Panoramic photography is a technique of photography, using specialized equipment or software, that captures images with horizontally elongated fields of view. It is sometimes known as wide format phot
A panorama of Sydney featuring (from left) the Sydney Opera House, the central business district skyline, and the Sydney Harbour Bridge
An 1851 panoramic showing San Francisco from Rincon Hill by photographer Martin Behrmanx. It is believed that the panorama initially had eleven plates, but the original daguerreotypes no longer exist.
View from the top of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, Albumen prints, February, 1864, by George N. Barnard
Center City Philadelphia panorama, from 1913.
Image stitching or photo stitching is the process of combining multiple photographic images with overlapping fields of view to produce a segmented panorama or high-resolution image. Commonly performed
Panoramic photography
…other 35 mm swing lens cameras use a wide-angle lens, often 28 mm. Similar distortion is seen in panoramas shot with digital cameras using in-camera stitching. Rotating panoramic cameras, also called slit scan or scanning cameras are capable of 360° or greater degree of rotation. A clockwork or motorized…
Two images stitched together. The photo on the right is distorted slightly so that it matches up with the one on the left.
Alcatraz Island, shown in a panorama created by image stitching
This sample image shows geometrical registration and stitching lines in panorama creation.
Comparing distortions near poles of panosphere by various cylindrical formats