The iPhone is a brilliant cellphone, but its camera has always been a major let down.

Though Apple improved things a little on the 3GS, upping the megapixel count to three and including autofocus, it’s still a rather lacklustre bit of kit, particularly when you look at other mobile phone manufacturers packing five or even eight megapixel cameras with decent lenses, flash and other effects.

The Factron Simplex case isn’t the first add-on hardware to try to extend the functionality of the iPhone’s camera, but it’s the most advanced I’ve seen yet.

Given that no serious photographer is ever going to use the iPhone (or any cellphone, let’s be real), I’m wondering who is going to shell out the $200 for the case plus anything from $20-$60 per additional lens.

Yes. Lenses.

There are a couple of fisheye lenses, a super wide lens and two close up lenses.

You are never going to get amazing results from tacking converter lenses on the front of the existing camera, but for the iPhone lover with a lot of cash, it might amuse for a while.

My advice would be to get a half-decent compact camera if you want better shots but aren’t going the DSLR route.

What do you reckon?

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