Very small and handy, it's the latest camera from Olympus in the struggling fourthirds format:  "Another feature borrowed by the E-520 from the pocketcam's repertoire is panorama photography. However, this feature requires more guesswork with this hardware than it does in the point-and-shoot world. Ordinarily, when you take a shot in a panorama sequence, the transparent edge of that shot appears at the edge of the LCD. As you move the camera to set up the next shot in the sequence, you can easily overlap the beginning of the new shot with the end of the old by using the transparent sliver as a guide. The E-520 displays guides at the sides of its LCD in panorama mode, but it doesn't display the transparent sliver. That means you have to guess at where the shots should overlap in the panorama, and it makes using the feature a real test of visual memory."  Link