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Photographer turns himself into living, fully-functional DSLR

Published Oct 25, 2011 | dpreview staff

Michigan photographer Tyler Card has turned himself into a DSLR for Halloween. Not content with building a wearable DSLR costume, Card proceeded to install his real Nikon DSLR, a Speedlight and a laptop into the design. He had the foresight to shoot a video of the process, which we thought was too good to not share. (via PopPhoto)

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Total comments: 52

That's radical dude! Where does one insert the battery?

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Do have to ask ? LOL

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Totally awesome man!

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Most excellent, dude!

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WOW, that's awesome ! He just has to be extremely careful not to fall. And make sure nobody tries to close down the flash. :)

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Awesome costume and I wish I had thought of something like that. Imagine the crazy photo's you'd get out on the streets and in the bars in a college town!

His from the "chest" photography and nicely separated light source produced better party results than I'm used to achieving normally. GOOD JOB!

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Why a smallish kit lens?
Why not a 70-200 or a 300 F2.8 lens?
Or a macro lens that extends a lot when needed...and would easily contract afterwards...
Then the girls would like it more???

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Hmmm... Why not the sigma 800mm fF5.6 monster?

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It needed to be big to fit this type of Card in....

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This is so typical of DP review.
They show favoritism by reviewing the cardboard homemade halloween costume Nikon DSLR but totally ignore the Canon, Sony, Pentax models. I spent weeks making a Leica version. In hindsight using a painted manhole cover for the red dot was not the best idea, but you live and learn.

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I don't see how it is 'favortism' as it's an article of someone who has no assocation with DP. Also...did you or someone you know submit pictures and/or video to places on the net for word to get around?

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I shutter to think how long it took to make this...

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Groan

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RAW?

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It is a RAW camera, dude ;) !
:D

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This is magnificent. The man who first swam the English Channel, Captain Matthew Webb, had the words "nothing great is easy" engraved on his headstone, and I can't think of any more appropriate words to describe this... this man-beyond-superman transcendence. Nothing great is easy.

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cameras seem to get bigger and bigger all the time

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Um. This is a D5000.

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Jump the shark.

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Nothing new here. I went to a halloween party as a camera about 30 years ago. I'll admit this one looks a bit nicer, but it's not a new idea. (And, of course, I didn't have a digital camera and laptop computer in mine.)

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Dude, this is a fully-functional costume. Not just any costume. So I think it's new. The design maybe not.

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Will Canon respond?

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yes! Instead of a nerd I think that Canon will put a girl inside

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The perfect incarnation of a camera freak. Or else a warning of the metamorphosis to inflict people, when consigned to hell, who spent too much time with photography.

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How lame.....

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Best return to bone breaking, teen tricks and funny cat videos on yourtube then.

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This story is a waste of timem

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Well I'll stay an extra 10 minutes this evening, working on reviews to make up for it. So sorry to have wasted your time.

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...and commenting on it wasn't?

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I like the bit where he makes a cardboard camera.

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Nikon Promotion Campagne ?

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Joke #1: Nikon V1, Joke #2: Nikon Costume. What's coming up next?

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D700 limited edition with 70 colors to choose from

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That is the new D800 :)

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Awesome! A lot of fun. Reminds me of college days when we had time to do things we wanted to do! Don't stop Tyler! You have only just started.

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Pretty cool!

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beautiful and creative !

... Perhaps this is the only way to have the D800 immediately !!

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Where does he stick his memory card?

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that aint halloween, thats christmas!

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I knew Nikons were made of cardboard!

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Tyler, you are a genius!

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Looks good but that curly maple interior has got to go!

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That is a hellava costume pal! I hope your video goes viral and Nikon should send you a DSLR for the free promotion. Afterall you could have built a Canon Rebel T3i or something. Hope you didn't trash the PC.

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DPReview should definitely review this camera.

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I prefer this one:
http://whattheduck.net/strip/68
:-)

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A :POP: photographer if I ever saw one!

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A D3 with built-in flash? Nice :)

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A D3 with built-in flash, but without a portrait grip, and has a DX lens mounted on it!!!!

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Pretty creative! I am impressed.

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Nerd! ;)

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THIS is art! Great . . ./

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Brilliant. Loved the way he incorporated the notebook screen into the costume.

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Total comments: 52

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