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External phone lenses
External phone lenses

External phone lenses

For my gear I have something out of the ordinary, lenses you can attach to your phone:

There are multiple companies selling these lenses and there is a fair amount of false advertising, so be care full what you buy! I use a Samsung s10e as my smartphone.

click here to view the specific purchase i made and here to to see all phone camera lenses (Amazon).

PRODUCT RATINGS:

Telephoto lens: 6/10 – bad quality images, significantly better than nothing though

Macro lens: 8/10 – good image quality, very powerful macro (sometimes a bit too much)

Wide-Angle lens: 2/10 – most phones have wider angle already, good image quality

Fish-eye lens: 5/10 – haven’t used this one so much because i don’t think its so interesting, good image quality

Tripod: 4/10 – terrible build quality (mine is already on two legs), didn’t tighten properly at the beginning, in the window between it not tightening and only having to legs it was very use full

Lens clip: 7/10 – a bit fiddly but works well and mine has not broken yet

OVER ALL:

Value: 10/10 – only 40 dollars

Build quality 4/10 – mostly cheap plastic

Image quality 8/10 – 6/10 for telephoto lens

NOTES:

Putting the lenses over a wide angle built in phone lens creates a lot of vignetting:

The kit I bought comes with an eye piece that can turn the telephoto lens into a telescope and the macro lens into a magnifying glass.

Have a look at some macro shots here and my favorite 2023 spring pictures here