Cameras and lenses cut in half

Vitaliy_Kiselev

Sony RX1

Vitaliy_Kiselev

Old Panasonic LC1

See the rest http://repairnotes.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/lc1-disassembly-guide/#

Vitaliy_Kiselev

Not a camera, but anyway:

Ebacherville

cameras are an amazing feat of electronic and mechanical engineering.. very cool pics.. and yeah those cut it in half artists, that's got to be a intensive job.. its not like they just slap it in a bandsaw and it comes out cut in half.. lol

Vitaliy_Kiselev

FujiFilm X-100

See more at http://www.jamesmaherphotography.com/photoblog_view_post/767-taking-apart-the-fuji-x100

Vitaliy_Kiselev

Look at the rest at: http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2012/03/undressing-an-nex

Vitaliy_Kiselev

Look at the rest at http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2012/04/d7000-dissection

Vitaliy_Kiselev

Sony A77

Vitaliy_Kiselev

Vitaliy_Kiselev

OM Kit lens

Vitaliy_Kiselev

Olympus OM-D E-M5

Via: engadget.com

Vitaliy_Kiselev

D800

raoul

Here is a funny article that contradicts the idea I had above:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/16/4-000-leica-lens-split-in-two-sold-on-ebay-as-1-000-piece-of/

@Vitaliy_Kiselew you wrote that you are looking for more lens porn pics. I found plenty by googling "lens cutaway". I'm posting just a few because I don't know how the server will react to lots of attachments. If you want more let me know, I saved quite a few on my PC.

raoul

I just noticed there is a guy selling halfes of Zeiss lenses on Ebay. Here are two pics of 1/2 Distagon 15mm 1:2.8. He wants USD 4999 = EUR 3655 for it. The lens can be bought in shops for EUR 3200.
So is this a new business idea: Buy a lens, cut it in halves and sell the two halves for more than double the price?

I'm sure it isn't easy to cut them as kron mentioned above but a few thousand bucks a cut makes it seem quite profitable. The front glass seen in the second pic seems to have suffered in the operation.

The auction is here:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-ZEISS-DISTAGON-T-ZM-15mm-2-8-CUTAWAY-MODEL-/300610309035?pt=Film_Cameras&hash=item45fdc54bab

Check his other auctions to see more pictures of Zeiss "cutaway models" for sale.

raoul

X-rays of Lomo (top) and Hawk (bottom) 100mm anamorphic lenses. Do you see any similarity?

Well I guess Hawk copied Lomo as those damned capitalists allways do!

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~smort1/lomos/lomos

Vitaliy_Kiselev

Vitaliy_Kiselev

Fujinon lens

Vitaliy_Kiselev

Exploded A77 (Photo by Andrew Raid)

Vitaliy_Kiselev

Canon 1000D

kron

I remember watching a TED talk about people who do this professionally, cutting things in half for pictorial purpose, this is a lot more complicated than it look.

Ralph_B

Here's something fun - not camera lenses, but high-end telescope eyepieces put into an x-ray machine! If you're into astronomy, you'll dig this. Here's a link to the original review.

http://www.svenwienstein.de/HTML/es_14mm_ethos_13mm_English.html

Vitaliy_Kiselev

ZEISS MAKRO PLANAR T* ZE 50mm/2.0

ZEISS PLANAR T* ZF2 85mm/1.4

brianluce

@Vitaliy
Thanks, that's interesting, didn't realize you cracked into the physical camera body. Someday you should post a pic of your mad laboratory where everything happens.

Vitaliy_Kiselev

@brianluce
If you mean firmware hacking - it is software.
If you mean dumping - it is hard hardware stuff.

brianluce

Related question, V, when you reinvent these GH cams and hack them, you never actually open the cams do you? You just patch in with USB or whatever right? It's purely code for you right? Or is this top secret info, and you'd have to kill me if you told me.

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