cOnice Mobile Phone Telescope review for iPhone

Jacob here!

It’s been a while my friends but here is my come back with yet another review!

Up is the CoNice, Mobile Phone Telescope.
In the box – is the zoom lens, a case for the iPhone with a lens mount, and few wrist straps.
Very simple design and a great idea but actual usage was something else.

First the “outer shell” as it says on the box is purely to mount the zoom lens. It is feeble and rather flimsy and I was afraid it might break apart while using it even without the zoom lens.
The Lens itself looks great – a miniature telephoto lens lookalike, that has an actual focus as well as 6 optical zoom (you can’t zoom in or out though).

Although a clever innovation I think it fails to realistically capture any quality shots.
Given, it is indeed for the iPhone’s mere 2 Megapixel camera, with very limited functions, and etc. But after testing both with and without the lens, I feel confident to say that I prefer without the zoom lens.

One of the first things that I noticed while using the zoom lens was the instability it caused by the 6X optical zoom. That’s an insane amount of zoom for a tiny, limited cellphone camera. The inability to casually shoot a photo, without appearing as if the image is constantly shaking on the screen really makes it difficult to use this lens. Using this lens results an image that is blurry and lacking composition.
Another huge factor is the lighting. Without the lack of abundant light, any images taken, especially by a limited cellphone camera will lack quality. I think this lens actually underexposes the images taken by the phone because the zoom is too much for a small cellphone camera.

Overall – I think it was a cool idea but I don’t think it’s really realistic.
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You can purchase this product from Mobile.brando for $19.