RUTELO Telephoto Lens for Smartphone with Tripod & Bluetooth Shutter Remote- Ultra Powerful 25X Coated Optical Glass - Camera Lens Attachment for iPhone X, XS, MAX, XR, 8 7 6 Plus, 5, 5s, & Samsung

In reading other reviews, I noticed a bunch of people complaining about focusing. It is kind of a pain to focus zoom lenses like this, because you have to first set the back focus ("back focus" by the *old* broadcast camera definition, which is mostly unrelated to how modern DSLR users define the term). This adjusts the focus of the rear elements to compensate for variations in the distance between the back of the lens and the camera's focal plane (as affected by the camera's built-in lens), which varies from camera to camera. After that, you *then* adjust the front focus based on the coarse distance to the subject, at which point the camera can handle the micro-focusing on its own. Focusing extension lenses like this one can, indeed, be tricky to get right if you aren't used to doing it, but I doubt that it's even possible to avoid such a design, much less practical, so I'm not going to complain about that. It is what it is.Overall, the lens is functional, but it has some design flaws that make it challenging. Neither clip works well at all. Both clips seem to have been designed for phones in which the lens is half an inch or more away from the side of the screen. Unfortunately, that doesn't describe any Apple phone or iPod, with the possible exception of the two-lens devices, which makes it problematic.For the screw-only clip, if you slide the phone in far enough to touch the edge of the phone, the lens is way past the camera. If you line up the lens correctly, then the only thing keeping the lens from spinning and sliding around is the pressure from the screw-down on a rubber face. That would work fine if you could screw down something that would press against the side of the phone, but it doesn't have anything like that. Also, the rubber part tends to make contact only on one edge. The combination of these makes it extremely unstable. If you tighten it down really hard, this clip just *barely* works, but it almost certainly isn't a good idea to put the glass screen under that much pressure.For the spring-based clip, the position is adjustable, but it isn't adjustable nearly enough to work well, in exactly the same way. With the lens in the position closest to the edge of the clip, the back part of the clip just *barely* touches the phone, and there's a wide gap between the side of the phone and the back part of the clip, once again. Ideally, you should be able to push the phone all the way up to the point where it touches, and then slide the lens until it lines up, but unfortunately, you can't slide it far enough up to do that. It would also be better if the part that contacts the front of the phone were longer. It barely touches the phone when the lens is lined up.But the biggest problem is with the mount. It does NOT hold an iPhone 5/5s unless you fasten the screw-down clip onto the phone, because it doesn't get narrow enough to close down on such a narrow phone, nor wide enough to hold the phone lengthwise. Even if it did, a spring-loaded clip would be somewhat dubious, given the weight of the lens. It *sort of* works if you use the non-spring clip to make the camera wider, but only if you put it in the middle of the phone, where you can slide it all the way up against the side of the phone to be stable. And then you can just barely make the spring clip work without the weight of the lens causing the tripod to self-rotate sideways.What they really should have done is put a screw-down tripod collar on the lens itself. The lens weighs WAY more than the phone it is attached to, which means even if the mount were better, the entire setup would still be utterly unwieldy to work with, putting the phone at unnecessary risk of damage. It would be much, much safer (again, assuming the clip gets redesigned) to mount the middle of the lens directly to the tripod and then support the phone entirely with a clip that is designed to more completely conform to the shape of the device, e.g. with screw-down plates from the sides, top, and face, with those screws providing side-to-side adjustment, the sliding bit providing vertical adjustment, and the face clamp keeping the lens snug against the camera.This lens would also be much better if it were larger in diameter, with a much larger exit pupil. It can be challenging to line this lens up well enough to avoid vignetting, and the tiny exit pupil precludes the use of the device with any sort of case.Finally, the tripod is problematic. There's no way to tighten anything, so it either works in a given position or it doesn't, and if it doesn't, there's nothing you can do about it. The good news is that at least they used the fairly standard consumer-grade 1/4 x 20 threads for the tripod, so you can at least screw the clip into something more usable.Basically, it is functional, but the clip design makes it a pain in the backside to use, and the plastic construction of the spring-based clip makes it seem far less durable than seems reasonable to me, particularly given how much weight it has to to support.If I decide to keep this (and at this point, I probably will, because low product availability means I can't get anything better soon enough to be usable), I'm probably going to drill and tap two holes through the metal clip and run screws through to press a plastic spacer into the side of the phone, to make the mount more stable, and just use a separate clamp mount to hold the phone onto the tripod.Either that or I might try to manufacturer some sort of tripod collar. Either way.

