The Collaborative International Dictionary
Camera \Cam"e*ra\, n.; pl. E. Cameras, L. Camerae. [L. vault, arch, LL., chamber. See Chamber.] A chamber, or instrument having a chamber. Specifically: The camera obscura when used in photography. See Camera, and Camera obscura.
Bellows camera. See under Bellows.
In camera (Law), in a judge's chamber, that is, privately; as, a judge hears testimony which is not fit for the open court in camera.
Panoramic camera, or Pantascopic camera, a photographic
camera in which the lens and sensitized plate revolve so
as to expose adjacent parts of the plate successively to
the light, which reaches it through a narrow vertical
slit; -- used in photographing broad landscapes.
--Abney.
Panoramic \Pan`o*ram"ic\, Panoramical \Pan`o*ram"ic*al\, a.
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Of, pertaining to, or like, a panorama; exhibiting a very broad view; as, a panoramic view.
Panoramic camera. See under Camera.
Hence: Presented with a broad perspective; as, a panoramic view of European history.
Usage examples of "panoramic camera".
He peered through dark, coffee brown eyes that moved from Pitt to Kelly to Giordino to Gunn like a panoramic camera recording a scenic vista and then back again.
The pod contained a KS-87 high-speed frame camera, a KA-99 panoramic camera, and perhaps most useful of all, an AAD-4 infrared line scanner.
The lateral panoramic camera could photograph in telescopic detail broad stretches of terrain clear to the horizon in a format which allowed extreme enhancement and enlargement.
Behind it was the panoramic camera looking outward, sideways, and down.
He'd found the panoramic camera Daun glued to the coping of the facade weeks before.
TARPS--the Tactical Air Reconnaissance Pod System--was a streamlined package flown on the belly of certain specially equipped Tomcats, containing a CAI KS-87-B frame camera, a Fairchild KA-99 panoramic camera, and a Honeywell AAD-5 infrared scanner.
On the screen was a panoramic camera view of the front of the bunker.