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- Book 16x22,5 cm, hard cover.
- Published in 1908, giving the photographic news of 1907.
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Available in
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- Annuaire de photographie 1908
- PHOTOGRAPHIE AÉRIENNE par CERFS-VOLANTS
- A paper in French by Emile Wenz
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In this work of 250 pages
is in the section "Variétés" a comprehensive
paper written by par Emile Wenz and plenty illustrated with
figures and pictures.
Within 21 pages E. Wenz starts
with an historical account; next he handles the captive
balloon and the kite. Then he develops the kite and continues
on the photographic chambers and then the types of suspensions.
In the following paragraphs the differences with the to-day
techniques are sometimes very significant, for example on
the shutter. Some can surprise us, as the cone-anchor.
This is the story of the development
and of the techniques used during the first twenty years
of kite aerial photography. There are some ideas to
pick-up.
Probably, in this period, Emile
Wenz with A.Batut and Delcourt were the most experimented
and the most advanced. To make photogrammetry, at that times
called metrophotography, he co-operated with A. Laussédat
(died the previous year) and he perfected a 18x24cm chamber
with 71° and 48° angles of field depending on the
lenses. His photographs have been taken again by J. Th.
Saconney.
Him and A. Batut have adjusted
stereoscopic rigs.
It must be remarked that E. Wenz
was not only a keen photograph passionately interested in
photographic technique. It must be noticed his artistic
feeling, for example the contre-jour on the sea and the
waves at the Sables d'Olonne.
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This paper is exceptional, for
a long time ignored because too difficult to find in a cosmopolitan
work, is one of the most important historic document for
the story of kite aerial photography.
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