This is another one of those things that gets much better and cheaper with a digital camera. This poor guy only got one shot per launch and had to carefully time it so the kite would be at the right hight for the camera to be focused.
Even Google Earth is getting in on the act now.
KITE TAKES AERIAL PHOTOS
You don’t have to hire a plane and pilot to get good air shots of ground objects.
By E. J. Roy
FOR many years, the idea of making photographs from a kite has been in my mind. This year, I decided to do something about it. First was the kite design, and having had considerable experience with various types of kites, I finally selected a design for a triangular box kite with wings. Read the rest of this entry »
Last year a group of high school students in Girona Spain launched a camera carrying balloon to over 19 miles in altitude, and got much better pictures.
The headline implies that the rocket went to a height of 65 miles, but the text says “65-mile flight” which is not exactly the same thing.
Armored Camera Survives V-2 Flight, Photographs Earth at 65-Mile Height
A motion-picture record of the 65-mile flight of a V-2 rocket launched in New Mexico, was produced by a standard American-made DeVry 35-mm camera. The camera was mounted in the midsection of the V-2 and aimed at an angle of 16-1/2 degrees to the axis of the rocket. Read the rest of this entry »