Imagine shooting negatives that are as long as an 88 key piano!

This is a 1:1 print from the negative of a photo shot in the 1920s by R P Moore, using a Kodak Cirkut camera, which revolves by clockwork as it exposes the massive negative.

Arthur River, Mitre Peak and Milford Sound, 1923-1928
Photographer: Robert Percy Moore
Arthur River, Mitre Peak and Milford Sound, 1923-1928
Panoramic negative
Reference No. Pan-1036-F
Photographic Archive, Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand

Thanks to National Library of NZ you can view a scan on Flickr of this photo HERE

And other panoramas by R P Moore HERE

Related, been reading about “Eccentric American photographer Melvin Vaniman (1866-1912) scaled multi-storey buildings, dangled from tall poles and floated in gas-filled balloons to capture his unrivalled black and white panoramas of Australia.”

Melvin Vaniman climbing a pole to take a photograph, Belfast, Canterbury
see photo here