This adapter lets you mount any camera lens onto your smartphone
Apr 11, 2018
Dunja Đuđić
Dunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, concerts, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.
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If you’re shooting videos with your smartphone, there are plenty of accessories that help to expand your possibilities. At NAB 2018, Cinematics International Co, Ltd introduced an adapter that lets you pair your smartphone with camera lenses. You can attach any professional lens onto your phone and turn it into a cinema camera.
As Lanxin Zheng of Cinematics International explains, the adapter covers many different lens mounts. She mentions Sony, Nikon, and Canon, but she adds that you can use “almost all of them.” The build of the adapter lets you hold the entire setup by its handle. But, if you use a larger lens, you should support the lens as well.
Zheng doesn’t give details about the price or availability of the adapter. For now, it’s being displayed at NAB, and we’ll let you know when we have more details.
This can be an interesting product for smartphone filmmakers, although it seems like it takes a little time to get used to using it. Still, I guess you’d get better results with a proper lens than the $35 smartphone superzoom.
[via No Film School]
Dunja Đuđić
Dunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, concerts, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.
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30 responses to “This adapter lets you mount any camera lens onto your smartphone”
Why? When you carry a bulky heavy lens you can also carry the camera and when you have such a lens you have a real camera too. Also doesn’t the lens mess with the multiple cameras setups of most new smart phones? Although I can see this being used in one of those ‘shot with iPhone’ videos.
For the small phone sensor even something like 50 mm is a long telephoto lens.
What for????!
Well I thought it is already, who knows maybe I’m in wrong
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A DIY for a C-mount system would be far more useful information.
Why would any sane photographer wants to do that? ?
Wow, that’s SO MUCH better than carrying an SLR! It slips right in your pocket!
Why??????
This isn’t a new concept. Several companies have been making mounts so you can use DSLR lenses on cell phones and those were years ago. Didn’t prove very popular back then so companies stopped making them. I guess someone didn’t get the memo.
Why why why why why why?
I must say that this works for me. I’ve been looking for this simple solution. Cameras and mobile phones always change every year. Very frustrating for someone with a limited budget. I can see upgrading my phone every 2 to 3 years but a whole camera that I probably will only use 20 times a year? Maybe not. I have all these expensive (at least to me) really good lenses from my past cameras that are just collecting dust. This solution allows me to bring them back to life and make me less of a fool that I spent all that money.
this is cool. eff the haters.
Lol imagine using it on your slr with a lens already attached. Just buy those small lens, save yourself some cash.
Cos they can, gadget man or woman will buy it!
It’s a pity you cannot attach brain to smartphone.
Many time ago people used DOF-adapters for camcorders with 1/3″-sensor. History goes in a spiral.
Why…To get different fov or better image on your phone.
Live video is the first thing that came to mind
You purchase a photographic lens costing hundreds or even thousands of dollars, why on earth would you use it on a Crappy cell phone camera. Just nonsense.
Matt Buist because you can’t live stream on Instagram from a camera.
Why for, they ask – why not they’re told. Get out take images, present them to the world. Stop asking why and do. LIVE !
Your English is the best.
Is this for people without cameras?
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Funny
Just a simple DOF adapter. I made one myself back in 2014. Shoot on HTC One + Samyang 85 f1.4
How about mounting a lens on the appropriate camera? Using a tiny sensor and a pro lens seems completely idiotic.
Why on earth would any real photographer want to do this. Insane!
Is it just me or does this product make no sense _