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era, included the Kodak K1, with focal plane shutter, the Fairchild K3, K3A, K3B etc., with in-lens shutter to eliminate distortion, K5 etc., some of which used individual glass plates, some individual sheet film, and some roll film.
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Similar cameras, from the World War II era are: K17, K18, K19, K21, K22, F20, F40, F56, etc., many making 9″×9″ or 9″×18″ images using 9″+ roll film.
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official photographer, pictured holding a Fairchild K-20 hand-held aerial camera in front of a
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with an adjustable diaphragm and were non-interchangeable; these were made by
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World War II military equipment of the United States
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Index

aerial photography
camera
World War II
Enola Gay
tail gunner
the nuclear mushroom cloud over Hiroshima
Fairchild Camera and Instrument
Folmer Graflex
Rochester, New York
roll film
Kodak
Ilex
Bausch & Lomb
World War I
Flight Lieutenant L H Abbott, British Air Ministry official photographer, pictured holding a Fairchild K-20 hand-held aerial camera in front of a Douglas Dakota, World War II
Air Ministry
Douglas Dakota
Lieutenant Gilbert A. Milne of the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve, holding a Fairchild K-20 camera
Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve
Aerial archaeology
Aerial landscape art
Aviation photography
Bird's-eye view
F24 camera
Orthophoto
Pictometry
Reconnaissance
"Cover Sheet"
"K-17, K-18, K-19B, and K-22 Aerial Cameras"
the original

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