Pics of SLR cameras and lenses sawn in half - very cool


I’ve actually been looking for pictures like this for ages. I find SLRs and lenses very fascinating, but it wasn’t until I saw a lens cut open like this in the window of a shop in Paris that I understood just how complicated they are. You ask what you’re paying for when you buy a really good prime lens or a $1000 zoom; you’re looking at it.

The first picture is cool, as it shows how they’ve managed to create a hybrid in the DSLR; after all, the mechanical element needs to remain the same, but they have to fit a whole PCB, card mechanism and LCD in there as well. Love this stuff.

Photos by the linked article’s author, Charlie Sorrel

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dead mike (Who am I?)

Hey man, I just saw this elsewhere and was thinking about that shop in Paris. Cool stuff.

 
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Devin Coldewey (Who am I?)

mike, everybody!
everybody, mike.

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