vivo X300 Pro Photographer Kit with telephoto extender hands-on

Vivo unveiled the X300 collection yesterday, and we have been there to cowl the entire occasion.

Apart from the standard hands-on time with the X300 Pro and X300, we have been additionally in a position to seize loads of images with each telephones. What we did not have time for, nevertheless, was to snap some long-range pictures utilizing the vivo X300 Photographer Kit and the two.35x telephoto extender lens. Today, we lastly have these, too, and you’ll discover them additional down, however first, this is a more in-depth have a look at the precise gear.

Hands-on

The vivo X300 Pro’s Photographer Kit seems to be just like the one we used with the vivo X200 Ultra. While the removable lens is by all accounts similar, the case is not. This one has been made with a barely improved design of the case itself and tighter tolerances across the space you connect the additional lens, which supplies it a bit extra stability.

The Photographer Kit has been made by PGYTECH, and it is a seven-piece field. They allegedly have a equipment for the common vivo X300, however we have not seen it ourselves, and the Telephoto extender choice appears to be lacking from the X300 digicam app.

On the one hand, the vivo X300 Pro has a detachable 62mm filter adapter ring, a grip with its personal battery and Bluetooth to hook up with the telephone, the two.35x vivo Zeiss telephoto extender, and a sturdy, lengthy neck strap.

Unboxing the X300 Pro Photographer Kit

The grip slides onto the case and connects to the telephone through the USB-C port, which isn’t solely used for communication but additionally for charging the telephone (the grip has a 2300mAh battery of its personal).

Controls-wise, you get a two-stage shutter button, a zoom lever round it, a management dial, and a video document button.

Once you allow the telephoto extender within the digicam settings, you get a couple of additional choices which you can management. Pressing the shutter can take a single shot or a burst collection, for instance. You can have the shutter’s half-press motion lock the main focus and publicity, or it may run in steady AF-C focus mode.

Camera grip choices

The zoom stage across the shutter strikes easily between your entire focal vary as an alternative of merely leaping between the vivo X300 Pro’s optical focal lengths.

The grip

To screw on the additional lens, you want to connect the particular adapter ring first. You can maintain the adapter on a regular basis there because it would not intervene with the common operation of any of the cameras.

Once you will have the telephoto extender screwed on, you need to activate it from a shortcut within the digicam viewfinder, which is totally different from the X200 Ultra, the place you needed to enter a separate digicam mode. This method, you should utilize the varied digicam modes on the vivo X300 Pro – Portrait Mode, Night Mode, all of the video modes, and so forth, the place you could not on the vivo X200 Ultra.

The 2.35x teleconverter takes the vivo X300 Pro’s 85mm digicam to 200mm optically. You additionally get 400mm, 800mm, and 1,600mm toggles within the viewfinder, however they’re digital. The samples you see beneath are all taken on the native 200mm.

Camera samples

Teleconverter images (200mm)

Teleconverter images (200mm) low-light

Update: We’ve now added digicam samples from extra focal lengths (digital zoom).

Teleconverter images: 200mm • 400mm • 800mm • 1600mm

And this is a video we shot with the extender connected, totally handheld.

Pricing

Individually, the lens is CNY 999 (€120, INR 12,400), the case and the grip are CNY 699 (€85, INR 8,700), however you’ll be able to bundle them collectively for CNY 1,499 (€182, INR 18,700), saving CNY 200. Vivo can even promote you the Photographer Kit with the vivo X300 Pro for CNY 8,299 (€1,000, INR 103,600). We have no pricing info for out of doors China, because the telephones haven’t been launched exterior their house market but, though there’s some indication that this may occur quickly.

It’s value noting that for the X300 Pro, PGYTECH has give you another, lighter coloration variant as nicely, together with the usual black and gray ones. For this one, you may as well have the lens in an identical silver coloration.