The Photojojo iPhone SLR Mount

Yes, this really is for real. Photojojo, the photography accessories specialists, have just released an SLR to iPhone lens mount. Designed for Canon or Nikon lenses, this accessory lets you mount you SLR lens of choice to either your iPhone 4 or iPhone 3, but this does come at a price!!

Below if the iPhone SLR Mount description, from the Photojojo online store.

"Ever since the iPhone camera was invented, it's aspired to be what it simply never quite could be: a DSLR. Sure, apps have helped your camera phone inch forward with simulated focusing F-X and faux filters.

Faux no more. The iPhone SLR Mount gives you the real thing. It'll set your phone photos apart from everyone else's on Instagram in an unprecedented way (#nofilters!).

This case-adapter combo lets you mount your Canon EOS or Nikon SLR lenses to your iPhone 4 giving your phone powerful depth of field and manual focus.

Telephoto, wide angle, macro, or your fixed fifty lenses all attach to this mount giving you a full range of lenses at your iPhone lovin' fingertips. Heck, you could even throw on a Diana adapter!

Plus, you'll be putting the SLR lenses you already have to use with the camera you use the most -- your phone.

Two loopholes on each end of the case let you tie on a camera strap, so you can hang it around your neck just like your real DSLR.

Now that your favorite camera has it all, what're you going to do with your DSLR?"

This iPhone SLR Mount is available from Photojojo priced at $249.00 USD for the iPhone 4 version, or $190.00 USD for the iPhone 3 version, with either Canon or Nikon mount.

Comments

[obo78]

250 USD to make your iPhone even more unwieldy. Try holding that 24-75 all by itself out at arm's length for a minute and watch it waver around like crazy. Add to that the fact that you have to shoot wide open since the lens has no electronic connection to the standard DSLR controls and you'll be lucky if 10% of your shots are anywhere near in focus.

This might work with a small 50mm for really shallow DOF shots, but I think you'd end up having to manually focus within a somewhat close range and then have to move the whole iPhone/lens contraption back and forth to finalize.

If it were $20 I might play with it. I have a load of EOS lenses no longer being used. But $250 is really crazy.

[Eric Schatz]

for the same money get a good garden variety point n shoot with twice the resolution and more dynamic range than the iphone, which admittedly has a good camera on it...but at what point do we draw the line between phone and entertainment system or phone and camcorder, or phone and game system or phone and ... you get the idea. Iphone is a good swiss army knife of digital technology but you don't use a swiss army knife to do surgery. (Unless you really really have to.)

[Butow Maler]

Obo, i'm using a similar kit already: The OWLE Bubo with an EnCinema 35mm-Adapter to mount my Canon L-Lenses. And i'm using the 24-70 with it. It's really great. This new adapter above is quite cheaper, but the idea behind and the system is the same.

[the_bman]

I think I'd be worried this will not fit on future iPhones - this is exactly the reason I didn't invest in the OWLE Bubo/EnCinema combo.

[Fasoaga]

L-lens on Iphone is like a Formula1 Engine in 1 firtst gear on a bicycle.
For the "fun" it is to expensive.

[Mark]

My first impression was 'wow' and I almost jumped out of my chair but as soon as I found out the price I just though 'ouch'. I love iphone photos and I love my SLR but the most would pay for this is about $20 bucks. I think if you're already lugging around your bigass lens then u might as well have your SLR camera in the same bag - which would defeat the purpose of this device. I think this 'case' is a very cool idea but way way waaaaayyy overpriced for what it is - a piece of plastic.

[Richard Bailey]

I just can't see the point in this. If I wanted to use my SLR lenses I would use them on the SLR body. Some of the major points of photography with the iPhone are that it is small, discrete and easy to use. Carrying around SLR lens in your pocket (if it fits!) and then having to attach it to the iPhone case every time you wanted to shoot a photograph would probably mean you would have lost the opportunity. The iPhone is superb at spontaneity and this combo would kill that in an instant.

I have two Panasonic micro four thirds camera bodies a GH2 and GF1 the later one being pocket able at a push with the f1.7 pancake lens so why I would want to stick a large lens on my iphone and make it both larger and heavier completely baffles me - not to mention the price!

[Richard Bailey]

Just a thought but might they next introduce a 10 x 8 film back and bellows attachment for the iPad?

[Butow Maler]

Richard, are you able to do all the image processing on you other cameras? I've got the whole bunch of cameras too. From old Polaroids over midformat Hasselblad to the iPhone. But the iPhone is the only camera which allows to edit all pics (and movies!) inside the system.

When i'm on the road for some days for example i'm happy to do the image processing on the phone itself. I don't need to carry any kind of computer with me. Why should i forego the better DOF in this situation? Why should i forego the option to zoom optically? :-)

[Shutterbug]

I suppose I look at my iPhone differently from my D-SLR. Like other uses have said, if I am lugging my L Series lens with me then surely it is attached to my Mark!

Editing on the spot is great but I can always get an iPad with camera kit for that if I was itching to do so.

I will save the 200 dollars for my next body or lens and keep snapping with my iPhone for the spontaneity I love it to have! I will explore with loupes and other external devices to create different effects, but I want the two worlds of my photography life to remain separate.

[Richard Bailey]

@butow maler
Like I said I'd use my micro four thirds which gives me great bokeh with the f1.7 lens. Also lets not forget that the images are more than double the iPhone's at 12 megapixels. For image processing I can either export them to the iPhone to use the apps or use Photoshop. The point is I could have the GF1 and pancake lens in one jacket pocket and my iPhone in another. For the best IQ I would always reach for the GF1, shoot in RAW and process later at leisure. Unless I'm going out with the strict intention of taking pictures I would generally use my iPhone as it is always with me, but on these occasions I would not want to carry around a bulky, heavy lens with me. I'm not a fan of zoom lenses - though I do own 2 as they are too slow. Most people could if they tried do the bulk of their photography with either a 35mm or 50mm lens - look at what Cartier Bresson produced.

[ct]

Very cool but WAY OVERPRICED! Not worth it!

[gordophoto]

eyefi card and the ios app + your dSLR is less money and you still get to edit your photos on the go with your iphone.

[positivepauly]

What gordophoto said. If you can't get an eye-fi card because your camera doesn't support it (i.e. CF-only and it doesn't work w/an adapter) then you can get a used Nikon D70 for $250 and a CF-SD adapter.

While a part of me wants to be thrilled with this, in reality I'd never use it. I'd just shoot w/my DSLR and move the files over to the iPhone or iPad. Far less unwieldy than this overpriced frivilosity. Maybe when the $19.95 cheap eBay Chinese knockoff becomes available I'll give in & try it, but even still I don't expect to ever really want this.

I can see a metric f-ton of Instagram users whose pants are beshatted now though. Sooooooo many Instagram pix initially shot with a DSLR over an iPhone. Now they can just skip that step and be on their merry way. To each their own, I guess...

[Nine42]

Nice idea, shame about the price. Bear in mind that in a few months time when you upgrade to iphone 5 you'll need another slr mount. What happens when you think you've got a perfectly timed image, only for your phone to ring at the same time?? Let's call a phone a phone and a digital slr a digital slr.

[Tony]

A possible use for this would be for a journalist out in the field with an iPhone and an international data plan that needs to send back images on the fly. When cholera hit in Haiti and I was reporting, I was sending back my iphone images while we drove and they were posted before I would get back to a place with internet and send out the same content from my SLR.

On the flipside, the camera on the iPhone works in those situations without the need for an SLR lens.