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Clingmans Dome Road Sunset #1.Great Smoky Mountains NP. September, 2000Photographed with a Hasselblad XPan and 90mm lens on Provia 100F.
For years I thought that panoramic image presentation was invented by Hollywood — Todd-A-O, Cinemascope, Panavision and their ilk.  I was disabused of this misconception many years ago on visiting thePradomuseum inMadrid.  I was stunned by a number of huge paintings with aspect ratios of greater than 3:1 — some seemingly as much as 6:1.  These paintings were from 200 to 400 years old.  Who knows — there may be panoramic cave paintings.  Panoramic photography has, of course, a long history as well — going back to so-called banquet cameras with rotating lens used for group portraits.
There is a sub-cult in photography that considers anything less...

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