iphone 4 + dslr lens = craziest camera of the day
The guys over at Hypebeast stumbled onto these images of an iPhone 4 paired up with the lens from a dSLR camera.
While details are scarce, and some commenters think the rig is fake, I think it’s real, especially from the Manfrotto pocket tripod mount, which is a legitimate photographers accessory, featured previously here on Technabob.
Now, I think the iPhone 4 captures pretty nice photos all on its own, but the idea of a manually adjustable lens could make for some much more professional and artistic photography than the iPhone’s tiny standard camera lens can muster on its own.
Do any of you guys with a background in optics think this could even work without distorting the images tremendously?
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July 6th, 2010
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lets take a toy and try to make something better of it… LOL I always wonder, what this hype because of iphones is. I had an iphone 3G for a month and I was very disappointed of it. Technologically it is crap and software lacks a lot of things which are standard for many years on other smartphones.
I’m not too sure how adding a new lens will do anything to improve image quality. It still uses the same sensor, and from what I can see the stock lens of the iphone 4…then you are now adding on a zoom lens…what are you trying to do?
I vote it’ll most likely make things worse if it even changes anything at all.e
Obviously they are trying to give the iPhone a telephoto lens to zoom in on things in the distance.
This would work well with say, a Macro or extreme wide-angle lens. Also an extreme telephoto lens, if for some reason your SLR body broke. Just tossing on a 35mm prime lens isn’t going to improve anything. Also you’d have to override any auto-light sensitivity to make use of the f/stop. There’s a chance that you could get some dark corners, but the lens to sensor size is so good that shouldn’t be any issue.
It’s not fake. At http://iphone4wp.com/ we added some ancient Zenith lenses to iPhone 4, but the pictures were disgusting.
Very cool. I want to try this on my iPhone 4 asap.
@iPhone4wp
Perhaps you could provide a direct link to the pictures you refer too. I could not find them, and a search for Zenith showed no results. Without a direct link, I am inclined to believe that you posted this comment simply to drive page views of your site; which, if true, is disingenuous and disrespectful of us all.
If the content is there, you have my apology, as I would very much like to see them.
Looks legit to me. Not a dSLR lens tho – it is a manual lens
What great idea people. Really neat.