Well, I’ll Be Jiggered!

The advancement in technology for cell phones never ceases to amaze me.  But then, it isn’t hard to amaze my addled pea brain, now is it?  You can check your calendar, send e-mail, play games, listen to music, check your to do list, keep track of finances, locate business and restaurants, manage your physical fitness routines, take pictures — and oh, yes, place phone calls.  (What I want to know is how soon until it will be able to wash windows and scrub toilets, huh?)

The other day I came across a spectacularly innovative thing:  camera lenses for your cell phone.  Imagine that!

I’m not a professional photographer by any means.  But I do know that to attach a lens to a camera the lens screws on.  As in there are the ‘threads’ that allow you to twist the lens onto the camera and hold it tight-y tight and snug onto the camera.

And, I am smart enough to realize that cell phones do not come equipped with those all important threads that hold a lens on. Not my phone. Not yours. Not anybody’s!

So what gives?

Well, hold your horses for a moment, buckaroo.  I’ve gotta tell you about the lenses first.  There are two of them.  One is a fisheye lens.  The other one is a macro/wide angle lens.  They work with ANY cell phone.  Did you catch that?  It will work on my fabulous iPhone and your Blackberry Torch 9800.  Your LG, Nokia, myTouch 3G, and even your Samsung or Sanyo phone. As long as it has picture taking capabilities.

How is that?  How can a lens fit any and all cell phones?  Such flexibility doesn’t happen in real life with SLR or DSLR cameras . . .

With a detachable magnetic ring. (And that’s gotta be one powerful magnetic ring to hold on the lens if you ask me!)

How cool is that?

The fisheye lens only costs $25.  The wide angle/macro lens runs $20.  Bundled together they are only $40.  (That’s just two trips to the movies and two large tubs of popcorn and large drinks for my sweetie and I . . . totally affordable.  Totally!)

Oh my! I want them, I want them, I want them!!!

How can I justify getting lenses for the camera on my cell phone?  I’m not a serious photographer.  Not even a half-serious one. I only take pictures of lime green sandbags or insanely adorable grandchildren (mine) or surreptitious photos of random women at Fijian airports whose haircut I happen to like.

It’s just that my technology addiction needs a fix.  I think these lenses would be the fix for that fix . . .

(Note: this is not a paid advertisement.  It’s an out and out public display of coveting.)