Half Camera works with your phone

[whitehat]

This sounds very interesting. The guts of a camera that uses your smart phone to control it.

"Finally, after being envious of the Japanese market for several months, what is perhaps one of the best innovations in mobile phone photography has arrived in the US."

Olympus Air A01

 

[whitehat]

More information is available at B&H Photo.

 

[mikedt]

Looks the same as the Oppo O-lens and the Kodak SL25.
http://kodakpixpro.com/Americas/cameras/smartlens/sl25.php
http://product.yesky.com/product/947/947614/
They're basically the same or very similar devices.

These things are around $300, frankly for that price you can buy a decent large lensed compact, that's completely self contained and doesn't depend on a phone to function, i.e. a real camera. And the Oppo "O-lens" version, it depends on a proprietary Oppo app, that apparently hasn't been updated to work with Lollipop >5.0, and likely never will be.

 

[Slug]

Looks the same as the Oppo O-lens and the Kodak SL25

Nope, those are standalone lenses; the Oly is just a glorified adaptor that still requires a 'real' lens to do the job.

It's interesting, but I fail to see the point tbh.

 

[EarlyMon]

"For those a bit confused by the design of the camera, allow me to explain. The Air is a round cylinder containing the internal “guts” of the camera…the part that actually captures and processes the images like any dSLR or micro 4/3 camera body."

Not in and of itself new, nor new to the US market.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/sony-ds...obile-phones-black/1758117.p?id=1219063239743