One failed, one successful sweep pano with GX7

Hen3ry wrote:

Out and about at 6am this morning with the P&O's Pacific Aria cruise ship due into Rabaul. Turned out I could have slept in a little; it was barely in sight when I got to my eerie and I had to wait about 40 minutes for it to "pose".

In the interim, I tried a few panoramas. Now, I mentioned in a post a couple of weeks ago that I did a sweep pano with the 12-35 set to 25 and it worked very well. Given the distances involved, I wanted to ramp that up for the shot I was taking today. I thought it would be nice with the 100-300 set to around 100. That wuld bring up the volcanoes very nicely behind the ship as she sailed in.

But repeated tests either elicited failure message about moving the camera too fast/too slow/not in the desired direction (all nonsense), or came up with this kind of result with the pano aborted in early acquisition:

Worked fine with the 12-35 on @ 26 except:

1. it seemed to want to never stop! I wanted to stop the thing just past the ship (sweeping left to right) but despite my removing my finger from the shutter button, it kept hammering away!
2. You can see a couple of joints, The most obvious one is a vertical bar about the width of the ship's length. It can be fixed, but…:

So -- a handy tool but not quite good enough to rely on in the GX7. Looking at the discussion on the G80/85, it looks as though there has been significant improvement of this tool.

I prefer the post stitch method. I'm not impressed with the panoramic feature on the GX7. Just give me in-camera frame guide, exposure lock on the first image then in camera stitching.