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What is a panoramic photo?

  • From: mattfish <mattfish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: What is a panoramic photo?
  • Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:48:35 +0000
Howdy, 
     Along the line of "How do you make a pano photo?" is what is a panoramic 
photo.  Obviously everyone has seen the current most popular use of the 
word:  cropping a regular 35mm frame from an 8"x12" enlargement to a 4"x12".  
So is a panorama a wider angle than normal, giving you more to look at.  Or 
is it a format, a thinner than normal rectangle?  If I'm using a 6cm x 17cm 
camera with a 45mm lens, that's obviously a pano, but is it still a pano with 
the 300mm lens?  Does the word panorama imply horizontal?