What the heck is it?
An admin assistant at work was cleaning out one of the unused offices today. Nobody had been using the office for a number of years and it had kind of become a dumping ground for furniture and stuff that people didn't want in their offices any more. It's not too uncommon to come across some unusual items when cleaning such rooms out
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The lens cap just has a logo on it
The connectors on the bottom:
The switches on the left side:
And a view of the top left of the big secondary lens. It's not too clear, but there's what appears to be a red lamp or led's in that square bit that sticks up:
A friend suggested that it's some kind of catadioptric lens. I'm wondering if the big lens has its own digital sensor behind it. That'd make it a sort of super telephoto digital rig with the Kodak/Nikon being used to aim it and possibly take a wider reference picture.
From the plain appearance and lack of any logos other than on the lens cap, I suspect this is something we built here at the company for some contract that ended long ago. Nobody currently here who's seen the thing recognizes it.
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