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Olloclip three-in-one lens

So Apple’s surprise non-announcement last week still made your original iPhone 4 feel a bit less special? Well, before you ditch and switch, maybe this is the alternative: bling up! Olloclip three-in-one lens accessory for iPhone Olloclip is a three-in-one lens attachment that adds plenty of extra zing to the iPhone 4’s …

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That's actually quite cool.

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Needs a fake scar.

If you put this on your phone, you also need:

1) A fake scar sticker

2) a white cat (or possibly LOLcat).

"Do you expect me to talk?"

"No Mr. Jobs, I expect you to DIE."

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Looks like a shooter scope

Those bikers used these to rob the Apple store?

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I tried one of these on a Razr a few years ago.

AND :

Love at first sight

EXCEPT :

You can't keep your bloody hands still!!!

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Not only barrel distortion...

You don't have to get far off-centre on that WA shot before it turns into a smeary mess :(

If I want to take a smallish camera, then I'll grab my Pentax 645NII and a few rolls of Velvia (when the 4x5 is just too big).

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Inventor?

Pedant moment, but this annoys me. One does not "invent" a gadget.

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Bleary smeary yuck yuck.

Barrell distortion and smeary horror is pretty much inevitable with these sort of extension/adapter lenses. You can get away with a macro extension but widening the field of view is an optical nightmare when you already have a lens between you and the film/sensor.

(imagine I've inserted a back-of-envelope ray diagram here)

See? Nightmare. The only way to make a decent wide angle adapter is to take a drill and remove the existing lens first.

The fisheye gets away with it because it embraces the distortion.

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Will this work on a 4S as well or does no-one know yet...?

Same shell so yes. Unless there have been minor tweaks?

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