With photo restoration the answer is yes!
Here is the long answer. Over the years photographers have been taking Panoramas, school photos and groups of large people were often shot in panorama, army, navy, military groups and schools, even extended families. The longest so far I have restored is 53 inches wide!, 7 inches short of the widest I can have printed. The image was of the 17 windmills of Kinderdijk - Kinderdyke in Holland. The photographer had shot the scene on wide format film, at a guess on 6cm roll film and used a rotating camera to turn the film and the camera head at the same time to expose a length of film long enough to produce a photo 53 x 10 inches long. Alas the photo was left outside in the rain in the frame and stuck to the glass after a family feud. In order to get to me it had to be scraped off the glass with a wall paper scraper, rolled in up and put in an aluminium tool box and posted. I could then scan it in many sections and res stitch the photo into one piece. After intense restoration and at 47 Million pixels it was re printed on high quality archive ink jet paper.
Typical damage right across the whole panorama.
The above is a small section from the restored photo of the far right hand side of the panorama showing just how detailed it is!
More often photos of regiments, war photos, pupils in the entire school were photographed in this manner. Normally this type of photo is stored rolled up and in the loft. Moisture in the air and the constant heat and cold will have made the paper brittle, so when it is unrolled it may crack. Be careful it may break up. Should you decide to get it restored then it will have to be unrolled to be scanned. If you are posting it please put the rolled photo into a piece of large diameter tube, a carpet roll is best, or roll loosely and put in a card board box, padded out with tissue. A reunion of old army fellows, or royal navy chums often calls for the photos to be pulled out from storage but be prepared for some damage to be evident but do not fear as they can be restored. If there are many faces in the image, perhaps as many as 500 or more and the damage runs through the faces then the image can take some time and money to restore. If complete faces are missing and fully restored photo is required then the only way to fill in the gaps is with another face.
Yes Panorama images can be restoredPost them rolled up in a carpet tubeThey will cost much more than a normal 10×8 to restoreThey will be re reprinted on archive quality paper with archive inks up to 60 inches wideI hope this helps when you need a panorama photo restoration
Neil
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