Since few years, a new type of camera is emerging on the market: a digital camera capable of capturing both the intensity of the light emanating from a scene and the direction of the light rays. This new camera technology called light-field camera uses an array of lenses placed in front of a single image sensor, or simply, an array of cameras attached together. In this paper, a new optical device is proposed: a 4 mini-lens ring which is inserted between the lens and the image sensor of a digital camera. This device prototype is able to convert a regular digital camera into a light-field camera as it makes it possible to record 4 sub-aperture images of the scene. It is a compact and cost-effective solution to perform both post-capture refocusing and depth estimation. The mini-lens ring makes also the plenoptic camera versatile; it is possible to adjust the parameters of the ring so as to reduce or increase the size of the projected image. Together with the proof of concept of this new device, we propose a method to estimate the positions of each optical component depending on the observed scene (object size and distance) and the optics parameters. Real-world results are presented to validate our device prototype.