iPhone SLR Mount turns a smartphone into a serious camera

On Thursday the Photojojo Store released the iPhone SLR Mount, a
hardware attachment that allows you to use your fancy Canon EOS or
Nikon SLR lenses while shooting pictures with your iPhone. It costs
$249 for the iPhone 4 version and $190 if you get it for the iPhone
3GS or iPhone 3G models.

"The iPhone4 takes pretty decent photos and gorgeous video, but its
limitation is the lens built into it that can't go wide or give you
shallow depth of field," said Amit Gupta, founder of Photojojo who
worked with a company in Hong Kong to get this product made. "But if
you use an SLR lens you can focus on a person or subject and blur out
the background for that shallow depth of field effect."

more
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/tech...de-camera.html

On 2011-07-29 09:38:15 -0700, charles said:

On Thursday the Photojojo Store released the iPhone SLR Mount, a
hardware attachment that allows you to use your fancy Canon EOS or
Nikon SLR lenses while shooting pictures with your iPhone. It costs
$249 for the iPhone 4 version and $190 if you get it for the iPhone
3GS or iPhone 3G models.

"The iPhone4 takes pretty decent photos and gorgeous video, but its
limitation is the lens built into it that can't go wide or give you
shallow depth of field," said Amit Gupta, founder of Photojojo who
worked with a company in Hong Kong to get this product made. "But if
you use an SLR lens you can focus on a person or subject and blur out
the background for that shallow depth of field effect."

more
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/tech...de-camera.html

Thursday?
Oh!

You mean Thursday, July 7, not July 28.

Anyway it is old news and a silly way to throw away $250. If you are
going to carry the lens you might as well have it attached to a camera
rather than a phone.

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Regards,

Savageduck

On 29/07/2011 12:38 PM, charles wrote:

"The iPhone4 takes pretty decent photos and gorgeous video, but its
limitation is the lens built into it that can't go wide or give you
shallow depth of field," said Amit Gupta, founder of Photojojo who
worked with a company in Hong Kong to get this product made. "But if
you use an SLR lens you can focus on a person or subject and blur out
the background for that shallow depth of field effect."

more
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/tech...de-camera.html

Not one report on this silly gadget has anyone mentioned if there is a
FOV crop factor.

Mike

In article ,
charles wrote:

On Thursday the Photojojo Store released the iPhone SLR Mount, a
hardware attachment that allows you to use your fancy Canon EOS or
Nikon SLR lenses while shooting pictures with your iPhone. It costs
$249 for the iPhone 4 version and $190 if you get it for the iPhone
3GS or iPhone 3G models.

"The iPhone4 takes pretty decent photos and gorgeous video, but its
limitation is the lens built into it that can't go wide or give you
shallow depth of field," said Amit Gupta, founder of Photojojo who
worked with a company in Hong Kong to get this product made. "But if
you use an SLR lens you can focus on a person or subject and blur out
the background for that shallow depth of field effect."

more
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/tech...unt-turns-your
-phone-into-a-professional-grade-camera.html

Manual focus, which the iPhone will be working hard to work against
with its autofocus.

Manual aperture. Only viable if you have really old lenses.

Shoots pictures upside-down (no reflector in lens mount)

Loses 2 f-stops of speed on every lens

This is one of the silliest things right now. No one in their right
mind would buy this.


--
Sandman[.net]

On 7/30/2011 3:54 AM, Sandman wrote:
In ,
wrote:

On Thursday the Photojojo Store released the iPhone SLR Mount, a
hardware attachment that allows you to use your fancy Canon EOS or
Nikon SLR lenses while shooting pictures with your iPhone. It costs
$249 for the iPhone 4 version and $190 if you get it for the iPhone
3GS or iPhone 3G models.

"The iPhone4 takes pretty decent photos and gorgeous video, but its
limitation is the lens built into it that can't go wide or give you
shallow depth of field," said Amit Gupta, founder of Photojojo who
worked with a company in Hong Kong to get this product made. "But if
you use an SLR lens you can focus on a person or subject and blur out
the background for that shallow depth of field effect."

more
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/tech...unt-turns-your
-phone-into-a-professional-grade-camera.html

Manual focus, which the iPhone will be working hard to work against
with its autofocus.

Manual aperture. Only viable if you have really old lenses.

