How does the Panorama feature work?
Olympus’ original plans for the panorama feature relied on a panorama mode built-in to the Olympus brand SmartMedia card. This feature might have given folks a reason to buy Olympus brand SmartMedia cards rather than other brands and increased Olympus’ profits. Apparently, Olympus was never able to finish their panorama software and the decision was made to supply Enroute QuickStitch instead. QuickStitch is a standalone stitching program (not integrated with Olympus utility software). This makes the panorama feature of Olympus brand SmartMedia cards largely obsolete. It has just one remaining use: Eric Perlman sent me email to say that he uses panorama mode even when creating panoramas to be stitched with other software (like LivePicture PhotoVista) because a side effect of panorama mode is that the exposure is chosen for the first image and then locked for all remaining images. So the exposure remains the same from one image to the next. This often-overlooked problem is important to g
Olympus’ original plans for the panorama feature relied on a panorama mode built-in to the Olympus brand SmartMedia card. This feature might have given folks a reason to buy Olympus brand SmartMedia cards rather than other brands and increased Olympus’ profits. Apparently, Olympus was never able to finish their panorama software and the decision was made to supply Enroute QuickStitch instead. QuickStitch is a standalone stitching program (not integrated with Olympus utility software). This makes the panorama feature of Olympus brand SmartMedia cards largely obsolete. It has just one remaining use: Eric Perlman sent me email to say that he uses panorama mode even when creating panoramas to be stitched with other software (like LivePicture PhotoVista) because a side effect of panorama mode is that the exposure is chosen for the first image and then locked for all remaining images. So the exposure remains the same from one image to the next. This often-overlooked problem is important to g
