Saw a Great Blue Heron today and since he was only a few yards from my
car I fired off a few shots with the 20D and the 400 f/5.6L.  He was
actually too close to get him all in the frame with the 400mm focal
length and my other lenses were in the trunk.  Since he seemed
preoccupied, I squeezed off a series of 9 shots overlapping the images
so I could make a stitched panorama later.  I shot the pics in 3 rows
of 3 shots each. I didn't expect too much out of it since I was
handholding the lens at 1/200 @ f/8.  But hey, it's free so why not
try, right?  Luckily for me the bird didn't move in the 23 seconds it
took me to get all 9 shots.

Well, lo and behold, the photos stitched beautifully with PTGui and I
only had to do minor cropping where I didn't align the shots exactly
(maybe I should;ve taken 30 seconds?).  The resulting photo is over
6300x4300 pixels, which is over 21"x14" @ 300dpi.  Here is the
finished shot, resized for web viewing:
http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/76322825/original

And here is an actual size crop from the photo showing the detail that
it contains:
http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/76322792

Not bad for less than 30 seconds work, huh?

Who Rules?  Why it's the 20D, of course!