When we reviewed the Shiftcam for the iPhone 7 Plus earlier this year we found it to be one of the most user friendly and versatile lens attachments for the iPhone. Now, the team behind that product has returned to Kickstarter to launch a new multi-lens smartphone attachment: the RevolCam.
Like the Shiftcam, the RevolCam adds wide angle, fisheye and macro lenses to your smartphone camera, lacking only the tele option. On the plus side, it adds a built-in mirror for selfies and a detachable and adjustable LED light, providing additional illumination in dim conditions. And instead of the Shiftcam's slider mechanism it uses a revolving design to allow for lens swapping on the fly:
In contrast to the Shiftcam, which is device-specific, the RevolCam comes with a universal design and its makers promise easy and secure attachment to any smartphone via a clamp mechanism. This should also work on the main camera of dual-camera equipped devices.
If you can live without a tele-attachment the RevolCam looks like an interesting accessory for mobile photographers who like to expand the camera feature set using attachment lenses. You can currently secure one by pledging $30 plus shipping on the RevolCam Kickstarter page. Delivery is planned for November 2017.
Interesting that the product is called RevolCam, but the narrator in the video always says "RevolveCam." [You can definitely hear the second "v" sound.) I guess he didn't read the product name properly.
I’ve never used one of these contraptions. If I get a phone call, am I supposed to take the thing off the phone so I don’t look silly then clamp it back again? What if I’m texting? On a hike in nature it might pass but in the city, that added gadget will just keep coming off and on. I think.
Hoping this kick starter product kicks off before the phone model kicks out the configuration of the camera location in the next phone replacement in 24 months, and that would be a nasty kick out for these innovative product.
"...lacking only the tele option." That's a pretty big "only." If zoom was so important that manufacturers are putting second *cameras* into phones for a longer focal length*, you'd think a tele attachment would be the highest priority. I have no stock in Moment, but at least they offer attachments that span the wider + longer scale.
* Yes, the second lens also allows DOF a la Portrait Mode. But having 2x optical is huge and arguably the lens's primary purpose.
Why are fisheye attachments so popular? Lose the light (dinky LEDs aren't very useful), make it smaller, replace the fisheye with a 1.5x tele, and it'll be a nice compact universal solution.
another steampunky contraption to remove the only possible benefit of using a phone as a camera .........
immediacy, pocket-friendliness, and convenience
just a few extra mm in thickness at the module site could allow an actual camera sensor .... if the makers would make a go of it with android ... instead of the windows error that Nokia made
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