Lot of the aerophotography stuff is switching to UAVs these days though, it's easier to obtain pilots and the capability of modern UAV platforms is just amazing.
AFAIK no privately available UAV system can match the range and flexibility for GA aircraft. For example photographing things that are dozens of miles from any road or airport. If I’m wrong I’d be interested to learn more.
A DJI Matrice 300 can fly for an hour, at a distance of up to 15km [1]. Agreed, it's not going to be useful in the extreme outback, but enough to cover a lot of use cases in areas near civilization.
Generally there are different classes of aerophoto ops and most UAVs so far seem about opening up markets that were previously closed due to high prices
