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

[john at chiaroscuro.co.nz (John McMaster)]

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


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