Introducing the stereopanocam
Panoramic and stereo cameras have always been close cousins. A stereo camera takes two pictures side by side. Combine their image areas with the distance between them and you have a panoramic format. That was the thinking behind this one-of-a-kind camera made in the1960s. It's not really called a stereopanocam, but it's a name that typically sums it up.
The camera was built by Leslie Thomson, director of a family-run clinic. His hobby was building stereo cameras and projectors, a subject on which, under the name C. Leslie Thomson, he wrote magazine articles and a book called Build Your Own Stereo Equipment (Fountain Press, 1954).
At university, Leslie attained a bachelor of science degree in chemistry, later usingand (Focal Press, 1948 and 1958, respectively).
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