This means that each time you want to use a different lens such as going from wideangle to telephoto, you need to take off. Bernhard has written for its sister publications, pocketpc magazine and the hp palmtop paper. Best wide angle lenses for iphone photography imore. Schneider kreuznach, known in the us as schneider optics, is a legendary german lens manufacturer with a rich history of making topflight optics. Kilfitt wanted to turn out quality lenses, and he did. The iphone camera lens allows you to elevate the technology of your device and enjoy the photography. Moment photo case and lenses take your iphone camera. The attachment consists of three internal lenses and a prism, and. Best iphone x and iphone 8 camera accessories cult of mac. Shop our new products for iphone 11, 11 pro, and 11 pro max. Cases are currently available for the iphone 55s5se, 66s, and 6 plus6s plus. Home camera articles for sale orders i buy wants repairs books adapters.
Best iphone camera lens for iphone 7, iphone 7 plus. We liked the build of its lenses, as well as shiftcams system for mounting the lenses to our iphone. The olloclip lenses work by sliding over the iphone s builtin lens. With a huge zoom lens sticking out from a thin, delicate device, this is more than just an accessory its a statement. Aug 27, 20 the iphone telephoto lens comes with a tripod and thin, hard shell case. There isnt much info on that lens except from a japanese blog, where someone used it on a sony a900. Jul 21, 2016 when it comes to iphone photography or iphoneography as the kids call it.
These creative iphone lenses will give you a spherical image with slightly distorted lines and darker corners. The robot, the mecaflex and the kowa 2 14 are all mr. Featuring a 10mm multicoated lens and a versatile mounting system, the sandmarc fisheye lens helps you capture artful images with 5x ultrawide field of view. The new olloclip 4in1 for iphone 66 plus adds wideangle and fisheye lenses to your iphone as well as two macro lenses. Best lenses for iphone and android camera phones digital camera. Find apple accessories to enhance your iphones photography capabilities and help you get that perfect shot. With most visoflexlenses adapted to nikon you can retain infinity as closeup as well. Office lens is great for capturing sketches, drawings and equations too even images without text. Olloclip debuts new photo lenses for iphone 7 and iphone 7 plus. Olloclip debuts new photo lenses for iphone 7 and iphone 7. When capturing images, office lens gets rid of shadows and odd angles, so your final captures are easier to see. You can fit up to 65% more of the background into your snapshots with your wide angle lens, and you dont have to worry about removing your bulky phone case to use it mobilenses are designed to fit over most phone cases while still being able to take vivid photos.
First things first, youll need to purchase a detachable iphone macro lens. One of them captures a 28mm wideangle field of view, just like a bunch of other phones. Ideal for landscape, urban, and concert photography, the fisheye lens comes with the worlds thinnest lens case and a clipon mount if you wish to use your own case or have no case at all. With a few addon lenses, the camera in your pocket becomes more versatile, capturing wider or closer shots.
Instead of snuggling onto the phones corner, the new design sports a. In our tests, the lenses arent as good picturequalitywise, as the moment, but they are a lot more convenient. Moments iphone x lenses make the smartphone camera even. Handson with olloclips new 4in1 photo lens for iphone 6 and iphone 6 plus thursday november 20, 2014 9. Office lens is like having a scanner in your pocket. Each clip comes with two related lenses, so you can flip them to choose which one to. When heinz kilfitt retired in 1968, he sold the factory to dr. The detachable hilo lens accessory for the iphone and ipad lets mobile photographers take photos and video from interesting new angles the hilo lens sticks onto the iphone44s5 or ipad 3 via a material that uses microsuction to adhere to the devices rearfacing camera lens. I wanted to start a thread for lenses available to be added on to the iphone to increase its camera capabilities and to share experiences. They are made make the qualities of the photos resemble that of a dslr camera. A zoom lens is a mechanical assembly of lens elements for which the focal length and thus angle of view can be varied, as opposed to a fixed focal length ffl lens see prime lens.
