A Wild Smartphone Contraption Appears...

I featured something like this or maybe even a couple different versions of similar items in the past

This, this package, this overall package looks the most polished so far

We're seeing so many phone manufacturers pack in extra cameras, put more lenses on their devices

Then there's this thing. It's called Shift Cam. This turns your device into digital SLR essentially

It puts all these various adapters on there to give you even more opportunities from a focal range perspective

All the way from 120 degree wide angle up to 20x macro

Now that's not something you can do just with your phone camera

So if you want to get really creative like go out in the wilderness

You want to try to take a photo of a bee or something up close

Or you want to get an ultra wide This is a way to get even more photography versatility out of the current device that you've already got

You have a front facing 120 degree wide angle lens that gives you a field of view similar to what the current generation Pixel can do on a front facing camera

And one of the only times I would ever consider using a selfie camera if there's a group setting

They've also got this other adapter over here. I don't know if this thing screws on

I mean maybe you even want more, maybe you're getting crazy. Let's take a look at what's inside

So we have that piece, that's the main component. Look, that's you Jack, that's you and Casper

Is this a genuine leather wristband? No, absolutely not. The front adapter, man, this is pretty wild

This clips onto the front camera and that's what gives you the wide angle in that department

Does this go on to protect it? Let's see, oh, that's a magnet

That's well designed. Oh, that's a kickstand. Does that make sense, Jack

Yeah, that makes sense, right? Little kickstand option. Not sure why you need that

Who needs a digital SLR? That's all I have to say. Oh my God

Look at this lens Wow Holy Ultra wide 12 mil This for me as cool as this is It like at this point it getting a little out of hand A lot of you are like geez get a real camera at that point

There are still some advantages though to using a smartphone Which is the fact that you're connected so you can share immediately

And that's kinda the place and way that people are consuming User generated content now

Now, maybe you want to be out there shooting video, streaming it, broadcasting it immediately after

Then you could use something like this to get a look that is much different than what a typical smartphone

is capable of. But for me, this is a step, maybe a step too far

in this situation, whereas this, I feel like is a lot more practical

When you're carrying the whole package around, it's still pocketable. Alright, so, I mean, if it's on like a typical case

So this guy just slides in and you can see it kind of clicks at different points along the way

What are we looking at? I mean, we're looking at the two standard cameras, and then we got another six

That's an eight camera setup, Jack. And then this guy, I guess would slide like this, and it clicks in

So there you go. Front camera, also wide now. Let's take a look at some of these focal ranges

All right, we have our favorite model here. He's ready for a... He's ready to fight, Jack. Give him a deal. Give him a new contract

Alright, so this is 1x standard iPhone camera. Boom, done. 2x standard iPhone camera

Boom, done. And then we're gonna slide on the first lens situation

Oh, you can tell right away, that's wider. That's quite a bit wider. We'll move to the two on this same module

Go to the next. Ooh, we're into the zoom range. Significant zoom range here

That's probably the minimum focusing range somewhere around there. The 1x. Oh, and we're fully in fisheye territory here on the One X

And the last option here. Oh, this must be the macro. It's basically touching and the detail is there

Oh my God, holy iPhone. Look at this. You see the grooves in the paint okay So the macro very nice to have You know what Let try and get this text on the Starbucks That one of the coolest things about these adapters is the macro in my opinion

You can actually see the way it was printed on. You can see the stamp there. You can see the way the ink dried

How about this knife? Unbox Therapy knife. Actual letters. Grain of the steel

Jack, you gotta be impressed, no? Look at that! Come on now

And oh my goodness, is this a 2X macro now? So that's the 1X, which is already like super close

You can see the grain in the object here. But you go to the 2X and you're like in, you're in the grain

Remember, it's 120 degree wide angle, which we showed you. It's way back from this guy

There was the fisheye as well, which gives you the black border around and that circular appearance, also very wide in interpretation

10X macro, 20X macro, which we just showcased to you. And then a 2X telephoto, that's useful

That's sort of a more traditional or typical lens adapter. It's also the most common implementation we've seen

for a secondary camera unit on most smartphones. It's just like throw the zoom in

So that's a little less exciting, a little less interesting to me. We might as well slide this on and see what we're working with

Now that's giving you a lot more weight at that point. Wow

Funny enough, this seems to have changed the whole color of the frame as well

So it's a wide angle shot, so it gives you this cool kind of perspective

And it's just one of the benefits of having a bigger piece of glass

You can produce sharper images. Yes, it's an adapter. You're still using the lens on the camera

But this is just giving you an advantage over some of the smaller adapters on the travel piece

you guys can see there. You're sharing this stuff on social media for the most part anyways

And the discrepancy between the wide adapter that exists on the travel unit and this one

Once you shared it once it compressed chewed up by the various social media it like I don know if it worth the headache of carrying around the actual bigger adapter Okay last up we have the selfie unit and this gives you the wide angle on the front so first things first I should just shoot a front selfie without the adapter Alright regular focal range

There you go typical stuff kind of boring and then we slide this guy on oh yeah that's wider

I mean it's not crazy wide but it didn't really do the thing I was hoping for it to do which is

give you enough leeway to fit other people in the frame i mean this is you're still in the territory

of like fitting one other person really i think this piece is what this unit is all about i think

is what makes it cool it's small it has a magnetic cover you can keep it on the case permanently and

you get this wide variety of possibilities for shots you can really get creative with it because

part of the thing is with photography on smartphones these days is the smartphones

themselves are doing such a good job algorithmically of letting you leave it in automatic mode and then

referencing and changing the dynamics of the photo based on the neural network and all this

wild technology so it's kind of taking you the photographer out of the equation to a certain

extent you bring something like this onto here and it's kind of the best of both worlds where

you can still get creative you can still make certain choices for focal range which then changes

perspective and changes an entire image and then you can still utilize some of

the smarts that exist within the smartphone to then kind of enhance those

creative decisions. There you go this is the Travel Set Edition flimsy box right

there. What's the price well lay it down let us know $69.99 you know what $69.99

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these holders so you could save them. You could go back. There was a lot of, you could read it

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