Here a "rundown" on panoramic cameras from the 19th to the 21st century.
This page should be constantly updated, given that the industry has recently been focusing heavily on the 360-degree camera (and video).
Kodak Panoram n°1 - 115° angle of view (around 1900)
Kodak Panoram n°4 - 145° angle of view (1899/1924)
Josef Sudek from the book: Praha Panoramatická - c. 1949 (photos taken with a Kodak Panoram n ° 4)
The Chinese Sao Mao Lanjian 950, based on the Kodak panoram ° 1 - 115° angle of view (1938)
Leme camera made by Sebastião Carvalho (1957), which takes 360° and is based on the same principle as the Kodak Cirkut: rotating camera and synchronized film.
The wider view takes shape both with rotating lenses, but also with the introduction in the early 60s of the "fisheye", a lens that embraces a 180° angle of view, and which was designed for aerial (military) reconnaissance ) and for meteorology, and for this also called whole-sky lens.
First Nikkor fisheye : 8mm f:8
In comparison, the 8mm Nikkor and the gigantic 6mm (220° coverage)
Panoramic cameras with rotating lenses covering 120/140 degrees have been on the market since the 1960s
Widelux FI, 1959 - 126°
Meopta Pankopta, 1962 - 135°
Viscawide, 1961 - 120°
Horizon, 1968 -120°
Tazio Secchiaroli, the famous paparazzo, uses the Horizon at Termini station in Rome
Cyclops Mark II, 115° - 1990
Noblex Pro 150 F, 135° - 2012
Since 1960, photographic mechanics have produced several cameras that shoot with a 360° angle of view.
Only horizontal though ...
Alpa Rotocamera sperimentale, c.1970
Globuscope 360° - 1981
Hulcherama 360° - 1979
Alpa Rotocamera 1980, 360°
The greatest success wasfrom Seitz, a Swiss precision workshop since 1955.
The cameras are not always industrial products, present on the market: Giorgio Giovanni Maria Jano made himself some cameras, all of which cover more than 360 horizontal degrees, and which use 120/220 and 70mm roll films.
1990: 24 mm - film 120/220 | 1994: Super Angulon 65 mm decentrabile - film 70mm | 2012 Apo Grandagon 35 mm - film 70mm
IThe book by Jano and Piero Ottaviano - 2014
With digital evolution, cameras for 360° also evolve, even covering 180° verticals.
Sphercam (prototype), 360° x 180 (about) - c. 1998
Immersivemedia, 360° x 180 (about)
Google Street View, the Google immersive photo mapping project launched in 2007 within Google Maps, designs and manufactures cameras to be applied to car roofs, trolleys, backpacks or torpedoes.
One of the first camera models used for Street View (to be mounted on the roof of cars) 360 ° x 160 °
Street View Trekker - 360° x 160°
Street View
Street View underwater
Continuously updated, numerous cameras covering the 360° have appeared on the market since the second decade of the 21st century.
Spinner 360 from Lomography, super-economic panoramic camera, 360 ° x100 ° (approximately) with 35mm film - 2010
Ricoh Theta S, 360°x180° - 2015 (video too)
Panono 360° x180° camera to be launched: at the peak shots the panorama (2014)
NCTech - Iris 360 camera 360°x160° - (2014)
360Heros videocamera 360°x180° (2013)
Freedom360 videocamera 360°x180° (2014)
Sphericam2 - videocamera 360°x180° (2015)
Bublcam - videocamera 360°x180° (2015)
Giroptic camera 360°x160° (2015)
Entanya 280 camera 360°x180° (2015)
Jaunt-ONE-Camera-J1-24R - videocamera 360° (2016)
EYE 42 blackmagic - videocamera 360° (2015)
Nikon KeyMission 360 - videocamera 360° (2016)
Nokia Ozo - videocamera 360° (2015)
Samsung Gear 360 - video-photo camera 360° (2016)
LG 360Cam- video-photo camera 360° (2016)
Samsung "Project Beyond VR" - stereo video-photo camera 360° (prototype)
Lytro Immerge - light-field camera 360° (prototype)
