Panorama photography / widely variable light - solution??

Hi all,
If I take my D70 outside and do a full 360 pano shot with the Panosaurus head,
having determined the nodal point of the Tokina 12-24mm, man it is fantastic.
Works perfectly; I stick them all in Smoky City Panorama Factory, and output a
..MOV and its really beautiful.

BUT.... what I need more often than that is difficult to shoot: I need to be
able to shoot from inside a home, to do VT's for realtors on the Gulf. If it
wasn't important to get the Gulf in the shots, I'd just let the windows blow
out, having the interior metered properly, and that would be fine. But I can't
let the windows blow out because I need to be showing the Gulf (Destin) in all
its Emerald Coast lovliness AND have the interior room metered right.

So I thought, OK I'll just set the camera to Aperture Priority so the stitching
works, (depth of field, blah blah) and let the D70 meter for itself as it spins
past the windows with the Gulf out there and then spins into and through the
room. Not even close! Because of the hugely variant light intensity it doesn't
matter if I use spot metering, center-weighted area, matrix, whatever, none of
them capture the room correctly metered or the windows correctly metered to see
outside.

Is the only solution one of these http://www.kaidan.com/Detail.bok?no=101 wild
one shot VR lens things??? Seems like even with one of those, the camera
wouldn't know how to capture the windows without blowing them out if it's
capturing the interiors/rooms right....

Any ideas??

Tim


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