WTF is this?!?

[garythegit]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Motorized-Zor...ryZ30030QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Looks nuts, where is the lens? What kind of pictures does it take??

 

[RML]

Whatever it is, it's expensive.

And I can't find a lens either.

 

[captainslack]

Wow! That's bizarre!

 

[JonP]

It looks like the S-206 / "Zola" described in Princelle (2nd Ed p198) made 1970-85 for use in a briefcase for "clandestine" work, OK spying.

 

[ampguy]

maybe it's a gun disguised as a zorki?? 😉

 

[garythegit]

lol! not exactly James Bond stuff is it 🙂

 

[RML]

lol! not exactly James Bond stuff is it 🙂

In 1975 this was probably quite state-of-the-art. Indeed not quite James Bond but hey, he was not real anyway.

Did I just spoil someone's fantasy? 😛

 

[Valkir1987]

There is a lens where the viewfinder should be, you can see the infinity mark. The camera must have a sort of prism system inside. But what kind of purpose would require such a camera? It might have been a miltary purpose.

 

[JonP]

There is no v/f with this, its hidden from view when in use.

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

Perhaps it's a quantum camera. You aim and it'll take a picture of one of the gazillion possibilities of the outcome. -- Looks like it'll always be the same outcome, though! 😉

I can't figure it out either.

Maybe what looks like the "finder" is actually the taking lens.

 

[garythegit]

In 1975 this was probably quite state-of-the-art. Indeed not quite James Bond but hey, he was not real anyway.

Did I just spoil someone's fantasy? 😛

lol! Not at all! 😀 But at least the west had the Minox 😉
https://www.cia.gov/cia/information/artifacts/minox.htm

I just would have thought the Soviets would have chose that small kiev camera instead of this!

 

[Sparrow]

In 1975 this was probably quite state-of-the-art. Indeed not quite James Bond but hey, he was not real anyway.

Did I just spoil someone's fantasy? 😛

In Dr No Bond had a mobile phone that was small enough to fit in a briefcase!!

 

[clintock]

The lens is the round thing that looks like a lens, it must have two mirrors or prisms to reflect the image onto the film plane- a periscope. -Like a SLR would work if you turned the mirror around backwards, the slr could take a photo of your eye through the eyepiece.
With all the controls up top it would work well on one's chest shooting through the opening of a coat, or from within a book etc. The black wart may be a spring motor.

 

[Skinny McGee]

Its a vibrator!