Unconventional Photography & The Greatest Lens Ever Made

[evan]

[evan]

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Unconventional Photography:

Where else have you seen photography? Maybe it wasn't somebody sitting on a cliff with a tripod, or a person in a studio room with flashes setup and lights all over.

Maybe it was a doctor, sitting in an office, that's actually where I got this idea. I was at the eye doctor's, just sitting there waiting for the DR. to come in, when I spotted a pretty cool little machine. This.

http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/healthcare/products/eyecare/digital_mydriatic_retinal_cameras/cf_1#Overview

Hooked up to a 60D, now you can imagine my surprise when I realize what it was. It essentially takes impossibly zoomed in photos of your eye. I had my eye photographed and then she showed me all the different blood vessels and it was pretty cool. I asked about the machine and she said she'd gotten it about a year or two ago, for about...$24,000. That's where my jaw dropped, $24,000!?!?! Plus the extra $1,000 or so for the 60D and you're looking at a $25,000 setup for taking pictures of eyes.

After that I started thinking about where else cameras are used outside of the classical "photography" world. I though about roller coasters, the ridiculously high shutter speed combined with a high powered flash that gives you those stupid pictures where you're screaming.

Then there's the surveillance sector, I always love to picture some guy in an FBI van with a DSLR and a huge super-telephoto lens taking pictures through windows of criminals.

Think about it for a second, where else have you seen a camera been used?

The Greatest Lens Ever Made:

The eye, truly, and ultimately, the greatest piece of "glass" ever created. Ever. I know there have been threads on the eye before, but I've been seriously contemplating the idea of science being able to tap into your brain and record what you're seeing. They've already recorded brain waves and put them into horrible, blurred, and mis-figured images. They were surprisingly accurate actually. The image was a replica 90% of the time, but it had distortions and many other issues. What if, however, your actually vision could be recorded. The first thing I would do was going outside and gettin' some nice pan shots. The aperture of your eye seems to be about 0.2 - 0.5 from what I've tested. I don't know the focal length, but obviously your eye is a prime...unless you can zoom...but....

So yeah, what do you guys think about using the eye as a lens, I think it'd be sick.

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I wrote it (badly I know)

And I guess you would record the image on a memory card insert that could go somewhere in your frontal lobe.
 
Not debating that you would get awesome images if your eye was a lens, but I'm really on the fence about it.

For one you would get amazing stuff, and if it were available I wouldn't pass up the opportunity to 'use' it. Who would pass it up? But that being said, I wouldn't give up photography with a camera. There's something special about photography when it's not instant, like a camera with your eye would be. It would just be a different form.
 
not really relevant, but an exact replica of our eye, in lens form probably would be a pretty shitty lens. inb4 i am assraped by someone who knows someting about cameras.
 
But just think about the bokeh?

I mean, DA FUCKING BOKEH??!?!?!

Better yet, test it. Put your hand about 2 in. from your eyes in the center of them. Focus only on your hand, then pull the background into focus.
 
Ive always thought about how they should try to replicate the eye with a camera lens, very, very interesting
 
i guess we'd be an UWA with insanely soft corners or something? lol. i think about this a lot. no distortion, i don't think we get CA, flawless white balance and great low light performance.
 
Meh, I think it's fabulous when good photographers can take something we see everyday and make it into something beautiful. The human eye misses a lot of things.
 
Electron-microscope + Camera.

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My university has one of these and I got to play around with it for a dew hours during my MEMS class. I looked at a cockroach I found dead in the lab..........shit was amazing
 
See this is what I meant. Pictures like this make me yazz so hard.

Oh and my eyeball is pretty sweet, very thick veins. Nice and strong.
 
For an eye doctor practice, 25k isn't that big of a deal for something they use every day.

And the roller coaster thing is probably a dslr just hooked up to an auto remote with a normal flash, nothing that special.
 
electron microscopes are ridiculously expensive, especially the ones that produce the 3d image like that. They run about 25k with everything if I'm correct. Very cool stuff though, there's some awesome pictures of shit like cells and other bugs with Electron microscopes
 
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