Gopano lens, for a 360 panorama, but did not have much luck using it. However much you want to spend, we reckon youll find the right lens for your phone in our guide to the best addon lenses available for iphones. Office lens can convert images to editable word and powerpoint files too. For the american record label, see zoom lens record label. Kilfitt became known as an innovator in lens design, some. Addon lenses for iphone iphone, ipad, ipod forums at. May 11, 2008 40mm kilfitt macrokilar many alpa slrs, beautifully made in switzerland, came with kilfitt lenses, so the name has a long and storied tradition of providing optics to the best. With a periscope lens, apple would presumably bump up the telephoto. Sep 22, 2017 an olloclip is a little widget that clips over the lenses on your iphone, and holds the accessory lens in front. The lenses come with a lens mount of your choice to suit your iphone 6 or 6 plus, a cloth carrycase, extra adhesive for the lens mount and 12 months warranty in the us 24 months in the eu. Premium smartphone lenses our wide angle, fisheye, macro and telephoto lenses will improve your iphone photography and take your instagram to the. It is a very clever design, the construction is solid, but my pictures were blurry. The pioneering zoomar lens was manufactured for voigtlander by kilfitt.
While different brands will have their own set of offerings, the cell phone camera lens for iphone 6 plus phones have four main types of addon lenses. Lensbabys latest lens brings a new facet to iphone photography. Phone camera lens, 10 in 1 cell phone lens kit 20x zoom telephoto lens, 15x macro lens, 0. The new overthelens clampandmagnet design for its specialeffects lenses works a lot better than the companys earlier mount. Handson with olloclips new 4in1 photo lens for iphone. The olloclip lenses work by sliding over the iphones builtin lens. Product title victsing iphone lens, clipon iphone camera lens kit. Olloclips are the best known iphone lenses, and theyre great. The one ive found is the heinz kilfitt munchen kilar 90mm f3. His firm created the earliest macro lens designs, along with a range of wellregarded telephoto lenses in mounts for the mecaflex, alpa, exakta, pentacon six, and others including cine cameras. Heinz kilfitt was a prolific designer of cameras he designed the first robot cameras in the 1930s. American firm fellows has teamed up with renowned lens maker zeiss to partner its exolens iphone bracket with some highend optics, and this wideangle model reduces the iphone cameras effective. Kishore sawh, 6 years ago ladibird, the brainchild of a group of university of singapore students with a penchant for photography, is both a camera, and a case for your iphone.
Get the best deals on kilfitt camera lenses and filters when you shop the largest online selection at. I believe that lens is at least 4050 years old and the later d versions could reach 1. With office lens, you dont need to jot down any notes by hand, rely on blurry cell phone images, or worry about misplacing anything. Jun 28, 2019 with a few addon lenses, the camera in your pocket becomes more versatile, capturing wider or closer shots. Back acquired the kilfitt company and continued its products from zoomars home in long island, new york. Their noticeable weight is due to the amount of glass in each lens, and the use of metal rather than plastic in the construction. Learn about each lens type and how they can make your phones camera do more. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or instore pickup. They were a bit slow off the mark with releasing lenses for the iphone 6 and 6 plus, but they now have several options available.
The attachment consists of three internal lenses and a prism, and works with the hilo lens app to correct the. Mar 20, 2017 i suppose ive had 15 or 20 different nikon lenses, a handful of oddballs such as the kilfitt macro, the leica 200 and i cant remember what else. Later, with the 1967 retirement of heinz kilfitt, zoomar. Moment is also launching four new smartphone lenses to pair with the iphone x using those cases, including a wide angle lens, telephoto lens, super fisheye lens, and a. Like most professional dslr accessories, telephoto lenses can get pricey. The 300 and longer nonmirror lenses are more likely to have coating problems than not, leading me to believe the factory coating on large lens surfaces was often not up to. Sandmarc offers camera products for gopro, dji drones, the iphone 7, 8 both standard and plus models, and the iphone x. Moment anamorphic lens,moment photo case black canvas for iphone xr,moment tele 58mm lens,moment wide 18mm lens. We delete comments that violate our policy, which we encourage you to read. Hi, i recently acquired a zoomar makro kilar 90mm and a pan tele kilar lens, both on what i think is an arriflex mount. With a few addon lenses, the camera in your pocket becomes more versatile, capturing wider.
