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This fancy photo booth promises high end headshots for professionals on the go

Sep 12, 2017 by John Aldred 2 Comments
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This has to be one of the silliest things I’ve seen for a while. Not the product itself, but how it’s being marketed. Iris claims to offer professional automated headshots in a booth for $20. Your $20 gets you a “photo session” including half a dozen shots, “helpful posing tips”, and one free high res digital file (the other 5 cost an extra $5 each).

When you watch the promo video, don’t worry, your speakers aren’t broken, there’s just no audio to go with it.

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Photojojo Has Announced a Brand New Lineup of Smartphone Lenses

Nov 19, 2015 by GB Leave a Comment
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Moment, Olloclip, Manfrotto. Those are just three of the many brands that have developed lenses specifically for smartphones. Now, you can add another name to the growing list. Photojojo.

Today, the Photojojo team unveiled the Iris lens series, a trifecta of lenses made specifically for smartphones.[Read More…]

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New Chemical Iris Technology Aims to Innovate Smartphone Camera Aperture

Jun 25, 2014 by Maaz Khan 4 Comments
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As advanced as smartphone cameras are today, they’re still limited by the size they need to be. As a result, most smartphones have a fixed aperture to save space; the iris itself is mad from fixed blades that set the aperture for each camera. But as always, in a time where mobile devices are so engraved into the modern lifestyle, technology is constantly reaching higher ground. In this case, that higher ground is reached by a new type of iris – one made of chemicals that eliminate the need for physical blades.

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