Almost every digital camera these days has a built-in scene mode for extreme wide angles. You are able to create a panorama shot by taking several photographs in chronological order and later on composing them into one single image by using imaging software. The panorama mode helps you taking a matching continuous shot by superimposing the image previously taken into the display of the image that you're intend to capture just as.
Though the image emerging from the composition is able to pretend one singular moment in linear time, it actually derives from several different points in linear time. The composed image also does not provide any closer information on time relations between the single shots. If not adjusted afterwards, you can most frequently observe differences in exposure that can reveal process and position of the photographer but however these fluctuations of light don't function as reliable indicators for any estimation of time lag relating to the course of the sun.
Looking at a panoramic photograph I'm always trying to find traces that lead me to gates into a dreamtime - time which is experienced as a co-existing confluence of past, present and future - where I'm able to associate around circles of time, continually crossing an non existent date line and observing future as well as past mental states; alongside an associational network stretched not just this and that way in space but also back- and forwards in time.
So what is the barrier that, in certain incidents rejects us from such a comprehensive view?
Back to / La Machina:
The death of the panorama mode is the panoramic camera. It does what the panorama mode is not able to do in succession of an optical limitation : Capturing the entire panoramic scene in one single moment. Apparently these panoramic cameras are available as film cameras only. I think of old-school analogue photography I grew up with. The magic experience of the digital age seems to be not the immediate gaze at the image. It's more the awareness of a time overleaped and a certain experience casted away: Rewinding your film, taking it to the lab and waiting for it to be processed before you're able to view it....holding each single frame against the rays of the sun.
Boris Dornbusch
1 comment:
thanks Boris I really enjoyed this post, I have lately been thinking some similar issues as I have taken panoramic film images and waited the usual three days to receive my prints from Labtec..
it's similar to casting glass, waiting 5 to 10 days for the process to take place in the kiln and not knowing exactly what is produced until you can finally remove the negative cast...it's always a blast to see what you, the technology and the alchemy together have made
xkarena
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