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Is it possible to attach a camera lens to a Xperia Z3?

Lazmarr
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I would like to attach this camera lens (helios 44-2) to my Z3, I've been wanting to try this for ages but didn't want to waste an expensive lens until now... how can I go about this?

 

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Without an actual adapter you would struggle to even find the focal distance for it to work. So I doubt that. Also it wouldn't help much, it's not macro and it's not zoom lens, why would you want to use it.

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You can't attach a DSLR lens to a phone, the sensors are completely different sizes. There are lenses you can buy for your phone which actually work.

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the crop factor would make it like a deep space telescope

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You can't attach a DSLR lens to a phone, the sensors are completely different sizes. There are lenses you can buy for your phone which actually work.

You can, it would just take a lot of fiddling. 

 

the crop factor would make it like a deep space telescope

without the built in lens alone you would get the equivalent of 330mm, that's not too bad, I have no idea how the existing lens would affect it.

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Without an actual adapter you would struggle to even find the focal distance for it to work. So I doubt that. Also it wouldn't help much, it's not macro and it's not zoom lens, why would you want to use it.

You can't attach a DSLR lens to a phone, the sensors are completely different sizes. There are lenses you can buy for your phone which actually work.

I just want to see if it would work in practice and what kind of photos it would take... was just something to do in my spare time xD

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I just want to see if it would work in practice and what kind of photos it would take... was just something to do in my spare time xD

it would be a massive zoom. but really it would take a lot of effort. You would need to find an exact distance it focuses at and then make a dark tube or something to cover up the sides.

 

here is how it would work, simple really. (it's not really that simple, but basically that)

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Hypothetically you can, if you can find or create the right adapter.  Like the one below.  But you shouldn't because it's pointless.  The lens of a SLR camera might be better than the one on your phone, but the light still has to pass through the phone's lens and reach that tiny sensor, which itself cannot compare with a DSLR sensor.

 

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