**Tinkering with Cell Phone Cameras: A Hands-On Experience**

As I sat in front of my computer, surrounded by various camera equipment, including a tripod stand and a light stand from Google Aluminum, I couldn't help but think that I much prefer tinkering with my computer than with cameras. The complexity of setting up a tripod stand or adjusting the lighting for optimal photography is not exactly what I'm used to. On the other hand, tinkering with my computer is a familiar comfort zone for me.

I was fortunate to have received adapters from Sandmark, which came in handy as I tried out different lenses on my cell phone camera. The first lens I tried out was the telephoto lens, which allowed me to zoom in naturally without having to rely on software adjustments like most cell phone cameras do. This made a significant difference in the quality of the image, as an actual lens can concentrate more light onto the sensor, resulting in better image quality. This is particularly evident when compared to the standard zoom used by cell phones.

The telephoto lens was quite heavy and premium-feeling, which is exactly what I've come to expect from camera equipment. However, despite its weight, it feels compact and sturdy, making it easy to handle. The clips that hold it in place also felt secure, but not too firm that they wouldn't crack my iPhone if dropped.

Next, I tried out the polarizer filter, which is supposed to make things sharper and manage glare and reflections. While this feature may seem useful in outdoor environments where there's a lot of bright light, I found that it had an unexpected effect indoors - it gave everything a more natural golden color, which was quite noticeable even in a well-lit environment like a Starbucks. This made me wonder if the polarizer filter would be particularly useful for my usual photography style, which often involves shooting products and environments with minimal post-processing.

However, I must admit that using this polarizer filter did enhance the quality of my photos, especially when compared to what I could achieve without it. As a beginner's appreciation of tools like these from Sandmark, I can see how they would greatly improve the capabilities of cell phones, bringing them closer to what you'd expect from more expensive cameras.

For content creators and hobbyists in photography or videography, using lenses like those from San Mark can be a game-changer. Not only do they enhance the quality of your photos, but they also allow you to capture settings and videos that might otherwise be difficult to achieve with standard cell phone equipment. In fact, there are already content creators who have built successful careers solely on shooting with their phones.

**The Benefits of Using Cell Phones for Photography**

One such example is MKBHD, who has a separate YouTube channel dedicated to exclusively using an iPhone for his videos and photos. This shows that it's entirely possible to create high-quality content using just a cell phone, especially when equipped with the right tools like those from Sandmark.

If you're interested in exploring your creative side through photography or videography, I would definitely recommend considering investing in some of these lenses or accessories for your cell phone camera. Not only will they improve the quality of your photos and videos, but they'll also give you more control over the settings and equipment that you use to capture them.

