Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/08/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc Small wrote: > the oldest aerial photograph which has survived was taken by Oskar > Barnack in 1914 on Viktoria Luise with one of the UR-Leicas. Since Nadar was photographing Paris from a balloon sometime in the 1860s, this doesn't seem very plausible. How did the previous 50 years of aerial photography happen to all disappear? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- jack@purr.demon.co.uk - Jack Campin, 2 Haddington Place, Edinburgh EH7 4AE