1) I bought a set of lenses in late 2014. It came with a dedicated case for (as I selected) the iPhone 6 to screw-mount the bigger lenses. It also came with a few metal rings. One of these was to be cemented around the lense on the iPhone itself. Then the smaller lenses could be magnet-mounted.
I chose to cement a ring onto that dedicated case rather than onto my iPhone, thus adding the thickness of the case to the focal length.
I did a few half-hearted test shoots, but I should consider the project failed. The lenses themselves may be good, though.
Anecdote: I aborted my first trial shoot in a park because I could not find the smaller lenses. Back home I found that I had had them with me. Smaller than I thought...
2) Last month I had a look at the olloclip clip-on lenses in an Apple Store. The approach appealed to me, but I have ultimately discarded the idea.
As above, the problem is likely to occur in the alignment of the clip-on lenses with the fixed one. (Professional photographers may well have more objections.)
Moreover, the range offered by olloclip (a set of 2*2 and two single lenses) would not be "extreme" enough for me.
That may be the predominant question: what would you use the lenses for? Try to picture that tiny bird far away without using a tripod? Try to grab an entire room and accept the deformation? Get a macro of that butterfly on a flower?
These lenses are tiny enough, as I experienced. But I find myself unwilling to carry them wherever I go.
3) I have decided to use my DSLR camera if I plan to shoot photos, and use my acting smartphone just for snapshots. (And to use my handycam or action cam if I plan to shoot video, and use my acting smartphone just for snapclips.)
Sidetracking again: I'm getting more interested in the file format of the pictures than in the lense to use.
I have my DSLR camera set to store photos both as JPG and as RAW files. I'm delighted I did, now that even viewing these has become more common. (The difference is most clear in clouds.) I have recently bought a camera app for iOS that stores as RAW and one or two RAW editing apps, but I haven't yet used them.
4) There seem to be interesting developments concerning flat lenses, so we may be served by future iPhones (and iPads?).
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Chris
On ma, jun. 13, 2016 at 4:41 AM, Patti A Robertson pattiandken@charter.net [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
I want to know, too, so I hope someone has some experience with these and answers!
I would use my iphone 6s but it's the same question. PattiOn Jun 12, 2016, at 2:49 PM, joycekeay@comcast.net [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:Hi, I've been looking at the ads for clip-on photographic lenses to use with either my iPad mini or my 6th generation iPod and I'm wondering how good they are.
I'd love to buy a set and take it on vacation with me but wonder how good they are. Any comments? Thanks.
Joyce Keay
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