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The action of panning the camera to the left or right is called "panning."
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.
Peoples folks
It was a demeaning term used by city folks referring to country folks
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.
alluvial gold
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
some of them were panning, sluicing, dry panning, cradling, digging ect
It's a question and it means, "What are they looking for?" or, "What do they seek?" It can also mean, "What are you folks looking for?" or "What do you folks seek?"