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Here's a blast from the past: this is the second panorama I ever stitched. I shot the photos with a Sony Mavica MVC-FD7 in glorious 640x480 from the house of relatives of mine in Palos Verdes Estates, CA in 1997 or 1998.

I originally stitched the photos with whatever stitcher I was using back then, that wasn't very powerful in my recollection, and the result never came out quite right because it didn't handle HDR correctly. So I forgot about it.

But I kept the floppy with the original photos, and it still reads ๐Ÿ™‚ So I loaded the photos in Hugin, figured out roughly what focal length I was using when I shot them, and out came the panorama, almost perfect! It's not even that grainy considering the low resolution.

LA was quite smoggy back then. I remember shooting this panorama because it was one of the clearest days we had seen in a while.

My relatives are long gone, and so is their house. They bought it in the 50's when the area was not yet fully developed and still affordable. Not so much anymore...

Old photos are always fun to look at, and old panoramas 360 times more so ๐Ÿ™‚

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