Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “A Wild Smartphone Contraption Appears…”.
I featured something like this or maybe even a couple, different versions of similar items in the past this this package, just overall package, looks the most polished so far we’re seeing so many phone manufacturers packing extra cameras, put more lenses on their devices. Then there’s this thing. It’S called shift cam. It turns your your device into a digital SLR. Essentially, it puts all these various adapters on there to give you even more opportunities from a focal range perspective, all the way from 120 degree, wide angle up to 20x macro. Now, that’s not something you can do just with your phone camera. So if you, if you’ve, got if you want to get really creative like go out in the wilderness, you want to try to take a photo of a bee or something up close or you want to get an ultra-wide.
This is a way to get even more photography, versatility out of the current device that you’ve already got. You have a front-facing, 120 degree, wide angle lens that gives you a field of view similar to what the current generation pixel can do on the front facing camera and one of the only times I I would ever consider using a selfie camera. If there’s a group setting they’ve also got these other adapter over here, I don’t know if this thing screws on I mean, maybe you even want more, maybe you’re getting crazy.
Let’S take a look at what’s inside, so we have that piece. That’S the main component. Look! There’S it that’s, that’s huge act as you and Casper. Is this a genuine leather wrist band? No, absolutely not the front adapter man! This is pretty wild. This clips on to the front camera and that’s what gives you the wide angle in that department? Does this go on to protect it? Let’S see? Oh, that’s a magnet, that’s well-designed! Oh it’s a kickstand! Does that make sense, yeah yeah any sense right little kickstand option, I’m not sure why you need that who needs a digital SLR.
That’S all! I have to say. Oh, my God, look at this lens Wow holy ultra-wide 12. Mil this. For me as cool as this is it’s it’s like at this point is getting a little out of a lot of.
You are like cheese, get a real camera at that point. There are still some advantages, though, to using a smart phone, which is the fact you’re connected, so you can share immediately and that’s kind of the place and way that people are consuming user-generated content. Now, maybe you won’t be out there shooting video streaming it broadcasting it immediately after then, you could use something like this to get a look that is much different than what a typical smartphone is capable of. But for me this is a step, a step, maybe a step too far in this situation, whereas this I feel like it’s a lot more practical and you’re carrying the whole package around.
It’S still pocketable alright, so I mean it fits on like a typical case, so this guy just slides in and you can see it kind of clicks at different points along the way. What are we looking at? I mean we’re looking at the two standard cameras and then we got another six, that’s an eight camera setup jack and then this guy, I guess, would slide like this and it clicks in so there you go front camera also wide. Now, let’s take a look at some of these focal ranges. All right, we have our favorite model here, he’s ready for a ready to fight Jack, give them a deal from a new contract all right. So this is one X standard. Iphone camera boom done 2x standard, iPhone, camera boom done and now we’re gon na slide. On the first lens situation. Oh, you can tell right away.
That’S wider! That’S quite a bit wider, we’ll move to the two on this same module. Go to the next we’re into the zoom range significant zoom range here, that’s probably a minimum focusing range somewhere around there, the one X or we’re fully in fisheye territory here in the 1x and the last option here. Oh, this must be the macro. It’S basically touching and the detail is there? Oh, my god holy iPhone.
Look at this. You see the grooves in a paint. Okay, so the macro very nice to have you know what let’s try and get this text on the Starbucks. That’S one of the coolest things about these adapters is the macro in my opinion, can actually see the way it was printed on.
You can see the stamp there. You see the way to ink dry. How about this knife? Unbox therapy knife actual letters, grain of the steel Jack. You got ta be impressed.
No look at that come on now and oh, my goodness, is this a 2x macro now so that’s the 1 X, which is already like super close. You can see the grain in the object here. Well, you go to the 2 X and you’re, like in your in the grain.
Remember it’s 120 degree wide angle, which we showed you it’s way back from this guy. There was the fisheye as well, which gives you the black border around and that circular appearance also very wide and interpretation 10x macro 20x macro, which we just showcased to you and then a 2x telephoto. That’S useful, that’s sort of a more traditional or typical lens adapter.
It’S also the most common implementation we’ve seen for a secondary camera unit on most smartphones, it’s just like throw the zoom in. So that’s a little less exciting, a little less interesting to me. We might as well slide this on and see what we’re working with. Now. That’S giving you a lot more weight at that funny enough. This seems to have changed the whole like color of the frame as well. So it’s a wide-angle shot. So it gives you this cool kind of perspective, and it’s just one of the benefits of having a bigger piece of glass.
You can just get. You can produce sharper images. Yes, it’s an adapter you’re still using the lens on the camera, but this is just giving you an advantage over some of the smaller adapters on the travel piece. You guys can see there you’re, sharing this stuff on social media for the most part anyways, and a discrepancy between the wide adapter that exists on the travel unit, and this one once you’ve shared it once it’s compressed chewed up by the various social media.
It’S like. I don’t know if it’s worth the headache of carrying around the actual bigger adapter. Okay. Last up, we have the selfie unit, and this gives you the wide-angle on the front.
So first things. First, I should just shoot a front selfie without the adapter, alright regular focal range, they go typical, stuff kind of boring, and then we slide this guy on. Oh yeah, that’s whiter! It’S not crazy wide, but it didn’t really do the thing I was hoping for it to do, which is give you enough leeway to fit other people in the frame I mean this is you’re still in the territory of like fitting one other person really. I think this piece is what this unit is all about.
I think, is what makes it cool it’s small. It has a magnetic cover, you can keep it on a case permanently, and you get this wide variety of possibilities for shots. You can really get creative with it, because part of the thing is with photography on smartphones. These days is the smartphone’s themselves are doing such a good job, algorithmically of letting you leave it in automatic mode and then referencing and changing the dynamics of the photo based on the neural network and all this wild technology.
So it’s kind of taking you the photographer out of the equation to a certain extent, you bring something like this on to here and it’s kind of the best of both worlds. Where you can still get creative, you can still make certain choices for focal range, which then changes perspective and changes an entire image, and then you can still utilize some of the smarts that exist within the smartphone to then kind of enhance those creative decisions or there You go is the travel set edition flimsy bucks right there? What’S the price? Well, lay it down, let us know $ 69.99. You know what $ 69.99 catch a shot of a mosquito or something straight to National Geographic. I used to have the National Geographic subscription as a kid. I had yellow the yellow books set up in these holders, so you could save them. You could go back. There was a lot of. You could read it at a later date.
It was still interesting. I had stacks .