Element for modular attachment of camera accessories
AssigneeMagnetMod, LLC
InventorSpencer Boerup
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Abstract
A camera accessory mounting element includes attachment elements configured to mount to a component of a camera, such as a lens or a flash device. One or more peripheral devices may be attached to the camera accessory mounting element using attachment elements such as magnets. Peripheral devices include a grid, a light directing dish, a lens hood, a lens adaptor, a step-ring, a lens filter, a lens extension tubes, a light diffusers, a light filter, and a light directing device.
Claims21
-20. (canceled)
A lens modification system comprising:
- an apparatus having a face and an apparatus opening, wherein the apparatus is coupled to a lens element of a camera such that light may be directed through the apparatus opening to the lens element, wherein the apparatus face includes a ferromagnetic attachment element;
- a first additional device comprising:
- a body having a first base opposite a first face, the body defining at least one opening from the first base to the first face through which visible light is capable of passing, wherein the first base is removably coupled to the apparatus face using the ferromagnetic attachment element such that the first base and the apparatus face are substantially flush and at least a portion of the apparatus opening overlaps with at least a portion of the at least one opening.
The lens modification system claim of 21, wherein the attachment element comprises a ferromagnetic metal, and further wherein the first base comprises at least one magnet in magnetic communication with the ferromagnetic material.
A camera lens adapting system comprising:
- a lens element having a body, the lens element associated with a camera;
- an apparatus having an apparatus opening removably coupled to the body of the lens element, wherein the apparatus includes an apparatus face through which the apparatus opening passes on an apparatus plane that is substantially parallel with a face of the lens;
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- a first additional device magnetically coupled to the apparatus, the first additional device comprising a first opening and a first base on a first plane, the first plane substantially parallel to the apparatus plane, wherein the first opening and the apparatus opening are aligned such that light is capable of passing through the first opening and the apparatus opening to the lens element.
A camera lens system comprising:
- a lens element with a body having a lens face, the lens element associated with a camera;
- an apparatus comprising:
- a body defining an apparatus opening, the body having an apparatus face through which the opening passes, wherein
- the apparatus face is on an apparatus plane that is substantially parallel with the lens face;
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- a first additional device with a first base and a first opening on a first plane, wherein the first base is magnetically coupled to the apparatus face such that the first plane is substantially parallel to the apparatus plane and the first opening and the apparatus opening at least partially overlap.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.