Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Posted February 23 Posted February 23 I see some panoramic photos made with pieced together photos. Did they have a special camera for that as well as single shot panoramic photos? Looks like train was moving, yet a pieced together pano. Some of the pan photos had uneven exposure, like they were made with a swing lens camera. Although this is not the best example, it gives you an idea. Did they have swing lens cameras in the early 1900s? What kind of cameras did they use for panoramic photos in the early 1900s? Photos: LoC <><><><> Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography
Joerg Polzfusz Posted February 23 Posted February 23 From German Wikipedia, translated with DeepL: „On 16 June 1843, just four years after the invention of photography, Austrian pharmacist and photography pioneer Joseph Puchberger from Retz in Lower Austria, together with Viennese optician Wenzel Prokesch, obtained a patent in Austria for a panoramic camera, the so-called Ellipsen-Daguerreotyp-Apparat. [1] This panoramic camera could capture an image field with an angle of 150 degrees and a focal length of 20.32 cm on a 61 cm long, curved daguerreotype plate. The camera's lens was specially developed for panoramic shots and the recording mechanism was driven by a hand crank. [2] One of the first special panoramic cameras was designed by Friedrich Martens in 1845. This camera had a swivelling lens and a cylindrically curved plate. The first photographs were taken in Paris in 1:3 format. Further designs and improvements came from Sutton, Johnson and Ross. Initially, the use of rigid glass plates was particularly problematic, but this issue was gradually resolved with the introduction of sheet film and roll film.“ Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panoramakamera
Joerg Polzfusz Posted February 23 Posted February 23 (edited) George Lawrence, Chicago, and his panoramic camera, designed to photograph a complete train on a single photo, appropriately 1900: Edited February 23 by Joerg Polzfusz
Mark Dunn Posted February 23 Posted February 23 (edited) 4 hours ago, Daniel D. Teoli Jr. said: I see some panoramic photos made with pieced together photos. Did they have a special camera for that as well as single shot panoramic photos? Looks like train was moving, yet a pieced together pano. Some of the pan photos had uneven exposure, like they were made with a swing lens camera. Although this is not the best example, it gives you an idea. Did they have swing lens cameras in the early 1900s? What kind of cameras did they use for panoramic photos in the early 1900s? Photos: LoC <><><><> Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography The giveaway for a swing-lens panoramic is a curve that should be a straight line. The poor man's version (multiple photographs taken from the same spot and pasted-up) usually have straight lines changing angle at the cuts. Of those I believe that 2, 4 and 6 are actually crops from a conventional photograph. I believe the train is stationary (look at the spokes) and that the smoke is retouched or combined from another negative. Not sure about the piecing together- could they be creases to enable gatefolding? Edited February 23 by Mark Dunn
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