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I have a old WW2 aircraft lens by Kodak
it is about 350mm on 35mm film
[donot have the camera just yardsale found the lens]

anyways in 78 we are talking film not el-tricks
maybe some postprocessing with computer aids but really limited
so limits are grain size film size and lens/mirror size
small grain plus big sheet of film but fast exposure time as the jet is moving fast
airframe limits the lens go too wide and its way too long to be real high power
then there is aiming
snap a shot of a city or a factory ok
but how do you aim at a stamp size target ??

tell a car from a tank sure or a ICBM site
but Philatelic Society level ids NO
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