I found an article at american cinematographer from the first days of
panavision company.
They had been created a way to produce a 35 mm film positive of a
compressed panorama.
They were using triangular prism for to compress the colorado scene to
a 35 mm film.
I think it is a hard way even today and photographers carry 100 pounds
of 8*10 camera to the mountains for to take a picture sharp enough to
satisfy the eyes and still will not be enlarged.
50 years ago or more , cinema people take same image on 35 mm film and
enlarge it couple of thousands times.
People now are far from this technology , because the problem is to put
in order the enlarger printers everywhere which suitable to enlarge the
compressed image.
I am a poor man and always look for a new ways.
If there is no camera cheap and enough to cover the colorado without
make mountains a pigme sized rocks , I think we must create our lenses
for this purpose and decompress the image on computer.
I found few reports on internet on water filled prism lenses and they
bend the image but not compress like a movie. Do you know a solution
for this problem ?
And if it is too hard , I thought may be zone plates or pin sieves
could be created at computer for this purpose. Is it possible ?