20% bigger mount designed to beef up the larger cameras on Android phones
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It has been ten years since Second launched its customary Kickstarter campaign for a pair of accessory smartphone lenses. As cell phone cameras began to shift to a worthy wider self-discipline of peep, the distinctive lens mount became once changed with the M-Mount, which grew to change into something of an unofficial regular for other lens producers. Because it appears, historical previous became once doomed to repeat itself and new smartphones occupy outgrown even that form; and right now time Second is support with a trace new mount and redesigned lenses geared toward supporting future generations of smartphone cameras.
Second is calling the new lenses T-Series — no, there’s no association with the approved recording model. The brand new mount has been designed with a 20% bigger bayonet interface that would per chance well beef up bigger camera sensors and apertures, and lens configurations with wider fields of peep. This has change into a necessity as many most up-to-date smartphone cameras, critically from Android OEMs, occupy grown extensive enough that Second’s old M-Series mount would per chance well self-discipline off vignetting.
Nonetheless these aren’t only a minor replace, the optics occupy additionally been re-engineered with low dispersion fluorite optical glass to bring sharper pictures edge-to-edge. Per Second, the new lenses occupy an Modulation Transfer Feature (MTF) derive excessive enough to bring sure detail to even the 108MP sensors in some phones.
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Every of the recent M-Series lenses has been given a T-Series twin, so the lineup of focal ranges is of direction the same. There are eight new lenses in total, counting the blue and gold variants of the two anamorphic focal ranges:
- Tele 58mm (2x optical zoom)
- Wide 18mm
- Fisheye 14mm
- Macro 10x
- Blue and gold variants of the Anamorphic 1.33x
- Blue and gold variants of the Anamorphic 1.55x
As a final end result of accelerating the bayonet size, the older M-Series lenses and mounts are incompatible with T-Series lenses and mounts. For any one attracted to upgrading, Second is offering a commerce-in program for the next 120 days. Potentialities are welcome to send in their M-sequence lenses (per condition) for a store credit ranking that would per chance even be frail to aquire any T-Series instruments.
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Second has additionally made it sure that Android has not been deserted. At birth, there will be a Pixel 7 Pro case supporting T-Series lenses, and beef up will lengthen to Galaxy S24 circumstances when the cell phone ships early next yr. For phones that aren’t supported without lengthen through a case, Second is additionally releasing a universal lens mount that makes it doable to precisely alter a lens without lengthen over your cell phone’s camera.
Second additionally plans to continue offering M-Series lenses and circumstances for use with older phones (2022 and earlier). And within the case of iPhone users with circumstances that beef up Second’s drop-in mounts, there will be new drop-in mounts readily accessible for every M-Series and T-Series lenses for future iPhone models.
