Any Cessna who's window opens, can have a very very minor temporary failure of the little spring that pulls the arm that holds the window half open. With that arm taped out of the way, that window will very nicely float up, and stay against the underside of the wing through the entire useful speed range. It should be all you need for good photography. The minor failure can be easily "repaired" following the flight, and there is no safely concern at all with such flight.
With one of the windows on a C172 fully open, how far does the slipstream extend into the cockpit affecting the stability of the camera? Suppose my passenger has a semi-professional camera body with a zoom lens suitable for what we want to photograph (buildings and sports complexes, all from around 1000 feet). He sits RHS. Does he take the pictures through the RH window or the LH?
Obviously I've taken snapshots before, but when the weather gets a little better, the flowers come out and such, we want to do a semi-professional series of photographs of a few places that have our personal interest. These places happen to be in the Schiphol CTR and although we've had permission before to go there, they obviously don't want us there experimenting for extended periods of time. So any tips are welcome.
(Note - we don't expect to get paid or anything, so it won't be aerial work. It's just an excuse to go flying.)