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A tilt shift lens can also be used for panoramas, but then again you do not see the entire image in the field.

 

Yes, and you need to take two pictures and stitch them afterwards - if you go that way, you also can stitch when you turn, or use a smartphone for quick and (seldom) dirty panoramas. You can even put a Seitz roundshot on rails and make a rather big resolution picture by moving along a railway car while the film is synchronized with camera movement.

 

But like obican mentioned, to view this "banderoles" is not so easy and to print them you need a printer with rolls.

 

Distortion is no issue with XPan cameras, they use medium format lenses and just cut a lot of the possible image circle. You can say "cropped MF" but then, every format is cropped - the sensors are cut of a bigger dice, the films were also cut of very large rolls, they crop even a loaf of bread