Just downloaded and used hugin - Panorama photo stitcher.

Their strapline

I haven't got to the 'much more' bit, and I don't know whether I will ever need to. But it is what it claims to be.

I went up our local volcano (Maungarei) yesterday to walk the dogs and took a hand-held sequence of photos of my neck of the woods, thinking that my favourite photo management tool Picasa would, naturally, have a panorama tool, given that it has calendar makers and collage tools etc.

Wrong. Although they are under a bit of pressure on their support forum.

But the forum came up with a couple of options, MS Photo gallery and Hugin. In the spirit of research I decide to try both. Photo Gallery failed to install but hugin loaded up nicely and with only one abortive try, this was the result.

No need to use the camera-default panorama tool (I couldn't find one anyway on my wife's otherwise really nice Canon) just load them in sequence and let hugin do the rest. It was taken here from the blue icon:

I continue to be amazed by what we can do. I can climb a hill, take some photos, find and download a tool to turn them into a panorama and share the results with you, including a map of where the photo was taken and think that is normal.

We forget sometimes how astonishing that is, not just the technology, but the normality. Oh, and not being satisfied with that, we want REAL broadband to do it with.

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