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Subject: [Leica] Aerial Photography
From: bruce at ralgo.nl (bruce)
Date: Wed Mar 15 03:25:23 2006
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Please advise us how it progresses, Jim .................. or not.

B.

On 15-mrt-2006, at 2:18, Jim Laurel wrote:

> For low altitude aerial photography, using radio controlled model  
> airplanes is an option.  In fact, a model airplane can get shots  
> that alot of full scale airplanes could never attempt.  Like down  
> the middle of a street between buildings.  Large model sailplanes  
> can climb with electric motors and loiter around slowly making  
> photos while gliding (hence, no vibration).
>
> I am setting up an aerial photo/video rig that will allow me to  
> launch and land from small areas.  This is actually a video system  
> that transmits live video back to the ground.  You wear these  
> special sunglasses that have a small LCD display in the lower right  
> of your right eye.  You can record video or use the picture to  
> frame up a still image, if you have a camera on board wired to a  
> switch on your transmitter.
>
> --Jim
>
>
> On Mar 14, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Henning Wulff wrote:
>
>> At 11:26 AM -0800 3/14/06, Ted Grant wrote:
>>> B. D. Colen
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Aerial Photography
>>>
>>>> Thanks, Sonny....My question was going to be...Is this person a
>>>> photographer? A professional quality photographer? And, if not,  
>>>> why would
>>>> he think that owning an airplane and a camera makes one a  
>>>> professional
>>>> aerial photographer? :-)
>>>
>>> Quite frankly guys I've never seen anyone drive and talk on a  
>>> cell phone without endangering the lives of others. Let alone a  
>>> guy flying a plane and take pictures at the same time. :-(
>>>
>>> I've had some pretty hairy rides under my belt shooting aerials  
>>> with pilots who supposedly had flown photographers and they knew  
>>> all the right ways to handle the plane. I found in some cases I  
>>> had far more airtime than the pilot.
>>>
>>> All you have to do is come back from a shoot with tree branches  
>>> in the under-carriage and it puts a whole new perspective on  
>>> believing the pilots ability.
>>>
>>> So I began giving them instructions before we took off! Pissed  
>>> off a few, their problem, but at least they kept looking at where  
>>> we were going and not looking at what I was photographing!
>>>
>>> Surely that isn't what this fellow means? Fly plane & shoot at  
>>> the same time?
>>>
>>> Besides the best aerial photo platform is a helicopter in my book.
>>>
>>> ted
>>
>> I definitely prefer shooting from a small plane if possible rather  
>> than a helicopter. With thorough instructions to the pilot I can  
>> get a lot more done in a short time and the thing generally  
>> doesn't vibrate as much. I can go down one shutter speed in a  
>> small plane compared to a helicopter.
>>
>> One of the scarier experiences I've had shooting aerials was when  
>> we left the doors off at the back (I was sitting on a bench just  
>> behind the propeller bulkhead) and as we started banking to do my  
>> shots I noticed that the bench wasn't fastened to anything except  
>> the seat of my pants. It took me a few heart pounding seconds to  
>> realize that the seatbelt was attached to the airframe and not to  
>> the bench, but then we had to fly back with me holding onto the  
>> bench as well as my camera equipment to keep it all from falling  
>> out, and trying not to accidently unbuckle the belt.
>>
>> He didn't charge me for that flight.
>>
>> -- 
>>    *            Henning J. Wulff
>>   /|\      Wulff Photography & Design
>>  /###\   mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com
>>  |[ ]|     http://www.archiphoto.com
>>
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Replies: Reply from bonvini at optonline.net (Jay) ([Leica] Aerial Photography)
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