Overview: ShiftCam’s Fisheye lens is a enjoyable technique to seize wider pictures in your iPhone

The iPhone is able to capturing loads of various scenes, and has been for a few years. Ever since iPhone 11 Pro, we’ve had a triple digicam array, permitting for ultrawide, huge, and telephoto pictures. Despite this, many firms nonetheless provide third get together lens options to your iPhone, permitting you to seize much more together with your iPhone.

ShiftCam is a type of firms, and immediately I’ll be reviewing their LensUltra Fisheye lens. It’s like an Ultrawide, however with a bit extra perspective.

Overview

When utilizing this Fisheye lens together with your iPhone’s wide-angle lens, you will get an ultrawide-like perspective, however with the higher picture high quality of your primary wide-angle lens. You additionally get the identical kind of distortion you’d get with a 360 digicam, permitting for a novel look in comparison with what’s constructed into your iPhone.

The lens comes with a pleasant cloth pouch for carrying it round, and it additionally comes with a cleansing pen and sprucing fabric. To mount it in your iPhone, you’ll want one in every of ShiftCams cases – although they’re fairly good.

Photos

Once you’ve all the pieces arrange, you can begin taking some good photographs, and I’ll be delving into a few my samples.

As you’ll be able to see, the Fisheye lens captures a visually wider scene, and because you’re utilizing the primary sensor in your iPhone, the colours seem extra true-to-life, and issues seem left gentle.

With the ShiftCam lens, you’ll be able to see a bit extra – although it’s fairly straightforward to by chance get your finger within the shot – which I did right here. Beyond that although, its a enjoyable perspective value experimenting with.

Wrap up

You can choose up the Fisheye 200° lens for 9.99 on Amazon, and you’ll choose up one in every of their nice fabric MagSafe cases for the iPhone 16 lineup for .99 on Amazon.

It’s a bit expensive for an exterior attachment, and it’s actually extra to hold round. That mentioned, should you’re dedicated to the #ShotOniPhone life, it’s a enjoyable manner of leveling up your photographs with a novel look – and that may be value it.

ShiftCam gives numerous other lenses for iPhone, and ideally I’ll evaluate these with time – however the Fisheye lens is actually a number of enjoyable and I’d advocate it to lots of people.

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