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It's a really, really, really bad idea. dSLR lenses are designed for sensors which are 24mm x 36mm. Cell phone sensors vary, but a largish one might be around 6
by blagie 5y ago
It's a really, really, really bad idea. dSLR lenses are designed for sensors which are 24mm x 36mm. Cell phone sensors vary, but a largish one might be around 6x8mm.
That's not to mention issues like autofocus.
There were a few attempts to bridge this gap, which attach a large sensor to your phone. The best-known ones are the Sony QX1 and the Olympus Air. They never took off. I think that was due to very poor execution. I though the Olympus Air was close, but had a few complete showstopper issues which made it unusable. A v2 might have done well, but instead, Olympus gave up.
A few cameras are getting improved workflows with interfacing to cell phones, so perhaps we'll get there another way.
- frostburg 5y agoHonestly smartphone workflow are just bad for different reasons. The best UX in digital photography is found in Leica rangefinders and Hasselblad / PhaseOne detachable medium format backs (not really the mirrorless medium format Hasselblad or Fuji cameras which have the usual awful menu systems).
- blagie 5y agoIt depends on what you want out of a workflow. As I'm getting older, I'm finding I like taking photos, viewing photos, and I hate editing photos. For 99% of what I do, cell for workflows would be great, if not for the privacy issues. Google takes my photos, and sometimes shows me "this day 3 years ago" or a nice montage. I like that. I like having raw files for that 1% of photos I will edit, but that's a much less important use.
- frostburg 5y agoOf course, yes. My issue with phones (besides the limitations in acuity, DR, etc.) is that they unpredictabily decide a lot by themselves in an opaque fashion.
- blagie 5y agoMy preferred workflow would be: - Camera unpredictably decides a lot by itself in an opaque fashion. I get useful automation for family photos. - I get a RAW file if I want to decide something different or if I'm printing and framing a photo 99% of the photos I shoot fit in the former category, but the 1% in the latter is about equally important (1 framed photo is worth a lot more than a random cell phone snapshot).
- sudosysgen 5y agoRAW+Jpeg with a modern mirrorless in Aperture priority and vivid presets does that for me. Send off all the pics into Amazon Photos or Google Photos, put the RAWs in my NAS, and edit them whenever I want to.
- NoSorryCannot 5y agoBack in the day, hobbyists looking for a cine look would hook up a kind of adapter to use SLR or cine lenses with a consumer camcorder. Of course the camcorders had tiny sensors behind fixed lenses, so what was happening was the adapter had a bit of vibrating ground glass onto which the external lens was projecting its image, like a viewfinder, and the camcorder recorded that. The effect looked very good. Manual focus of course but this was considered desireable. I'm not suggesting this as a commercial solution, I just thought it was very inventive.