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- From: ken@racerx.bridge.COM (Ken Hardy)
- Newsgroups: rec.photo
- Subject: Re: Query: Aerial photography with kites
- Message-ID: <1220@racerx.bridge.COM>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 05:15:51 GMT
- References: <1992Dec31.081233.2050@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu> <C04szu.AJF@deshaw.com> <1992Dec31.221237.862@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec31.221237.862@ultb.isc.rit.edu> andpph@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
- >
- >One of the truly GREAT kite photographers was George "flashlight" Lawrence if
- >my memory serves me right. He lifted swing-lens panoramic cameras of his own
- >manufacture and photographed in Chicago, San Francisco fire aftermath, and even
- >strung his kites of the poopdeck of a steamer near the coast of Africa.
- >
- >I believe his kites were box kites and he would stack maybe up to a dozen or so
- >before lifting his camera. I am not sure what method he used to trip the
-
- For Christmas I received the book _Looking At Earth_ (ISBN
- 1-878685-16-3, Turner Publishing, 1992) which is mostly a fascinating
- collection of annotated photographs from space. The intro has a
- panoramic shot of San Fransisco taken by Lawrence some six weeks after
- the 1906 earthquake. The caption says it was taken from around 2,000
- feet (600 m) with a camera lifted by 17 kites. I'm not too familiar
- with S.F., but I'd guess it's taken from Fishermen's Wharf area (the
- foreground is definitely a wharf), and you can see the _whole_ city.
- Unfortunately for the originator of this thread, no discussion of
- technique is presented.
-
- BTW, the book does give some info on the hand-held Hasselblads used by
- shuttle astronauts. If anyone would like to know about the lenses,
- backs, and films, and the resolutions obtained, I'll post a summary
- here. If there's no interest, I'll skip it.
-
- --
-
- Ken Hardy
- ken@bridge.com (racerx!ken)
-