Hello,
I make a lot of panoramas and am preparing a book of them at the moment. I use an Absolute head and a canon5d with a 20mm lens... Its a good compromise for catching detail and size. You can make large or small panoramas and the focal length doesn't shove everything into the distance.
If you are making a series of panoramas to link together then it makes sense to have a consistent methodology and camera set up.
The Gigapan machine I've heard good things about and takes all the counting out of the equation. And the next step up is the DrClauss robot that costs about £4k. By the way, both of these will allow you to make super high resolution photos of paintings too, with a retrofocus long lens. I believe that Google uses the Clauss for this.
Stitching SW, can't beat PtGui, and for wrapping and linking, use Pano2VR.
http://www.360precision.com/360/index.cfm?precision=products.home&pageid=virtualtour
http://www.dr-clauss.de/en/foto-studiotechnik-3/rodeon-vr-head-series
http://gigapan.com/cms/shop/store
http://www.ptgui.com
http://ggnome.com/pano2vr
Hope these are of some help...!
I'm about to buy an aerial panorama device just to complete the capability...
Happy to chat off list if you like
Hugh
From a small studio in Battersea SW London
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