I am getting interested in panoramic photography after getting Jeff Bridges' fun and beautiful book called Pictures, of photography that he has done over years, using his Widelux camera.

A cursory examination on EBay suggests that I will have a hard time justifying the price of a Widelux camera (It does have SAF, but not THAT much). I did find a webpage describing in great detail how to build a pano camera of your very own. Now that has SAF.