Panoramic photographer

Panoramic photography is a technique of photography , using specialized equipment or software, that captures images with horizontally elongated fields of view. It is sometimes known as wide format photography. The term has also been applied to a photograph that is cropped to a relatively wide aspect ratio , like the familiar letterbox format in wide-screen video.

While there is no formal division between " wide-angle " and " panoramic " photography, "wide-angle" normally refers to a type of lens, but using this lens type does not necessarily make an image a panorama. An image made with an ultra wide-angle fisheye lens covering the normal film frame of This generally means it has an aspect ratio of or larger, the image being at least twice as wide as it is high.

The resulting images take the form of a wide strip. Some panoramic images have aspect ratios of and sometimes , covering fields of view of up to degrees.

Panoramic landscape painting

Both the aspect ratio and coverage of field are important factors in defining a true panoramic image. Photo-finishers and manufacturers of Advanced Photo System APS cameras use the word "panoramic" to define any print format with a wide aspect ratio, not necessarily photos that encompass a large field of view. The device of the panorama existed in painting, particularly in murals as early as A.

The idea and longing to create a detailed cityscape without a paintbrush, inspired Friedrich von Marten. The camera could capture a broad view on a single daguerreotype plate.

Fine art photographers

In complete and vivid detail, a cityscape is laid out before the viewer. The development of panoramic cameras was a logical extension of the nineteenth-century fad for the panorama. A more successful and technically superior panoramic camera was assembled the next year by Friedrich von Martens [ 11 ] in Germany in