Really affordable camera lens calendar is just what your layoff asked for
By Laura June 
posted Feb 2nd 2009 10:36PM
posted Feb 2nd 2009 10:36PM
It's a camera lens... no, wait. It's not. It's actually a calendar to goes up to the year 2032, designed by artist Sharad Haksar. It's apparently made from a solid piece of aluminum, though nobody seems sure if this is a manual calendar or one that is powered and self-updating. That's about it for details, but we hear they're going to be available on the artist's website for two grand -- according to a commenter on Yanko Design -- and the calendars will be ready to ship about two weeks from the time of the order.
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what's a calendar?
For $200, you could buy a real lens and stick some numbers on.
...What the hell is the point of this?
you forgot a zero at the end of that. not that it makes your argument invalid...
@ chuuch
I meant what I said - $200 buys a decent clock-making lens, double the budget will work for photos too
it's art. does it really need a purpose?
It's not art, it's a waste of money
A lens is something you make art with...silly artist.
somebody is going to make this, they are then going to spend the next 26 odd years taking one picture every day with the correct date dialed in and when they die the box containing all 9,490 pictures will be thrown away
worst movie ever
if I collected art, I would be all over this.
How useless...
yeah, especially since the world is going to end in 2012......
LOL
It's a promotional desktop calendar. Instead of sending out a paper calendar, this guy decided to make one out of aluminum in the shape of a lens / casing.
More Information: http://sharadhaksar.deviantart.com/art/World-s-First-Lens-Calendar-110529096
They should just sell stickers with date info on them. $5 and your old lens is a calendar.
Wow you would have to have like 0 brain cells to buy something that freaking stupid. lol :P
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It's actually a time machine. Just set date/time and slap it on your dslr.
If this was like $30, I'd be all over it. I enjoy photography and that would look really nice on my desk.
Unfortunately, two grand looks a lot nicer next to my pens and pencils.
I propose camera lens rubix cubes, or cylinders.
'Artist' is a far too widely, and inappropriately, applied term these days. An 'artist' did not make this. A 'scam artist' might have.
It is a manual calendar, the artist states it on his page.
And he's just a plain awful photographer. Yikes.
The idea looked interesting for a few moments - take a beautiful old manual lens and do something with it. But what a stupid idea.
Artist Sharad Haksar: Fail.