Am 14.04.15 um 15:08 schrieb Daniel J. Matyola:
I had a panoramic camera (perhaps a Horizon) in which the lens moved to grab 180 degrees.
Not quite as much but about 120 degrees. Which brings us to another parameter that in my book is a main characteristic of real panoramic photography: the angle. Swing-lens panoramic cameras cover at least 120 degrees, many up to 150.
While I can certainly crop a frame taken with, say, a 300 mm lens on my K-3 to an aspect ratio of... well... actually anything to 1, it still doesn't become a panoramic image. Otherwise any picture cropped to an aspect ratio of more than 2:1 would by definition be a panorama.
Maybe things have evolved nowadays, but for me as someone who has been photographing with a Horizon and a Noblex this just doesn't do.
So, a stitched set of digital shots having an aspect ratio of at least 2:1 and covering an angle of 120+ degrees is real panoramic photography. A cropped single frame taken with th average wide-angle lens isn't.
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