How About A Tiny Bayonet Mount Lens For Your Phone?

I can’t say I really want one right now and I certainly don’t need one, That said, the the gizmo I’m going to show you today certainly is interesting, well-designed, extremely well built and has great reviews. The device, made by Moment, a Seattle start-up is a mini-lens that attaches to an iPhone, Samsung Galaxy or Nexus phone via a near paper-thin metal mounting plate. I found it interesting more as a sign of things to come for future smartphones.

Moment’s paper-thin lens mounting plate for your smartphone

The thin metal plate shown above uses a rubberized adhesive to securely attach to the phone without harming your device. It’s designed to fit under your protective case as well.

This is how your smartphone will look with the plate and lens attached

Moment lenses have 2 versions – wide at 18mm and a 2x telephoto. Using the iPhone’s built-in zoom lens simply amounts to cropping your photos. Moment’s telephoto increases the optical range from 30mm to 60mm while increasing the crispness of your images compared to digital zoom.

Moments 2x telephoto lens

Once you have the plate attached to your smartphone, attaching a Moment Lens is just a ‘twist and click away’ – literally!  It attaches via a bayonet mount that owners of 35mm and DSLR cameras have long been familiar with. All you have to do is orient the lens with the “M” logo faced downward, insert it into the bayonet, and twist 90 degrees. So, it’s attach, shoot, detach, couldn’t be much simpler.

On the left is the wide angle lens and on the right is the telephoto lens

What do these little gizmos cost. The lens are $99.99 and the mounting plates are $9.99 – there is also a small leather holster available for carrying your lens.

Marc Barros the founder of Moment Lenses

In February of this year, Marc Barros the founder of Moment successfully completed a Kickstarter campaign, blowing past a $50,000 goal and raising $451,868 from more than 4,500 backers.  Following that Barros soon found support from several deep pocketed “angel investors” like Starbuck’s owner Howard Schultz to raise $1.5 million in seed money. “There are three billion phones in pockets, and they are capturing trillions of photos,”” Barros said. “We see this really, really good wave.”

Big day for Mason – his car seat now faces forward instead of back!

Yesterday was a really big day for Mason. Carrie switched his car seat from rear-facing to facing forward so now our little man can see where he’s going instead of where he’s been. Carrie said Mason just loves it as he can now see his Mom from the back seat. I think Mason’s going to be a good little back seat driver!

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