iPhone Lens Kit, 6 in 1 Cell Phone Camera Lens with 18X Zoom Telephoto Lens/Fisheye/Wide Angle& Macro Lens(Screwed Together)/Teleconverter/CPL, Compatible iPhone, Samsung & More

The pictures I added was taken from the same spot. First was without the telescoping lense, second was without. The orange you see in the second picture is about 1/3 to 1/2 mile away. This set comes with a tripod that you absolutely MUST use to take any sort of clear distance shots. I tried without the tripod and only got blurry shots. The camera has to be perfectly still to get anything worth using.The most difficult part of this setup is getting the lenses to fit just right over the camera. I had to fiddle with it a little bit,m before I got the lense seated just right. By little bit, I mean minutes. So if you need to grab a quick shot from far away, it’s best to have a good camera that is capable of doing that. Honestly, I can’t believe I paid so little for this set. If you are going to use this, make sure you set aside time to get to know the different lenses and how to properly attach them. It can be a pain, but with a little patience, you will not be disappointed. Well, at least I was not disappointed.

I use this on my iPhone 6 Plus. The zoom works up to 18 times. Whenever you magnify something that much, you will need mechanical stabilization. Either a tripod or a stable surface like a table, car hood, etc.Others have complained these lenses don't work properly. I found everything to be well designed, well made, and to perform as advertised. The wide angle lens and the telephoto lens both worked great. No distortion. Great product.

i was really excited to buy this, but instructions arent that helpful and when trying to use these its kinda hard and u gotta be very strategic on how to place it right, great idea for a product, but theres like only 2 lenses that are actually cool and good to use if u can manage to put em on and have em stay on, other than that their customer service is quite outstanding!!

As described. Once configured properly it does take very good photos. Good range of options to choose from all in a nice padded custom case that hold everything. Photo 1 and two are taken with the phone at the same distance from the speaker, but using the zoom lens.

I didn't expect a lot from this, the price point was low and my experience with similar products in past years was less than satisfying. Still, technology marches on and I had hoped that these too would benefit from the advances in materials science and design.Not so much. The nicest thing about this product was the pouch it came in!Let's start with the clips they give you to attach the lenses to your phone. I only have the iPhone to test it on but for the clip that fits the majority of the lenses, you have to clip the holder so close to the edge of the phone (to center the tiny lens) that a slight touch makes it pop off. The larger of the two clips is definitely better, with a set screw to secure it, but it only works with the largest of the lenses. Go figure.The phone holder is designed by someone who has never actually used the product. Or a tripod. Or a phone. It is designed to hold the phone horizontally, with the face of the phone parallel to the ground. Which is great, if I were only taking pictures of my shoes. Using the attached mini tripod (a rickety affair in itself) and attaching a modern phone, plus lens, to the rotating ball causes the tripod to tip over unless constantly held, a design flaw in a device intended to free your hands and steady the camera/phone.The lenses themselves are poor quality. This supposed 18X zoom was 4X at best and the visual and chromatic aberrations were very pronounced. The native zoom on the phone itself was as good, or better, than the longest lens. The others lens were worse and, frankly, not worth reviewing.I would not recommend this product to my friends or anyone that I didn't hate.

