Oh, also don’t use auto exposure and do use RAW mode - lock down the exposure by first setting it manually with a test shot and do all of them at that setting- that way all the shots are evenly exposed and color balanced the same. Best thing to...
Of course the details in this gigapixel pano don’t show up on this screenshot, but the original was made with ICE from about 60 full-resolution shots. It consisted of three rows of about 20 shots each with more than 50% overlap at full resolution...
Microsoft’s ICE is a really good (Windows only) program and works very well for making very high resolution and very detailed images out of many closeup shots. And free!!