panoramic camera

American  

noun

1. a still camera having a movable lens that horizontally scans a view while exposing a long photographic plate or strip of film.

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Etymology

Origin of panoramic camera

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

National Park Service deployed an ultrasensitive panoramic camera outside both Flagstaff and the similarly sized city of Cheyenne, Wyo., which does not have comparable dark sky ordinances.

From Scientific American • Oct. 1, 2022

She shot the freeways with a panoramic camera and made old-fashioned platinum prints — seeking, she said, to evoke the elegiac monumentality of the 19th-century photographers of Egyptian ruins, such as Maxime Du Camp.

From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2021

The scenes, shot with a Widelux panoramic camera by John Stamets, were published in 1987 in the landmark photographer’s sole book, “Portrait of a Market.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 15, 2017

The panoramic camera atop the rover’s mast, for instance, will have a zoom function to zero in on areas of interest.

From Nature • Jan. 17, 2017

Jack had provided plates and the panoramic camera snapped its welcome to the view.

From Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter by Tileston, Merrill