Kilby - that's funny I saw your bridge image on FB the other day also, nice stuff, Thumbs up to you and your camera operator.
ya its a hx9, and the photo is stitched using Microsoft ICE (great product). I have stitched stuff a lot over the years, since 2000 and this application is the best I have used on a consistent basis. ICE is also free,
over all I do not think the camera is great for shooting images, I am always fighting it in taking photos, most of the time the photos come out fairly nice, my problem is when you dig down even though the chip is a 16mp image, the image pixels become washed out to say. Video wise it has a real nice vibration reduction system, however very similar with the results, I can get great looking video but when it comes to setting it up I am always fitting it.
I am still working on my vibration situation, I have some great video where every seem to be under control and then I have times where things to creep back in and I am getting the ever so slightest vibration, it drives me crazy. Its OK I look at it as a project and when I do get the vibration under control, I will then have a good understanding how fix this going forward on other copters.