Today we will talk about add-on lenses for your smartphone. We're going to talk about what they do, why I like them, and why you should perhaps consider getting one for yourself.
Add-on Lens Overviews and Who Needs Them
So add-on glasses are pretty simple to explain; they are small pieces of glass with different glass elements depending on the add-on lens you get.
And overall, they will change the view and overall image of your camera, and when it comes to add-on lenses, there are a million different options out there you could get.
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- Wide-angle lens
- Fisheye lens
- telephoto
- macro and
- anamorphic
And so forth; there are a million other options, and each of these lenses will allow you to film and shoots different images to your liking.
How to use extension lenses correctly?
the best proper way for you to have a good camera and increase your smartphone Camera quality: I strongly recommend that you use add-on lenses over your phone's main camera so that you can have a nice shoot, for example,
If You are using an iPhone 12. You will have to put the add-on lens over the main camera, using the wide-angle lens and not over the ultra-wide angle or the telephoto lens. Some lenses will also work on those other lenses that I just mentioned.
But you will definitely get the best quality when you put it over the primary camera on your phone because most of the time the best quality comes just out of this lens, And Google indexing if you try to put a wide-angle lens over the ultra-wide-angle lens of your phone, you will more than likely have an image with a vignette.
So just keep that in mind, and you know what's awesome about add-on lenses?
Why Do I Need Add-on Lenses?
Add-on lenses, like regular phone lenses, will only help improve the quality of your phone's photos and video shoots compared to the normal lens your phone is already equipped with; you will need to use an add-on lens to improve your camera quality. Depending on the type of lens you buy, it will alter the view to your liking.
Best Add-on Lens For You
Wide-angle Lenses
The first lens that I'd like to discuss is the wide-angle lens, which basically just makes your field of view wider.
This is what the frame looks like with a standard wide-angle camera, and this is what the field of view looks like with the wide-angle lens attached to it, and it's actually quite a bit wider, and I even think the quality is almost better than with the ultra-wide-angle lens built into my iPhone 12 Pro, which is awesome.
My DJI OM4 can still handle this with a case and a wide-angle lens, and to be honest, you do have to balance it correctly, and it's pretty much at its limit, but it does work, and the results are just very good.
Telephoto Lens
Next up, let's talk about the opposite of the wide-angle lens, which is the telephoto lens. I don't know exactly what the focal length of this lens is.
And it also depends on your phone and focal length, but it's very comparable to the telephoto lens on my 12 Pro, and to be honest, I think the telephoto lens on the iPhone is the worst; I feel like I'm losing a lot of quality with this compared to my primary shooter and also the ultra-wide angle, but with an add-on lens like this, you can get amazing results. If you have a tripod, you can get even better results.
If you buy those super cheap add-on lenses from Amazon, you will always lose quality when you put them in front of your lenses because the overall quality of this glass is just very poor, and if you put this in front of your camera, well, you will lose quality. However, with these lenses from SV Assets, you do get amazing quality, even if you just put them in your hands. You can actually feel that this glass is a very thin and high-quality material, and you can not only feel it but also see it in the final results?
Anamorphic lens
So let's talk about one of my favorite lenses, which is the anamorphic lens.
If you are a YouTuber or photographer interested in shooting anamorphic, but cannot afford to build a rig that can drill proper anamorphic, you can get some decent anamorphic glass for your normal camera for several thousand dollars, but for smartphones, you can get incredible lenses.
An anamorphic lens will basically stretch your image and look very strange straight out of the camera, but if you squeeze it in post-production or in real-time with, say, Filmic Pro, you do get a proper widescreen field of view, which is truly awesome, and with this little piece of gear
You can get a proper 2.35:1 aspect ratio like you see in movies with an anamorphic lens, which I tested a few months ago, but overall, I am happy with the results.
This lens and basically all of these lenses give me great images, and as I've said before, the build quality is amazing.
Macro lens
And last but definitely not least is the macro lens, and to be honest, this is the lens that I was looking forward to the most. A macro lens is a lens that will enable you to get super close to your subjects or whatever you are filming.
Really close? Well, then—I mean, you can get really, really close. The focus distance with this lens is about two centimeters; it's that close, and firstly, I thought, “Well, what the heck should I be shooting with this?” But when I was actually trying it out, the results and different views that you can get with this are actually remarkable.
And I occasionally use macro lenses for professional shoots, but only in very specific situations; but when I was using it with my phone, I kind of fell in love with it; and it's also super, super tiny, so you can basically always take this with you, and I just like the creativity and the different field of view and the different views in general that you can get with a macro lens.
Final Thought
Lenses like this exist, but there you have it, guys. That's a quick rundown of add-on lenses and why I think you should try them out for yourself.