iPad Camera Lenses

Lenses for iPhone and iPad 2

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Default Lens

120 degree
Wide Angle Lens

180 degree
Fish-Eye Lens

The iPad is a line of tablet computers for audio-visual media including books, periodicals, movies, music, games, and web content designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc. Its size and weight falls between those of  smartphones and laptop computers. The iPad runs the same operating system as the iPod Touch and iPhone. The iPad is controlled by a multitouch display and a virtual onscreen keyboard. The iPad uses a wireless local area network (“Wi-Fi”) connection to access local area networks and the Internet.

Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad 2 on March 2, 2011. iPad 2 is about 33% thinner than its predecessor with a faster processor and a 10-hour battery life. It is managed and synced by iTunes running on a personal computer via USB cable.

The original iPad had no camera; the iPad 2 has a front VGA camera and a rear-facing 720p camera, both capable of still images and 30fps video. The rear-facing camera has a 5x digital zoom for still images only. Both shoot photo and video in a 4:3 fullscreen aspect ratio, unlike the iPhone 4, which shoots in a 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio. Unlike the iPhone, the iPad does not support tap to focus.[55] The cameras allow FaceTime video messaging with iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4, and Snow Leopard Macs.

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iPad 2 Camera Lenses

dSLR Lenses for iPhone and iPad?

The term DSLR or digital single-lens reflex cameras (digital SLR or DSLR) generally refers to cameras that resemble 35 mm format cameras that use a mechanical mirror system and pentaprism to direct light from the lens to an optical viewfinder on the back of the camera, the mirror reflects the light coming through the attached lens upwards at a 90 degree angle. It is then reflected three times by the roof pentaprism, rectifying it for the photographer’s eye. Many professionals also prefer DSLRs for their larger sensors compared to most compact digitals.

dSLRs are often preferred by professional still photographers because they allow an accurate preview of framing close to the moment of exposure, and because DSLRs allow the user to choose from a variety of interchangeable lenses. Most DSLRs also have a wide range of apertures ranging from as large as f/1.0 to about f/32. Provide pre program setting with Aperture-priority, Shutter-priority, and full Manual modes. They often include full-auto, landscape, portrait, action, macro, and night modes, among others.

The dSLR camera lens for iphone can generally be classified into four categories: Fisheye lens, Wide Angle lens, Macro lens and Telephoto lenses:

iPhone Camera Lenses

Fisheye Lens

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In photography, a fisheye lens is a wide-angle lens that takes in an extremely wide, hemispherical image. Originally developed for use in meteorology[1] to study cloud formation and called “whole-sky lenses”, fisheye lenses quickly became popular in general photography for their unique, distorted appearance. They are often used by photographers shooting broad landscapes to suggest the curve of the Earth.

Wide Angle Lens

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Wide angle lens for iPad2

“Wide angle means that you can fit a lot of stuff into the image”

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A wide-angle lens is a greater apparent perspective distortion when the camera is not aligned perpendicularly to the subject: parallel lines converge at the same rate as with a normal lens, but converge more due to the wider total field. Because different lenses generally require a different camera–subject distance to preserve the size of a subject, changing the angle of view can indirectly distort perspective, changing the apparent relative size of the subject and foreground. For example, buildings appear to be falling backwards much more severely when the camera is pointed upward from ground level than they would if photographed with a normal lens at the same distance from the subject, because more of the subject building is visible in the wide-angle shot.

Macro Lens

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Macro Lens for iPad2

A macro lens is classically one lens capable of reproduction ratios greater than 1:1. Macro photography is close-up of very small subjects. Classically a macrophotograph is one in which the size of the subject on the negative is greater than life size. However in modern use it refers to a finished photograph of a subject at greater than life size.[1] The ratio the subject size on the film plane (or image sensor plane) to the actual subject size is known as the reproduction ratio. Likewise, although it now refers to any lens with a large reproduction ratio, despite rarely exceeding 1:1.

