Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Attach a 50mm Lens to your iPhone?!

 
 A CONCEPT Not to be confused with the already developed skjm.com/icam/ !

My iPhone is so handy and so much better at getting good pictures than it used to be that I find myself taking out the DSLR kit less and less these days, and just doing a little more work on the editing side, something Annie Leibovitz says is the key to great shots anyway. But a new iPhone accessory concept brings the best of both worlds via a single device — albeit one that doesn’t exist, yet.

The iCam is a simple case for the iPhone 5 (yes, iPhone 5), as conceptualized by Italy’s ADR Studio. The studio used a mock-up it had created for the iPhone 5, featuring a larger edge-to-edge screen and oval home button, as the base device for the iCam add-on, but it’s not hard to imagine it working with the iPhone 4 either.
The quality of the design is indefinitely not apple. Grabbing a button layout from canon? Putting the too small virtual buttons in the middle of the layout – the furthest away location possible? The sharp edge top right to scratch the phone? The tacky and pointless front facing screen? The overall ‘no way to hold it without touching a button’ layout?

Someone should seriously introduce a camera accessory like this. If someone like Panasonic introduced a Lumix camera case for the iPhone that supported micro 4/3 lenses i’d purchase it in a heartbeat.

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