What "Panoramic" means and how we use it.

[ptpdprinter]

How did the do panoramas 100-150 years ago? I guess they didn't?

 

[Deklari]

How did the do panoramas 100-150 years ago? I guess they didn't?

Kodak start manufacture Panoramic camera in 1900

 

[Deklari]

The 10mm won't have the look of the swing lens. A FE would be closer to that look, if you keep it level and maybe Defish it later on.

For your second question here is an example of a three camera (3 Coolpix As) shooting at the same time and then stitched together before cropping.

How close your are to the subject effects how much of a warp you see.

Shawn

Thanks Shawn. Nice work

 

[Deklari]

How close your are to the subject effects how much of a warp you see.

Shawn

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I can't see warp effect on this picture. Does this mean that for good panorama composition (specially for the swing lens) better avoid parallel street "line" in front of objective?

 

[Rob-F]

If an Xpan isn’t panoramic, then neither is Super Panavision 70! (Almost identical aspect ratio).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Panavision_70

I don't see the XPAN's aspect ratio of 2.7:1 as being at all close to the 2.21:1 ratio of Super Panavision. The former, to my eyes, is a narrow ribbon of an image that leaves little room for foreground or sky. The XPAN's aspect ratio is even wider that that of Cinemascope (originally 2.54:1; now 2.35:1). Super Panavision allows for enough picture height to feel satisfying to my eye, whereas the XPAN format doesn't, and in most cases looks "cropped" in the vertical dimension, to my eye. That's just my take on it, of course.

 

[Dwig]

How did the do panoramas 100-150 years ago? I guess they didn't?

they used 3 approaches:

1. "Banquet" cameras - these were a large format wide aspect camera, much in the same vein as a modern 6x12 or 6x17 medium format camera.
2. Swing lens cameras (Kodak Panoram series) and scanning cameras (Kodak "Cirkut"). The former function like the modern Widelux models. The Cirkut cameras rotated the whole camera, with the roll film moving across a slit opening at the film gate in such a way that it effectively staid in a fixed location in space. Cirkuts could shoot a full 360. There are modern digital systems that function much the same way.
3. Stitching multiple conventional shots. Yes, even before Ps photographers "stitched" multiple images taken in sequence by rotating the camera. Examples are regularly posted at Shorpy.com, though theit posts are generally modern stiches done from scans of the original negatives. Here is one example done with three 8x10 plates: http://www.shorpy.com/node/13437
   

 

[Greyscale]

How did the do panoramas 100-150 years ago? I guess they didn't?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirkut