For Sale The Most Unusual Medium Format Camera You'll Ever See...VERY RARE!

[n2mf]

DESCRIPTION: Bet you don‘t have one of these...And yes, it’s a camera. It’s an old Japanese training gun that doesn’t shoot bullets…It shoots 120 roll film!

It’s a copy of the Lewis machine gun that was used on airplanes during WWI and also had some use in WWII. It was used to train machine gunners how to aim. It shot a picture of exactly where they were aiming to help them learn. The weight and operation of the “gun” are just like the real one. It‘s pretty cool...pull back the lever on the side, take aim and pull the trigger. It has a built in frame counter that works. The lens it sports is a Tokyo Togaku Toko 286.6mm 1:11. Not sure what the shutter speed would be. And all the accessories, including the original box are with the “camera“, including a lens cap. The only thing missing is the “dummy” bullet magazine that sets on top the gun.

I purchased this from an individual who inherited it. I don't expect anyone here would actually be interested in buying this, but I thought what the heck. It really needs to be in a museum probably.

CONDITION: Amazing condition for it‘s age. And it works. By that I mean, it cocks the shutter, advances the film and fires with the trigger. The lens looks like it‘s a little cloudy from age, but I bet it will clean up fine.

PRICE: $ 2000.00 + Shipping (very heavy).

Local pick-up available too. Inquire.

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Thank you for your time,
Tom

 

[Kylefornia]

First thing I thought- good luck trying to get that on an airplane! Hahaha


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[trythis]

Does anyone else see a problem with using this?

 

[n2mf]

 

[jspillane]

Wow, this is nuts. I've seen a Hasselblad gun-style shoulder mount before that looked a little similar, but nowhere near as military as this!

 

[Dr Croubie]

My Fotosnaiper feels suddenly inadequate.

 

[wy2l]

What part of the world are you located?

 

[n2mf]

Missouri, USA

 

[patrickth]

The ultimate street shooter.

 

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

ww2 Japanese guns and optics goes from high prices , you can sell it a gun auction. Very beatiful.

 

[ntenny]

I opened this thread out of curiosity, wondering how much weirder it could be than some of the early-20th-century exotica, and I have to say I'm not a bit disappointed! Unfortunately checking the sofa cushions only revealed a guitar pick and some dog hair, and I don't suppose you want to come down that far.

Definitely not a portrait camera!

-NT

 

[n2mf]

 

[IloveTLRs]

I believe I came across one of these at a dealer in Japan a few years ago. An interesting piece, to be sure.

 

[Regular Rod]

I wouldn't use it here in the UK. The police shoot folk carrying table legs that get confused with guns so I reckon life expectancy of the photographer using it in the UK would be less than an hour...

RR

 

[hoffy]

The Camera museum in Penang, Malaysia, has one on display. I think theirs uses 35mm film

 

[n2mf]

I believe the 35mm version is patterned after a different machine gun. And it's a motion picture camera.

 

[MattKrull]

Have you considered contacting military museums directly?

I have no idea if they would be interested or care, but the Canadian War Museum has all sorts of weird and wonderful things (not limited to Canadian heritage).
http://www.warmuseum.ca/about-us/contact-us/

 

[JeroenBouman]

Nice piece! Have you heard of the 1882 (!) 'Photographic Gun'?
Check out http://translate.google.com/transla...r.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Fusil_photographique or http://petapixel.com/2013/04/27/did...able-motion-picture-camera-was-a-12fps-rifle/

 

[Barry S]

Very cool piece of history. If I used that in downtown DC, a single roll of 120 would be a lifetime supply of film.

 

[tony lockerbie]

First thing I thought- good luck trying to get that on an airplane! Hahaha


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Quite right..really officer, it is a camera!

 

[Dr Croubie]

I wouldn't use it here in the UK. The police shoot folk carrying table legs that get confused with guns so I reckon life expectancy of the photographer using it in the UK would be less than an hour...

RR

I thought your Bobbies didn't carry guns?

 

[Roger Cole]

First thing I thought- good luck trying to get that on an airplane! Hahaha


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My first thought to that was "not a problem" because it's easy to legally transport a firearm in checked luggage (not carry on, of course.) But then I realized - this isn't a firearm. You probably would be guilty of something if you marked it as such and declared it, but if you tried to explain it...probably best just to ship it ahead to yourself!

And there are definitely plenty of places here you could use it in the woods or at a rifle range. Heck, you could carry it around the streets of Atlanta if you had a Georgia carry weapon permit (which doesn't require the weapon to be "concealed" at all, and is available to anyone with a clean criminal record, a set of finger prints, and roughly $85) though of course you don't NEED the permit to carry this, but I'm sure you'd be asked to present it! (There was a Youtube video a few years back of a guy riding a motorcycle around the 285 perimeter with a semi-auto AK strapped across his back, perfectly legal since he had the permit.)

Of course the design of this thing needs a tripod or bench rest anyway.

It surely is a weird piece of photo history!

 

[mgb74]

ww2 Japanese guns and optics goes from high prices , you can sell it a gun auction. Very beatiful.

I would agree. I'd target (pun intended) collectors of Japanese militaria. Or auction houses.

 

[Steve Smith]

I thought your Bobbies didn't carry guns?

They don't but they can call in armed officers in exceptional circumstatnces.


Steve.

 

[StoneNYC]

Imagine if you used it to shoot vacation photos, and decided to visit the white house? Hahahha