Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/07/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes it seems the tube camera not an add on for a Smartphone. A Smartphone is an add one for the tube camera. Which can be used without the Smartphone hooked up to it. Your Smartphone sits on top of the tube calling itself a camera on a 45 ? angle making for a fresh new picture taking experience. Until you get a phone call. What the discerning consumer is going to want to know is can I constantly text and go on facebook and talk on the phone when its connected to the camera. It may be you'd have to take the camera thing off. Here's a video by the way http://www.gizmag.com/olympus-air-a01-smartphone-mirrorless-camera/38254/ When you take the camera off the iPhone or visa versa you still use the phone as a screen to frame your subjects. Or use a big ipad. This solves the main marketing problem camera makers are dealing with which is that nobodies going to put their iPhone down for anything. And a camera would normally make them do that. I call the whole thing bad news. Its not a new camera. Its giving up. I keep my iPhone in my bag charging with my new charger as otherwise it craps out on my by the end of the day. It tells me how many steps I took during the day. Or miles. Or Calories I go through trying to replace my not that old LED desk lamp. The up side seems to be you can have the phone attached to the camera only when you are pretty sure you're not getting a call or text message or facebook update you're going to answer. Having a pocket camera is of course a lot more complicated than this. On 7/1/15 2:35 PM, "Christopher Williams" <zoeica at mac.com> wrote: > Mark, The phone is just the viewfinder and control, the sensor is a 4/3rd > inside the Olympus. You do not use the phone's tiny sensor. What is a "real" > camera? ? And I find nothing wrong with having a bulge in my > pocket. Chris Williams www.zoeicaimages.net 504-231-6261 On Jul 01, > 2015, at 02:28 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > 1. Turns you > into a person professing a serious interest in photography > looking for an > excuse to leave your camera at home so you never have to put > down your > iPhone. > 2. Turns your beloved slippery smart phone into something making a > bulge in > your pocket. Won't slip in and out of your pocket so fast. But get > caught on > the stitching. You might need to go out and get a Captain Kangaroo > jacket. > 3, Is having a separate compact camera really such a hassle? Its not > like > you are juggling the camera with its battery and sensor in the air all > at > the same time. Its all fits in the camera. > 4. 4/3's glass or Leica > glass does not make the tiny sensor on your smart > phone any bigger. It just > makes it more ridiculous. > 5. Put a real camera in your other pocket. > 6. > The sensors on smart phones are so small its near impossible to get the > spec > on just how small they are. What is a normal lens for a smart phone > 4mm's? > If they told you they'd have to kill you. > > > On 6/30/15 5:05 PM, "Dante > Stella" <dstella1 at ameritech.net> wrote: > >> Everything you detest about > separate cameras (more batteries, cards, bulk) >> combined with everything you > hate about taking smartphone pictures (slippery >> phones, clumsy > applications). What could go wrong?! > > > Dante _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See > http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/