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Re: Panoramic photos



Checking the juxtaposition of the individuals at both ends should help
determine by which method they managed to get in the same photo twice.

At 02:52 PM 10/5/00 -0400, you wrote:
>That the same people could be seen at both ends of the photographic
>print might be accounted for by the means suggested, but there is
>another. Sometimes the camera was designed to stand on a swivel which
>could move around a complete circle. The "group" then formed a circle
>around the camera. If the camera rotated more than 360 degrees, you
>would have the same people photographed twice, perhaps showing some
>small variations in pose, but not because they ran from one end of the
>"group" to the other, but just because they changed their posture as the
>camera made its rotation.
>
>Gerald Peterson wrote:
>>
>> I think that you will find that panoramic photos were shot fairly
>> commonly from about 1915 through about 1930.
>>
>> Sometimes people had a little fun with them.  Look closely at people on
>> the far right and the far left of the photos and you may well see the
>> same people twice.  Because of the way in which the photos were shot,
>> mischievous people had time to be captured in the image on one side of
>> the group, race around the back of the group, and be captured again on
>> the other side of the group.
>>
>> Also, you will occasionally notice that the panoramic photo may produce
>> an image that is an impossible viewpoint for the human eye.
>> Essentially, you will seem to be able to look in two directions at once.
>>
>> Gerry Peterson
>> University Archivist
>> University of Northern Iowa
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