OK. I have spent about 30 minutes searching the archives and found lots of suggestions for in-flight photos through the canopy. Sorry, that just does not cut the mustard for me. I've shot photos through the open window of a Cessna for 24 years, but now I fly an RV9..... and the "through the canopy" shots just are not acceptable to me. The optical quality and reflections are not acceptable.
So have any of you folk installed a window in the plexi canopy in an RV.... Mine is a slider, but I still want to know if you have done a window on a tip-up. Yes, I know the structure is compromised. But the plexi comprimises the photo too.
Maybe a camera port on the fuselage is a better idea.... near the pilot's left knee. I could do that too and probably get good results.
All suggestions are welcome. But shooting without an additional optical surface is my goal.
Thanks,
John Severyn
N79LH
RV-9A FP O320 D1A
So have any of you folk installed a window in the plexi canopy in an RV.... Mine is a slider, but I still want to know if you have done a window on a tip-up. Yes, I know the structure is compromised. But the plexi comprimises the photo too.
Maybe a camera port on the fuselage is a better idea.... near the pilot's left knee. I could do that too and probably get good results.
All suggestions are welcome. But shooting without an additional optical surface is my goal.
Thanks,
John Severyn
N79LH
RV-9A FP O320 D1A