Thank you so much. No you don't need a special camera. I used a Rebel Xti. But just about any camera will do if you have the program to do it. Canon comes with a program called zoombrowser. And in it has a photostitch program. You just take a series of pictures in a row, each with a little of the last picture in it. I take them so they are verticle. Then you load them into the program and it will stitch them together. It isn't always perfect, but it does a really good job. T odo the best job you should use a tropod and manual settings. But you it can be done without them. I didn't use a tripod, but did use manual setting and manual focus.