Apexel HD Cell Phone Lens-28X Telephoto Lens with Shutter for iPhone Samsung,Huawei,Xiaomi,Android Smartphone,Monocular Telescope

It is great, and the clamp makes it even better!
After little success using a spotting scope with a flimsy phone holder, I have now gone the other way and acquired this scope and holder specifically designed for use with a phone. This little thing is rather astonishing. It is 28x zoom, and the clamp to mount the phone is much more stable than other clamps with spring action. So this is much more useable and you can move it around, without having to constantly realign phone and scope. The brand is Apexel, made in India, and I can genuinely recommend it. In the same line, they also have 36x and 60x (!) zoom options, but I chose the 28x version, as I fear a larger zoom, will limits it use too much. If they make a variable zoom later in this series, I’d be very inclined to get one, although I am sure it will be at a very different price (and yes, I am aware that they do offer some variable zoom options, but in different lines, and as far as I have found, they only cover less than 20x zoom, and they unfortunately also have the less useable spring action clamps). My current phone has a 2x optical zoom, so I can increase total zoom to 56x optical, which isn’t bad! And my next phone will lin most likelyhood have even more optical zoom, so I may newer crave more zoom (but variable zoom would be nice). At the price this is incredibly good. The photos shows 1. the set-up 2. No zoom 3. 28x zoom from scope 4 56x zoom with the addition of my phones 2x optical zoom. The arrow in the photos point to my old flat around 350m away. Photos taken in/from my living room (photos do no show up in the order I added them, so numbering may be off, but you get the idea anyway I hope)

Not worth it.
Really not worth the money. Won’t fit on phone if you’ve got any kind of safety case (the screw on attachment doesn’t open anything like wide enough), and the zoom level is so minimal that you can barely see the difference. The pictures apparently taken using it in this product’s listing are very misleading.. The rubber seal came off the part that goes nearest to the phone, so I can’t send it back – otherwise I would.

Kind of Works but Not Worth the Money, in my opinion
This thing works…kind of.It is a 28x telephoto lens. Once you get the right fit on your phone, it takes very zoomed in photo’s with as much detail captured as an object a few feet away from your camera (bar the odd slight curvature you get at the bottom of photo’s), it’s versatile, the inclusion of an attachable rubber ring to use it as a monoscope is thoughtful, and its fairly well built.Those are the perks and really, for the average person looking at something like this, you could pretty much stop there and ignore the rest of this. But you shouldn’t, and here’s why:For a good chunk of people that have multiple lenses on their phone’s these days, this thing is INCREDIBLY fidgety and impractical. It took me an annoying amount of time to get the lens fitted to my Galaxy Note 10+ correctly and when I did, it was taking up a big chunk of the top corner of my screen, not to mention putting a worrying amount of pressure on the front glass once it was secured in place.Apexel didn’t include a dedicated tripod to prop the lens up in this which, in my opinion, is a HUGE mistake. The camera is so sensitive to the slightest jitters and movements when it’s focussing this far away that you can’t reasonably expect to take any useable photo’s while holding it, it needs to be propped up against something to keep it still. Even though I do have a tripod for my phone, I couldn’t get it to stand up with the amount of weight added to the front of the phone with this lens on.And the problem is really, the setup is so fidgety and takes so long to get right that unless you do invest in a little tripod just for the lens, and you’re not shooting a moving subject, I can see no reason to buy this.It’s the kind of concept that seems great, and with all the right conditions, could technically add a lot more life and diversity to your otherwise fairly limited phone camera, but really just isn’t worth the hassle and time of it all for something that, let’s be honest, is going to get used for a few days and then maybe brought out again once or twice a year. And to make it worse, even when you do use it, you’re always gonna have these annoying curves at the bottom of your photo where the picture is distorted from having two lenses.If you’re the kind of serious photographer that’s going to go adventuring (that’s the only real use I can see for it as astrophotography wouldn’t work any better than if I were just using my normal phone camera lens) you’re not gonna be taking this with you anyway, you’re gonna spend more to get a higher quality lens or just a proper camera.So really overall, I just don’t see any point to this, I think the mistake of leaving out a dedicated tripod for the lens really let’s this product down, but even then, when I did set it up right, I didn’t see a difference in my photos that even justifies the £28 this lens cost.

Bonjour,Ce produit est vendu avec une pochette pour le ranger, une protection à chaque bout de l’objectif, une lingette pour essuyer les lentilles, un déclencheur de photo bluetooth qui est très facile à connecter au téléphone, efficace et simple d’utilisation et enfin le nécessaire pour attacher un pied à l’objectif. L’objectif se règle manuellement et permet une très bonne mise au point. Petit bémol sur le capuchon de la grande lentille qui ne tient pas très bien. J’aime beaucoup ce produit qui permet de prendre des photos d’objets de très loin. Mes premiers essais sont très prometteurs comme vous pouvez le voir sur les photos jointes. Mes photos sont prises sans l’objectif, puis avec, les cercles rouges indiquant la zone prise en photo avec l’objectif. Il faut prendre le coup de main, mais après quelques utilisations, cela permet de faire de super rendus. C’est selon moi un produit de qualité !

I bought it so I could make nice photo’s and video’s at concerts since my reguar phone camera zoom sucks, and I have to say this product did not dissapoint!! It works so well and the zoom is incredible. Easy to attach and remove between songs as long as you have the clip well and secured. It took me a while to figure out how to properly use it tho, it’s a pretty big thing and quite heavy and when making video’s the footage can be shaky, but once you got it the quality is insane! I used it at the txt concert and in the attached photo’s you can see before & after I used the zoom camera! If you want to use this at a concert like me I don’t recommend bringing it if you have standing tickets, it’s too heavy and could be dangerous for others since its pretty big aswell. But if you have seated tickets and/or are far away I definitely recommend!!