"Wired" cuts a camera and lens in half

[chris91387]

really cool cross-sections of some lenses and cameras on Wired website right now.

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/06/gallery-of-cut.html

there's even a tri-elmar sawed in half and it's interesting to see all the internal mechanics.

enjoy.

 

[swoop]

I think now I get why they cost a fortune.

 

[Matthew Allen]

The Leica shop in Paris has one of those bisected Tri-Elmars on display. I may be misremembering but I think they had both halves. Very interesting anyway, it's worth a look if you're in the neighbourhood.

Matthew

 

[crawdiddy]

Remind me never to loan photo equipment to those Wired bozos....

 

[mhv]

Wired did not cut these. They went to a museum in Germany, and once they got their prints back from the drugstore, they wrote that blog post.