File talk:San Francisco in ruin edit2.jpg
photo taken from airship or kite?[edit]
1. The imprint on the original print of the photo says:
... LAWRENCE CAPTIVE AIRSHIP ...
Airship in todays language means an aerostat, floating because it is lighter than air.
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On the other hand:
2. The description on
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:San_Francisco_in_ruin_edit2.jpg
tells
It was taken from a camera suspended on a kite, perhaps 1,000 feet above the city.
3. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kite_Aerial_Photography
reads:
Mit einer gestaffelten Anordnung mehrerer dieser Drachen gelang George Lawrence (USA) die Ikone aller frühen KAP-Aufnahmen: San Francisco, 6 Wochen nach dem verheerenden Erdbeben von 1906. Eine Meisterleistung, verinnerlicht man den Stand der Technik zu jener Zeit. Lawrence belichtete in 2000 Fuß Höhe ein 45 cm × 120 cm großes Negativ, welches trotz der mäßigen Optik eine hohe Detailgenauigkeit zuließ. Ausgelöst wurde mit Zündschnur, was das Gelingen des Bildes zur Glückssache machte. Der etwas schräge Horizont auf dem bekanntesten Bild der Fotoserie ist ein Beleg dafür.
in English:
some stacked kites ... 2000 ft altitude ... KAP
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._Lawrence
... panorama ... from a kite 600 m ...
4.1. the source (Nina Golgowski, 2012):
title:
A city in ruins: Stunning photo taken from kite that captures devastation from 1906 earthquake in San Francisco
text:
To take aerial shots he had previously gone up in balloons, but after a near fatal accident in 1901, when he fell 200ft and was only saved by telegraph wires broke his fall, he began looking for a safer alternative.
About the special photo of 1906:
attached to kites
train of kites ... up to seventeen
stabilising system
pictured: camera with rotating lens to gain the 160° panorama
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Conclusion:
Did Lawrence edit the white imprint "Photograph of / San Francisco in Ruins / ... Airship" ... on the photograph?
May "airship" mean a train of stacked kites?
Or does "airship" rather mean a balloon, an aerostat lighter than air?
