What smartphone lens should you get next?
Why should you even get an additional smartphone lens?
What is the advantage?
Just take a look at this. This is Shiftcam Lens Ultra series
available for any smartphone.
In this video, you will learn everything about smartphone lenses.
You will get all of the answers you need.
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During this detailed tutorial I will be also reviewing these lenses
which will be linked in a video description in case you are interested
in checking them out.
There are several reasons why you should consider getting
an additional lens on top of the lenses you already have on your smartphone,
especially if you love photography and video.
You can reduce noise in low light photos or videos
and get higher resolution.
For example, on this iPhone 14 pro telephoto
and ultra wide angle lens give you 12 megapixel photos.
You can take the same photos with the help of these lenses
with a standard wide camera which will give you 48 megapixels.
That means 4x the resolution.
I also have Samsung Galaxy S23 and Google Pixel 7 Pro here.
Both have 50 megapixel main cameras
and both have 12 megapixels ultra wide cameras.
Samsung has 3x ten megapixel telephoto, so this one is lower.
Better would be using telephoto lenses to get higher resolution.
Google has a five times 48 megapixel telephoto camera.
Another reason is just simply a different look. Anamorphic movie look or fish eye
look, or wide look without
the distortion. You won't get these just with a built in cameras.
What is it that you see?
There are seven lenses. Lenses which will zoom out will give you a wider look.
Are, 16 millimeters wide angle,
200 degrees fisheye, 1.33 times anamorphic
and 1.55 times anamorphic.
Lenses which will zoom in are 60 millimeters telephoto,
75 millimeters long range macro and ten times traditional macro.
There are two filters. VND and CPL.
Universal lens mount for all phones,
and there are also available specific camera cases.
This one's for iPhone 14 Pro
and this one is for iPhone 14 Pro max.
It's all magsafe compatible.
All lenses are compatible with the main standard camera.
The only lenses which are compatible with telephoto are long
range macro, telephoto and wide angle.
For telephoto it is recommended to use third party apps
such as ProCam. For anamorphic lenses
it's recommended to use apps like ProTake or Filmic Pro,
so you can desqueeze the footage, although you can also do that in a post.
The filters can be used just alone or with long range
macro, telephoto, wide angle lens and anamorphic lenses.
Let's take a look at standard lens photos taken with iPhone 14 Pro,
which is 0.6 times Zoom 48 megapixel.
Let's take a look at a photo taken with a 16 millimeters wide
angle lens mounted over the standard lens.
You will get a much wider look.
You can fit two times more in the photo and create more distance
between you and your subject and reduce noise in low light photos.
The focal length of the lens ultra 16 wide angle
is in between the focal length of the iPhone
ultra wide angle camera, which is 13 millimeters
and the main camera which is 24 millimeters.
You will get a distortion free view and the distance
will lead the viewers towards the subject.
This lens is specifically great if you shoot flat lays.
You will get a great results.
What is this lens best for?
Travel, food, product, landscape,
urban, interior, street architecture,
portrait photography, selfie and already mentioned flat lays.
The way you attach the lens is simply screw to a phone case or phone clamp.
Let's pull out the CPL filter.
You can mount it directly onto your phone with this adapter
or you can attach it to the lens.
Simply unscrew the ring on the lens and screw on the filter.
CPL filter removes reflections and brings deeper tones.
I love using CPL filter if I am filming
or taking photos in the woods right after the rain when everything is wet.
Let me show you some photos without the CPL filter
and with the CPL filter just so you see the difference.
Lastly, let's
show a video clip with just a standard lens.
Now let me show you a video clip with this 16 millimeters wide angle lens.
This is the look you are going to get.
This was shot in automatic mode.
You can certainly film in manual mode with a VND filter.
What is a VND filter?
It's a variable neutral density filter.
This one is 5 to 9 stop.
You can mount it on a smartphone, on the lens
and also on anamorphic lens with this attachment. When you film
in automatic mode, the camera will use a very high shutter speed,
so you are not going to get natural motion blur.
You will get natural motion blur if you film for example,
and 24 frames per second and slower the shutter speed to 1/50.
However, the footage will turn out very overexposed,
very bright if you will be filming outdoors during the day.
For that reason you will need VND filter,
variable ND filter which works just like sunglasses.
It will turn down the brightness.
You will just turn until you get the perfect exposure.
This filter can be used for long
exposure photography with certain apps, even though there are already
new long exposure apps such as ReExpose which offer
the ability to shoot long exposure photos without any filter.
You don't need this anymore.
Long exposure photos would be flowing
water and clouds, light painting, star trails,
Milky Way and intentional camera shake.
By the way, I created a tutorial on the Reexpose app in the past.
