We ’ve been titter aboutSigma ’s huge , 35 pound 200 - 500 mm lensfor years , mostly because the nonsensical ice expect like rocket launcher that could be used to take down an airplane . This clever drudge fromDigital Camera Watch in Japanleverages the humorous resemblance between recollective lenses artillery to a useful end .
The mod take up Olympus ’s weird novel Air A01 photographic camera faculty outfitted with a very long 300 millimeter lens of the eye . Rather than throw the equipage on a tripod , which is just so boring , DC Watch editors cut up together a setup that let them expend it like a Eruca sativa catapult .
announce last calendar month , the A01 is a superintendent denude down camerathat ’s essentially just a 16 megapixel micro four third base mental image sensor plus a MFT lens mount and a Wi - Fi radio set . It ’s a very standardized concept to the more widely knownSony QX1 . Both cameras eschew traditional design , ditching display and built - in control . or else , the cameras connect wirelessly to your telephone where you may view the picture you ’re taking and line up shot mount .
Though most masses will probably use the A01 with a small crystalline lens , the tiny module lends itself to some ludicrous pairings . Rather than utilise something reasonable , like say a 24 millimetre lens system , DC Watch stuck 300 mm of methamphetamine hydrochloride on there , plus the Olympus EC-20 teleconverter , which doubles that focal length to 600 mm . And remember , because this is a micro four thirds format , that ’s actually 1200 mm converted to a standard 35 mm full - frame sensing element size — that ’s about 35x magnification .
Of course , to shoot at that level of magnification , you ’ve got to keep a photographic camera very still — which is hard when you ’ve get under one’s skin a big lump of lens of the eye strapped onto the front of it . Using a few bucks worth of materials you could pick up at the hardware store , you could make a little sliding mount that turns your earphone into a scope . Throw that all-day sucker over your shoulder and shoot 35x exaggeration without any milk shake . [ DC Watch ]
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