Photography

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Overview

Some pioneers of aerial photography:[1]

In the eighties, balloon photography was solely employed for military purposes in England and Germany; and in this connection the names of Elsdale and Templer may be mentioned, as well as those of Tschudi, Hagen, and Sigsfeld. In Austria, the first attempts at photographic work were made by Viktor Silberer, who interested himself in this as in every other aspect of ballooning.[1]

Aerial photography dramatically increased the speed and precision of mapping.[2]

There were some peculiarities for aerial photography due to the way different colors of light can travel at long distances through the atmosphere:

The blue rays are more largely absorbed by the air than the others, and therefore all bright objects appear redder and consequently darker on the plate. An effect of absorption and reflection is that all the bright colours are, as it were, displaced toward the red end of the spectrum and the darker colours appear bluer.[3]

Different kinds of plates were being prepared to compensate for this shift.

In terms of our publication data, Émile Wenz factors in greatly, as an author on aerial photography. We are not sure whether he filed patents. He was among the pioneers in this field as well. See Émile Wenz on French Wikipedia.

Archival examples

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Aerial photography gave a new vantage point on warfare, as seen in this image of soldiers in trenches during World War I.
Aerial photographs combined to form a continuous map. "The military and naval authorities of the warring countries have thousands of miles of photographic maps. These are kept up to the minute by the constant stream of aerophotographs brought to headquarters by aviators, where they are developed, studied, and the minutest changes noted on the map." (Textbook of Military Aeronautics (1918), p. 91.)


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Related patents

This wiki has 31 patents in category "Photography". Other techtypes related to Photography: Captive, CPC G03B, CPC G03B15/00, CPC G03B17/00, CPC G03B17/425, CPC G03C3/02, DE 42, FR 17.3, Instrument, IPC G03B9/28, Map, USPC 396/7

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