[ABSi30]

I have noticed how a lot more people are using their mobile phones to take pictures and videos against camera users. Obviously a lot lighter to have to hump around. With this I have been looking to buy the attached lens fisheye and macro that clip onto your phone. The phone I use has a 20 meg pixel camera. On Amazon they are around £10 for the lens. Has anyone been using the attached lens and if they are good or bad. I can then take my car pictures fiddle with them to put onto the site. Or let my son do it which is more up my street.
Thanks.

[AlanHo]

I tried a telephoto attachment for my Samsung Galaxy but I found it impossible to avoid camera shake at longer focal lengths. I find a phone difficult to hold steady and keep my fingers from intruding in the shot. In addition, the resolution was impaired even when I held the phone against a fixed object to steady it. I concluded that cheap attachments are more a gimmick than practical.

I have just replaced my large bridge camera with a compact camera that is proving to be very satisfactory - as stated in my thread on the topic.

A New Camera

[Dazzler]

I've been wondering about those  lens attachments that clip onto your mobile too. I decided if you are going to lug something like that around you may as well just take your camera with you as well as your mobile (if you have a compact one).

It's a  bit sad in a way that good mobiles have taken over from compact cameras. My current mobile LG G4 takes amazing quality photos which are not far behind the Sony DSC-HX20V compact camera I have sitting in the cupboard. I do miss the 20x optical zoom very occasionally though.

[ABSi30]

May just invest in the lenses for my mobile. It's things like this that I love to play with. I have recently got myself a usb microscope that was well worth the money. Hope a screen sho comes on with this post. If it does will have to try and photo my car with it.



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[ABSi30]

It worked so now to get my i30  under the microscope. Life is one long road.

"IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED TRY TRY AND TRY AGAIN."

[Dazzler]

Microscope is nice and clear!