Evolution of Aerial Photography

[ArmchairSamurai]

Hello all,

I found the following article, thought it was a good read so I wanted to share it--though the topic did not seem relevant anywhere so in the Bar it goes. The article talks about balloons, kites, zeppelins and the cameras / methods developed to take aerial photography.

https://www.fotomuseum.ch/en/situations-post/michael-kempf/

 

[publiusr]

The ruins of the San Francisco quake/fire were imaged by a film camera held aloft by kites as I recall.

 

[ArmchairSamurai]

The ruins of the San Francisco quake/fire were imaged by a film camera held aloft by kites as I recall.

Exactly, its mentioned in the article!