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A professional '''aerial camera''' is a special, medium of large-format camera for photogrammetric survey or military purposes like reconnaissance or air combat documentation. The amateur's aerial camera may be a small camera mounted under a remote controlled aircraft model or in a small rocket.
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Professional/military reconnaissance aerial cameras, especially of the larger types, are usually mounted firmly into the plane's airframe (vertical or oblique) to ensure that image angles and image intervals are consistent for the photo run. Smaller cameras were used hand-held, or fastened on machine gun mounts. Many aerial cameras are of a fixed focus (set on infinity) design, or have lenses with ultra-wide viewing angles (such as the [[Metrogon]]).
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|image_text= A [[Fairchild K-17]] installed for vertical photography <br>in the nose of a Lockheed F-4 ('Photo-Lightning')
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==Examples of aerial cameras==
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====Reconnaissance and photogrammetric survey/mapping cameras====
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* [[Fairchild K-17]]
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* [[Fairchild | Fairchild F-56]]
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* [[Scheimpflug]]
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* [[Williamson L-type camera]]
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====Hand-held aerial cameras====
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* [[Fairchild F-8]]
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* [[GSK-99|Konishiroku GSK-99]]
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* [[Japanese aerial cameras|Konishiroku SK-100]]
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* [[Linhof Aero Technika]]
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====Aerial Combat training cameras====
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* [[Japanese aerial cameras|Rokuoh-Sha Type 89 Machine Gun Camera]]
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* [[Ernemann]] machine gun camera
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====Cameras for air combat documentation (Gun Sight Aiming Point cameras)====
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* [[KOMZ S-13]] machine gun camera (Soviet)
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* [[Solar-Vought Torpedo Camera]] (USA)
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* [[Type 1 Fixed Target-checking Camera]] (Japan)
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====Missile Cameras====
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* [[GW Cameras | Guided Weapons Cameras]]
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* [[WREROC | WRE Roll Orientation Camera]]
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==Gallery==
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|image_text= Vertical air photo taken with a<br>fixed [[Fairchild | Fairchild K-17A]] with a 36" lenscone
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|image_text= Oblique air photo taken with a <br>fixed unit with 6" lenscone
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|image_text= Oblique air photo taken with a <br>handheld unit, most likely a [[Fairchild| Fairchild K-20]]
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|image_text= Oblique air photo taken with a <br>handheld plate camera in 1917 <br>(France, during World War I)
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==Links==
 
==Links==
* [[http://www.voss-stiftung.de/pdf/broschuere.pdf multilingual brochure about aerial photography]] at the site of the[http://www.voss-stiftung.de/ Prof. Dr. Frithjof Voss foundation]
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160306195634/http://www.voss-stiftung.de/pdf/broschuere.pdf multilingual brochure about aerial photography] (archived) at the site of the [https://www.voss-stiftung.de/ Prof. Dr. Frithjof Voss foundation for geography]
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* [https://ncap.org.uk/ Official UK online-archive of aerial photographs]
  
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Latest revision as of 04:08, 12 September 2023

A professional aerial camera is a special, medium of large-format camera for photogrammetric survey or military purposes like reconnaissance or air combat documentation. The amateur's aerial camera may be a small camera mounted under a remote controlled aircraft model or in a small rocket. Professional/military reconnaissance aerial cameras, especially of the larger types, are usually mounted firmly into the plane's airframe (vertical or oblique) to ensure that image angles and image intervals are consistent for the photo run. Smaller cameras were used hand-held, or fastened on machine gun mounts. Many aerial cameras are of a fixed focus (set on infinity) design, or have lenses with ultra-wide viewing angles (such as the Metrogon).


Examples of aerial cameras

Reconnaissance and photogrammetric survey/mapping cameras

Hand-held aerial cameras

Aerial Combat training cameras

Cameras for air combat documentation (Gun Sight Aiming Point cameras)

Missile Cameras

Gallery


Links