Provision was made in the various variants of reconnaissance Spitfires to fit various types of cameras, these cameras were arranged in different combinations to make up the following installations:

Early Spitfire camera installations

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This was the first installation of cameras into a Reconnaissance Spitfire Type 1A.
The F.24 was fitted with a 5" lens. Flying at 33,000ft the imagery taken had an approx scale of 1:79,200 making detail too small for interpretation.
Later, the 5" lenses were replaced with a 8" lenses and these cameras were fitted in the Spitfire Type 1B

Later Spitfire camera installations (PR IV to PR XIX)

"G" Type installation

Fitted with two vertical F.24 cameras, the front camera with either a 5" or 8" lens. The rear camera having a 8" or 14" lens fitted. The oblique camera, also an F.24, could be fitted with either a 8" or 14" lens.
This type of installation, which was fitted in the PR 1G and the PR XIII ensured imagery could be taken anywhere between 500 and 10,000 feet.

"W" Type installation

The two F.8 20" cameras were set as a fan, set at an inclined of 10° to the vertical and 20° to each other.

"X" Type installation

This installation consists of two fanned F.24 14" vertical cameras and one F.24 8" oblique camera
The vertical cameras were set at an inclined of 8½° to the vertical and 17° to each other.

Only one camera fitted in this installation, an F.52 36" camera. It was used for bomb damage assessment.

Known as the universal installation, either of the following combinations could be fitted:

(a) Two fanned F.52 36"  cameras
(b) Two fanned F.8 20"  or F.52 20" camera
(c) Two fanned F.24 14" or  8" cameras and a F.24 14" oblique camera