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Tactical Camera
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."
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.
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The character Holling from the tv show Northern Exposure had something like this.
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?
I do not recommend this for the "man on the street" journalist.
Aim that at a cop and your more then likely going to get shot.
Personally, I'll stick to cell phones.
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.
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.
Why oh why would a photographer (excuse me, "Photo-Journalist"), want to be holding ANYTHING that looks remotely like a weapon, especially when in a War Zone?
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Nikon D200
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Would not something like this or this be far more practical? Now if this camera actually looked like a gun that would be something.
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I have long wondered why more public officials are not assassinated using a pistol mounted in a video camera.
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What I'd like to see is the youtube video of someone pulling this out in a highschool sports game to take pictures of the game while standing right next to the local policeman...
Definitely causes much more widespread destruction than a rifle. Expect a prohibition against these things at any major event, except for licensed professionals of course.
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good old max headroom. One of his colleagues had this.
These have been commercially available for decades. Why was this even posted? Slow news day?
Does it have select fire to switch between semi-automatic, full auto, or three round burst? What is the firing rate? Can it be field-stripped with a minimum of tools?
If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.
These things were mass-produced in Russia (and probably elsewhere) until very recently. Look here for an example.
This isn't exactly a revolutionary idea (no pun intended)
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of course, being designed for the purpose this will probably work better.
...probably don't need to finish it...
cell phone? look like your contemplating suicide all the time
laser pointer? really give your presentation that extra POW
pencil or pen? is it really mightier than the sword now?
the point is, there's many things you could put a gun handle on, and announce to the world "i lack the social skills to understand what makes people uncomfortable around me or i am an antisocial loner is actively trying to chase people away from me"
all at the same time making yourself 100x more vulnerable to getting shot by the police!
stupidest. most. useless. mod. ever.
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Taking pictures is illegal now and helps the terrorists. But we still have our second amendment rights. This cleverly conceals the dangerous camera as a harmless rifle.
It's rare that you're presented with a knob whose only two positions are Make History and Flee Your Glorious Destiny.
Although the combination of the SKS stock and the AR15 handgrip is odd, and wouldn't have been my first choice.
Of course, I'm not a particular fan of the SKS in general. Mine was accurate enough for power-plinking, but the stock just sucked.
IIRC there was a front squeeze grip for focusing (this was well before autofocus caught on) and the rear one with the trigger operated the shutter.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
So you can shoot from the hip or rapid fire without having to aim first. (You can photoshop out the red dot later...)
I've got one of those Zenit's with the 300mm Helios lens and sniper mount. Here is an example shot of the Orion Nebula and here is comet Hale-Bopp. Both were made in a light-polluted city (Athens), shot through a cheap lens and scanned with a crappy scanner, so don't expect quality.
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Max Headroom did it. Season 1, episode 5: "War" had new staff reporter Janie Crane using an RR-7 camera gun. Camera lens was plugged into an interface at the end of the barrel, used for long-distance surveillance.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
"What do you get when you mount a Nikon D200 with a standard rifle stock?"
Shot.
kulakovich
... some years ago, I was talking to one of those New York model types. She kept referring to 'head shots'. So I told her that the odds were better aiming for the center of mass.
Have gnu, will travel.
...I have one of those that I ordered from one of the New York camera dealers thirty-odd years ago. It's a nice way of holding a long lens steady. Unfortunately, these days it tends to scream "I'M A TERRORIST!!!", so I haven't used it in quite a while.
rj
All our main battle rifles have optical scopes on them, and many other nations are using optics or red-dots like the Aimpoint sights.
It is only a matter of time before someone integrates a cheap digital camera into those scopes that takes a picture every time the weapon is fired.
DG
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I've mounted the business end of a rifle to the body of my Nikon. It's pretty hard to hold and the recoil bruises my face where I look in the eyepiece but I'm the only one on my block with one!
You can capture some killer action photos with it!
but, what's wrong with this? I do this any day when it's cold enough...
--- I am known for the ones who want to find me on the net. Is that a privacy risk or a privilege? One might wonder..
This is the perfect design to get you an instant cavity search.
I might know what I'm talkin' about, but then again, this is Slashdot...
Could someone explain, in a few sentences, what exactly is the advantage of this over a regular camera, why/where would you use it and what do you expect to achieve with it there that you can't normally with a camera? Thanks!
a Canon instead.
Combining cameras with a gun stock is nothing new; various manufacturers make something which either looks like a gun stock or basically is one. They're quite popular for wildlife photography because they make it easier to track and shoot at the same time.
The KGB used something similar for covert photography in the 1930 and 40s, iirc. Come to think of it I've seen pictures of, I think, US troops using something similar.
Yeah, I had a sig once; I got bored of it.
...if I was a photographer in a war zone, I think the LAST thing I'd like is something that makes it look like my camera is a gun?
Wow. Worst. Invention. Ever.
-Styopa
The responses to this post make a couple of things clear:
This setup is used by wildlife photographers. A couple of seconds and a friend with a three-digit IQ is all you need to figure out why.
I'm a Programmer. That's one level above Software Engineer and one level below Engineer.
This guy who invent the stuff, maybe a s-p-y. Not so fresh, I knew some photographer made something like that. Fun.
everytime you're ready to take a picture: "Ahh.. lighting is perfect.. KLicKBANG! Dammit shot it again!
stems from the daily body count of urban dwellers due to rural dwellers insistence on carrying around firearms. were it possible to have different gun laws for the urban dweller versus the rural dweller, i'd support the avergae rural hick's desire to have guns. which i understand: the police are far away. but as it is, right now, urban dwellers suffer for the sake of what rural dwellers want. yet we outnumber you. so i think it is time, in proper democratic fashion, that we reverse this equation and rural dwellers begin suffer for the sake of what urban dwellers want
yes, in my world, there will be rural dwellers who will be the mortal victims of a crime because they were denied access to a firearm. this is in opposition to the orders of magnitude more urban dwellers who are mortal victims of morons running around with guns in today's world. therefore, my world is superior to the present status quo
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Definitely, the best way to get yourself killed anywhere near anything protected by Americans... Shoot first - ask questions later. Let god sort 'em out.
There isn't much doubt that you told it how it was because you quoted ion.simon.c and you did finally prove he has been trolling you already here and did lose despite his saying he got the better of you the first time he attempted a trolling of yourself. I now see why you use quoting others along with the links where it occurred because there is no doubting the words others use and your technique though bloated does seem to do the job. It is ridiculous how ion.simon.c is avoiding your questions but he only brought it on himself. Perhaps it is time to leave him be though because you have proved your point and he won't answer you or myself in regard to his stating he is a programmer. I do not think so by this time and I am certain others do not either. ion.simon.c and his running from our questions which were the same ones he asked of you only proves your point. Some people do not have any shame and I think that ion.simon.c must be such a person.