Jim,

I have been shooting them now for a few months. I normally shoot landscapes and find CS2 does ok in most situations. But I recently tried the 30 day trail version of CS3 and it is much better. There are other tools out there like PTgui and such that are supposedly better. I am just limited in funds and prefer to buy quality lenses over a myriad of software programs.

Where I run into problems are the shots where I try to take a structure (like a barn) that I am very close too and break it up into sections. It's hard to get the right perspective so that the frames line back up correctly. I've recently purchased a Jasper Engineering pano head to help with that. Now I just need to calculate were to set the "nodal point" for each lense I shoot at.

I shot this Saturday, it is two verticals stiched together:



This one was around 6 or 8 images. It was shot with a Contax Zeiss 100/2.0 on a Canon 5D:



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