This section is from the book "Airplane Photography", by Herbert E. Ives. Also available from Amazon: Airplane photography.
In the English service the camera was first attached to the plane outside the fuselage by a rigid frame, to which the camera was strapped or bolted (Fig. 81). Obvious objections exist to placing the camera in this position, such as the resistance of the wind and the difficulty of changing magazines. However, in the earlier English planes with their fuselages of small cross section no other accessible place for the camera was to be found. Vibrational disturbances with the rigid outboard mounting are quite serious, as is so clearly indicated by the trace shown in Fig. 78. Extremely short exposures are alone possible, and a very large proportion of the pictures are apt to be indistinct.
 
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