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Are these real?
These are pictures which i recently seen in the National Gallery of Scotland, apparently taken in 1917 by a Royal Navy pilot called Alfred Buckham.
>Alfred Buckham, born in 1879, was one of the 19th century’s greatest aviators – who captured the images by standing in an open cockpit with his leg tied to the seat.
During the great war his job was to take photographs of the front lines and enemy positions. He survived many crashes.
After the war, despite being severely disabled, he continued flying and combined his two hobbies. This is when he took this pictures of Edinburgh.
My issue is, how is this pictures possible?
Didn't cameras of those days have really long exposures? How can he take such a sharp image standing in the cockpit of a plane?
Or am i mistaken about the equipment they had in those days?
These are pictures which i recently seen in the National Gallery of Scotland, apparently taken in 1917 by a Royal Navy pilot called Alfred Buckham.
>Alfred Buckham, born in 1879, was one of the 19th century’s greatest aviators – who captured the images by standing in an open cockpit with his leg tied to the seat.
During the great war his job was to take photographs of the front lines and enemy positions. He survived many crashes.
After the war, despite being severely disabled, he continued flying and combined his two hobbies. This is when he took this pictures of Edinburgh.
My issue is, how is this pictures possible?
Didn't cameras of those days have really long exposures? How can he take such a sharp image standing in the cockpit of a plane?
Or am i mistaken about the equipment they had in those days?
