CUTE NEW CAMERA

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 7, 30 March 1927, Page 9

CUTE NEW CAMERA

WILL TAKE 100 PICTURES The highest peak of mechanical perfection in aerial photography has been reached in a new camera used at the R.A.F. School of Photography at Farnborough. When the pilot wishes to take a photograph of the ground below him, he presses a button, which sends an electric current through “FB,” as the camera is known. The camera does the rest. It takes .100 photographs at regular intervals on a strip of film nine inches wide, without fault or stop, unless the pilot stops it. It sets its own time for exposures, and five seconds before each photograph is due a red light appears on the dashboard and warns the pilot so that he may tilt his machine to the desired angle. After the photograph has been taken, the roll moves along and prepares to take another snap, while the word "set” appears on a dial In front of the pilot. The same process is repeated 100 times, when the camera automatically stops. The pilot can also take pictures in the intervals between the regular snaps by pressing another button. Dials and pointers denote how many exposures have been made, at what intervals, the length of the exposure, and whether the camera is ready for another picture. “F 8” will shortly be used on an aerial survey of little-known country in Rhodesia, where its ability to take a chain of 100 pictures will be an obvious advantage, as they can afterwards be linked up into a plan.