iPhone DSLR Mounts Your Canon SLR Lenses In The Pursuit of Pointlessness

We’ve seen SLR lenses inexplicably Frankensteined onto iPhones before, but the “iPhone DSLR prototype” might just end up being final word on grafting an SLR lens onto an iPhone.

The iPhone DSLR is a 1.1lb mount made of anodized billet aluminum with dual handle grips and a tripod mount capable of filtering the light from a Canon SLR lens into the iPhone’s tiny sensor.

Personally, I’m not quite sure I get the point: no matter how good the lens, an iPhone’s picture is ultimately going to be hobbled by its tiny, noisy sensor. I suppose, as usual, this is a “because it’s there” proposition. But where would geek ingenuity be if not for the gleeful solving of imaginary and utterly surreal problems? God bless the Internet.

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Before you say that the iPhone Camera hobbled by a noisy sensor, take a look at this.
http://fstoppers.com/iphone/
John Brownlee
Everhyme, all that proves is what everyone already knows: good lighting is the most important aspect of making a photo look good, and that you can get pro level shots from any camera as long as you have great lighting… in this case, supplied by thousands of dollars worth of professional lighting equipment. Unfortunately, that revelation isn’t particularly useful in the real world.
OlsonBW
I’d buy one if they were around $49.95. Why not? Sure I’ve got a Canon EOS Rebel T1i EF-S which would take MUCH better pictures. That’s not the point. People keep climbing mountains even though they’ve already been climbed. What’s the point of that? Because some people think, maybe in a sick way, that is fun. Me? I climb out of bed, not mountains.
moe golden
But wouldn’t it be logical to think that the iPhone’s camera sensor is only going to continue to improve?
And given the ubiquity of cellphones and practicality of anything that multitasks, it’s not crazy to think that eventually this kind of SLR mount could catch on with the prosumer set, especially considering the price of additional SLR bodies.
I’d get this thing today if it means not having to lug around and buy an extra SLR just to catch photos at a different range than my tele lens. And although the mount itself has to be precise, I would imagine the rest of the block would be relatively cheap to mass produce.
Best of all, it brings up the possibility of being able to shoot with lenses of different mounts and companies at a reasonable price.
moe golden
Although I would hate to have to use the iPhone camera’s on-screen “shutter” while gripping the mount body. That part could be a traditional-feeling shutter rigged via bluetooth.
gmc
What would the crop factor be ?