**About the Author**

The author is a self-proclaimed tech enthusiast who has always been fascinated by the latest gadgets and innovations in the world of computers and photography. With years of experience tinkering with his computer and exploring new tools and techniques, he's become an expert in all things hardware and software-related. When not writing or taking photos, he can be found browsing online forums and communities to stay up-to-date on the latest developments in the tech world.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up internet if you've been watching our channel for a long time you know that when we started out we didn't know anything about audio visual stuff what cameras to use what microphones to use how to edit we really started from scratch and part of that starting from scratch was Ayo namin maggastos we use whatever equipment we had at the time to start shooting the videos and this went on for a long time to start I stole an iPhone from My Wife and that was our primary recording device for a very long time fast forward a bit and we are using cameras now but the iPhone as a recording device served us well for a long time and we still use them a lot for b-roll for shooting when we're outside and we're not carrying our cameras so the brand did send us these items for review but they had no say in what we had to say about it how do sandmar products help enhance shooting using the iPhone phone camera which I didn't even realize until some Brands like Canon and Fuji were kind enough to send us their products to try out a lot of the magic of a camera is in the lens used there's a dumbing variations to lenses Nakaya if you're into photography you're kind of shaking your head and saying and yes I would say I'm still a beginner in this photography video stuff and so this appreciation of the San Mar products is coming from that perspective but what products can you use that are easy to use that will help enhance your videos and photos from your phone obviously you can't swap out lenses on a phone so it has to use software to figure out how to zoom in to figure out how to focus properly to get the best image quality out of the lens already in the phone but that's not true anymore with products like the ones that sandmark sent us it's super easy to clip on a lens to get the look better image quality that you're looking for and that you've come to expect from using cameras how do they attach you can do it via the case so they do have a case as well which again is very premium feeling it's actually quite solid last name grip me on the iPhone to be honest I had trouble taking it off when I put it on so you put on the case and then you can screw in the different lenses to the case or and this is my preferred approach you can just clip it on and if you use the lenses with the clip-ons that's what you get speed and accessibility no iPhone so you bring out your phone and you just clip on the lens and you're good to go now the thing about cameras to be honest because different adapters that you seem to need you need to need so many screws to get this lens on right to get the camera on the tripod and dami among a different lengths and sizes and screws and whatnot I much prefer tinkering with my computer than tinkering with a tripod stand or one of those light stands on Google aluminum equipment fortunately for sandmark again sobrantalilanya gamitin all of the adapters that came with the different lenses and with the case intuitive dummy proof believe me and the first lens we tried out was the telephoto lens so this is a natural way to zoom in and I say natural because the way that cell phone cameras usually zoom in is via software the computer in your phone has to figure out like if I got closer what would the image look like an actual lens where you have glass is that you're actually concentrating more light onto the sensor so the image looks better looks more natural because it is more natural instead of a computer heavy to guess what it would look like and the sensor is actually reading more of the Light reading more of the image that you're seeing and that's why cameras usually have a better look because aside from having larger sensors they also have better lenses the focus light on Those sensors and we have that benefit now for cell phone photography with this kind of clip-on lenses it's quite dramatic actually when you're filming with the iPhone you're on the standard zoom and then you clip on the telephoto lens and the image jumps forward but the image is still just as clear the image is just the same it's just like you've moved forward so it is a good quality lens I know because it's quite heavy camera equipment I'm not using Auto holding them when they feel expensive and premium I might drop them might seem small and it is very compact but it's quite Hefty you can feel that this is a premium product and I also have the premium Jitters holding it I do prefer the clip-ons but the clip-ons actually hold on pretty well I already tried to shake it off to mimic let's say a running seat but as hard as I try to jiggle the thing the clips just really stayed on so the clip is sturdy but not sturdy enough fortunately that it will crack your iPhone no worries there the next kind of lens we had was a polarizer filter filters are interesting because I've only read about them basically they're tinted glass that covers the lens of your camera to provide Auto color grading as it were instead of having to go into post and changing the color if you have a tint already or you have a filter already on the lens you can give the scene the kind of look that you want sandmark was kind enough to send their polarizer filter which is supposed to make things sharper the polarizer filter is supposed to manage glare and suppress Reflections so it's ideal for outdoor environment where it's very bright and you kind of want to get the light just how you like it although interestingly when I tried it out indoors in a Starbucks it seemed to give everything a more natural golden color which you know if you're in Starbucks you're kind of thinking coffee you're thinking a lot of bra pounds a lot of Earth Stones I actually imporizer filter to shooting in a Starbucks or in a Coffee Cafe type environment and I'm gonna keep it real guys I'm not that into fancy photography I barely use the Instagram filters and only just for Hardware sugar photos the polarizer filter probably wouldn't fit into my use case too much where a lot of my photos are just a product but in the limited time that I did try it indoors in a kind of well-lit Cafe type environment and you can see the difference between the photos so this is very much a beginner's appreciation of the kind of tools that Sunmark develops definitely you can still produce a lot of good content with cell phones more so if you have tools like this from sandmark which really enhance the capabilities of a cell