Nikon D3 Cut In Half
I visited the Tokyo Eco Products convention the other day (2008/12/12) to be exact and naturally I headed straight for the Nikon booth where my gaze immediately fell upon this beauty: a Nikon D3 cut in half for all of our camera porn pleasures! For a technophile camera lover as myself, I was for once happy to be a foreigner in Japan: the staff politely ignored my feeble attempts to take a decent photo through the counter glass. I felt slightly incestous: a Nikon D60 photographing a crippled D3. Behold all the beauty that is Nikon technology! And pray that you never see anything like this again.
AF-S Nikkor 14-24mm
Nikon D3 cut in half
The inside of a Nikon D3
A lot of glass in that lens
Update! This post is not merely as cool, it is just a dismantled Nikon Coolpix S60. It is cool, however, to compare the lenses! The 14-24 is impressive on the D3, the S60… I can barely see it!
tokyobling.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/nikon-s60-autopsy/
simply amazing, and a bit creepy…
Wow! Finally an explanation of why lenses are so heavy…
As informative as it is painful to look at .
ouch……..
wicked o_o
Dunno about you people, but I think that in today’s world, a 6mpix half-frame dslr just wouldn’t make it…
And it looks like it has no weather sealing.
Wow! There’s a lot of fat glass inside the lens.
Good to see that the tripod screw hole actually is in the middle
So … half-frame finally comes to digital.
I once visited a med school and tucked away in the basement was a display with a human body cut into 1″ thick sections and sandwiched in plexiglass. You could flip though this guy like a book mounted to a wall. Almost as scary as this post…
no one would dare cut a canon in half…….thank goodness.
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This is just like the photography version of the bodies exhibit.
Ah, the long awaited Nikon D1.5
That is cuh-razy! Nice post
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oh wow, the insides are really crazy !
And here I thought this post was announcing a cut in price!
A lot of space can be saved to make camera smaller using a digital viewfinder and no mirrow ……. and new optics. That is a big problem. Big change.
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Very cool!
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this reminds me of the “Body Worlds Exhibit”, where they have bodies without skin on them. Don’t ask me why, but this IS cool and a bit creepy.
Amazing. Greetings from Russia!
I am not a photographer but I’m impressed anyway.
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I wonder if this model would cost half as much…
Superb backface culling!
Simply nice. I like it, I love it…
That’s totally wicked cool!
I guess now we know why the lenses are so expensive. Not only the high quality glass but the complexity of it…
wonder that they used to cut it in half? light saber?
Бля, шоэтта?
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Thanks for the amaze-ing in-sight!
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Half the weight, but you’d have to clean the sensor constantly!
Crazy people
This is a real piece of art to cut it so beautiful and clean
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I love it! And it doesn’t creep me out (perhaps because I’m a Pentaxian
Well..
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Awesome!
Where’s the other half ????
The other half was in another display case next to it… Ken Rockwell has better pics of them on his site: http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d3/performance-pre.htm
TimR
Niagara Falls, ON
NOOOOOOO!!!!! Someone stop that man from hurting that camera!!!!! Why am I torn between being impressed … and wanting to cry?! ;p
I’m impressed. Really good to see the real thing cut in half than looking the diagram right?
Wicked cool!
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cool
but how did they cut it
Oh my god. So freekin cool
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Awesome!
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I wonder what did they do with the other half !!!
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It was impressive! Super impressive. Reminds me when the last time I learn physic about light reflection
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Un D3 coupé en deux…
Un visiteur de la Convention Tokyo Eco Products a ramené des clichés d’un D3 monté coupé en deux et à posté ses images sur son blog. Simplement coupé en deux.
Avis aux amateurs de belle mécanique, à voir absolument !…
Ken had a pic of this when the D3 came out, it’s old news.
I really wish I had gone to this eco product exhibition. Thanks for sharing this very unique look at a D3. It was a great find.
I too was amazed by the thickness of the glass in the 14-24mm. Now I know why the good Nikkor lenses are so heavy.
Amazing. Thanks for taking th pics.
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I’ve got the other half, if anyone’s interested…
Wow – great post. I am amazed at the lens – first time I see the insides of one and that glass is really special!
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engineering marvel. i thought it’s got a lot of “parts” you know, but the inside, is simple and very minimal.
The cut is so clean … I wonder what was used to cut it? Hitokiri Battousai’s katana, perhaps?
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Camera autopsies always gross me out.
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oh my God..beautiful. Regards from Yogyakarta City, Indonesia.
where is the other half?
seeing it cut in half like that hurt my feelings just a bit :/
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Amazing…but whoz one is this???
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Nice one! Wonder what the insurance company said and what was the excuse???
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lo que le cuesta a uno una camara, con solo tenerla en las manos, aunque sea por la mitad.
Nice authopsy, looks like a s60
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Way cool but why a Nikon I have the F5, D2x, and D3 so sad but wow cool as anything.
Kirkland Wa.
Very cool….
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Half price?
woow…amazing
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You probably didn’t need to be a gaijin devil to be allowed to take photos.. places in Japan are generally fine with your taking photos of anything (no flash, no tripod anyway). Even fine art museums have signs up saying “photography ok”.
The only place I’ve seen with photo restrictions was the Sony store/exhibition centre in Ginza, where a small number of items have signs next to them saying “No Photography”. Others, like this 70 inch LCD TV, are fine.
I’ve lived in Japan a long time and it’s changing, more and more places aren’t welcoming photographers. Especially ones like me that usually carry a huge reflector, three strobes and come in tow with a crazy looking model!
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so many cool places did not allow photos in Japan, so I would be surprised when they would though many allow also my places visited were more no than yes
Awesome!
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Very cool! thanks for sharing.
Don’t fancy the B 1.5 but I desire the lens too much, does that make me bad?
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I want one !!!
Hmmm… that’s quite cool!
it is a crime to cut her/it in two parts
that’s AweSome
a joy for many collectors…
Thank you Gabriel! Love your pictures!
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Just amazing
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