Lenses for Mobile Cameras

Mobile phone cameras have become one of the main advertising features to attract audiences and increase sales. The latest advertisement from Apple for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus features billboards of photos taken with these phones. Samsung now offers phones with a 16-megapixel camera quality that was once only accessible with fast SLR cameras. Therefore, it is not surprising that a large part of the market for accessories for these phones is dedicated to their photography and videography capabilities. Moment, one of the first photography companies to enter the mobile camera market, offers two main lenses: a telephoto lens (which zooms in up to twice the original distance) and a wide lens (which doubles the field of view). Another well-known company in the mobile lens market is Gizmon from Japan, which also offers fisheye, macro, and central focus lenses, along with a base for mounting them on phones. Olloclip has also become one of the popular lens designers, especially among technology bloggers, by offering three main types of lenses (macro, fisheye, and wide). The simple design and usability for everyone, along with the good quality of Olloclip lenses, are the secrets to the company's success. However, beyond these standard lenses, there are more interestingly designed lenses. The company Photojojo has invented a macro lens shaped like a plastic bracelet, which has attracted many audiences due to the popularity of plastic bracelets. You can wear this lens as a bracelet and whenever you want to do macro photography (photography of details), you can attach the bracelet to your phone's camera. GoPano, as its name suggests, is a lens for taking panoramic photos. This lens mounts on the phone like a small camera and captures high-quality panoramic photos. Mobilens offers various types of fisheye, macro, telephoto lenses, etc., but the way these lenses are mounted on the phone is very easy. These lenses come with a small clip that can be easily attached and detached from the phone. Besides these lenses that are mounted on the phone with different bases, there are another category of lenses that come with or are connected to the phone case. If you are familiar with using Photoshop or applications like Instagram, you are probably also familiar with applying filters to photos. Filters can brighten or darken photos, make them look vintage, or change the colors of the image. The Holga lens (and case) does this at the time of taking the photo. You can select different filters for your photos by rotating the lens. The company Optix, which specializes in providing various mobile accessories, offers a case that can be swapped with four different lenses. In various situations, the glass lenses of this case can be changed, and it can even be used underwater. Another popular lens and case among more professional mobile photographers is called Trioptic, which has three lenses (fisheye, macro, and telescope) that can be rotated to change their position on the mobile camera, eliminating the hassle of changing lenses for photographers. In this area, colorful selfie retouching applications are changing the game.