Check your email for additional info on HP and Kodak in-camera stitchers… Hope it helps.

Lee

Tx for your input! In some sense, I am looking for the ShamWow.

Are there specific Kodak and HP initiatives you can share? My assumption is that in bringing panoramas to the consumers, quality would (initially) have to go down, but hopefully the power of the imagery and the medium would remain.

Appreciate your post!

Whacha fishin’ for??? The ShamWow of Panorama Publishing???? I think we already had that with the Live Photo Gallery of the Microsoft Mojave Experiment where creating a panorama was advertised as being sooo easy, but in reality the final output was usually not the best.

Seriously though, probably the biggest barrier is the high amount of “art” involved in creating a panoramic image and no commonly agreed upon definition of “perfect output” for a panorama. This problem combined with the complexity of dealing with Panorama Viewer software to ensure that a panorama is displayed as intended is just too daunting of a task for most photographers let alone the general public. Perhaps if more EXIF/IPTC data was stored by panorama stitching software in the final output image that could be retrieved by the panorama viewer software, the viewer configuration time and complexity would be decreased and perhaps there would be greater interest in creating panoramic images.

Kodak and HP may be on the right track for lowering the entry barrier for consumers by producing cameras with in-camera stitchers, but IMHO the quality of the final output just isn’t there yet.