"While your snobbier Flickr friends might consider it a bit of a novelty, Pano, a new app for the iPhone, makes taking extreme wide-angle panoramic photographs a total breeze. The $3 application from Debacle Software is available for 3G iPhones through the App Store now (here’s a link).

Pano does the bulk of the work in-camera, helping you align each photo as you shoot so there’s less stitching and repair to do later. You start by snapping the left-most photo in your panorama. Then, when you take the next picture, you’ll see a ghostly sliver of the previous image’s right edge superimposed over the left edge of your iPhone’s screen. This translucent guide of about half and inch or so helps you line up the objects in the frame. When you’ve gotten the objects as close as you can to overlapping (it won’t be perfect — there’s some lens distortion inherent in the iPhone’s camera) you snap the second photo. You can stop there at two images or continue shooting until you have a four-shot panorama. You can also preview and reshoot images mid-sequence if you want — useful if a pedestrian or a car sneaks into your pristine nature scene...."

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