Re: 10-22mm

10-20 mm lenses are difficult to learn to use for all the reasons cited. You also have to learn to work with the distortion that is inherent to these lens designs.
With practice, and software, you can make excellent hand-held panoramas.
Results improve, for obvious reasons, with a tripod.
While ideal it it entirely overkill for most users to get a device to offset the axis of rotation to that of the lens.

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