Imagine you are working as a war reporter, many years ago — you shoot movies for the newsreels. Imagine further that you are not in long-range combat but on the ground in the towns and jungles of Vietnam, a place where a lethal firefight can break out in seconds, where shooters are confused and likely to take out anyone dangerous-looking.
Now imagine what kind of camera you would want. In these close quartered battlezones, would you choose a camera that looked like a gun? A big, dangerous looking gun? The answer is, of course, no.
But that didn’t stop at least one hardy photographer from saying "yes, please, make me a target, too". Above you see the Paillard Bolex H8 Military Gun outfit, for sale right now on Ebay. The description reads thus:
Very interesting and Rare military Gun outfit delivered for Vietnam War reporter. [emphasis added]
No wonder it looks to be in such good condition — it was probably only used once. It can be yours for a Buy IT Now price of $1318. Just don’t take it out of the house.
Sale page [Ebay via Retro Thing]
We’d be surprised if you haven’t heard by now that Microsoft has made an offer to Yahoo to acquire them for about $44.6 billion in cash! It’s all over the news (for good reason), and there are all kinds of ideas regarding this acquisition floating around the Internet. Instead of talking in length about each of them, we thought we’d sum everything up into an easy-to-read bulleted list.
