As Stefan says I think Jon is just demonstrating what can be done Photoshop Elements.

If I'm honest a few Olympus shots slipped into my Gallery just before I got my Pentax gear but at that stage I certainly had the intention to go ahead with Pentax

Welcome to the forum Steve, nice camera you have there

Thanks Andrew, actually they are all taken with the K-7 and 16-50 combination.
Sadly I was rather chomping at the bit when the K-7 arrived on the scene so I picked up one of the first to arrive at SRS (July last year).

With regard to prints, yes I have but only small ones so far I must get organised and maybe get a couple done. My only reservation with those panoramas was the time of day they were taken (sun position).

I posted a link to the download on the previous page of this thread. Here is another example of a recent panorama stitched with ICE. This is a three image panorama, hand held, locked exposure and manual focus.

[IMG]http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/1585/boscastleinletpanorama.jpg[/IMG]

Edit: If you click on it you'll see a larger version.

Yes you are right, too wide can cause the odd problem when stitching but is does depend on whether the foreground is busy or not. In this example below the frames were taken @ 16mm and I couldn't spot a problem or mismatch anywhere (again using Microsoft ICE).

[IMG]http://i870.photobucket.com/albums/ab269/Greytop_photos/Stoner%20January%202010/Panoramastitch.jpg[/IMG]

Edit: the only thing I had to do was clone out my shadow

As Gwyn advises plus I would add that I go to manual focus too (keeping it the same for each frame).

You can get away without using a tripod too (quite easily in fact provding your stance is consistent as you pan to each frame).

When you are preparing your RAW images for stitching on the PC make sure the white balance is the same for each and obviously as your exposure was locked when shooting if you make any adjustments to one image (exp compensation, highlight recovery etc) you will need to make the exact same adjustment to all the others.

It's a very nice package, available for 32 or 64 bit Windows OS. I use it quite regularly now.

Yes it does Robbie.

What a weapon

Another vote for Redsnapper here. They are fast developing a very good reputation for quality and build that far exceeds the price point.

I too have the RS-284 with ball head and I can testify that it really is a fantastic bit of kit.