RMK TOP 15
Friday, 3rd November 2006 by Alex Turnbull
Have you ever wondered what kind of camera takes the aerial photographs Google use? Well, at least in Anchorage, Alaska, the company taking the pictures uses a Zeiss RMK TOP 15 Aerial Survey Camera System.
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Alex has decided that his title will be Senior Vice President of Stuff.
Isn’t the brand of the camera, it’s the label of the World ^^
i don’t wonder if it is Made in Taywan
And just south Fiducial 3 pops up several times. All caused by pushing the edge of the photographic survey out to the max.
Manufacturer and supplier of the RMK-TOP Aerial Survey Camera system is Carl Zeiss, Germany and Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
and it’s the best camera on the world! see Phil’s remark!
>>and it’s the best camera on the world!
Except when the shutters fail!
yeah, but that gives you at least some days off, fortunaterly tha exchange can be done in 1 day. It is a true blue, not a green cam. What will be happen with the 9 shutters of a silver cam?
Over a year ago, I was trying to find the Nike missile sites around Anchorage (Site Summit, Site Bay, ect.), and I came across that. However, at that time it was a red “bullseye” without any text.
Lol, and there is a red crosshair just south of it
It is a great camera with excellent contrast in colour and resolution.
Right, Lee!!!
The Z/I RMK-TOP is a standard 9″x9″ film aerial mapping camera which competes with the Leica RC30 camera platform. Both are fantastic cameras. However, I believe Google’s images are captured using a metric CCD-based camera (metric is defined as camera with a known stable interior geometry). The RMK-TOP and RC30 are benchmarks of mature film-based aerial mapping capture hardware industry.
you see, even mature camera’s capture for Google and it’s competitor. Even if everything heading to full-digital. Why ? ??? Because it’s reliable and works. Works every day. Works for years. Brings money back to the owner and to Google. Better film based – as a silver bucket full of electronic problems. And indeed, I mean not the silver bucket on a blue base 🙂
Hi, Do you know what the sperctral range for the each band?