Telephoto Lens

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Telephoto Lens for iPad2


 

a telephoto lens is a specific type of a long-focus lens in which the physical length of the lens is shorter than the focal length. Telephoto lenses are sometimes broken into the further sub-types of medium telephoto: lenses covering between a 30° and 10° field of view (85mm to 135mm in 35mm film format), and super telephoto: lenses covering between 8° through less than 1° field of view (over 300mm in 35mm film format) The basic construction of a telephoto lens consists of front lens elements that, as a group, have a positive focus. The focal length of this group is shorter than the effective focal length of the lens. The converging rays from this group are intercepted by the rear lens group, sometimes called the “telephoto group,” which has a negative focus.

Easy Install & Instant On and Off

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These lenses feature Japanese design with top quality glass optical lens and  hard aluminum for durability. It takes seconds to install and instant on and off with an adhesive magnetic ring. No extra hardware or awkward case to install. An additional ring is provided for use on both iPhone and iPad. It makes an excellent gift for yourself or any gadget enthusiasts. Order yours now!!

Attach to your iPad 2 and transforming your standard iPad 2 camera to fisheye lens camera fun box.

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Lens for iPhone

There are three different add-on lenses to choose from: wide angle, telephoto and fish-eye lenses for iPhone4 GS or iPad. The macro and wide angle lens offers a focus between 10-23mm from your subject with a wide angle of 0.67x wide. TheFish-eye lens for iPhone offers a 180 degree angle (0.28x). The two lenses, range between 15.8-25mm diameter x 6.5-15mm length and come with back and front lens covers to prevent scratching of glass when they aren’t attached to your phone. The lenses are specially design to work with your iPhone 4gs and iPad 2 cameras. It takes second to install. No hardware customizing needed. A self-adhesive ring with a magnet must first be affixed to the area around the camera lens. After that, it’s a simple matter of bringing the add-on lens in contact with the magnet

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Wide Angle + Macro Lens

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A. Wide angel + Macro len Specifications:
– Super Macro – Lens Construction: 1 element in 1 group
– The shot distance is between 10~23mm approximately
– Dimensions(main body): 15.8mm (diameter) x 6.5mm (length) approximately
– Dimensions (magnetic washer): 13.06mm (outer), 9.38mm (innner) approximately
– Weight: 2.0g (Lens only)

Fish-Eye Lens

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B. Fisheye lens Specifications:
– Magnification: 180° FishEye (0.28X)
– Lens Construction: 3 elements in 3 groups
– Lens Dimensions (main body): 25mm (diameter) x 15mm (length)
– Weight: 12g

Lenses for iPhone 4GS and iPad2

The result of these lenses are excellent. The wide angle and fisheye lens for iPhoneoffers endless fun. The photos are crisp and looked awesome. Consider the image quality and the versatility. These lenses are a great investment and makes an excellent graduation gift

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Apple New iPad Review

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The New iPad was out on March 16. Apple sold a record of 3 millon units on that weekend.! But instead of calling it the iPad3. It is now simply named “the New iPad” or “third generation iPad“. The New iPad looks pretty much the same as the iPad2. So what is new?

On the outside, the New iPad is 0.03 inch thicker and 0.11 pounds heavier than iPad2, but the New ipad features an amazing Retina display, a nicer screen, a faster processor, better back camera, 4g networking, and voice dictation.

New iPad Features Vs iPad2

Here is a comprehensive walk through of the new features.

Display Retina Display offers a resolution of 2048 x 1536 – over 301 million pixels in total. This is 44 percent better color saturation than the screen of the iPad2. Retina display will make everything “pop”, is something you have to see to appreciate.

Camera – The New iPad offers a much better camera than the one on the iPad2. It received a significant upgrade with features that is similar to the camera on the iPhone4.

The quality of the front camera – the one facing you as you use the tablet is the same 720p VGA resolution as iPad2. So Facetime will be about the same unless both conversation parties are using the New iPad, iPhone4s, or HD camera to really take advantages of the Retina display.

The New iPad back camera now offers quite an improvement over the one on the iPad 2, it features a 5-megapixel iSight camera which captures of recording full 1080p HD video at 30 frames per second. This new camera offers improved sharpness, with auto-exposure, auto-focus, auto-face-detection, auto-exposure lock, auto-focus luck, noise reduction and image stabilization.

