Aerial Tintype

https://youtu.be/yb7KHxmBIbY

Not the first Aerial but probably the first using a drone.

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

Too cool, the merging of technologies old and new.

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

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.

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Originally Posted by 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.

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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/...in-transition/

anyways sorry back to drones...

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

fantastic! thanks for sharing.

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