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Nikon Corporation has announced that the cumulative number of NIKKOR interchangeable lenses manufactured by the company has reached 80 million.

Nikon (then Nippon Kogaku), launched its single-lens reflex camera “Nikon F” in 1959, and at the same time released the “Nikon F” “NIKKOR-S Auto 5cm f / 2″, the first “NIKKOR” lens. Since the launch of this lens, the line-up has been expanded while leading the optics market in Japan and around the world.

This includes the start, in October 2011, of the “Nikon 1″ which increased the pace of sales on NIKKOR lenses. The company reached the milestone of 75 million lenses in early November 2012, and now has already hit the 80 million mark.

Many different lenses have been introduced as part of the company’s new lineups. For example, since the beginning of 2013, as an interchangeable lens for Nikon single-lens reflex cameras, 3 lenses were released including FX format compliant 5x telephoto zoom lens “AF-S NIKKOR 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR”.

Regarding the “1 NIKKOR” lens for interchangeable lens advanced camera “Nikon 1″, after 2013, 3 lenses were released including 10X zoom lens “1 NIKKOR VR 10-100mm f/4-5.6″.

Nikon is also celebrating the 80th anniversary of the NIKKOR brand which is considered the benchmark by many in the optics and camera industries.

The video below is really interesting and was made to commemorate the brand’s 80th anniversary.

There are a handful of camera lenses that you can get for the iPhone, which allow you to take a number of unique photos using a fisheye effect or better macro focus. Olloclip is one company that offers these types of lenses, and they’ve come out with an accompanying iPhone app that corrects distortion in photos created by the add-on lenses.

The app also includes a shooting mode, so it’s essentially a camera app on top of being a photo-editing app as well. It includes a number of shooting modes that can fix the distortion that the Olloclip’s lenses cause, since the lenses are essentially bending the image to get a fisheye effect and what have you. The app also lets you control various parameters manually, something that the default camera app lacks.

The app includes a Mesh Editor Tool, and it’s used to adjust the effect created by using one of the wide-angle lenses, and it allows you to remove barrel and pincushion distortion made from the lenses. There’s also a feature called Reticles, which allows users to adjust focus and exposure manually, either independently or together.

As for the different modes, you have Video Mode, Normal Mode, and Macro Mode. Video Mode is essentially just a mode where you press record and capture your video. Olloclip says that this mode “allows you to shoot comfortably and easily while using your olloclip,” so take that however you want. As for Macro Mode, this will allow you to adjust the focus when you’re close up on objects, which is something you couldn’t do with the default camera app.

And of course, Normal Mode is essentially nothing but a traditional camera app that’s optimized for Olloclip use. Once you take a photo in the app, you’ll then be able to edit and mess around with it right in the app. However, the app also supports photos not taken in the app, so if you have any Olloclip-ified photos lying around, you can import them into the app to fix the distortion.

VIA: Cult of Mac

SOURCE: iTunes App Store

Olloclip iPhone app fixes distortion from camera lens kit is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Normally if you want to take a picture of someone, it is pretty obvious by how you are holding the camera and where it is pointed. Everyone knows that you are doing it and they know who the target is. This iPhone periscope will help you keep things undercover.


The idea is that you install a sticky metal ring on your phone, so when you want to use the periscope and be sneaky about taking pics, just place the periscope on the metal ring. There’s no need to install any software or anything else.  A mirror inside the gadget just reflects the image into the lens of your camera.

So you just pretend that you are playing with your smartphone, while you are really taking pictures. It is only $22.45(USD) from allputer. Hopefully that sticky ring is strong enough not to make you look like a bumbling inept spy when the periscope falls off.

[via bookofjoe]

Nikon Imaging Japan added new lens “1 NIKKOR 32mm f/1.2″ to the Nikon lens lineup for the lens-replaceable “Nikon 1″ camera in June.

Focal length is 32mm. Since it’s an aperture single focus lens that has the lightest F-number 1.2, it’s got high resolving power and is capable of capturing even the slightest details very well, such as a single eye lash.

Price: ¥105,000
Colors: black and silver

After creating the Photorito lens wrap that makes your zoom like a burrito, Photojojo has pulled off another feat: making iPad photographers look even wackier than normal. But the company’s iPad telephoto lens is pretty useful if you’re willing to hold a slab to your face to grab images. It brings a useful 10x zoom to the iPad 3 and 4, and 12x to the iPad Mini, giving you un-pixelated closeups along with “slight vignetting, a lo-fi look and all around interest to your photos.” You’re not going to make your iPad any less conspicuous as a camera than it already is, so you can grab the wee lens for $25 at the source.

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