Why didn’t anyone tell me…

One of my photography related hobbies is the creation of panoramas. These are composed of many normal pictures rolled into one flattened picture, which can then be turned into something else like a QTVR or whatever you want. But when you take 7 pictures as RAW and then convert and stitch them into their largest output, you end up with a huge set of data. I’ve finally come to grips with the thought that I can take the “ingredient” pictures, do the conversions, get the output, and then burn all the ingredient files to CD and stop keeping them around. The output should be enough for these, as they are eating me out of space faster than is sane. So I guess I have another, albeit smaller, project coming.