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Just a random thought

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I was watching a video on youtube about modifying the Gameboy camera to be an interchangeable lens systems and that got me wondering: has anyone here considered using d-mount or c-mount lenses with their phones? maybe modding the back or a phone case to have a mount which allows the lenses to project their image on the phone take lens especially that the small image circle of d-mount lenses would easily cover the phone lens.

of course there's a lot of math that I know nothing about that'd be needed but it just feels like a neat way to give life to old phones and lenses.

Would definitely love to hear your thoughts.

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SpruceBruce

I definitely think it'd be possible, but not sure if you could get the right flange difference.  You'd probably need to dissect a donor phone to get the right distance to the focal plane of the phone's camera sensor.

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Gawad

That's an interesting concept - modifying your phone to use interchangeable lenses. It can give you a world of creative possibilities for photography. It is possible to use d-mount or c-mount lenses with your phone, but as you mentioned, it comes with certain technical obstacles.

I haven't seen this yet, but I feel like someone probably has somewhere. Would be interested if anyone finds something.

For a long time I've wanted to play with on of these, a modified GoPro or other action cams with mounts for c lenses and others. I feel like that would be super fun.

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