Panoramic View of the Vegetable Market at Venice

In this era, a panoramic view was any moving shot This one certainly qualifies. It was taken from a boat in the canal next to the vegetable market. The market itself is a small, open space surrounded, it seems by water on every side. It seems like it no more than a few thousand square feet.

The term 'panorama' arose as a term in painting for pictures that were wider than the typical picture:sometimes much wider, enough to put a landscape on a painting. Perhaps the peak of the form was in 1827. Thomas Hornor built a colosseum housing the largest painting in the world, a panorama seven stories tall and 130 feet in diameter. A spiral staircase rose to a large gallery from which visitors could view London as seen from the ball atop St. Paul's Cathedral.

Estimates of the painting's size vary from 24,000 to 44,000 square feet; flyers called it "nearly an acre of canvas."

Because the movement in the 'panoramic view' offered a wider view than the standard fixed shot, the term was applied to this sort of picture. The following year, a new camera came out that could swivel on a tripod base. Eventually, the modern sense of a 'pan shot' as one that offered a circular view replaced the older one.