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Again when I compare what our new digital aerial camera can do compared to the film camera we bought, it is just mind boggling.
Our company paid $495,000 for the very pinnacle top of the line aerial film camera ever made. It was the 6th to the last one Leica ever made. The lens was over 200 pounds. In the crates ready to ship it was 500 pounds for the film backs and camera body, and lens. It was mounted to a $30,000 stabilized mount in a dedicated Cessna 206 with a 24 inch hole in the floor. We had to send the color film off to be processed, so for us to get a simple one shot project done took 4 days at least, and the cost of the film and processing and Fed-Ex shipping was $200 or so.
We flew a project on Saturday. We only used $38 in fuel for our 182. We had it done on Saturday afternoon. We waited until Tuesday to send it to him. It is sharper, and better in every way than the old film camera could produce. Even if we charge ourselves $150 per hour for the airplane and pilot time, we had very low cost in it.
Oh and the film camera required a fancy $70,000 scanner to digitize the film.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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