IPHONE ACCESSORIES
Jan 08, 2018
4 minutes
Bitplay standard lenses
From £22/$20
1 BITPLAY’S range of standard lenses may be compact and cheap, but optical quality pays the price. Sharpness from the 3x telephoto optic falls off fast from the centre, and there’s distortion. At the other extreme is the circular fisheye+5x macro optic. In fisheye mode you get a true 180-degree field of view, but sharpness is low and fringing atrocious. Unscrew the front of the lens and you reveal a tiny macro optic. If you can ignore the huge sharpness falloff and pincushion distortion, centre-frame detail is impressive and highly magnified.
The 0.3x full-frame fisheye tightens the FOV:
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