a new technology really what does it take to rotate a mecahnical arm by "x" degrees ? and then use a timer to shoot pictures, the more inventive part of this thing is the part that would not have been neede in the first place if a DSLR was going onto it. there would be no need for the shutter pressing mechanism which is probably the most complex part as the machine could control the camera with the shutter release socket.
I thin successful / feasable panoramic photography boild down to
1) getting focusing right so the shots can be merged (luck more often that not in my case)
2) Having something in each picture that will allow the software to join the pictures together.
it is really about common sense and planning, something a machine does not have. I'm wondering how many people will take a lovelly landscape only to find when they get it home that they can't join the sky up because they will have 30+ shots that all look the same and can't be matched to any other shot for lack of "keying elements". Of course you could resolve this in photoshop given the skill but then this machine was not made for pros (not knocking P&S users at all mind you) so we are back to square one