The hilo lens sticks onto the iphone44s5 or ipad 3 via a material that uses microsuction to adhere to the devices rearfacing camera lens. A good example of the iphone accessories is the camera lens. Bernhard has owned an apple newton, a motorola marco, an hp 95lx, a compaq ipaq, a palm treo, and a nokia e62. Back, who operated it under the zoomar name from its headquarters in long island, new york. The most popular olloclip lens system is the 4in1 lens, its an innovative design that allows the lenses to be used on either the front or back camera of your iphone. The 2x tele 58mm lens doubles the optical zoom of your iphones main lens without degrading the image quality as digital zoom can. Product title wide angle fisheye lens for iphone 11promax self. Cell phone camera lens for iphone 6 plus for sale ebay. Macro lenses photographs, photographers and photography. I took the 12x zooming iphone 5 version of the lens out for a spin, testing it in a few different photography.
The iphone 7 plus has two lenses and two sensors built right into it. Kilfitts and zoomars are fine lenses of great precision and optical performance, but today they are hard to find at least in the us. Moment will let you add a third lens to the iphone 7 plus. This app is available only on the app store for iphone and ipad. Later, with the 1967 retirement of heinz kilfitt, zoomar designer dr. These are lenses that have been designed to fit on the iphone and make the pictures clearer.
Theres about 3cm clearance from the lenses to the top of the inside of the clip, so as long as your camera isnt further than 3cm from the top of your tabletphone youre golden. The original camera phones may not have even had focusing, but they certainly need it now. And i shot for years in the papua new guinea rainforest where it was my practice to carry 2 nikon f bodies each with a different lens one wide, one short tele, one loaded with color, one loaded. Jan 16, 2018 sandmarc lenses for iphone x are well designed, look great, and feel like highend photography equipment in the hand. Nikkor 28200 mm zoom lens, extended to 200 mm at left and collapsed to 28 mm focal length at right. The iphone takes remarkably good photos for a smartphone, but with the right accessories it can replace your digital slr entirely. Jan 24, 20 the detachable hilo lens accessory for the iphone and ipad lets mobile photographers take photos and video from interesting new angles. His firm heinz kilfitt munchen is primarily known for its innovative series of macro, telephoto, and zoom lenses from the 1950s and 1960s. Super easy to use with my iphone, the lenses make sharp pictures and i was impressed with the differences especial. An iphone is almost always attached to his hip or in his pocket, but over the years, mr. Jul 29, 2017 if youre looking for a lens thatll truly give people the illusion youve been doing all your shooting with a dslr camera, then take a peek and consider the aukey ora iphone lens kit. Quality mobile camera lenses learn how to take better iphone.
Lensbabys latest lens brings a new facet to iphone. Moment lenses are ready for your iphone 7 sign in to comment. Office lens trims, enhances and makes pictures of whiteboards and documents readable. Theyve made some excellent lenses, including the venerable 40mm f2. It was originally made in voigtlander bessamatic mount, produced in the munich kilfitt factory as were most zoomars. These lenses provide wideangle, telephoto, and macro shooting options to the iphone user. By using a little electrical motor to move the lens and using a standard passive autofocusing method. The manufacturers would have to figure out a way that the lens could be shifted into place in.
If your lens at least the telekilar should have this mount you can use a leica e39 aka ltm to nikonadapter and some extension rings. The iphone has a great smartphone camera but it could be better. Like magic, it will digitize notes on whiteboards or blackboards. Kilfitt was contracted to manufacture the groundbreaking 1960 zoomar 3682mm lens for voigtlander. Nov 08, 2014 each lens weighs 275g and claims edgetoedge clarity. The iphone makes for a pretty good camera on its own, but adding an additional lens can really help your photos shine. Not only did he make lenses, he also designed cameras. The ipro lens system gives iphone 55s5se, iphone 66s, and iphone 6 plus6s users the ability to quickly affix one of five different lenses to his or her phone by attaching them to a speciallydesigned ipro protective phone case. On heniz kilfitts retirement his company was acquired by zoomar designer frank back. Nov 23, 2017 apples iphone has one of the better camera systems out there, especially the recent plus models and iphone x, with their dual lens optical zoom capability. The lenses i will be talking about are the iphone x versions. He was designer of the kowa six and said to have had a hand in the design of the kalimar reflex. An iphone with a periscope lens could significantly boost. Capture the great outdoors the olloclip action lens set lets your iphone zoom in or out, but at the cost of losing some features on the iphone 7 plus.
Others came with swiss kern lenses, most famously the 50mm f1. We round up the best iphone camera lenses across iphone 6 and. Just clamp the mobilens over your front or rearfacing iphone camera and adjust until your image is crystal clear. His early success in designing the robot camera was followed by the mecaflex, produced to his design.
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