Shoots pictures upside-down (no reflector in lens mount)

Loses 2 f-stops of speed on every lens

This is one of the silliest things right now. No one in their right
mind would buy this.
Coming soon! The iBackpack! Just what you need to carry your latest
iPhone around with all your iLenses. Watch for the official announcement.
Allen

charles wrote:
On Thursday the Photojojo Store released the iPhone SLR Mount, a
hardware attachment that allows you to use your fancy Canon EOS or
Nikon SLR lenses while shooting pictures with your iPhone. It costs
$249 for the iPhone 4 version and $190 if you get it for the iPhone
3GS or iPhone 3G models.

ROFL!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There's_a_sucker_born_every_minute

--
Ray Fischer | Mendocracy (n.) government by lying
| The new GOP ideal

charles wrote:
On Thursday the Photojojo Store released the iPhone SLR Mount, a
hardware attachment that allows you to use your fancy Canon EOS or
Nikon SLR lenses while shooting pictures with your iPhone. It costs
$249 for the iPhone 4 version and $190 if you get it for the iPhone
3GS or iPhone 3G models.

"The iPhone4 takes pretty decent photos and gorgeous video, but its
limitation is the lens built into it that can't go wide or give you
shallow depth of field," said Amit Gupta, founder of Photojojo who
worked with a company in Hong Kong to get this product made. "But if
you use an SLR lens you can focus on a person or subject and blur out
the background for that shallow depth of field effect."

more
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/tech...de-camera.html

It's a 'DOF adapter' as used on video cameras for years but a simplified
one without the spinning ground glass, so you'll see dust on the ground
glass. It also has a closeup lens to get the phone to focus close, and
probably not a very good one, so soft corners.

On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:49:34 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

On 2011-07-29 09:38:15 -0700, charles said:

On Thursday the Photojojo Store released the iPhone SLR Mount, a
hardware attachment that allows you to use your fancy Canon EOS or
Nikon SLR lenses while shooting pictures with your iPhone. It costs
$249 for the iPhone 4 version and $190 if you get it for the iPhone
3GS or iPhone 3G models.

"The iPhone4 takes pretty decent photos and gorgeous video, but its
limitation is the lens built into it that can't go wide or give you
shallow depth of field," said Amit Gupta, founder of Photojojo who
worked with a company in Hong Kong to get this product made. "But if
you use an SLR lens you can focus on a person or subject and blur out
the background for that shallow depth of field effect."

more
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/tech...de-camera.html

Thursday?
Oh!

You mean Thursday, July 7, not July 28.

Anyway it is old news and a silly way to throw away $250. If you are
going to carry the lens you might as well have it attached to a camera
rather than a phone.

I'm on a Facebook group for photographers and that's exactly,
almost word for word what the guy who started the group said.

We ought to post that all over on as many discussion boards as
possible to teach them a lesson about releasing brain farts that
they've made reality.

And the iPhone might very well take "pretty decent photos"
compared to a lot of point and shoot cameras, but we should point out
to people the vast difference in quality between an SLR sensor taking
images in RAW format and the iPhone as well.

In article ,
John Turco wrote:

Manual focus, which the iPhone will be working hard to work against
with its autofocus.

Manual aperture. Only viable if you have really old lenses.

Shoots pictures upside-down (no reflector in lens mount)

Loses 2 f-stops of speed on every lens

This is one of the silliest things right now. No one in their right
mind would buy this.

Come now, Sandy. As you'd wanted people to be more tolerant of your
own, recent "Lensbaby" purchase -- you, yourself, should be a bit
more broad-minded, in judging this new "iPhone SLR Mount" gadget.

Please, Janey.

I wouldn't have minded if someone would have called the lens baby the
silliest thing right now and say that one wouldn't be right in their
mind to buy one, some even hinted at opinions in that direction even!


I stand by my assessment of this product! :-D


--
Sandman[.net]

Sandman wrote:

Manual focus, which the iPhone will be working hard to work against
with its autofocus.

So you only need to manual focus roughly, the rest is done
with AF.

Manual aperture. Only viable if you have really old lenses.

Use wide open. Or use depth preview while taking the lens
off.

Shoots pictures upside-down (no reflector in lens mount)

Surely an app will be forthcoming that auto-rotates the
images.

Loses 2 f-stops of speed on every lens

You don't lose any f/stop.
You do lose 2 t-stops, if what you say is true.
Which isn't too bad.

This is one of the silliest things right now. No one in their right
mind would buy this.

Lots of people buy iPhones in first place ...

-Wolfgang