G'day All,
I've just now received these two links concerning the recent shuttle launch. Cameras were mounted on the left solid rocket booster, both fore and aft and they give a very interesting perspective of launch.
The movies are about 13meg in size and go for just over two minutes each.
http://www.nasa.gov/mov/151915main_sts-121_left_aft_srb_camera.mov
http://www.nasa.gov/mov/151916main_sts-121_left_forward_srb_camera.mov
The second link is pretty good as towards the end you can clearly see the exhaust plume stretching all the way down to the ground and the shadow of that plume is also visible.
Attached is a still from one of the movies.
Peter.