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Remembering how good photography was!
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Inspired from a thread in which JB7 remembered the old panoramic group shots of days gone by have a look at this! Taken in a hospital in the UK in 1916.
and a crop of part of the image. Everybody was looking at the camera too.
Well I’m glad I made that remark now-
This is the attraction of high resolution-
each person fully formed, hundreds of individual portraits to be examined up close-This was taken on a camera with a rotating lens,
not quite the camera I remember being used for mine,
which was a normal camera with long flat film-The camera used for this one exposed a thin strip on curved roll film,
starting at one end, and rotating around to the other.
Schoolboys quickly learned that if they positioned themselves on the start end,
they could run around the back in time to be photographed a second time at the far end.This picture shows the same type of perspective that you’d get using a pano head, and stitching.
Useful for landscapes, less useful for rectilinear subjects,
such as the building, which is rendered cylindrical.I used a panoramic camera once for a group, a borrowed Russian Widelux…
Thanks for putting this up, wish I could see more of it-
I will be doing a shoot with 120 very soon. I’ll post up that result.
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