The main problem this will have in a camera-phone is the JPEG compression. If this was available in a D-SLR, I'd expect the image size to measure around 18,000 x 12,500 (ish) at standard JPEG compression. Put it another way - the picture size would be about 3x what the current size is for a 14Mp camera, such as the Kr!!

Gotta be the fat guy walking out of shot (behind the lady with the pink scarf).

The same effect can be achieved with Windows Live Photo Gallery, if you have this installed on your computer. If not, then download yourself WINDOWS LIVE ESSENTIALS from the microsoft website. You can choose which features of WLE you want to install - best of all, it's entirely free of charge! In my portfolio here, you will see a "super-panoramic" that I made with WLPG. If anybody wants a copy, I've made a PDF which I already emailed to one of the members here - send me a PM if you do.

After you have entered your first name, use the RIGHT=ARROW on your 4-way controller to create a space, then enter your surname. Instructions are given on P.283 of the manual which would have come with the Kr.

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I love the pano's!!

You should be able to get some sort of lipsync with WMM. Firstly, add your video, then next to the "add video/photos" tab, click "add music" (you should already have saved this in your music folder as WMA/MP3, or WAV format). Provided you have sync'ed the video start time with the audio start time, it should sync okay. Consider that the video and audio times are pretty much the same, you can quite happily merge both without any noticable change to the audio pitch. Failing that, download yourself a copy of Sony's video editing suite. Any decent torrent site should have a clean copy of it available to download. I personally use www.kat.ph

Very tepid, mild soapy water. Gently rub your finger across the transparency(or transparencies), and if you have one, a film squeegee that you would normally use in a darkroom. Sit them on a clean, flat non-porous surface such as a sheet of glass to allow the warmth of the room to evaporate any small drops of moisture, then scan and re-mount the slides. If you don't feel confident of doing this yourself, I daresay there's companies that can do it for you.

I'd say go for the Manfrotto. I think Camlink are a company that manufactures an assortment of photographic and video accessories, and my only experience of Vivitar is their compact cameras and camera lenses (of which was quite good quality for the money, IMO!!).

If you care to PM me, I have some 35mm film left over after my *iST coughed its last on me last August. I'm now using a Kr for my photo's, and I have a few bits'n'bobs that you might find useful.