Tag: LENS

DSLRs have seen dramatic price drops over the past few years, and their capabilities continue to improve. For under $800, you can get HD video, quality sensors, and enough megapixels to satisfy any spec-obsessed gadget fan. It's a great time to get into DSLR photography, and lenses are just as important as the body you buy. If you're new to Canon, or are interested in moving on from the stock kit ...

Putting in eye drops is a pain. Applying drops into your eyes is a hard enough challenge, made even more frustrating by the fact that one mistimed blink will find you with drops streaming down your cheeks. Annoyances like this have led to bigger problems, like 59-percent of glaucoma patients not using their medicated eye drops despite the risk of going blind, Wired reports. To remedy this, ...

Not that we haven't seen patently absurd lens attachments for mobiles before, but we've yet to come across any that were this universal (and be to honest, this useful). Sure, one could argue that a detachable wide-angle, fisheye or 2x telephoto lens made for a cellphone camera is more likely to do nothing than something, but we prefer to look on the sunny side of things. In other words, it's ...

We've seen these zoom lens add-ons before. Now Brando's slapped together this 6x "Telescope" for the iPhone 3G -- a phone not exactly revered for its image quality. Just snap the unit to the back of the iPhone 3G and get to work. How good is it? About as bad as the $19 worth of optics within. Seriously, 19 bucks and available now. [From: Brando] ...