Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/08/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thank you, Mr Campin, for refreshing my memory of static balloon photography -- there was a lot of it for military purposes, as well, during the US Civil War and the Franco-Prussian Debacle. Let me rephrase my statement: "To my knowledge, the first photograph taken from an artifically moving aerostat or aeroplane was that shot by Oskar Barnack with the Ur-Leica from one of the Zeppelin dirigibles, probably the Viktoria Luise." Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!