I like the unit, well constructed, impressed with that. Difficult to use, i.e. line up with actual camera lens for precise viewing. Was not successful in getting the view I was looking for, but I was PUSHing it, so probably not fair, but is the reason I bought it. At my place in Panama, on a CLEAR day you can see Panama City (barely) which is probably about 100 miles away, +/-. Like I said, I am pushing it. However, did not get the results I was hoping for, but I'll take the blame for that. More locally, just looking at some buildings 2k-4k feet away I could not get as good a view as I would guess should be reasonable. Trying to dial that in, i.e. fiddle with the alignment over the phone camera lens I found difficult to frustrating. You may have more positive results. As stated, impressed with the build quality and such. With the stand for holding camera, telescope lens and such. Would I recommend it? Yes. My trying to see better 100 miles was/is way outside the stated specifications of the lens. I have no problem claiming fault, but did want to honestly state my experience. Will do additional testing.

I bought this as a gift for my son’s birthday who is fond of photography. The quality is very good! Very innovative the body is made of aluminum it comes with a protective case, waterproof. It would be great if they wrap the outer box in a plastic bag. I Would highly recommend this product to anyone looking to take great quality pictures with their smart phone without the need to break the bank Buying a expensive camera.

I bought this for taking photos of the birds that frequent my backyard. However I found it a bit too cumbersome for me to handle. and this was probably due more to me than the lens. The quality on this brand name is SO good, the whole kit came in a beautiful zippered hard case and was very stylish. Everything was packed in thick foam slits so nothing could get damaged. I returned mine, but as I said, that was due more to my inept-ness than with the lens itself, I'd recommend it to anyone with some good dexterity.

In general I'm SUPER happy with this zoom lens! The lens, case, extras, etc are all very high quality and made well, and it works well and relatively as expected.That said, it is very heavy, relative to my phone and is NOT something that just snaps on/off in a second when you see something you want to take a picture of. That's not to say that putting it on isn't easy, just that it's not quick... I am also using it primarily to take pictures of birds and other wildlife, so the included table-top tripod, while very nice, isn't very helpful for me and I'll need to order a full-height tripod and probably also an image-stabilizing app.I'll try to add some comparison pictures soon.

This product does not work for me. Seemed like a great idea. It was very hard to attach it to my Samsung galaxy 7 edge, never really achieved a good fit and one it was attached, and on the tripod the camera couldn't focus because the lens was bouncing around. It literally had to sit untouched on the tripod for a minute until it steadied and even then, the slightest touch to take a picture would make the camera start bouncing on the tripod. As far as the zoom, it might be good, if you can get a good fit and keep the camera still, to zoom in on objects up to 12 feet away, after that, it's not much better than the cameras digital zoom. I'm returning it.

Decent quality but very difficult and touchy to get working. My biggest complaint is the eyepeice is so small it only covers about half the sensor and the included tripod is so unstable and has such wide snap points its not good for all targets. Im using this with a Galaxy S20 Ultra and tried it with both the main sensor and zoom.

You're gonna want to keep it, but it's doubtful that you will! The lens the case and the remote control will make you want to hang on to it, the tripod, the clip mount and how difficult it is to use will most likely make you send it back... Bummer, I wanted to love it😣