{"id":16241,"date":"2019-12-18T05:58:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T09:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=16241"},"modified":"2019-12-15T19:01:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T23:01:07","slug":"clock-work-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/clock-work-cameras\/","title":{"rendered":"clock work cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16244\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pnpizza01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16244\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16244\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pnpizza01-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"78\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16244\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">a 1996 re-creation of a panoramic photograph using a Cirkut camera<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Panoramic photographs were popular early to mid last century. Group shots were often the subject of panoramics. Various ways were used to create images with one extra long side &#8211; mostly horizontal but occasionally vertical.<\/p>\n<p>Cameras could be steady and their lens and shutter rotated from side to side (eg Kodak <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikeeckman.com\/2016\/10\/kodak-no-1-panoram-kodak-1900-1926\/\">Panoram<\/a> series). Or both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vancouverarchives.ca\/2012\/06\/07\/panoramic-photographs-the-number-8-cirkut-outfit\/\">camera<\/a> and film could be rotated (eg <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cirkut_(camera)\">Cirkut<\/a>). A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/collections\/panoramic-photographs\/articles-and-essays\/shooting-a-panoramic-photograph\/the-pizza-run\/\">prank<\/a> that was possible with the rather slow rotating Cirkut camera was to appear twice in a photograph. Someone on the far edge of the group once recorded had time to run quickly in back and appear once again on the far side!<\/p>\n<p>When computers of suitable power came along, a series of overlapping stills could be stitched together to create a panoramic photo.\u00a0Modern day smart phones simply have an option to create panoramas as you carefully rotate either side to side or up and down following an <a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6176.jpg\">arrow<\/a> on the smart phone screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Panoramic photographs were popular early to mid last century. Group shots were often the subject of panoramics. Various ways were used to create images with one extra long side &#8211; mostly horizontal but occasionally vertical. Cameras could be steady &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/clock-work-cameras\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[764,21,2919,283],"class_list":["post-16241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-cirkut","tag-kodak","tag-panoram","tag-smart-phone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16241"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16250,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16241\/revisions\/16250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}