These days, camera lenses aren’t just simple bits of glass in sliding metal or plastic housings. They’ve often got a whole bunch of electronics built in as well. [Dan K] had just such a lens ...

That’s a Sony IMX989 sensor ... If realme is able to make the Ultra compatible via adapters for these other lenses, that would really open the possibilities for this device.

This isn’t the Shenzhen-based company’s first adapter for Nikon lenses, either, with the MonsterAdapter LA-FE1 allowing Sony E-mount cameras to accommodate Nikon F-mount lenses.

A new 44MP full-frame stabilized sensor is on board, with 8K open gate video recording in the pipeline after a firmware update, plus 32-bit float audio recording via an XLR adaptor. There are way ...