Smartphone accompaniment lens manufacturer ExoLens is to innovate three new lenses that employ optics and designs from Zeiss. The lenses will be a zoom macro adapter likewise every bit wide-bending and telephoto converters that will screw into a frame that fits around the phone. The macro lens will allow focusing from as close equally 30mm, and volition convert the effective focal length of the iPhone lens to a 40-80mm zoom in total-frame terms. The wide bending adapter will offer 0.6x magnification to make the iPhone lens human activity as an18mm would, while the telephoto adapter has a 2x magnification that delivers the appearance of a 58mm lens.

Both converters let focusing to infinity, from 50cm (the wide-bending) and 36mm (the telephoto), while the zoom macro lens has a focusing range that's restricted to xxx-78mm.

Zeiss says that the Mutar-design converters have been calculated to suppress chromatic aberrations, especially fringing, and aspheric lenses have been used to ensure accurate drawing by reducing curvilinear distortions. Dissimilarity is said to exist maintained and T* coatings are used on all glass/air surfaces to keep flare under control. The wide-angle converter uses four elements in four groups, while the telephoto version uses v elements in 3 groups.

The company has labelled the macro zoom lens a Vario-Proxar for its ability to vary the focal length of the camera lens and its power to close-focus. Zeiss says information technology is the only continuous zoom accompaniment for smartphones, and that it maintains coverage of the entire sensor while zooming takes place. The magnification is such that objects as small as iii centimeters can fill up the frame, and the lens comes with a semi-transparent diffuser hood that aims to simultaneously improve the quality of the lite while providing a guide to the closest focus distance.

The metal frame that the lenses spiral in to features a tripod socket too as an accessory shoe for lights etc.

No prices accept been appear yet, but Zeiss and ExoLens say the accessories will be bachelor before the centre of 2016. Initially they will be made for iPhone 6/6s and 6 Plus and 6s Plus.

For more information visit the Zeiss and ExoLens websites.