Whereas the above digicam seems to be similar to a daily Canon EOS R5 mirrorless digicam, you’d be in for fairly the shock when you tried to make use of it. That’s as a result of hidden inside the practically good duplicate is a transformer toy the turns from a mirrorless digicam right into a robotic with a bit articulation.

Canon has teamed up with Takara Tomy, the Japanese firm behind the Transformers toys, to launch Canon EOS R5 replicas that flip into both Optimus Prime or a Decepticon. These duplicate cameras are 80% the scale of their working counterparts, however function a detachable lens and lens cap, the latter of which will get became a protect for the Transformers.

The Optimus Prime mannequin even has a miniature EOS R5 mannequin that it might probably maintain in its fingers. The Decepticon mannequin, nonetheless, will get caught with a no-name gray digicam that appears extra like a standard 35mm movie digicam. Each fashions can be found to buy from Takara Tomy’s on-line store for 19,800 yen (~$150), but it surely seems delivery is proscribed to Japan addresses.