Panoramic photography for internal or external architecture or landscapes. Panoramas show about 140 degrees of view, without using a wideangle lens with the associated distance distortion. Many so called panoramic cameras cannot take panoramic views. They are simply standard wideangle lens cameras with the top and bottom of the resulting images cut off and wasted, leaving a narrow panoramic shaped image in the middle. No matter how large the piece of film, they cannot give panoramic views.

A true panorama can be achieved two ways. First, use a TRUE scanning panorama camera like the WIDELUX (see image at right). Second, take a large number of photographs from a single vantage point and use specialised computer software to join all the separate photos together to make a 180 or a 360 degree image (see bottom image). This image can be printed onto photographic paper, or as an e-mail JPEG, or an interactive Quicktime movie where the viewer can pan around a 360 degree landscape in real time.

This is especially suited to natural history interpretive displays, real estate property views and internal room shots. Place your client in the room, or at the property.

At DigiFilm Australia, we can use either method.