This is a fun kit for expanding the capabilities of your phone's camera. You get six lenses and a handful of accessories, all packed in a nice padded case (see attached photo). There are no instructions, so you just have to play with the pieces to see how they go together and what they all do. Here are my impressions after messing around with the kit for a few days:The lenses screws into a spring-loaded clamp that you clip over your phone's camera like a clothes pin. I had to remove my phone from its protective case to get the clamps to line up correctly on my phone's lens. Four of the lenses fit into the smaller clamp, the big 18x telephoto lens fits on a bigger clamp designed specifically to hold it, and there's a 0.63x wide angle lens that screws only onto the front of the 15x macro lens, like a filter. You also get a small tripod and a bracket to hold your phone on the tripod. There's a Bluetooth remote shutter release (that I could not get to work) and a cleaning cloth (which you should use regularly if you want to get the best images possible from this kit).One of my favorite lenses in the kit is the CPL, which stands for "Circular Polarizing Lens". Once it's installed over your phone's lens, turn the knurled ring on the lens until the image on your phone is darkest, then take the photo. The lens cuts scattered and bounced light, resulting I'm photos with noticeably brighter, more pure colors, and less glare. It's particularly useful outside on sunny days. Play with it a bit to see for yourself how much difference it makes when it's dialed in properly. (You won't get much effect if you don't adjust it to the darkest image you can get first.)The 15x macro is another great little lens. Unscrew that (useless) 0.63x wide angle lens from the front of it, and you'll be able to move in close and shoot some really cool closeup images. The closeup photo of a red flower that I've uploaded here is one example of an photo I took with this lens. The lens magnifies things 15 times original size, and the macro capability allows for really close focus.The wide angle lens that comes screwed onto the front of the macro lens defeats both of those benefits. The photo of white flowers I've attached shows the closest I was able to focus with the wide angle lens on the macro. It isn't really better than what my phone could do without any accessory lenses. I may be missing something here, but I just don't see the utility of the wide angle lens that only fits on (and reduces the effectiveness of) the macro lens.If you want to shoot a wider angle than your phone can do at its widest, try the fisheye lens. This one will allow you to include most of a room or a large group of people when you can't back up far enough to get it all in. The lenses does cause a lot of distortion, turning straight lines around the edges of the image into curves, and completely blacking out the corners of the image, making it look like you're viewing the scene through a pipe. You can eliminate that black circle around your photo, and reduce the distortion, if you zoom in a bit with your phone's zoom (drawing your fingers apart to get a closer shot). That's how I usually use the super-wide-angle fisheye lens.The sexiest lens in the kit, of course, is the big 18x telephoto. This is a fixed focal length lens (providing magnification of 18x) not a zoom lens that would allow you to change the magnification. The body is plastic, so it is light enough in weight to sit fairly comfortably in the spring clamp designed to hold it. This is an improvement over the heavy lenses included in some of the othe phone lens kits out there on the market.It takes a bit of fiddling to get the lens centered over the phone's lens so the camera can actually see through the lens. Once it's lined up, you can secure it in place by tightening the thumbscrew on the clamp. If you don't, you may find that the lens is easily bumped out of alignment, putting you back into fiddling with lining it up again.The magnification is pretty impressive with this lens, dramatically improving what you can see at distance through your phone's camera. I've included a series of photos of a distant yacht on the water to show the magnification that the lens offers. The first two images were taken without the telephoto, showing the phone's camera at its widest (1×) and zoomed out all the way. The next two photos show the boat with the 18x telephoto lens installed, first with the camera at 1x, and then zoomed out to full power. By far, the best look at the boat is provided by the 18x telephoto lens with the phone at its widest setting (1x). Zooming in gets you much closer, but the image gets pixelated and blurry. You'll need to adjust the focus by turning the largest-diameter tube at the end of the lens, to get the best image you can. This takes some practice.It's difficult to hold your phone still enough to avoid motion blur in your photos when that telephoto lens is installed. You can try bracing it against a solid object. That can help. Your best bet is to use a tripod. Clamp your phone into the padded bracket (which fits most phones, but maybe not the really big ones) and screw it onto a tripod with the standard camera mount threads on the bracket. The tiny tabletop tripod included in this kit will work (marginally) in some situations, where you are shooting a scene at about the same level as the tripod itself. There is no swiveling head on this tripod, though, so you can't adjust your camera angle up or down much - only side to side. If you have a real camera tripod, or a better tabletop tripod, the phone bracket provided in this kit should fit it. You'll probably want to get a better tripod if you hope to use the 18x telephoto lens very much.There's a rubber eyepiece that screws onto the base of the telephoto lens, converting the lens to a small spotting scope or telescope. The lens is actually useful this way, and fun to play with.There is also a much more modest 2× telephoto lens in the kit. I actually find this one more useful than the big 18x lens because I can usually get better-focused pictures without using a tripod.There's a remote control that is supposed to work through a phone app to trigger your phone's camera and take a picture without touching the phone. That could be really useful for taking photos with the big 18x telephoto, to minimize motion blur which is exaggerated by the long lens. Lots of people will likely use it for selfies. There is a small instruction sheet (featuring poor grammar and nearly microscopic print). I couldn't get it to work on my phone. An alternative is to use your phone's self timer to trigger your photos when using the telephoto on a tripod. That way, you won't be tapping the phone as it's trying to take a high-magnification photo.Overall, this is a fun kit. I expect to use several of the lenses a lot in the future. Others, like the 0.63 wide angle, and the inadequate tripod, are not likely to see much action. Some simple, well written instructions would be a useful addition to the kit. Simply playing with the pieces, though, will teach you a lot about what these lenses, and your phone camera, can do.If you found anything helpful in my review, let me know.

Micro and wide angle redefine cell phone pictures

The clips don’t fit on my iPhone 6 Plus in its case. The tripod is adorable, but hard to adjust, and it shakes too much to use with 18x zoom.