It’s obvious that the camera of choice for documenting ICE’s illegal excesses is a cell phone, and to a point it works- convenient with decent short range capability and easy to transmit the incriminating evidence to your favorite social media. But there’s a serious down side to the cell phone- You have to be within to easy reach of ICE thugs to document their thuggery.

Even a cheap ‘n’ cheerful $100 camera will give you at least 10x or so zoom so you can document ICE thugs atrocities from a safe distance. Move up into the $500-1000 price range and you can get an SLR or mirrorless camera that lets you capture details from a safe and stealthy hundred meters away with less glare from the bright lights of an urban environment. and when ICE melts, you got a damn good camera to enjoy.

Here’s an example, typical results with the lens at a 45mm setting and not much better than a good cell phone:

Now, we adjust the lens to it’s maximum 150mm setting:

Now we can tell that the barely visible blue spot in the back is probably a square body Ford. Now let’s magnify it by cropping it down with iPhoto:

Wow! We’ve gone from a speck to a readable license plate, the square headlights put it in the 90s, the low height tells us it’s probably an. F150, the painted bumper and black grill suggests it has the XL trim.

That pickup is at least a hundred meters back in a hoarder’s hoard and locals tell me “trespassers” might actually get shot, and he’s probably a better shot that ICE’s losers. If an ICE loser was standing by that pickup we could probably accurately ascertain his 40+ BMI, identify his weapons, and ID him when he ends up in court to pay for his crimes. All from a hundred meter distance that he can’t run and from that far out you’re just a speck in the much bigger scene.

So use the available tech to document ICE from a safer distance!