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Norwegian firm Fjorden has launched a Kickstarter marketing campaign for the Fjorden, the ‘world’s first pocketable, skilled iPhone digital camera grip.’
Cell pictures is a giant deal. iPhone images have been featured on the covers of main publications, together with Vogue, Nationwide Geographic and Time Journal. Fjorden enhances iPhone’s spectacular photographic capabilities by including ‘professional-quality digital camera controls.’
The Fjorden grip has a two-stage shutter button. Just like the shutter launch on a devoted digital camera, you half-press to focus and full-press to shoot. The Fjorden features a customizable management dial that may modify publicity, shutter velocity, ISO, portrait mode aperture, focus and extra. A multi-function button can be utilized to vary capturing modes, modify flash modes and extra. Lastly, the Fjorden features a zoom degree to modify between iPhone lenses or zoom out and in rapidly.
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Whereas the Fjorden provides a grip and controls to your iPhone, it does not dramatically change the general kind issue of the iPhone. Fjorden is 10.7mm (0.39″) deep. Connected to an iPhone 12 Professional, the whole depth is 21mm (0.8″), which needs to be simply pocketable into most pants. The grip additionally doubles as a kickstand, which might show helpful for a lot of customers. In the event you do not wish to have the grip on, it rapidly detaches through a quick-release clip from the Fjorden MagSafe case.
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| Fjorden is suitable with a really big selection of iPhone fashions and Fjorden states it’s going to work with future telephones, too. |
Fjorden works with the Fjorden Digicam App. The digital camera app is designed for quick, intuitive one-handed capturing. The app’s person interface is totally customizable, permitting the person to assign options or management parameters to Fjorden’s {hardware} controls. The app is suitable with all iPhone fashions operating iOS 14 or newer.
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| Fjorden Digicam App (in growth) |
Fjorden Digicam App options embrace full publicity controls (together with EV, shutter velocity, ISO, AE-L), focusing modes, white steadiness, lens switching and digital zoom, movie simulations, file codecs (together with ProRAW on suitable iPhone fashions) and extra. Kickstarter backers will be capable to beta check the appliance, permitting them to affect its growth.
Whereas Fjorden has been designed with the Fjorden Digicam App in thoughts, the grip is suitable with different main digital camera apps and lenses, together with ProCamera and Obscura apps and Second lenses. Fjorden is teaming up with ProCamera for a particular version model of Fjorden.
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| Fjorden ProCamera particular version |
Fjorden’s iPhone instances for iPhone 11 and 12 are MagSafe suitable. The Fjorden makes use of an ordinary CR2430 coin cell battery and guarantees as much as 12 months of battery life. The battery is user-replaceable. Fjorden comes with a two-year guarantee and a 30-day money-back assure.
You may again Fjorden for as little as €119, which is simply over $140. This ‘early fowl’ particular worth is 25% off the eventual retail worth of €159 (slightly below $190). The Fjorden contains the Fjorden Grip and Fjorden Common Again Plate Adapter (which permits the grip to be suitable with all iPhone fashions that may run iOS 14 and future iPhone fashions). Transport is anticipated to start in February 2022. For extra info on Fjorden, go to Kickstarter.
