Too much Gas?
May 23, 2021 15:53:15 #
BigDaddy wrote:
Get yours before you run out of gas...
Kodak K24
Kodak K24
K24-ton
May 23, 2021 15:55:02 #
May 23, 2021 16:06:55 #
My "trade" in the army, during my tours in Vietnam, was aerial reconnaissance photographer. Back stateside, the K- series 8x10 cameras were mostly shelved or sold off in surplus by the mid- 196O. Many of the cameras we did use were not hand-hed but mounted on gyroscopes mounts aboard helicopters or built to fixed-wing aircraft for high altitude runs. My job was mainly tunnel and disturbed underground undermining detection with inferred geographic films. Many of the cameras had no logos or indication of the manufacturer but I knew they were mand by Fairchild as per government specs. We also had a lot of Graphic XL cameras and especially spooled films in the IR range.
I am no told that my MOS and even my rank have been discontinued and my job could now be done by satellite and observed in an air-conditioned office in the Pentagon with nobody shooting at you! Times and equipment tend to change!
I can't imagine hanging out the door of a gunship with that 8x10 monster. Well, I guess if you dropped it on the unfriendly guys it could hurt them!
I am no told that my MOS and even my rank have been discontinued and my job could now be done by satellite and observed in an air-conditioned office in the Pentagon with nobody shooting at you! Times and equipment tend to change!
I can't imagine hanging out the door of a gunship with that 8x10 monster. Well, I guess if you dropped it on the unfriendly guys it could hurt them!
May 23, 2021 17:20:30 #
When I was in Junior High School and saw this type of camera on some war surplus equipment ad in a magazine for as I recall $40.00 and really wanted one. The camera my mother would buy meo one for $40.00, but then we checked the kind of film it needed and the availability and the equipment to develop and print it and that was the end of that!
May 23, 2021 17:31:20 #
twb446
Loc: Lakewood Ranch, FL
Every morning a group of us retired guys in the neighborhood walk our dogs. One of the guys is a 94 year old Marine recon photographer who served in numerous WW2 Pacific campaigns. He was assigned to take low altitude arial recon photos of Japanese jungle encampments in order to ID targets for US naval and land artillery shelling. Holding his camera, he whould hang out the windows of low and slow flying B-25s or two-seater single engine recon planes (essentially Piper Cubs), and snap photos while being shot at with rifle and machine gun ground fire He would then would go back and process his film and make prints for analysis.
Mal is an amazing and humble guy who's had an amazing life. We walk our dogs more that a mile every morning. I'm 75, and I want to be like Mal when I grow up!
Mal is an amazing and humble guy who's had an amazing life. We walk our dogs more that a mile every morning. I'm 75, and I want to be like Mal when I grow up!
May 23, 2021 17:31:43 #
May 23, 2021 18:14:25 #
E.L.. Shapiro wrote:
My "trade" in the army, during my tours ... (show quote)
Uses 9 1/2 in roll film and depending on the exact model of the camera the "negatives/transparencies" were 9x9 or 9x18. Sometimes they mounted either two cameras or took multiple passes with offset to get stereo pairs. The Aerial Photo and Map Interpretation class I took in the early 70s had sets of them. One the prof used on a quiz was a set of the Brooklyn Naval Yard and we had to measure a heavy cruiser that was docked. To get an A you had to be within 2' of it's true length, I was off by 3 feet and got a B+.
May 23, 2021 19:47:36 #
May 23, 2021 21:08:06 #
robertjerl wrote:
Uses 9 1/2 in roll film and depending on the exact... (show quote)
Exactly right- I should have writer 10x10. I took someof my training at the then Army Pictorial Center in Astoria, N.Y. They had the film stock still stored in a refrigerator and there were examples of the images- some with reticle-like scales in the image. There were classes in stereoscopic photography and photometric measurements but my class was in IR colour shooting and interpretation.
Small world, I was still in high school when the U.S.S. Constellation caught fire and exploded in the New Your Navel Shipyard. It took the windows out of our classroom- the school was in Williamsburg- a walking distance from the Brooklyn Navy yard. I was worried- my father was a Navy vet and worked for the Navy Department in a unit called INSMAT New York as an inspector of Naval Material in the electronics section and was at the yard quite frequently. That Monday, he was in a defence plant in the Bronx.
May 23, 2021 22:18:49 #
May 23, 2021 22:47:14 #
My dad was in the 7th Photoreconnaissance Army Air Corps unit in England. This is one of the photos from the American Air Museum in Britain page about his unit. He didn't do photography. He kept the planes flying.
May 24, 2021 08:19:48 #
dat2ra wrote:
Holy cow, that's a tiny soldier!
Now that was funny...
Good way to start the morning... Tanks!
May 24, 2021 08:26:31 #
10MPlayer wrote:
My dad was in the 7th Photoreconnaissance Army Air Corps unit in England. This is one of the photos from the American Air Museum in Britain page about his unit. He didn't do photography. He kept the planes flying.
Pretty obvious if they had painted that lens white, more folks would use themš
May 24, 2021 09:15:10 #
BigDaddy wrote:
Get yours before you run out of gas...
Kodak K24
Kodak K24
Looks more like a āhand-heldā cannon disguised like a camera. Very funny.
May 24, 2021 09:20:24 #
GrandmaG wrote:
Looks more like a āhand-heldā cannon disguised like a camera. Very funny.
So you're thinking it is a white lens, painted black for camouflage?
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