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Tactical Camera

Posted by samzenpus on from the guns-make-everything-better dept.

An anonymous reader writes "What do you get when you mount a Nikon D200 with a standard rifle stock? Why a Tactical Camera of course! One that no reporter would be caught with in a war zone or covering any armed action anywhere. What started out as a tongue in cheek project for April Fools wound up being quite the successful demonstration of concept. It features a fully functional trigger; it has controls for operating the shutter and auto focus; and for the patient shots, it has a mounted bipod. Carry sling optional."

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  1. Photo Sniper by Misanthrope · · Score: 4, Informative

    This was done a long time ago during the cold war, it's slightly less inconspicuous than a tripod, though much more likely to get you shot by the police.

    http://shop.lomography.com/zenit/fotosniper/

    1. Re:Photo Sniper by Andy+Dodd · · Score: 4, Informative

      Darn, you beat me to this.

      Modern equivalents (which probably function better for camera purposes but don't have the "cool factor" of using an actual rifle stock) are the BushHawk (highend unit) and the Agonic Stedi-Stock (relatively cheap, doesn't have the trigger switch and cabling the BushHawk has)

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    2. Re:Photo Sniper by lastchance_000 · · Score: 3, Informative

      Google shopping results

    3. Re:Photo Sniper by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      Leica made a rifle stock camera pre-war as well. It's truly a beauty, though incredibly hard to find these days.

    4. Re:Photo Sniper by Lumpy · · Score: 4, Informative

      Yup applying gun parts to cameras is old hat. I find it funny as kids "discover" new things that us old geezers have done for decades.

      Like a shotgun sight on the top of your SLR. works awesome for fast action or sports shots, you can shoot without looking through the lens and with both eyes open. I get perfect shots every time with it. and I dont get killed by that motorcycle that was 20 feet in the air and is now coming down wher I am standing.

      The fresh new hires for the local news look at my camera with questions, and then say "you cant get a good photo that way"

      I ask to look at their camera, they dont even have a focus prism. None of these "photographers" coming out of college know how to take photographs or how to use a camera. They all rely on autofocus and program modes.

      Athough IS lenses area godsend for still life or low motion zoom shots. but they are worthless for action shots where you are panning trying to catch a bike doing 200mph around a track.

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  2. Northern Exposure by stoolpigeon · · Score: 2, Informative

    The character Holling from the tv show Northern Exposure had something like this.

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    It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
  3. This will get you shot... by Manip · · Score: 3, Informative

    You want to run around either a Warzone or hell the Streets of any major city with this thing? You'll wind up getting either shot, or if you're lucky tasered.

  4. MANY reporters dead via shoulder mounted videocams by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    At least 4 or 5 cameramen in recent years in middle eastern police actions (wars) have been shot due to large shoulder stabilized videocams looking threatening.

    And the army always gets off, even if caught with witnesses

    http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2008/08/2008813164823716764.html

    Better would be to start hiding propelled grenade launchers in videocameras to even the score.

  5. Old concept by dmesg0 · · Score: 2, Informative

    These things were mass-produced in Russia (and probably elsewhere) until very recently. Look here for an example.

  6. Re:what else can we mount on gun handles? by Unending · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've never understood your antigun bigotry anyway, but in this case your just being silly.
    People have been using stocks on cameras for somewhere around a century now, they aren't useless they are actually quite useful.
    One area where they shine is if you are trying to do any sort of photography where you need to be able to take a steady shot of a subject that only holds still for a moment.