Fun, but I'm not sold on the usefulness of vertical panorama.

Looks like somebody was having fun taking those shots. Nice though - even without going 180-degrees overhead, just making it easier to catch a shot of (for example) your kids standing in front of the Sears Tower without having to crawl on the ground seems great.

I still would appreciate a timer feature, is that so hard to do? Siri could even count down to the shot.

The killer would be a panorama app that could tile (horizontal and vertical) as well as create an image much larger than the amount specified in this article. I've done panoramas with my Canon 60D and the software I use is tied to a photo printing facility that can print really large panoramas. They calculate the largest size possible with the image submitted, trying to keep people from sending them low-resolution images and getting less than optimal prints in return. The 10K x 2.5K image isn't useful on anything much longer than 30" or so. Yes, that sounds big until you see printed panoramas in excess of 6 feet. This application is a great start, which I'll be trying on Friday or Saturday on my iPhone 5,

Somewhere Microsoft softly weeps at the death of Photosynth... I recently rediscovered Photosynth and I'm pretty impressed with it, but having a panorama mode baked right into the OS/camera app pretty much seals it's fate as an app on my phone.

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Originally Posted by rjbruce 

Somewhere Microsoft softly weeps at the death of Photosynth... I recently rediscovered Photosynth and I'm pretty impressed with it, but having a panorama mode baked right into the OS/camera app pretty much seals it's fate as an app on my phone.

Photosynth has 2 modes - until iPhone can stitch together 100s of photos for a "synth" i think it will stick around, if in limited capacity

Another app did the 360 panorama before even Photosynth was 360

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Originally Posted by rob53 

The killer would be a panorama app that could tile (horizontal and vertical) as well as create an image much larger than the amount specified in this article. I've done panoramas with my Canon 60D and the software I use is tied to a photo printing facility that can print really large panoramas. They calculate the largest size possible with the image submitted, trying to keep people from sending them low-resolution images and getting less than optimal prints in return. The 10K x 2.5K image isn't useful on anything much longer than 30" or so. Yes, that sounds big until you see printed panoramas in excess of 6 feet. This application is a great start, which I'll be trying on Friday or Saturday on my iPhone 5,

In what sense would a smartphone app designed to produce 6 foot banners be "killer"? 

How much does printing such a banner cost (a lot), and why would you create one with smartphone camera? 

I can now see that 2012-2013 will be indelibly linked in history as the age of "panoramas" everywhere. Like too many fonts in early 1994 with desktop publishing, and the reflecting floor itunes thing we had in 2006.

Not that I won't make them, share them, and throw them into brochures left and right. You have to embrace the design aesthetic of your age after all.