A panoramic photograph differs from a conventional photograph as it is wider and covers a large area to look at, such that you have to stoop to scan the picture and be able to appreciate its details. It showcases the scene in its entirety. Scenes of epic dimensions like cityscapes, beaches, a large group of people, a wide vista of nature would qualify for this specialized treatment.
[...] 25 porters ups the mountain with them. Also, some of the most dramatic photographs of the mid- 1800s are battlefield scenes, taken by Roger Fenton, a British journalist covering the Crimean War (1853-56). Cameras Two types of cameras are suitable for this type of photography: Non-rotational camera: Non-rotational camera is a fixed camera and needs a single exposure. The camera can have a fixed lens or interchangeable lenses. Needless to say, the ones with interchangeable lenses are more expensive. Linhof of Germany and Fujica of Japan make both categories of these cameras but all such cameras use the 120-size film only. [...]
[...] Panoramic Photography on a Low Budget There are two ways of taking panoramic photographs with very expensive equipment: By slicing off the top and bottom of a normal photograph and for this one would need to compose the scene in such a way that only the centre is captured. After processing the film, one can also enlarge only the central horizontal portion of the negative to get the panoramic effects. This process suffers from the limitations that very large enlargements cannot be obtained. [...]
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