A 1938 Leica rifle camera by E. Leitz, New York. Sold for €144K.
neat post thanks op
Ballsy dentist buy but not as ballsy as a real gun
>>4390496good way to get gunned down by american police
>>4390604Why burgers hate photographers that much?
>>4390631possibly, but anything that looks like a gun will get you killed there, especially if you're bit swarthy
>>4390496What was the original intent in designing this horrible monstrosity?
>>4390779teh lulz
>>4390496my grandpa built one of those in the 70s. I went hunting with him and he brought it once in the early 80s. He never took it out again but it stayed mounted on his workshop wall. I aksed him what he was thinking and he said it was a thing people did at the time, but that it was just a good way of making a camera really fucking heavy and unstable by holding it way the fuck out in front of you unsupported. I asked him if that's the case why don't we build gunz so they fucking shoot from all the way back at the shoulder so they'd be more stable and he asked if I was fucking stupid.I haven't ruled it out.
>>4390779I would assume it's easier to aim and track a moving subject, it's a bit more instinctive. It also has the potential to be more stable, until your arms get tired of holding it up and start shaking.>>4390808Maybe he was calling you stupid because bullpups exist.
>>4390604Obsessed and seething
>>4390808It's not unsupported if it's in contact with your shoulder, with two arms pulling it tight. As for long and short guns, there's actually a time where you want a longer gun. Say you do trap shooting, where the clay targets are going at an angle mostly away from you. You want the mass to be forward to steady your barrel movement as the inertia prevents you from moving it unsteadily. This is different from skeet focused guns where you swing one direction to catch a target going perpendicular to your aim, and then have to move the other direction to catch the other target. Those guns tend to be shorter by a few inches. Now, I've never used a camera with a stock, but I imagine it would be pretty stable to point and shoot since your fingers have no real impact on your camera, since your hand and elbow joints are tensioned holding the stock to your shoulder. If someone has experience otherwise, I'm interested in it.
>>4392768I broke a tripod once.The foot plate and half a leg still remained attached. Leaning that half leg against my shoulder like a bump stock actually made the camera way more steady and panning much smoother.I'm certain it can work. I'm also certain someone will call cops on you and get you killed.
>>4390808What you described does exist. The reason they're not more popular is because they're a bit awkward to use and cunts are scared of having their head so close to the chamber of a high powered rifle for some reason (it is a mystery). To a lesser extent they force you to mount the optics farther away from the barrel which makes it harder to guesstimate drop- less of an issue in a calculated setting.
>>4392778I've never noticed how much the W2000 looks like a G11
