@indyraider Or, if you had an iPhone, and thought this would be a neat way to improve your shots without having another device?
Provided of cse you can bear to carry the attachment - if they could make the case part somehow fold or collapse to being not much bigger than the lens, that'd be superb.
I'd seriously consider this, if it ever comes to market.
@FORDY "Or, if you had an iPhone, and thought this would be a neat way to improve your shots without having another device?"
You think adding more glass is going to improve the shots?
Maybe you should make a filter thread adapter so you can link an unlimited number of lenses together to get a picture so awesome your mind cannot comprehend the amount of detail.
@DefPoet No, I said it was MORE PORTABLE. Do you want to be the dumbass (see, I used your word) that takes a DSLR to a school prom and gets it broken/ covered in "punch"? My point is in the real world, the iPhone is a phone (although that is coming into question) that can also take acceptable pictures. If you can't understand that, I can't help you.
@SolidSnake So you are the 'dumbass' who takes a $700-$800 phone (yes, that's what it would cost unsubsidized and what you are paying for through your contract) in a holder with an expensive lens to a school prom and gets it broken/ covered in "punch"?
I would get a $200 camera wich is more portable than this, takes decent video and much better pictures than any camera in a phone and it's not that big of a disaster if it get's broken during the party.
Of course that solution probably won't get me as much attention as an iPhone with a huge lens attached...
without having another device? this sure looks like another device to me. and for not much more than that device (similar in bulk, but a little heavier) you could have a good quality dslr. a real dslr.
@MaTdg People forget/break cameras like that all the time. My point is that an iPhone without this proof of concept lens is more portable, and therefore more useful in this and many other usage senarios. Anyone that takes this dslr contraption to a prom deserves to have it broken. It's a jack of all (most) trades, master of none.
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It's a cool project, but no one would ever buy a DSLR lens without already owning a proper DSLR.
@indyraider
Or, if you had an iPhone, and thought this would be a neat way to improve your shots without having another device?
Provided of cse you can bear to carry the attachment - if they could make the case part somehow fold or collapse to being not much bigger than the lens, that'd be superb.
I'd seriously consider this, if it ever comes to market.
@FORDY
iphone shots are about 1/1000 the quality of a dlsr
@DefPoet
And the iPhone is 1/1000 of a DSLR in size.
We both exaggerated, but my stat is more important for 90% of people.
@SolidSnake
your a dumbass if you think the iphone comes close to a Canon EOS Rebel T1i
@FORDY "Or, if you had an iPhone, and thought this would be a neat way to improve your shots without having another device?"
You think adding more glass is going to improve the shots?
Maybe you should make a filter thread adapter so you can link an unlimited number of lenses together to get a picture so awesome your mind cannot comprehend the amount of detail.
@DefPoet
No, I said it was MORE PORTABLE.
Do you want to be the dumbass (see, I used your word) that takes a DSLR to a school prom and gets it broken/ covered in "punch"?
My point is in the real world, the iPhone is a phone (although that is coming into question) that can also take acceptable pictures.
If you can't understand that, I can't help you.
@DefPoet
"your a dumbass if you think the iphone comes close to a Canon EOS Rebel T1i "
Please help me out here.. where on earth did he say that? No, he didnt say that did he... go back down your T1i hole.
@SolidSnake So you are the 'dumbass' who takes a $700-$800 phone (yes, that's what it would cost unsubsidized and what you are paying for through your contract) in a holder with an expensive lens to a school prom and gets it broken/ covered in "punch"?
I would get a $200 camera wich is more portable than this, takes decent video and much better pictures than any camera in a phone and it's not that big of a disaster if it get's broken during the party.
Of course that solution probably won't get me as much attention as an iPhone with a huge lens attached...
@FORDY
A S90 or LX5 is the ACTUAL neat way to improve your shots. Both cameras are much easier to carry than carrying a lens.
@SolidSnake
More portable than a S90 or LX5 which can surely produce a better image than this iphonedslr?
@FORDY
without having another device? this sure looks like another device to me. and for not much more than that device (similar in bulk, but a little heavier) you could have a good quality dslr. a real dslr.
@MaTdg
People forget/break cameras like that all the time. My point is that an iPhone without this proof of concept lens is more portable, and therefore more useful in this and many other usage senarios. Anyone that takes this dslr contraption to a prom deserves to have it broken.
It's a jack of all (most) trades, master of none.
@indyraider
Exactly.
Even though one can get a great 50mm 1.8 and mess around for about $100. :)
But there's too much grain, 'jelly' and vignetting going on for it to be of any real use.
By the time you get a rig, follow focus, steadycam, better lenses, you might as well get a 5dmkII and call it a day.
But, I agree it looks like, what it looks like; someone who owns a DSLR and lenses messing around with an iphone 4. Nothing more.
@SolidSnake Except for low light situations which is something I think off when you say 'prom' or 'party'.