Wider lens vs panaramic stitching

Shots where not everything was static. CS5 Photoshop introduced a much better stitch program.

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Yet another one with people in nearly every frame:

sshrider wrote in post #15779059
Are the two even comparable?

I concur. Fish eye, linear wide angle, 50 mm lens, tele will all give the same scene a completely different feel. There is no one right answer all the time.

Stitched will obviously give you better quality (i.e. more pixels) but there are many situations where you need to capture everything in a single frame due to moving elements (i.e. wide lens and high DR sensor) or you want to use filters (meaning that, if you wanted to stitch, you'd have to use the shift-and-stitch technique with a tilt-shift lens, rather than rotating the lens around the nodal point).