Mobile Phone Telescope for the iPhone 3G
Reviewed by Robert Pritchett
Introduction
"Overcome the short coming of
camera cellphone that can only near-sighted, it also makes distant view for you
at the moment.
The new design to run of rays can
effectively avoid the contortion of image, and makes the super wide angle, the
larger luminous flux, the higher visual acuteness, good for color reduction,
which makes the high quality of photography.
Suitable for watching match,
concect, travel, animal observes fans, newspaper-man shoots remotely, forestry
manages, port dispatcher of the railway, traffic administrative department to
collect evidence, public security organs to enforce the law and collect
evidence, etc."
My Experience
They sent this airmail to me from Hong Kong. I'm sure if I
tried to write something in Madarin Chinese, I would probably do a lot worse
than they did with their information printed on the box as seen above.
For $20, this essentially is a throw-away item for a $300
iPhone, but you know? It works.
The package came folded with a fake iPhone cover to show
this is a clam-shell plastic case (be real careful putting it on and taking it
off!). The material is NOT "crystal". It is most definitely
"clear" plastic.
The lense is NOT 6 inches long. It is about 3 inches long.
The adjuster on my unit had to be disassembled, because the
rubber ring didn't catch the lense ring properly. I figured it was broken. At
first it would not move at all. The rubber ring is just too soft a rubber to
really do the job properly. And the lense telescoping function really doesn’t
do much, except go from out of focus to pretty good focus up to infinity out of
focus.
Have you ever opened up a crackerjack box and gotten one of
those plastic toys you had to assemble? This was a similar experience. There
are no instructions in the box. No peanuts or carmeled popcorn either ;^) The
pictures on the outside are of no help whatsoever.
So why did I request this unit? I wanted to be able to get better
pictures at a distance and I thought this was pretty cool, even though I had
seen disparaging remarks about it online. Look, pretty much anything would help
to improve the camera experience of the iPhone. I got the iPhone and tend to
use the camera more than anything else.
Now I need a cradle or stabilizer. You should see how funny
this is with the scope on trying to take pictures freehand without holding the
iPhone against something steady. Blurry with Zoom is like being on a roller
coaster ride. You think "iPhone blur" is bad, try attempting a quick
shot with the telephoto unit! Inhale, hold it, shoot. Maybe twice or three times just to
be sure.
Looking through 2 windows (one slide back). Late morning
shots.
Conclusion
This is a fun, functional device and I would have never
believed I could put a telephoto lense on an iPhone, but here it is!
