The Cirkut camera is a rotating panoramic camera, of the type known as pivoting or full rotation. It was patented by William J. Johnston in 1904, and was manufactured by Rochester Panoramic Camera Company starting in 1905. In that same year, the company was acquired by the Century Camera Co. Frederick Brehm is also one of the people credited with developing the Cirkut panoramic camera. Initially manufactured and marketed by the Rochester Panoramic Camera Company, the camera was later manufactured by the Folmer and Schwing Division of the Eastman Kodak Company. The camera was manfactured through 1949.

There were several models: No. 5, No. 6, No. 8, No. 10, and No. 16, named according to the maximum width of the film accepted, in inches. The length of film (corresponding to the width of the panorama), varied by model also, ranging up to 18 feet for the No. 16, yielding a single negative with an area of more than 24 square feet.