Moment has announced six new T-Series mobile lenses as well as a new lens interface and updated accessories to help mobile photographers and filmmakers level-up the quality of their footage.
Metalenz, a maker of flat "meta-optic" lenses for 3D imaging, has launched its metasurface optics technology on the open market in partnership with semiconductor foundry United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC).
Sandmarc has announced a new 100mm macro lens for iPhones that significantly enhances its close-focusing capabilities and is able to capture what the company calls finer details and natural bokeh.
Apple's latest iPhone release heavily touted the camera's capabilities and now a telephoto lens can be added onto it.
Thinking about interchangeable lenses for your iPhone might immediately bring to mind Moment. But they aren't alone in the smartphone optic game, and Sandmarc has released lenses and filters designed for the iPhone 12 series.
As part of a larger announcement at its Mi Developer Conference in Beijing, Xiaomi announced a retractable wide-aperture lens technology that it says will improve its cameras' light-gathering ability by 300%.
Moment just launched an exciting new product for smartphone photographers: a line of high-quality 37mm Cine filters and compatible filter mount that you can attach directly to your Moment smartphone case.
The RevolCam is a new unified smartphone attachment that adds wide angle, macro, and fisheye lenses to the camera along with an adjustable and detachable LED light and mirror.
There's no shortage of smartphone lenses out there to choose from, but these two from DynaOptics promise to be both special, and unique. Designed with their patented 'free-form' technology, the OOWA smartphone lenses claim they are "the highest-quality lens attachments ever created for mobile photography."
Adding macro capabilities to your smartphone camera usually involves a DIY hack like this one, but if you're looking for more professional results then you should definitely check out the BLIPS micro & macro lenses.
For those intrigued by the notion of add-on lenses for smartphones but put off by the bulky design, Apple offers hope with a couple of recently patented designs for swapping camera components on an iPhone without turning it into an unwieldy monster.