How do you like to shoot panoramas?

[Experiment_626]

If you're going to shoot a panorama that will be stitched together in software, how do you prefer to do it? Would you rather shoot wide and get fewer exposures but with more distortion that the software must remove, or more images with a "normal" lens so there is less distortion but more stitching? If you've done both, how did you get the best results?

Imagine yourself shooting standing at the end of Main Street USA, just on the castle side of the town square. You want to shoot a pano of the street looking toward Cinderella Castle, incorporating most of the sides of the buildings facing toward you. Even with a 10 mm or 15 mm lens, you'll need at least two shots. Time is not an issue. How would you do it?

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[DisneyDad64]

I've taken them both ways with a wide angle lens and at 70mm, the mid range worked better because the seams had less distortion. What I have found is that using a mid range lens and shooting vertical gave me the best shots (but also a lot of shots to stitch).