[Leica] iPhone SLR Mount turns a smartphone into a serious camera

[ken at iisaka.com (Ken Iisaka)]

Huh? Given that an iPhone4 is more expensive than many digital bodies, why
would anyone do this, except to show that it can be done?

The veiling flare on the dog shot is terrible, and nothing is critically
sharp.

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 7:37 PM, John McMaster <john at 
chiaroscuro.co.nz>wrote:

> http://photojojo.com/store/awesomeness/iphone-slr-mount/
>
> john
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+john=chiaroscuro.co.nz at leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+john=chiaroscuro.co.nz at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Bob
> Shaw
> Sent: Saturday, 9 July 2011 3:55 a.m.
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: [Leica] iPhone SLR Mount turns a smartphone into a serious camera
>
> No Kidding!
>
> Sitting here at kitchen table crunching my granola and blueberries, reading
> this morning's LA Times and there's the headline, complete with a photo of
> the adaptor and a Canon long lens about to be bayonetted onto the iPhone.
> Some offshore outfit named Photojo (dot com, of course).
>
> Immediately made me think of the R8/9 Leica kit i sold and how much fun it
> would be to crank on, say, the 28-90 ASPH or the 70-180 APO and fire away.
>
> Makes me chuckle when friends would get killer tele shot and read, at
> bottom
> of email, "Sent from my 1Phone 4..." with no mention of the actual lens
> used
> in the shot.
>
> Teenie Weenie PhoneCam, Ginormous Herking Superbo lens.  Man Bites Dog.
>  The
> Lens That Ate Rhode Island.  Boggles the mind.
>
> Ah luv...be sure to hold your new rig by the lens, dear...oops!  Peeled the
> screen away from the lovely stainless frame there, huh?
>
> $250 bucks US?  You know they're gonna sell some.
>
> Gotta tell ya, after 3,000 plus shots, mostly for my landscape business,
> many times I wished for a WA and a Tele.  too much of a wimp to carry the
> 5D
> kit around i my pickup.
>
> Let's see what happens with this iLeica contraption,
>
>
> Cheers,  Bob in Seattle
> Bob Shaw
>
>
> rsphotoimages at comcast.net
>
>
>
>
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