 

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Key features: 2048×1536 264dpi Retina display,Apple A5X processor, 5 megapixel/1080p video iSight camera, HSPA+ 42mbps/LTE 72mbps networking.

AppsAll iPad and iPad2 apps will work with the new iPad, and it will look much better on the retina display. All iPad native applications: iWOrk suite, GarageBand, iMovie and etc, all has been upgraded and updated for the newer finer retina display.

Apps designed for iPad and iPad2 will look noticeably pixelated through the New iPad’s Retina Display. The iPhone4s apps will look just as good on the iPhone4s as it does on the new iPad. Photographs, videos or text will benefit the most improvement through this retina display upgrade.

 

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The Retina display's means sharper and much clearer text.

Processor – the New iPad gets a dual-core A5x processor with 1GB of Ram. Apple claim this combination offers processing speed to be four times faster than most competing tablets. Graphic are rendered much faster, shaper and crisper with the combination of the new Retina display.

4G – the New iPad offers both 3G and 4G Wireless. It is said to offer maximum download speed of 21 Mbps compared to the 7.2 Mbps on the iPad2. That is almost 3x faster.

Battery – the New iPad claimed 10 hours of battery life for WI-FI surfing, moving watching, and music listening which is the same as the iPad2.

Speaker – unfortunately the speaker remained to be the same as the one found on the iPad2.

Dictation – there is no Siri, but dictation is able to translate spoken words to written text. The dictation supports U.S. British, and Aussie English, as well as French, German, and Japanese.

Smart Cover – the smart cover will work on the New iPad as it does on the iPad2.

Protective Case – Since the New iPad and iPad2 are similar in size, most protective case will work on both with exception of precision fit cases.

Prices -

WI-FI only 16GB – $499, 32GB – $599 and 64GB – $699

WI-FI + 4G 16GB – $629, 32GB – $729 and 64GB – $829

 

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Resolutionary of the New iPad

The New iPad is Evolutionary Not Revolutionary

The consensus is that the Retina display is vastly better, and the ultra-fast internet connection will blow you away, and the price has remained to be the same, but it should not be call the iPad3, and it isn’t. It’s simply named the iPad. It seem more appropriately name as iPad2s. Below are what other are saying about the new iPad.

What other are saying about the New iPad

Macworld‘s Jason Snell thinks that iPad 2 users shouldn’t look at the new iPad, because it will be hard to go back.

The New York Time‘s David Pogue thinks the new iPad is less an iPad 3 and more an iPad 2S.

TechCrunch‘s Mg Siegler says looking at the new iPad is like putting on your glasses and seeing the world clearly again.

The Telegraph‘s Shane Richmond says the differences between the new iPad and the old iPad 2 are amazing, and also uses the glasses-on/glasses off analogy.

 

 

 

 

 

 


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More Pixel Is Not Equal to Better Pictures

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When it comes to camera phone More Pixel is not Equal to Better Pictures

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Review of Spotify for iPad

The folks at Spotify have brought forth the next big iteration of their mobile app, this time make specifically for the iPad (of all shapes and sizes.) Here we’ve got not just a giant version of the original iPhone app (as they so cleverly alude to in the commercial for this app), but a brand new interface with many intuitive bits for a wholly intuitive setup. The iPad version of Spotify’s mobile app works with Spotify’s premium subscription like the rest of the mobile apps do, and here we’ve got exactly what the streaming music platform needed to stay strong in the iOS world, to stay fresh on fans minds.

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The application as it stands today successfully presents a basic interface for you to use Spotify on the iPad. The iPad is a unique device, so says Spotify, so they wanted to create a unique application for it. This app allows you to work with AirPlay for wireless connections to your AirPlay-enabled speakers and has Retina-quality graphics for your iPad 3rd generation from 2012 to make full use of.

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This application here in its initial iteration does not include connections to integrated applications like the iPhone version does, but will more than likely begin pushing such connections in the very near future. This is certainly a good starting point for the Spotify team and since it’s just as free to download as the iPhone version has always been, there’s absolutely no reason to update to it.

