I started playing around with panoramic photos in 2008, and it took me a couple of years to understand even the most basic principles. I'm still learning. On this site I have the following panorama-related pages:

• Overview of panorama hardware

• Overview of panorama software

• Greg's attempts to make good panoramas

• Capturing the nadir

• Experiments with Olympus' in-camera panorama facility

• Examples of panorama projections

• panorama-maker-PRO.php

• broken-panoramas.php

• Masking out the sun in panorama images