I'm going to link it below for those interested.
Let's go back to lenses.
The first one I showed you was a wide angle lens.
So let's stay a little bit longer with the wide angle, in particular
this one is 200 degrees fish eye lens.
The ultra wide angle lens on iPhone 14 pro or 14 pro
max only has 120 degrees of field of view.
This Fish Eye lens will give you a 67% wider image.
It will give you hemispherical effect.
You will get all around view.
You can get very close to the action without cutting the subject.
The focal length is only 7.5 millimeters.
There is no vignette with the lens.
The clarity is edge to edge.
This lens is best for capturing moments
with dynamic adventure angle for action
sports, adventures and vlogs.
Get close to the action to capture fun shots of your subjects.
Freeze them in the moment, get pulled into the surrounding environment.
Let's stay with wide angle lenses some more.
Here are 1.33 times and 1.55 times anamorphic lenses.
What are they used for?
And what is the difference?
They are both best used for cinematic videography.
Neon light photography and landscape photography.
Both will give you the classic black bar at top and bottom.
1.33 times will give you a 21x9 widescreen ratio.
Dreamy focus, surreal perspective and cinematic blue flair.
You don't have to add those fake black bars anymore
in the post or cut out the footage.
1.55 times will give you an ultrawide
2.76 x 1 aspect ratio.
It will turn your normal phone footage into a wider
aspect ratio at the same focal length.
It will give you far more scenes in a single frame.
It will also give you the dreamy focus.
It will make your video look like a movie with this widescreen ratio.
And of course, it also has the blue flair.
If you need to film in manual mode with these lenses, again,
this is the adapter to fit a VND filter on them.
So these were wide angle lenses.
Let's take a look at 60 millimeters telephoto lens.
As I mentioned earlier, if you attached the lens to the main camera,
which is 48 megapixels, the photos will have much better clarity
than if you were to take the photos with the iPhone 12 megapixel telephoto camera.
Here are photos side by side.
This lens has edge to edge clarity, even if you take images in low light.
This lens will get you closer to the subject
and it's also perfect for portrait photography.
Facial features will look natural.
There will be no distortion.
There will be a compressed perspective.
Let's compare a wide angle shot with a 60 millimeters telephoto lens shot.
Can you see how the background looks different?
This narrow angle helps isolate the subject better and creates
natural depth of field instead of digital.
Let's take a look at the difference between a photo taken in portrait mode,
which has digital depth of field and a
60 millimeters telephoto lens which has natural depth of field.
Let's zoom in and look at the edges around the subject.
The bokeh looks more natural with a 60 millimeters telephoto lens.
The lens can be also mounted over the telephoto camera
but make sure you are using third party apps such as Procam.
If you mount it over the main camera, you will get two times telephoto.
If you mount the lens over a telephoto camera, you will get 6x optical zoom.
Not digital, optical.
You will get more clarity.
You can get some great shots
if you are into architectural photography. Just look up, get some detailed shots.
What else can you photograph with this lens besides architecture?
Food products, travel and landscapes.
The last two lenses I have here are ten times traditional macro
and 75 millimeters long range macro lenses.
What is the difference between them?
First of all, the macro already suggests
that you will be taking close up shots with these lenses.
You will showcase fine details and textures of your subjects.
A 75 millimeters long range macro
will give you 5 to 10 times magnification and you don't have to be very close
to the subject as it has a ten centimeters macro focal range.
So you can take the photos comfortably from a distance.
This lens will give you a shallow depth of field
in the background with a dreamy bokeh effect.
These are photos taken with the main camera.
If you mount it over the telephoto camera, you will get even closer.
It is best to be used for taking photos of insects,
plants, jewelry and other small subjects.
It can also be used for macro videography.
If you film the subject in motion,
you will highlight the details and get a great depth of field.
Let's take a look at the traditional ten times macro lens.
This lens will give you ten times to 25 times
magnification. If you mount it over the main camera,
these are the results you are going to get.
You will see extreme depth of field perspective.
The lens has a hood which will help you to get a perfect focus.
If you mount this lens over a telephoto lens,
you will increase magnification even more.
You can reach almost microscope levels.
What is this lens suitable for?
Texture, plants, small insects
and other small subjects suitable for macro photography.
So this is the Shiftcam ultra lens series made for
smartphone photography and video.
I'm going to link all of them below in the video description
for those interested. I hope this video gave you
a better understanding of lenses.
So many of you asked me in the comments below the videos
what smartphone lens should I get next?
I hope that now you are able to answer that question
because you will know what you are taking photos of or you are filming.
So now you should know what type of lens you actually need.
My most favorite lenses are wide lens and telephoto.
I also started
using the fisheye more often, especially when it comes to architecture.
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