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Modifying lens

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Modifying lens

- Now Rich, when it comes to the lens on a mobile device like an iPhone or an Android phone, they're actually pretty good these days. I mean, the apertures are pretty wide. - 2.8. - Yeah, 2.8, even F2. That's going to let a lot of light into the camera, which is of course, important, because the sensors on these cameras are very, very small. But you know, the thing that I miss, I guess, especially 'cause I come from a DSLR world, or an interchangeable lens world, is that I'm kind of stuck with this lens. I mean, sure I can pinch in to zoom in, but then I'm going to get noise and other things. There are some options out there now to adapt the on-camera lens, including telephoto and wide-angle lenses. - Yeah, now you can do a certain level of zooming on most of these mobile devices. They do have optical zoom these days, which is great. It's not purely digital, but the challenge is that you have relatively limited reach. But sometimes when you're shooting, you just can't get close to the…

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