‘Five’-Lens Turret Case Turns iPhone 5 Into A Photo-Shooting Tank
This spinning, five-lens-bayonet case for the iPhone 5 looks fantastic, but it’s hard to get past both a) the price ($140, or HK$1,080) and b) the name (TurtleJacket PentaEye!)
Still, it’s billed as a tool for the “serious iPhoneographer,” so let’s take a look.
The aluminum case has two sets of strap mounts and a pair of tripod mounts, but clearly the main draw id the five-lens dial. Except it appears to be little more than a four-lens dial with an extra hole for letting you shoot through the iPhone’s naked lens.
The lenses are a wideangle, a fisheye, a macro and a telephoto. As the Olloclip has three of these already, all you’re getting is the telephoto which – at a pedestrian 1.5x magnification – might not be worth the extra.
Still, it looks cool, and will certainly protect the iPhone within. But more and more I wonder about the utility of these things – after all, if you;re going to go to the trouble of schlepping this extra gear, why not just grab your camera instead?
- Source Turtleback
- Via Andrew Liszewski
Charlie Sorrel sits in his gadget nerve-center in Barcelona, Spain, and spits out words about various weird plastic widgets while the sun shines outside his iCave. Previously found at Wired.com's Gadget Lab covering cameras, power cables and sneaking in as much Apple-centric coverage as he could, Charlie spends his rare moments outside perched atop a bicycle and snapping photos. You can follow him on Twitter via 
