Olloclip 4-in-1 Lens System for your iPhone

olloclip-4-in-1The iPhone does come with a pretty good camera right out of the box, but what happens when you want to bring things up to the next level? There is, of course, the option of actually using a dedicated digital camera if you want to obtain better looking images. Still, if you have plenty of faith in your iPhone’s camera and would like to push it to the limits, then the £59.99 Olloclip 4-in-1 Lens System would make plenty of sense. This particular lens system for the iPhone would make you fall in love with photography all over again, as it sports fisheye, wide-angle and a couple of macro lenses for you to play around with.

Arriving in red and grey shades, the £59.99 Olloclip 4-in-1 Lens System will clip onto your iPhone in a matter of seconds, ensuring that there is very little chance of you missing that money shot. Want to switch between lenses? Not a problem at all, as there is no unscrewing to be done, just flip it over to the right lens and you are good to go. Made out of high-quality precision ground glass multi-element optics as well as hard-wearing aircraft grade aluminium, it will definitely do its bit to unlock the full photographic potential of your iPhone.
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UCSD engineers develop mini wide-angle lens that’s ten times smaller than a regular one

UCSD engineers develop mini wideangle lens that's ten times smaller than a regular one

What you see here, dear readers, is the image of a fiber-coupled monocentric lens camera that was recently developed by engineers from the University of California, San Diego. The researchers involved in the project say this particular miniature wide-angle lens is one-tenth of the size of more traditional options, such as the Canon EF 8-15mm f/4L pictured above. Don’t let the sheer magnitude (or lack thereof) of this glass fool you, however: UCSD gurus note that the newly developed optics can easily mimic the performance of regular-sized lenses when capturing high-resolution photos. “It can image anything between half a meter and 500 meters away (a 100x range of focus) and boasts the equivalent of 20/10 human vision (0.2-milliradian resolution),” according to engineers. As for us, well, we can’t wait to see this technology become widely adopted — don’t you agree?

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