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That is just crazy - wonder if there isn't some pay off for them
- comix aka martha
I think it's cool, just not $250 cool.
- Rodfather
Think of it this way, wouldn't you like Instagram, 360 Panorama, iMovie, and a 3G connection on your DSLR? You can make a quick and dirty movie and share it right away.
- Rodfather
I have a friend who would actually really dig this. (He's a professional photographer too.) He just wouldn't be interested in it for that price point.
- SAM
If someone really needs to carry a $3000 lens around, why wouldn't he just carry a camera as well? It looks good but of no use.
- Faraz Mullick
I don't think a person would be limited to using it with $3000 lens, what Rodfather said is a good use case, and some people appreciate the novelty. Of no use to you would be reasonable.
- SAM
Hooking up a SLR lens to an iPhone and calling it a DSLR is a bit like sticking a prancing horse logo on a Fiat 500 and calling it a Ferrari.
- Brian Sullivan
Who called it a DSLR? It's a lens mount.
- Rodfather
Other than the price, what is the actual objection to this product?
- Bren
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Rodfather- I thought that was implicit in your earlier comment.
- Brian Sullivan
No, you're tripping. I wouldn't mind having an OS in a DLSR.
- Rodfather
As the owner of a 6MP DSLR, I don't really see what's ridiculous about 5MP pictures through a good lens.
- Bruce Lewis
Rodfather -- so your comment earlier has nothing to do with this product -- you were just daydreaming about a product that you wish existed?
- Brian Sullivan
It says exactly what it says. Why such much hate? There's even a group that makes movies on the iPhone only. For them, it would be a cool addition. You can use lenses you have sitting around and make a movie with different lenses. What's so horrible about that?
- Rodfather
Bruce -- adding a big lens to a 5MP iPhone does not turn it into the equivalent of a 5MP DSLR -- not even close. Size in MP matters a lot less than size of sensor -- and iPhone's sensor is very small.
- Brian Sullivan
Rodfather - no hate implied -- at least not to you. I just think the product is ridiculous.
- Brian Sullivan
No answer to my question? Okay.
- Bren
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Bren - to me seems to a solution looking for a problem -- it is technology for technology's sake -- -- just because it is possible to do something it doesn't always make sense to make and try to sell a product that does it.
- Brian Sullivan
I think Rod has already made a compelling argument against that, Brian. Maybe it's just me, but your vitriol for this product seems disproportionate to your stated complaint about the product. As I understand it, the only problem (aside from price) is that *you* don't have a use for it.
- Bren
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I see it as just a lens mount. That's it. On a side note, this reminds me when people started making adapters for consumer video cameras to mount 35mm lenses. This was huge. Only around 4 years ago too. That was the first time people could use interchangeable lenses on a relatively cheap video camera. It opened up so much more possibilities for students and indie filmmakers. Now that...
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- Rodfather
Bren - not sure it was intended as vitrol or should be characterized as such, I don't know how else I can assess and present a point of view except as well .. my point of view. I definitely have no use for this product (or for an iPhone for that matter)
- Brian Sullivan
"ridiculous department of idiocy" struck me as fairly vitriolic for a product that is, in reality, simply not useful to you. Again, maybe that's just me.
- Bren
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"The media titan Rupert Murdoch abandoned his defiance of popular and Parliamentary pressure on Thursday, sacrificing the mass-circulation British tabloid News of the World in a bid to protect his News Corporation empire from fallout from the deepening phone hacking scandal."
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We can only hope that this is Murdoch's Waterloo.
- Brian Sullivan
Quirky old fart. As we parked for the event he pulled up in his vintage Rolls and parked in front of us and unloaded stuff from his trunk (boot) for the gig.
- Brian Sullivan
""If you picture in the art world, if the collection of the Musee D'Orsay all of a sudden came onto the market -- those are paintings you would never see again of a breadth and of a certain caliber," said Duncan Stewart, Deloitte Canada's director of research for technology, media and telecoms."
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