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The question then becomes where it makes sense to update your desktop-only Spotify membership – that being the free one – to the $9.99 a month subscription to the premium service just to use this app. It’s a much more difficult decision than making that jump for your smartphone because the iPad is mobile, but certainly not as mobile as a smartphone. The decision likely has already been made for you – if you’ve got an iPad you’ve more than likely got a smartphone, but there are some people out there with one and not the other – believe it or not!

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If you’re the sort of person who uses an iPad on the daily and are looking for a premium music streaming service to use with it, there’s no reason why this shouldn’t be it. Spotify presents a solid streaming service here, and this iPad interface for it is second to none. With application upgrades it’ll be that much better – can’t wait! Grab this application from the iTunes App Store now for free.

Review of Spotify for iPad

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Lenses, Flashes, Tripods the Best iPhone Camera Accessories

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Wood Camera Takes the Fight to Camera+

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The Lightbox will be instantly familiar to Camera+ users.

Wood Camera Takes The Fight To Camera+

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Macro Lens for iPhone4s

Macro lens is one of the best accessory for the iPhone 4s and iPad 2 camera

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Alternatives to Instagram

I’m one of the millions of smartphone owners addicted to Instagram, the free camera app that makes tweaking and sharing photos miraculously easy. While it’s wildly popular and the target of Facebook’s $1 billion takeover deal, Instagram isn’t the only camera app worth having.

I’ve had a chance to test a wide range of Instagram alternatives during choice picture-taking opportunities over the past few months, including my sister’s wedding in Hawaii in December and a trip to Lebanon this month.

Of the dozen or so I tested, here are four I find myself using again and again:

•  Photosynth by Microsoft Corp. Free. For iOS only (Apple’s iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch).

My favorite among the ones I tried, Photosynth lets you take 360-degree panoramic photos that become interactive on a smartphone or computer screen.

The app guides you as you stand in one place and capture photos in all directions. Then it stitches those images together to create a sphere-like panorama that viewers can scroll around in and zoom in and out.

You can share the panorama on Facebook, Twitter or Photosynth.net.

It takes a bit of practice, and it’s not an app I would use every day. But I found that in the right setting — such as Roman ruins by the sea in Byblos, near Beirut, or my sister’s beach wedding — the results can be breathtaking.

• TiltShift Generator by Arts & Mobile. Free for basic features, 99 cents for higher resolution and album upload. For iOS only.

Tilt shift is a camera effect that blurs the edges of a picture, creating an optical illusion that makes everything look miniature.

Instagram has that feature (it’s the droplet icon when you are taking or editing a picture). TiltShift Generator gives you more control.

You can control where and how much blurring to produce. You can also determine how much darkening around the corners you want to produce a vignette effect. You can also adjust the saturation, brightness and contrast.

• Hipstamatic by Synthetic LLC. $1.99 for basic features, with 99-cent add-ons to give you more imaging options. For iOS only.

I had a hard time figuring Hipstamatic out, but it’s worth the effort.

Unlike most filtering apps, you don’t adjust a photo after you’ve taken it. Instead, you choose different virtual lenses, flashes and film beforehand, and you can’t change the setting after you take the shot.

The app is not very intuitive, the settings are hard to keep track of and the accompanying guide isn’t very helpful. But once you get a sense of which virtual lens works best under which conditions, you can create stunning photos.

• PhotoToaster by East Coast Pixels, Inc. Free version called PhotoToaster Jr. Full version costs $1.99 and gives you more choices and control. For iOS and Android devices.

I love the ease of flipping through filters on Instagram until I see one that makes a photo pop, but often I want more control over specific effects.

PhotoToaster lets me do both. You can apply preset filters such as “Tuneup,” “Pro,” “Happy” and “Chill.” You can also tap a button and have more precise control over exposure, color temperature, light and other settings.

4 camera app alternatives to Instagram

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Macro Lens for iPhone4s

Macro lens adds incredible fun for iPhone4s camera

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Keyboard for iPad

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Macro, FishEye & Wide Angle Lenses for iPad and iPhone4s

Macro, FishEye & Wide Angle Lenses for iPhone or iPad

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Magnifi Case Turns Microscopes and Telescopes Into iPhone Lenses

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Magnifi Case Turns Microscopes And Telescopes Into iPhone Lenses

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