Screen Grabs: Lost's Ben shoots Nikon
By Ryan Block 
posted Apr 27th 2008 7:26PM
posted Apr 27th 2008 7:26PM
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Ben (aka Benjamin Linus), leader of the Others and all around creepy manipulator, doesn't just shoot guns all the time -- as we find out in a flashforward to 2005, he also apparently shoots Nikon as well. Now, there's certainly nothing wrong with a D100, but Ben does kind of strike us as the calculating, discerning type that would probably prefer a full-frame Canon though, you know?
Correction:
Flashforward.
Beat me to it.
i don't watch lost, but maybe he meant the episode which aired in 2005, in RL?
Nope. It was a flashforward to 2005 where Ben was taking pictures of the funeral procession of Sa'yid's wife.
nope, the episode aired this past thursday.
No, this was a very recent episode, and it was a flash forward. The new season has mostly been flash forwards, with one exception I think.
Maybe he prefers the ridiculous reliability of Nikon vs fall apart Canon DSLRs that I gave up on a few years ago.
I'm amazed Ben isn't toothless and brain damages, given all the beatings he has recieved at the hands of just about everyone in Season 4.
It's good to know that I'm not the only one sad enough to notice and/or care :D
haha same here
Welcome back from the dead, Alex...
third!!
Moron!
Weren't you already told to piss off in the Seiko Slimstick thread?
where do i go to get the last 15 seconds of my life back?
I too am way too stupid to understand the meaning of this post and too lazy to google it.
Smoke three cigarettes.
I've used a D100, and it is a perfectly good camera....though the megapixel of the camera are quite low (from its age).
I'm still using a D100, got it second hand, a great bargain on ebay. It does the job apart from having to tweak almost every photo to fix the levels.
He bought it because his Apple III doesn't have Canon drivers.
Haha, maybe the 1.5 crop helps getting closer shots of the target :)
well assuming for a given model range the full frame version has a proportionally higher megapixel count than the 1.5x crop, then why not just crop the final image, and gain the increased light levels from the larger sensor?
I dunno about the full frame thing. The crop factor would give his telephoto a little more reach, which could be handy.
heh heh... HD can't hide the strip of electrical tape covering up the bottom of Nikon on the front of the camera. Not only that but he was shooting with the memory card door open in a couple of the takes!
I guess he wanted to switch CF cards quickly?? lol
The red dot on top of the lens shows to me at least that it's a VR lens... So he's at least trying to keep a steady shot going. And maybe the increased zoom factor he gets from the smaller frame was the calculated part of it. Sneakily getting 150 mm out of a 100 mm lens......
..... nah, I too lost 15 seconds of my life just replying to this...
Camera buffs: What lens was he using? Looked snazzy.
Thanks.
Replying to myself here but, I'm gonna take a punt and think it is a 80-400mm lens. Since Jason's sharp eyes spotted it's a VR lens... and its size seems to fit... I think.
I was also impressed that they made sure to use a D100 and not something that was available after 2005. Good attention to detail there
And yet the game of Risk they were playing didn't get released until 2005. I guess they evened the score with the camera. lol
Haha I thought they just wanted an inexpensive but big camera
That's a good catch
What? The original risk was released in 1957, according to Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_(game)
Is that a special version I didn't notice?
Is he using a 80-200mm lens?
was not using the 80-200, as what he was using had the gold ring, which the 80-200 doesnt have
Upon reviewing the episode, I can see that Ben is using the Nikon 80-400mm VR lens with his D100.
Ok, maybe I'm just drunk... but I don't have a clue what any of you are talking about!
You're just drunk
It's a camera gear thing :)
I think that the general consensus is that Nikon is easier to manipulate than Canon, and we all know Ben is all about the manipulation.
"discerning type that would probably prefer a full-frame Canon"
Yeah sure as opposed to the D3 that would take his lenses, cost-half-as-much, and be the best full frame camera for the money.
And yes I stink of Nikon fanboy. So sue me.
Yeah, I was thinking that too, but D3's weren't available in 2005, the time this was supposed to take place. But, as noted above, a full frame wouldn't necessarily be a better choice in these conditions: the D100's cropped sensor lets this lens (80-400) be an effective 600mm, also known as a freaking telescope.
Wasn't the D200 already selling in 2005?
The D200 was available in November, 2005, after when this scene took place.
OMG!, didn't know discerning types prefer full-frame Canons.
agreed
Kinda short and kinda useless. Slow newsday.
Leave Nikon alone! They make a perfectly good camera for all situations and they produce wonderful pictures.
/rant
Oh no... a seemingly novice photographer taking pictures of a person to be used by only himself wasn't using a canon? what a travesty. get that nikon out of his hands right now!
They use Nikon on CSI as well.
Yes they do....in the past I've seen them use the Dxxx series of cameras. In recent episodes (that have been mediocre), they have been using D40's (most likely for the small size of them).