Who wants a Nokia 6280 with 36X zoom and Nikon SLR optics?

By Will Park on Monday, October 1st, 2007 at 3:05 PM PST In Ideas and rants, Nokia, Random

This is definitely a cool hardware hack. With megapixel counts on cameraphones growing ever larger, it seems illogical to fit these mobile phones with low-quality, ~~crap~~ plastic optics. Well, the guys over at Chaos Projects decided that they wanted to change this. They modded a Nokia (NYSE: NOK) 6280 to work with a Nikon SLR lens setup - resulting in an incredibly zoom-tastic mobile phone camera.

Of course, Nokia’s use of Carl-Zeiss optics basically negates the need for better optics on phones like the Nokia N95, but you can’t argue with 36x zoom. Check out the hack, pretty damn cool.

Nokia 6280 with Nikon SLR lens for 36x zoom