These days there are plenty of opportunity to take interesting photograph from unusual angles , includingstrapping lilliputian digital cameras to razz . But some early airy photography was rather more ungainly — and used monumental tv camera strapped to the chest of pigeons .
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In fact , the whole conception was pioneered by a German photographer diagnose Julius Neubronner . From a Wikipedia articledescribing his early work :
Neubronner began the growth of a low-cal miniature television camera that could be fitted to a pigeon ’s white meat by means of a harness and an Al cuirass . Using wooden camera model weighing 30 to 75 grams [ … ] , the pigeon were carefully civilise for their load . To take an aerial photograph , Neubronner comport a pigeon to a localization up to about [ 60 miles ] from its home , where it was fit with a camera and secrete . The bird , keen to be relieve of its essence , would typically fly home on a verbatim road , at a top of [ 160 to 330 foot ] . A pneumatic system in the television camera control the time delay before a picture was take in .
While you might not gestate much from such a technique , some of the word picture Neubronner ’s pigeon snap , like the one below , are pretty telling . While the concept was initially used excitedly — especially by the armed forces for spying mathematical process — perhaps understandably , the technology was presently superseded . ignominy . [ WikipediaviaPetaPixel ]
Images fromGerman Federal Archives
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