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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