panoramic camera

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of panoramic camera¹

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

“The mission will still be cutting edge even for potentially later launch windows in the next decade,” says Andrew Coates of University College London, principal investigator of the rover’s Panoramic Camera.

From Science Magazine

Prosecutors are in possession of a 31-minute video that Mr. Reffitt apparently took during the riot with a panoramic camera.

From New York Times

Prosecutors are in possession of a 31-minute video that Reffitt apparently took during the riot with a panoramic camera.

From Seattle Times

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