If you were doing a hdri capture with stitcher rather than the little chrome ball, it would take well over 200 images to be pieced together and aligned perfectly!
ouch.
there must be some sort of a system to automate the process, with a digital camera and a motorised panorama mount.......
then if the settings were set up once in stitcher, all series could use the same stitch layout, (just replace the source files with the new media each phase)
just a thought, also with, say the tripod does it need to be removed from each exposure series, or can hdr images be edited all at once in photoshop at the end, (logic would say they can't)
cool