Canon Photura
The Canon Photura, also know as the Autoboy Jet, 
looks like its purpose is to answer the question ‘What would happen if you just put a handstrap on an SLR lens and called it a camera?’ Its design seems to have more in common with a camcorder than a film camera but on the end of the lens is just the ordinary insides of a 35mm point and shoot. The lens is a 35-105mm f/2.8-6.6 (10 elements in 9 groups) which is quite a bit faster than other point and shoot zoom cameras. The flash is built into the cap and provides a nice large defuser unfortunately I didn’t get to test its capabilities. Another item that’s there but I didn’t test is the low angle viewfinder mostly because it seems to require putting your eye nearly to it which sort of defeats the purpose in my opinion. 
Also at 645grams and given its size it doesn’t seem to offer much of an advantage over a small SLR with a kit lens but it sure does look different. Other interesting cameras in the same, build it around the lens, vein are the Minolta Freedom Zoom 105i and the much more conventional looking Olympus IS-10
