Photojojo‘s new iPhone SLR mount is one of the coolest iPhone add-ons I’ve seen so far. No need to spend $1000+ on a DSLR body, simple get this adapter and use your own Canon EOS or Nikon SLR lenses with your iPhone 4 – with depth of field and manual focus. You can even hang it around your neck just like your real DSLR using two loopholes on either end of the case.
michele j martin on 07.16.2011 at 11:14 AM
Ok, but does this really work? I might buy an old iPhone JUST for this reason and not activate the phone service. Would that work?
What would be the benefits/disadvantages of that? I would have no control over fstops, etc. But in general 5.6 exposure, I wouldn’t need to worry anyway?
Dave Pinter on 07.16.2011 at 14:56 PM
So wait, this thing costs $250 per mount. And you still have to carry around a bag with lenses. People who are thinking this is cool and want it should take a breath and look again at how ridiculous this is. Photojojo’s own reason for creating this is even laughable:
“Ever since the iPhone camera was invented, it’s aspired to be what it simply never quite could be: a DSLR.”
Umm no, I think if Apple wanted it to be a DSLR, they wouldn’t have wasted time integrated a phone feature which no other actual DSLR makers seem to care much about.
The new Pentax Q is infinitely more usable than this mess, looks cool, and is nice and compact,
Dave on 07.16.2011 at 19:19 PM
@michelle: Would it really work? I think so, although
1) I’d like to see it in a 3GS case
2) $250?!? Really? Seems a bit steep.
The key element I believe is the lens you see on the case/body.
That pretty much has to be a negative lens, in the area of -50mm focal length. Turns the SLR lens into a Galilean telescope focused at infinity. The iPhone camera then operates at infinity focus, through the ‘scope. A 50mm lens (‘normal’ for 35mm, if anyone remembers such a thing!) would have a magnification of 1:1. Any longer or shorter lens would be tele or wide angle relative to that.
Dave
Leanna @ Raptortoe on 07.17.2011 at 11:12 AM
I ain’t gonna lie. This is stupid as hell.
And probably dangerously weighted, I can only imagine the idiots dropping both their lens and iphone.
Kristina Starr on 07.17.2011 at 23:42 PM
I’m taking photos all of the time either for our web site or for fb and twitter posts, but I this would not be something I would use. My DSLR is what works best for professional quality photos, and my iPhone works great for photos on the go. I agree that this set up appears awkward and difficult to handle.
Steuben on 07.18.2011 at 10:26 AM
Will they never stop innovating uses for iPhone?? It’s fun to see where the phone can be taken!
Kenal on 07.19.2011 at 08:00 AM
Wow, this is one of the revolutionary tools for photographers of the future.lol.
Eug on 07.24.2011 at 14:10 PM
Who’s going to own a lense and not a camera body? Not very many people. That’s such an irrelevant statement. That’s like saying the iphone is equivalent to a very expensive dslr, which it is not!
Also, look at the photo where the lady is holding the tripod down so it doesn’t tip up! Not exactly hands free which is what a tripod should do if it was a camera that was well balanced, which this is not.
If the iphone hadn’t been invented, would this of been? No. Yet another example of poor design and not addressing the needs of the user, or is it addressing the needs of a user that doesn’t exist!
Masoud on 08.01.2011 at 04:48 AM
nice ? ? Initiative
Tom K on 08.31.2011 at 12:34 PM
This is definitely worth a try if you could get the added apeture and zoom properties from the SLR lens to translate to the ihpone photo.
cp on 10.07.2011 at 14:26 PM
“If the iphone hadn’t been invented, would this of been? No. Yet another example of poor design and not addressing the needs of the user, or is it addressing the needs of a user that doesn’t exist!”
I just have to comment on this, because this statement is dumb. let me ask you this If the computer hadn’t been invented would any want a hard drive? if a camera hadn’t been invented would anyone need a lens? so then are hard drives, lens’, tires, and really an endless stream of inovations to accomplish an idea “poor design” this is dumb thinking.
Inovation feeds inovation.
Eug on 10.07.2011 at 16:06 PM
No, it’s not dumb thinking thank you. This is poor design, Poorly thought out, poorly executed. Good design doesn’t necessarily follow good design. The advertorial makes it sound as if it’s the best thing since sliced bread, which it is not. Think about it!
cp on 10.07.2011 at 16:49 PM
I wasn’t commenting on the device, just on the statement, to have a good product it doesn’t mean that if the product it was dependent upon didn’t exist it wouldn’t either. It is not a good argument. It is my opinion that if you want to comment on a product say, This has no use to me… not this product is worthless and a poor design, support your argument for saying it is poorly designed with actual facts. The closest thing to that here is the balance, but that is based on a photograph that is hard to Interpret, have you tested the balance? How can I trust your findings?
Would you be able to design a better product to fulfill the need of having a zoom, f-stop, and focus on an iphone? not a question on whether you would or not, but could you?
The best criteria to judging a well designed product isn’t on whether or not you would use it.
Personally, I think it is an amusing product but I have no need to buy it, but there probably are people who would, which is why it was built.
Eug on 10.07.2011 at 19:38 PM
I personally think there is no place for this type of frivolous design, that’s my opinion and you can’t change it you posturing twirp.
William Watt on 12.29.2011 at 18:17 PM
Every time I see some kind of lens adapter for iPhone I think it must be a practical joke. It is such an absurd idea that it would only appeal to hardcore Apple devotees who wish Apple made decent cameras.
Can’t wait to see the iPad version for some more hilarity.