After pistols grips and stocks were adopted by photographers picatinny rails were bound to follow.
The camera in the above photo is the Navy’s standard-issue Nikon D700 with a Tactical solutions LLC Nightstalker II Mount coupled with a NVM001 night vision monocular (which has a picatinny rail attached). Read about the camera and the military’s frontline photographers at PopPhoto.com.
[ Many thanks to Crystal for emailing us the link. ]