Blue y. Never, ever, heard of, or read ANYTHING about any difference in the gear,... hand held, small, belly mounted, large, the FN reg just says Photography!
And has done for decades. There were changes proposed many years ago, some finally fell off the CASA web site in 2003, initiated in 1998 ?, still have some paper work in the archive.
But like so much of the "progress" proposed by the confuseyoulator, it just doesnt happen. So much time and effort expended for no results at all, at great cost to the hapless taxpayer.
Ops normal for Fort Fumble, I'm afraid.
Horatio lb...Yep, film still on the go. The good 'old' aerial cameras are a lot cheaper than some of the latest hi- techo stuff that costs millions.
The hi res processed negs are scanned at 12 microns or whatever, and all put onto a hard drive which goes into the computer, put up onto the screen in pairs... and voila! The guy with the 3D glasses can get mapping from there.
And the stitched together pics made into a mosaics, photomaps, whatever
There are small format digital mapping cameras available... rather exxy for 30
mps and etc.... but even the shop stuff is catching up fast.
18mp &1100$ but the lens has to be calibrated/know distortions, for mapping.
Its fascinating to see the resolution on Google Earth that we can look at.
The military stuff must be beyond amazing.