Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX1 Review at PhotoReview Australia – Score: 8 / 10, and Margaret Brown says this of the novel Sweep Panorama feature:
Sweep Panorama enables users to produce panoramas by simply pressing the shutter button and panning the camera across a scene. The camera records continuously as long as the shutter button is held down and tracks the speed of the pan at the same time. The recorded images are stitched together within the camera. You must hold the shutter button down until recording stops; if you lift your finger sooner, the end of the panorama is recorded as a black rectangle (shown below).