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"The NEX-5 and NEX-3 are the first α cameras featuring Sweep Panorama. Just press the shutter button and swing the camera side-to-side or up and down. A high-speed burst of frames is stitched together automatically to create detail-packed 23 megapixel panoramas with a 226 degree effective angle of view."

This could be a great development in cameras.

I could leave my 10-17 at home and travel with only one lens if I could turn my dSLR to vertical position and rip off a pano that I didn't have to spend time putting together later.

(Sony might have thought it up. But others will include it, most likely.)

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I like the idea too. Granted it takes all the control you may want in a panorama program away from you, but so what? If the result is quick and reasonable then it's another cool tool.
I'll be eyeing one. I hope the camera has decent low light ability.
Time will tell.........
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Robert P Miller said:
I like the idea too. Granted it takes all the control you may want in a panorama program away from you, but so what? If the result is quick and reasonable then it's another cool tool.
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Take a sweep. Then take a series of shots for later, more careful stitching.

You might find that the sweeps are plenty fine for most uses. I'm looking at the convenience. I've got sets of pano shots from the Himalayas from ten years ago that I've never gotten around to stitching.

I'd bet that we see sweep panos in other brands within the next couple of years.

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in the lenses offered. For example, the kit lens offers HORRIBLE image quality (see Imaging Resource) compared to recent Panasonic, Olympus, Nikon and Canon equivalents.

Gotta wait a while for decent lenses to come along.

So far, haven't found any offerings from other companies to rival my 10-22, 17-55 f/2.8 IS, 70-200 f/4L IS and 100 f/2.8L HIS in terms of performance and functionality.
 
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Robert P Miller wrote:

I'd bet that we see sweep panos in other brands within the next couple of years.
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A couple of years? Fuji has it in their HS10 already...

If the Sony Sweep Pano is anything like what they offer in their HX5V, it will be a novelty at best. It doesn't produce anywhere near the results that AutoPano Pro 2/Adobe Photomerge/any free stitching produce in a computer.
 
BobTrips said:
You might find that the sweeps are plenty fine for most uses. I'm looking at the convenience. I've got sets of pano shots from the Himalayas from ten years ago that I've never gotten around to stitching.
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I recommend you to get Autopano. Those Himalayan panos will be stitched in almost no time. And the result will probably be way better than the in camera panos. As most advanced features in camera - its more toys than serious tools. Toys might be fun though.

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Adrian Harris said:
Hi Bob

I was at a demonstaration of this sweep pano 3 weeks ago. Sony were using a small point and shoot. - It was very good. The big advantage appeared to be that out of the huge moving crowd, no one was in 2 places at once !!
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If the in-camera program is capable of freeze-framing a crowd then it becomes much more useful.

That would make it much easier to leave the 10-17 at home. Lens changes are a PITA.

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The technique was called slit-scan photography which could be used to make panorama. Sony uses the video mode and a little fancy processing to basically do a similar technique. The downside of this is you're at the limits of 1080p image dimensions on the smaller side. So if you swing the camera left-right, the image will be 1080px vertical (or 3.6 inches if printed at 300ppi.) If you hold the camera in the vertical position you can use the 1920px width of the sensor and that pano can then be 6.4inches (printed at 300ppi.) While this will be great for small family use, it's not made for making large murals or gallery prints, to do that you will be better off using traditional stitching software or slit-scanning with a scan back such as a Betterlight or a Round-Shot.
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It actually recycles the shutter and takes photos and isn't just in video mode. The final photo is around 23 MP?
 
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