I just found out that I could search the Oxford English Dictionary
Website, because our University is a subscriber and it just recognizes
my IP address. Sorry about the bad link
Here's the definition from the OED that web reference led to.
Panoramic
Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a panorama.
panoramic camera, a photographic camera devised to rotate
automatically so as to take a complete or extended landscape.
1813 REES Cycl. s.v. Panorama, The cylindrical surface on which
objects are to be painted is called the panoramic surface. 1815 J.
CAMPBELL Trav. S. Africa 361 (Jod.), I..expressed a wish, that my
friends in London could be gratified with a panoramick view of it. 1838
ROBINS (title) Panoramic Representation of the Queen's Coronation
Procession from the Palace to the Abbey. 1856 SIR B. BRODIE Psychol.
Inq. I. ii. 35 An extensive panoramic view of the whole of the
surrounding country. 1878 ABNEY Photogr. (1881) 214 In a panoramic
camera the eye is supposed to travel round the view, the point of sight
altering at each movement of the eye.
b. Commanding a view of the whole landscape.
1880 D. W. FRESHFIELD in Academy 11 Dec. 418 The panoramic peak of
Monte Incudine
On Monday, May 12, 2003, at 09:02 AM, Nick Dvoracek wrote:
The original definition of a panoramic camera was one that rotated to
take in the entire surrounding scene, probably with synchronized
moving film.
(see
http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/
00170451?query_type=word&queryword=panorama&edition=2e&first=1&max_to_s
how=10&single=1&sort_type=alpha)
So I guess any flat or concave curved film plane would just be
extremely wide angle no matter what it's shape, but I guess a convex
curved film plane multiple pinhole camera like Chris Peregoy's,
Pinhole Blender, or an assemblage like Quicktime VR would qualify.
Gee, language is almost as much fun as pinhole photography.
Nick
On Friday, May 9, 2003, at 10:10 PM, James Kellar wrote:
CJ,
I believe that it's the ratio between the hight and the width of the
film that makes it a panoramic, but I'm not sure where image becomes
a panorama and not just a wide picture. I'm sure that some one will
let us know. I do know that a 6x9 image not a panorama, but a 6x12
is. My guess is that the width has to at least double he hight of the
image.
James
On Friday, May 9, 2003, at 09:20 PM, CJ Rumpolo wrote:
Hi, sorry to have to ask but I was wondering what exactly qualifies
a camera
as being panoramic? Is it the angle of view, the length of the
negative, or
a combination of the two? I have been toying with making a curved
backed
panoramic camera but was wondering if I could just use a portion of a
smaller negative or even mask off half of a 4x5 piece of film and
make 2 2x5
negatives from a single sheet. Any advice would be most appreciated.
CJ
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