I'm going to guess that my answer would be that it is a combination of the
angle of view and a format that is wider than a normally wide format (I would
guess that the typical 2X3 aspect of 35mm film would be condidered wide).
Indeed, you could halve a sheet of 4X5, but if the result was a
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=wordqueryword=panoramaedition=2efirst=1max_to_sh
ow=10single=1sort_type=alpha)
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
