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WORLD WAR ONE -- PALESTINE FRONT
Panorama No. 20 taken from ?Asgood Hill (East) A.3.c.30.30 (map reference Bidieh [i.e. Biddya] C.4) with telephoto camera. (Titled thus on verso of photograph 1). Palestine: 7th Field Survey Company, Royal Engineers, Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 31 August 1918. Panorama composed of 15 photographs (each 210 x 160mm, numbered in pencil on verso), mounted in three rows of five photographs, scale, degree markings, prominent landmarks and placenames in red ink manuscript. (Photograph 1 with small chip at corner, light creasing associated with joins, photographs 14 and 15 more heavily creased with one closed tear.)
VERY RARE PHOTOGRAPHIC PANORAMA OF THE PALESTINE FRONT AS THE BRITISH PUSHED INTO SAMARIA. The 7th Field Survey Coy R.E. used 2 copying cameras, 2 field enlarging and developing boxes, and 4 telephoto cameras to complete a series of 26 panoramas of enemy country from points in or behind the front line in Palestine. These photographs covered practically the whole of the line from the sea in the west to the mountains east of the Jordan Valley. The size of plates was 5" x 4", and the telephoto lenses were of 12" and 30", equivalent focal length, the latter being used most frequently. From the 5" x 4" negatives, enlargements to about double size were made. Consecutive photographs were joined together, and the scale and degree markings (showing bearings from the camera position from 'Grid North') were added in red ink, with one degree of arc approximately equalling 1.1". Copies were distributed to the War Office and Commander-in-Chief, downwards to corps, division, and artillery units concerned. The RAF also received copies. The hot conditions made telephotography extremely difficult due to heat haze, as well as the dust raised by troops, transport and gunfire. Photographic solutions had to be kept below 80°F, and without ice, some photography was impossible.
Panorama No. 20 taken from ?Asgood Hill (East) A.3.c.30.30 (map reference Bidieh [i.e. Biddya] C.4) with telephoto camera. (Titled thus on verso of photograph 1). Palestine: 7th Field Survey Company, Royal Engineers, Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 31 August 1918. Panorama composed of 15 photographs (each 210 x 160mm, numbered in pencil on verso), mounted in three rows of five photographs, scale, degree markings, prominent landmarks and placenames in red ink manuscript. (Photograph 1 with small chip at corner, light creasing associated with joins, photographs 14 and 15 more heavily creased with one closed tear.)
VERY RARE PHOTOGRAPHIC PANORAMA OF THE PALESTINE FRONT AS THE BRITISH PUSHED INTO SAMARIA. The 7th Field Survey Coy R.E. used 2 copying cameras, 2 field enlarging and developing boxes, and 4 telephoto cameras to complete a series of 26 panoramas of enemy country from points in or behind the front line in Palestine. These photographs covered practically the whole of the line from the sea in the west to the mountains east of the Jordan Valley. The size of plates was 5" x 4", and the telephoto lenses were of 12" and 30", equivalent focal length, the latter being used most frequently. From the 5" x 4" negatives, enlargements to about double size were made. Consecutive photographs were joined together, and the scale and degree markings (showing bearings from the camera position from 'Grid North') were added in red ink, with one degree of arc approximately equalling 1.1". Copies were distributed to the War Office and Commander-in-Chief, downwards to corps, division, and artillery units concerned. The RAF also received copies. The hot conditions made telephotography extremely difficult due to heat haze, as well as the dust raised by troops, transport and gunfire. Photographic solutions had to be kept below 80°F, and without ice, some photography was impossible.
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