I am beginning to have doubts that the new camera is going to work for me…I am seeing too many digital processing artifacts in the images. They look fine…even great…at screen resolution…but they would not make a good print. Still, there is no doubt that Sweep Panorama is an amazing feature! You just set the shot up in camera, choosing the direction and angle (120 to 360 degrees), press the shutter release and turn in a circle until the camera has captured the full swing. The camera does all the stitching, evens out the exposure where needed and produces a seamless panorama. Since the camera takes a lot more exposures than are needed for overlap, and certainly way more than any human would attempt, it can do a pretty amazing job of building the pano. View this one at full monitor width by clicking on it to open the window in Smugmug.

What we have here is the sweep from the point at Cape Ann, on the left, all the way around to the breakwater at Kennebunkport harbor, on the right.

Fujifilm HS20 EXR. Unknown number of exposures, processed to pano in camera. Nominally f8 @ 1/500th @ ISO 200.

Processed very lightly (the Fuji does not require much and will take even less…really heavy artifacts appear with the kind of processing I used for my Canon SX20IS).