Friday, July 23, 2004

'"Ancient Olympia" features 18 large-scale images of places where the Olympics originated more than 3,000 years ago in Greece, shot in glorious color, 360-degree rotary panoramic, wide-angle 120 mm, 35 mm and fish-eye formats. ... The panoramic photos were shot by Yalanis and Michael James Lawton, a 35-year veteran of rotary panoramic photography who is hailed as the "Prince of Panoramas"...' I'd never heard of the "Prince of Panoramas" before. Or the term "rotary panoramic". Is that the same as shooting a circle of overlapping shots? Maybe the panhead does automatic rotation? Edit: a reader reports that rotary panoramic refers to a scanning camera.  The film moves past a narrow slit while the camera pivots around three hundred sixty degrees.  7:34:58 AM

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