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We have seen several different add-on lenses designed to enhance the iPhone camera, but these versions ditch the case in favour of magnetic mounts. There are also three different lenses to choose from.
Formerly a Japan-exclusive, the Wii Lens Cleaning Kit has Godzilla-crawled its way across the Pacific Ocean floor to the US.
Novoflex has answered our wishes for the Micro Four Thirds system: a €150 ($US192) adaptor will now mate Leica M-mount lenses--some of the best glass ever made--with cameras like the Panasonic Lumix G1.
Paul Smith's Fisheye No.2 Lomo camera is a subtle mixture of two things: The 180-degree bug-eye lens creates distorted images that are even more arty than your usual Lomograph. Plus to the dwindling number of wet-chemistry photography fans (including myself) Lomography is something of a fashion-statement all of its own. The camera has bulb setting for long exposures, a multiple-exposure setting, built-in flash and a hotshoe, and is dressed up in trademark Paul Smith stripes. And it's limited edition, so it's going for a fashionably high $US150. [PaulSmith via LikeCool]
Posted by Nick Broughall at 3:30 PM on October 31, 2008
Panasonic's new DMC-G1 camera is supposed to be like a compact with SLR-like interchangeable lenses. Sounds good, right? the problem is that even though it's smaller, and doesn't include a full DSLR's functionality, it costs just as much as a full-blown DSLR.
For the single lens kit, expect to pay $1,649 for a single lens kit or $2199 for a twin lens kit. And because it uses the new Micro Four Thirds lens system, you'll either have to buy new lenses or, if you happen to own full-sized four thirds lenses, purchase an additional adapter.
The camera will hit shelves in mid-November for anybody looking for a mini-kind-of DSLR for the same price. Full info is below.
Fisheye pictures can be cool sometimes. It looks like you're looking through a peephole in a door! How neat! But to design a camera that can only take fisheye shots? Well, that seems a bit too gimmicky for me. If I want to take fisheye pictures, I can attach a fisheye lens. Otherwise, I want normal pictures. Yes, it's shaped like a magnifying glass and that's adorable, but again, it doesn't look like it'd fit comfortably in my pocket with such an awkward shape. This is why it's a concept, and will probably always be a concept. [Yanko Design via Crave]
Panasonic has confirmed that the first Micro Four Thirds System camera, the Lumix DMC-G1, will be available starting in mid-November for $US800. It's definitely a promising piece of equipment, but interested parties may want to hold off until Panasonic delivers on its promise to bring HD video recording capabilities to future versions.
For the first time ever, scientists have captured an spiral galaxy in its early stages of formation, only two billion years after the Big Bang. This time, however, they haven't used the magic Hubble, but the ten-metre Keck telescope in Hawaii helped by something called gravitational lensing, or Mother Nature's own optical zoom lenses.
Tilt-shift lenses sit off-centre of the film (or sensor) plane of your camera to produce photos with extremely limited depth of field, giving the effect of a macro shot of a tiny scene. When the effect is matched with the surreal speed boost of many stills strung together into a time-lapse movie (here by Keith Loutit), we get the other-worldly privilege of seeing real Australian beach goers as an elaborate Playmobil scape. Or Sydney Harbour in a bath tub...
Zoom lenses are by no means a rarity, but it's not often that someone chooses to sacrifice one to the internet. FredMiranda forum member sbv20 found himself with a useless Canon 17-85mm lens after the aperture became stuck, so he did what any good gadget freak would: he tore it apart. He documented the process with a fantastic series of photos which demonstrate that even the boring lenses found dangling from necks at any tourist destination are obscenely complicated.
