What is panoramic photography?

Panoramic photography is a technique used in photography, using equipment that captures images with horizontally widened fields of view. Also know as wide format photography. The term has also been applied to a photograph that is cropped to a relatively wide aspect ratio.

However there is no actual division between wide angle and panoramic photography, wide-angle normally refers to a type of lens, but using this lens doesn’t always create a panorama. A panoramic view generally means it has an aspect ratio of 2:1 or larger, the image being at least twice as wide as it is high. The final images usually take the form of a wide strip. Some panoramic images have aspect ratios of 4:1 and sometimes 10:1, covering fields of view of up to 360 degrees. Both the aspect ratio and coverage of field are important factors in defining a true panoramic image.