Mike, if you're really interested there is quite a bit of info out there on panoramic adapters and heads for taking panoramic shots. To get accurate panoramas the Camera needs to rotate around the optical axis of the lens which is some distance forward of the tripod thread of the camera. There is a commercially available adapter called the
Panosaurus from the US which is relatively inexpensive. There are also some nice links on the Panasaurus website that may be of interest. Whether the end results are that much better I can't really say because I haven't tested one.
