Whenever the weather cooperates, I like to eat my lunch outside. When I'm at iSS HQ, it means going to the park across the street to join the beach life. Here is a near 360 degrees view from my favorite table.

This is another showcase for inexpensive cameras. My small pocket camera, used in Sony's Sweep panorama, produced photos that made this 60 megapixel panoramic view of the park. If you want to do something like this, here are a few advices to improve your chance for a usable result:
- Choose time of the day with minimum moving people or cars. Panorama software could have troubles with them.
- Repeat each shot. These things are almost impossible to judge on those small camera screens. You need dupes to ensure best quality.
- Fix whatever you can from camera parameters, so it doesn't change when you turn it toward the sun or away from it.
- Keep the horizon on the same place as you are turning the camera. If you do it right, results will have higher resolution.
- Turn the camera sideways, and results will have higher resolution.
- Start by twisting your body on one side. This will allow you to have better range when turning sideways.
- You can combine in-camera panoramas with post-processing panorama software. I found in-camera ones to be fairly good (at least Sony version), and they make the job for the out-of-camera software simpler.

Good luck, and if you followed these advices, send me a link to see how did it go for you.

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Што волем да играм са фотоапаратима...
Данас сам после ручка пробао да сликам све око мене. Ово је скоро 365 степени слика парка, језера и фирме у позадини. Није било пуно људи, тако да ми је било баш све потаман. Хамбургер је био мало љући, вода 'ладна, сунце топло, а млaди пролазе и не бригају низашта.
Не знам да ли капитализам пропада или осваја, али у оваквим тренутцима, у сред радног дана, лети, мислим да оне лекције из основа марксизма и социјалистичког самоуправљања које смо имали у школи својевремено, можда и нису баш све биле потпуно тачне.