Smartphone Camera Lenses Leading To Mobile Photography Revolution

By: | December 29th, 2014

Tricloptic iPhone Camera Lens

Tricloptic iPhone Camera Lens (Image Courtesy www.hammacher.com)

Smartphones have solved a lot of problems for humans. By just carrying a smartphone we can literally do thousands of things.

Smart phones take pretty good photographs, but being human, we are never satisfied: fixed focal lengths, fixed dimensions, no wide-angle, no telephoto. And then there is envy we feel toward friends and family who can afford expensive cameras and lenses.

Moment Lenses

Moment Lenses (Image Courtesy www.momentlens.co)

Now a number of lens makers (Photojojo, Gizmon, Holga, Mobi, Olloclip, Phogo, Tricloptic, Action Life Media, and others) including Moment, are aiming to make smartphone cameras so good that the high end cameras we envy will soon seem passé: clunky heavy and inconvenient as well as a waste of money.

Moment lenses currently work with iOS and Galaxy phones, two of the largest platforms. The lenses work with or without smartphone cases. A thin metal plate with rubberized adhesive safely secures the lens to a smartphone.

Currently, Moment offers:

  • a wide angle len for $99.99 (see image below)
  • a tele lens for $99.99 (see image below)
  • a lens holster,
  • an iPad Mounting Plate
  • an iPhone Mounting Plate
  • a Nexus Mounting Plate
  • a Galazy Mounting Plate
Moment Wide Lense

Moment Wide Lense (Image Courtesy www.momentlens.co)

Moment Tele Lens

Moment Tele Lens (Image Courtesy www.momentlens.co)

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David Russell Schilling

David enjoys writing about high technology and its potential to make life better for all who inhabit planet earth.

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