Rick started shooting panos in the early 1980’s with a Nikon 35mm camera. This was back in the days of film, when panoramic images were painstakingly assembled by hand, and any correction was done in the dark-room.  His days of film are long gone, and now it’s 100% digital.  The darkroom was replaced by PhotoShop and his old Nikon F3 with a Kodak digital camera, then a Nikon, another Kodak, a canon 20D, and currently a Canon 7D.  He still has a couple of the Bogen tripods from 30 years ago, albeit with modern tripod heads.