“Unless the camera was mounted externally, photos taken from inside the canopy are crap because of the reflections.....”
Not so. Look up a guy named Heater Heatley and his pics. He was an F-14 RIO and took a ton of great shots from the back seat.
Okay, I found a handful of his pictures posted on line and every one of them has canopy reflections. Not to say that they aren't good pictures, but all of them I found looking through 50 or so websites have reflections. Got a link to any of his "great shots" that don't have canopy reflections?