Pepe wrote:

You're preaching to the choir when you're talking single flat images
as I come from the Ansel Adams School of photography and I do plenty
of that. The vast majority of all the river images on my website at
loshombresdelrio.com are all 2d images. This is just something new
in addition to what I have been doing for years. I happen to be having
lots of fun doing the virtual panos and add to it that it is a really
great way to "virtually" experience being there. I am even finding
clients that want this kinda work for their architectural and
commercial spaces.

Yup. I've heard that realtors use the virtual panos to sell homes.
Haven't been in the market myself for 17 years, so I haven't kept up.
Glad you enjoy doing it. Speaking of oranges and rotten apples...

Whenever a friend gives me some digicam pictures containing a movie,
I cringe. These so-called movies are always really small-screen, have
an awfully intermittent frame rate, and what's worst of all, terrible
digital artifacting. It's OK to make a movie with a real videocamcorder
and maybe someday digicams will reach that level, but they haven't yet.
By that time videocamcorders will be doing HDTV.

Moreover -- these friends take digicam movies IN THE MOST IMPORTANT RAPID!