Aerial Tintype

[ghostcount]

https://youtu.be/yb7KHxmBIbY

Not the first Aerial (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadar_(photographer)) but probably the first using a drone.

[stawastawa]

neato, I would have thought they would get too shaky a platform. but looks like it stayed rather steady. sweet to see it evolve!

[goamules]

Too cool, the merging of technologies old and new.

[Mark Sampson]

Somewhere, Gaspard-Felix Tournachon (Nadar) is smiling.

[Drew Bedo]

I have seen glass plate photographs of the San Francisco earth quake damage shot from the air in 1906. They hoisted a camera up on a large kite. The shutter was rteripped with a solenoid and telegraph key.

Not sure of the format dimensions, but they were in a panoramic aspect ratio and larger than 4x5.

[stawastawa]

I have seen glass plate photographs of the San Francisco earth quake damage shot from the air in 1906. They hoisted a camera up on a large kite. The shutter was rteripped with a solenoid and telegraph key.

Not sure of the format dimensions, but they were in a panoramic aspect ratio and larger than 4x5.

I Imagine the kite professor at berkley would be open to hoisting a camera up for someone. actually I believe he already does, but I think mostly digital. Wish I could recall his name, neat work he got.
Hmm must be this guy, but thought his site was more updated... http://kap.ced.berkeley.edu/
http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/05/28/cris-benton-seductive-images-of-landscape-in-transition/

anyways sorry back to drones...

[Leszek Vogt]

Wonder what drone model he was using ? It's nice to have something like that in yer tool box. Ha, my 5x7 is probably lighter than his rig.

Les

[eabartel]

fantastic! thanks for sharing.

[dasBlute]

I... dislike... drones, but this is way cool!