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You are very welcome to be my wingman any time. Lincolnshire is full of this type of thing.WOW!!! Aren't they fantastic!!! And such good quality too. Can I be your wingman next time you go to "obtain" something?
I am quoting directly from Eyes of The RAF ROY CONERS NESBIT page 48, Air reconnaissance and photography were carried out by the RNAS, which at the outset could muster only six seaplanes of dubious reliability, together with two aeroplanes which flew from the nearby island of Tenedos.
The Curtis JN series was available in 1914, the Royal Aircraft Factory FE2a biplane 1915, the YE7, Vickers Fighting Biplane FB5, The Sapwith Babyfloatplane was available to the RNAS in 1915, and The Caudron Gill. Sorry no air balloons on this trip.
The size of the pictures are (9cmx11cm) this would fit the wooden vertical A-type camera.
I am no expert, I have just read from a book, however the pictures have been checked by someone from a museum of photography and he says they are the real thing.
The depth of some of them is incredible and definitely not 2D or 3D this came later and did require 2 cameras.
The one of the Seddulbahir Fort must have been taken before the Navy shot it up, it was very badly damaged and now very hard to find on Google earth.
Thank you for your comments please keep them coming.
You are very welcome to be my wingman any time. Lincolnshire is full of this type of thing.
Parsifal, stereoscopy had been known since the 19th century - it was well-tried parlour entertainment, indeed hand-held or larger sterescopic viewers were the TVs of the mid/late Victorian era. Check out this link for stereo images from the American Civil War. Applying steroscopic techniques to aerial photography is hardly "inventing" the capability.
I'm struggling with your use of the term "3D photo" by which I presume you mean anaglyphs. That technique is not used for intelligence work because it requires additional processing of the imagery and takes longer to derive intelligence, whereas stereoscopy can be applied to any suitably-overlapping pair of 2D images.
Stereoscopy is merely the aligning of 2 images (a stereo pair) such that the human eye is fooled into perceiving a 3D view. It's not the creation of some new image, merely a human perception of 2 existing 2D images. As already observed, pics #3 and #4 above look like a stereo pair to me.
whilst Im having some difficulty accepting that it was within the technical means of the british air service to provide such images, perhaps it wasnt the british at all that took the photos. France in 1914 had the most advanced recon elements in their air force, though they were overtaken quite early by the Germans later on. Its more plausible that these images are of French origin, though i dont have any information as to aircraft deployments for the French
Great stuff!! Thanks a lot for sharing.
Thought about what your plans are for them?