Many thanks for that.
Yes, they are not bad at all, especially when you consider the fairly low light level.
i hope it is sufficient for your purposes. if you require i could get the thing outdoors and get you a clip. lazy is that i am, i just took the clip sitting at my table
. yes that mess is actually my office table.
I set framerate in VirtualDub to 3 which therefore selected 26 frames.
It would not detect that value for export as image sequence so i saved as uncompressed AVI, reloaded and saved as image sequence.
What software are you using ?
for movie i use VirtualDub. for extracting the frames from the .mov files i am going to write a utility in vb6. (hoping it would not be more effort than what i am anticipating). if you are intrested i will upload it once it is done.
Can you lock the exposure in movie mode ?
i do not think movie mode allows any setting other than White balance, Movie Quality and resolution etc. i am not sure about CHDK. dont have it at hand, will revert back.
This camera, and others, would capture 180 frames in six seconds .. sufficient for most 360 degree stereo panoramas.
Just need a 10 rpm rotator.
Something like a cordless screwdriver could rotate the camera.
i would use a 10 rpm synchronous AC motor if left to a choice - in case AC is a problem outdoors, DC synchronous geared motors are available. here in india 10rpm A/c synchro would cost around inr 100. (around us$ 2) and dc synchronous would be approx inr 150 - 200 (us$ 3 -4)
Wa wa wa wa wa wait... 
What's the nature of this clip again ? Is it a PTP capture, or a movie-mode shoot, downloaded as a file from the device ? 
it is not a PTP capture, just a regular capture from the camera. but PTP is perfectly capable of capturing in movie mode and downloading the clip.
