"Sniper" cameras.

[Jon Goodman]

Hey budding spies...make your own sniper for $5 plus the cost of shipping!  Don't miss this once in a lifetime opportunity.  With a screwmount 3x adapter, you'll have a 690mm lens.  Use it with a 3x adapter and a 2x adapter and you'll have a...well, you'll have a real wonderful thing, that's what you'll have.  A spy's fantasy!

Here is the world famous Universa (not the more common Universal...this is the actual and legendary Universa lens), and this one is the screwmount 70-230mm model / 4.5.  And it comes with its case (which has actually seen better days).  Wow!

Now the lens has a bit o' fungus, some fingerprints, some dust, and it is a little loose right in the middle.  Oh, and the auto aperture feature needs some magi...attention.  It doesn't really work any more.  But shoot.  That is nothing for an up and coming 007 type character like you.  So, for less than the cost of a 12 pack of Pearl beer, you can be in business!

Be the first one on your block to own this wonderful camera accessory!  

(It really does work.  Sort of.  I took a picture of the moon once using a Zenit E.  And some Pearl beer.)
Jon

[LarryD]

I believe that lens was made by the Dung Poo factory in Stepinchit China.

[Wimpler]

I have the same lens labeled soligor in minolta mount.

[Jon Goodman]

Kidding aside, I've been told Cosina made the Universa brand.  It isn't a bad lens at all, but it needs somebody to spend a couple of hours on it.  I just haven't had those hours...
Jon

[Kin Lau]

Thanks, I anticipate some challenge to arrange the focus but with my junk collection I can probably devise something.

I am really interested in opinions on the general principle of using a gun stock.  No I am not concerned that anyone around here would think it is a gun and shoot me and nor am I really worried about the bulk of such a thing.

The photosniper is really a whole system, so I don't think it would make sense to break it up for this.

If you want to use your *istDS, then look up the "Bush Hawk". Friend of mine uses it with a EOS 1DmkII + 400/5.6 and gets some pretty amazing shots of small birds in flight.

[Mike Kovacs]

Bush Hawk - that is hillarious.  Keep your curtains drawn...