Fellow Contributors,
I too welcome the posting from Alecsandros, and hope he will contribute in the same excellent way he has done before.
It has been said:
This type of analysis has already been done for another photo
Respectfully this is irrelevant here, why cannot we concentrate on the contents of this particularly significant photograph?
Unfortunately instead of considering evidence in this photograph there is once again an attempt to relate it to its place in some speculative and unproven time scale.
Having more stills from the same time interval will help
We are surely aware certain additional photos are withheld from general consideration by some individuals for various reasons, but whilst they remain intransigent we must work with what we have. It would be interesting to have comments, as requested, on the following:
Re NH 69730, If accepting DS origin, do you agree/disagree
1/ Muzzle end sleeves indicate 4.1" barrels?
2/ Plane drawn through muzzle ends aligns directly towards Bismarck?
3/ Plane drawn through muzzles indicate photographer POV approx. 30 degrees "ahead" of muzzles?
4/ Barrels are approximately horizontal re horizon?
5/ If 3 and 4 accepted that this indicates photographer (because he has to be standing on deck), is looking at starboard side mount stowed fore and aft pointing forwards?
My reading of Bill's posting is that his photogrammetric analysis broadly agrees with these points. If the evidence in the photograph suggests Bismarck is very close (Too Bloody Close!) indeed, well that is what it shows.
If the photograph depicts Bismarck from about 30-40 degrees off her bow and from
mannschaftskuche on the Oberdeck looking more or less perpendicular to the centerline.
PG is sailing on a course well over 90 degrees from Bismarck's heading whilst Bismarck is still firing.
All the best
wadinga