Panoman - The Symbian Autostitch
As you can probably tell from this and recent posts, I'm trying to convince myself that there's no need to buy an iPhone because my N95 can do the same cool things without the draw-backs of crappy camera, lack of MMS etc.
I'm in no way convinced! The iPhone is, quite frankly, an amazing device and when I upgrade in about 12 months time, I'll definitely be persuading O2 (or at least trying) that they want to give me a free one. In the meantime, I've been hunting for iPhone-like apps to keep me going.
One of the coolest photography apps I've seen on the iPhone recently was Autostitch, which creates panoramic images by, as the name suggests, automatically stitching images together. Leo Laporte's posterous blog has demonstrated how amazing the software is and I was, frankly, jealous!
However, a couple of quick google searches came up with the Panoman app, a neat image autostitcher that has very similar functionality to Autostitch. Panoman is Symbian only (as far as I can see; the company that developed it doesn't seem to have a webpage) and allows you to automatically take up to 12 images, balances the focus, exposure and colour, before stitching it all together and posting it to (at least in the N95's case) gallery.
I took a quick photo of our lab as a test of the software and it looks pretty good! The image is 6 photos stitched together rather than the full 12, which would probably have covered a full 360˚.
As I say, I couldn't find the company website, but if you're interested, I got the download link through this blog which has better instructions on how the software works.
Enjoy!
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