Moving a camera left or right is known as panning.
Yes, it can be for some uses of the word (a panning camera, panning prospectors). It is the present participle of the verb to pan.
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capturing a motion picture that wat subject was in focus and rest of the frame has in radial blur
The prospectors were panning for gold every day for a month.
It was a demeaning term used by city folks referring to country folks
alluvial gold
Panning (for gold) is neither of the above.
some of them were panning, sluicing, dry panning, cradling, digging ect
I use my concave dish for the purpose of panning for gold dust on nugget
some of them were panning, sluicing, dry panning, cradling, digging ect
Panning is camera movement right and left. Tilting is movement up and down.