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Originally Posted by nightshade  |
I assisted with some aerial photography from a tethered balloon smudge years ago. We used a 'balloon' homemade from polythene and with, I seem to remember, four tethers, so we could position it precisely. Filled with hydrogen, but nowadays helium is more easily available. We used a Robot camera, and I think the electrical release ran by cable down one of the tethers. The camera was mounted so that it always hung level (pointing vertically down).
It would be a lot simpler nowadays!
thunder