History of Panoramic photography
"Panoramic photography has a history almost as old as photography itself. One of the first recorded patents for a panoramic camera was submitted by Joseph Puchberger in Austria in 1843 for a hand-cranked, 150° field of view, 8-inch focal length camera that exposed a relatively large Daguerreotype, up to 24 inches (610 mm) long. A more successful and technically superior panoramic camera was assembled the next year by Friedrich von Martens in Germany in 1844." (Wikipedia)
"His camera, the Megaskop, added the crucial feature of set gears which offered a relatively steady panning speed. This in turn properly exposed the photographic plate, as unsteady speeds can create an unevenness in exposure, called banding." (Wikipedia).
Around the advent implamentation of the wet-plate colloidian process, photographers would take anywhere from 2 to a 12 of the ensuing albumen prints. Pieceing them together to form a large panoramic image with great details and wide viewing length from an almost 360 degree radius.
"As one might assume, this photographic process was technically easier and far less expensive than Daguerreotypes" (Wikipedia).
Some famous early panoramas were designed as in prevously mentioned way by George Barnard, a photographer of the former the Union Army from around the time of the American Civil War . His work provided overviews of heavly armored fortifications and terrain outcrops, this was highly valued by Civil War engineers, artists, and generals alike around the time of the 1860's.
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1 comment:
Hi Scott
This is good information, but you cannot just cut & paste it - if it is all exactly from wikipedia it needs to be in quotation marks!
Best to summarise in your own words and then still make the link to wikipedia.
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