This 600mm ‘Bazooka’ Lens from 1955 is Rather Impressive
Now here's a lens you probably don't want to be seen with in populated areas these days: it's a Novoflex 600mm lens with a pistol grip, introduced in 1955 and manufactured in West Germany.
Now here's a lens you probably don't want to be seen with in populated areas these days: it's a Novoflex 600mm lens with a pistol grip, introduced in 1955 and manufactured in West Germany.
It looks like the future is going to be full of scary-looking weapons that are designed to take down rogue drones. The latest one: a shoulder-mounted anti-drone bazooka.
Here's one crazy way to use the new Olympus Air wireless modular camera: "rocket launcher" style. The photographer above attached the Olympus Air to a 300mm lens, flipped the lens upside down, and used the tripod mount ring to attach a smartphone live view and a magnifying loupe.
SigZilla is gone now. You’ll be able to see its work in action if you watch the World Series. I wouldn’t be surprised if you catch a glimpse of it mounted to FOX’s Vision Research camera. Before it left, though, we were able to -- with a great deal of difficulty -- get it mounted in the lab and run one basic Imatest series.
Sigma's 200-500mm telephoto lens is so large (2.3 feet long and 34.6 pounds) and so expensive ($26,000) that many people just can't take it seriously. Last year we shared some hilarious customer reviews that poked fun at "the green monster." If you've been wondering how the lens actually looks, works, and performs, the folks over at LensRentals recently purchased a copy of the lens for their inventory and snapped some behind-the-scenes photos of their initial tests.
This is, in fact, the proper way to carry the Nikkor 1200-1700mm f/5.6-8.0 super telephoto lens. Weighing in at …
Once your lenses get to a certain level of awesomeness, you have to start carrying them like bazookas. Can …