Bernie

@cineflock... A clear gigapixel nightime image handheld would be quite a trick, making a panorama's at night, without a tripod, is doable. Tripods are great if/when you have one, but for a night (and in the rain) panorama please see my MD State Fair shot, midway down on: http://rocket9.net/page2.htm

It's presented on here at 9800x1200, scaled down a fair bit for web presentation. Technique I use for shooting long duration at night (and for pano's during the day with lots of movement) is pretty easy. I take advantage of rapid fire mode, shoot each shot half a dozen times or more. First one is always blurry, later ones, often much better and sometimes very still (I think I used about ~1.5 second exposure on the state fair shot). Then when making the panorama, first take the best of the bunch. And when stitching, if there's movement in the scene, take the non-moving part from multiple's of the same.

I'm also of the mind that this isn't really needed, that with practice (both behind the camera and on the computer) you can make great panorama's, even at night, without a tripod.

Was recently at Disneyland and FunSpot (worlds largest arcade in NH) ended up with a ton of really good panorama's (even with no one in the scene holding still at DL) all shot handheld and stitched in PtGui:

http://disney.rocket9.net/page2.htm
http://pinball.rocket9.net/FunSpot.htm

This is an area though where practice makes perfect... starting out I couldn't get 1 attempt in 4 to result in a panorama worth showing. Can get something good about 90% of the time now.

Wow, great announcement, Talking Heads and some other bands. I'm hoping for Stop Making Sense, Full Album

This is very cool technology, but good panorama's can be shot handheld... I like the challenge of shooting panorama's, using a tripod if I remember to have one, but usually end up doing w/o. For stitching, Autostitch (Free) or PT GUI both work very well. Have a bunch posted (all at 1200 pixels tall and up to ~12,000 pixels wides) at:

http://rocket9.net/page2.htm

And also a bunch recently shot all handheld at FunSpot at: http://pinball.rocket9.net/

FunSpot is way cool... Went up there earlier in the month, have lots of pictures posted at:

http://pinball.rocket9.net/

Guitar Hero World Tour band kit + Rock Band 2 game = ROCK BAND Goodness + a bunch of redundant peripherals taking up space in the basement

Okay list... Where's Pinball Wizard???? Was crazy excited seeing the title of the entry, much less so without it. Particularily since Pinball Wizard was on the rather accurate "leak" list from months ago.

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Peach!

Earning KUDO's in real life DC traffic... hey why was PGR2 last one to have DC...?