This lens adapter makes a lot of sense if you’re looking to interface with cameras that don’t have an in-built mounting option. It uses the cap and threaded neck from a soda bottle (translated) to make the lens adjustable and removable.
In the past we’ve seen this hack using a lens cap with a hole drilled in it as the mounting bracket. But that’s only useful if the lens you’ve chosen actually has a cap to use. This method lets you cut the top off of a the soda cap and mount it on the camera. Now each lens can be affixed to the threaded neck of the bottle, allowing for some adjustment of the focal point by screwing the add-on in or out.
Obviously this would work well for macro or fish-eye lenses. But there’s all kinds of other options out there like adding a microscope lens adapter, or actually attaching quality optics to your device.
Man that thing is as ugly as sin, but it looks cheap and obviously works, so nice work. I might try it myself.
Not only ugly but the part that you leave on would still leave you with a non-pocketable device, so it’s useless for such devices, and too inelegant for the stuff you carry in bags or is stationary.
Still, it takes nice closeups alright and results count too.
i sanded off the adaptor and painted it, now it only ads like 0.6cm to the camera and it´s still pocketable, and it´s more decent looking
here´s some pictures of it
http://binaryhead.blogspot.com/2012/02/lente-actualizacion-yapa.html
thanks for the comments