phone to bring them in line with what you can expect from much more expensive cameras using the lenses from San Mark so if you're a Creator or a hobbyist in photography or videography you might actually want to consider using your phone more often with tools like these to capture the settings and the video that you want in fact there are content creators that produce exclusively using their cell phones even MKBHD has a separate YouTube channel where he shoots exclusively on an iPhone so definitely you can have a YouTube career just using cell phones more so if you start using stuff like this from sandmark thanks for watching computer shop not trusted full service PC store and Hardware PC components fully assembled rigs we clean computers excellent cable management and CPU Cooler repastings are cleaning we also clean and reface gpus tournament and you can also buy from our site www.hwsugar.ph now 100 palagging up to date you inventory items available in society we also shipped Nationwide thanks for watching and maybe one of these days mankita ties a shopwhat's up internet if you've been watching our channel for a long time you know that when we started out we didn't know anything about audio visual stuff what cameras to use what microphones to use how to edit we really started from scratch and part of that starting from scratch was Ayo namin maggastos we use whatever equipment we had at the time to start shooting the videos and this went on for a long time to start I stole an iPhone from My Wife and that was our primary recording device for a very long time fast forward a bit and we are using cameras now but the iPhone as a recording device served us well for a long time and we still use them a lot for b-roll for shooting when we're outside and we're not carrying our cameras so the brand did send us these items for review but they had no say in what we had to say about it how do sandmar products help enhance shooting using the iPhone phone camera which I didn't even realize until some Brands like Canon and Fuji were kind enough to send us their products to try out a lot of the magic of a camera is in the lens used there's a dumbing variations to lenses Nakaya if you're into photography you're kind of shaking your head and saying and yes I would say I'm still a beginner in this photography video stuff and so this appreciation of the San Mar products is coming from that perspective but what products can you use that are easy to use that will help enhance your videos and photos from your phone obviously you can't swap out lenses on a phone so it has to use software to figure out how to zoom in to figure out how to focus properly to get the best image quality out of the lens already in the phone but that's not true anymore with products like the ones that sandmark sent us it's super easy to clip on a lens to get the look better image quality that you're looking for and that you've come to expect from using cameras how do they attach you can do it via the case so they do have a case as well which again is very premium feeling it's actually quite solid last name grip me on the iPhone to be honest I had trouble taking it off when I put it on so you put on the case and then you can screw in the different lenses to the case or and this is my preferred approach you can just clip it on and if you use the lenses with the clip-ons that's what you get speed and accessibility no iPhone so you bring out your phone and you just clip on the lens and you're good to go now the thing about cameras to be honest because different adapters that you seem to need you need to need so many screws to get this lens on right to get the camera on the tripod and dami among a different lengths and sizes and screws and whatnot I much prefer tinkering with my computer than tinkering with a tripod stand or one of those light stands on Google aluminum equipment fortunately for sandmark again sobrantalilanya gamitin all of the adapters that came with the different lenses and with the case intuitive dummy proof believe me and the first lens we tried out was the telephoto lens so this is a natural way to zoom in and I say natural because the way that cell phone cameras usually zoom in is via software the computer in your phone has to figure out like if I got closer what would the image look like an actual lens where you have glass is that you're actually concentrating more light onto the sensor so the image looks better looks more natural because it is more natural instead of a computer heavy to guess what it would look like and the sensor is actually reading more of the Light reading more of the image that you're seeing and that's why cameras usually have a better look because aside from having larger sensors they also have better lenses the focus light on Those sensors and we have that benefit now for cell phone photography with this kind of clip-on lenses it's quite dramatic actually when you're filming with the iPhone you're on the standard zoom and then you clip on the telephoto lens and the image jumps forward but the image is still just as clear the image is just the same it's just like you've moved forward so it is a good quality lens I know because it's quite heavy camera equipment I'm not using Auto holding them when they feel expensive and premium I might drop them might seem small and it is very compact but it's quite Hefty you can feel that this is a premium product and I also have the premium Jitters holding it I do prefer the clip-ons but the clip-ons actually hold on pretty well I already tried to shake it off to mimic let's say a running seat but as hard as I try to jiggle the thing the clips just really stayed on so the clip is sturdy but not sturdy enough fortunately that it will crack your iPhone no worries there the next kind of lens we had was a polarizer filter filters are interesting because I've only read about them basically they're tinted glass that covers the lens of your camera to provide Auto color grading as it were instead of having to go into post and changing the color if you have a tint already or you have a filter already on the lens you can give the scene the kind of look that you want sandmark was kind enough to send their polarizer filter which is supposed to make things sharper the polarizer filter is supposed to manage glare and suppress Reflections so it's ideal for outdoor environment where it's very bright and you kind of want to get the light just how you like it although interestingly when I tried it out indoors in a Starbucks it seemed to give everything a more natural golden color which you know if you're in Starbucks you're kind of thinking coffee you're thinking a lot of bra pounds a lot of Earth Stones I actually imporizer filter to shooting in a Starbucks or in a Coffee Cafe type environment and I'm gonna keep it real guys I'm not that into fancy photography I barely use the Instagram filters and only just for Hardware sugar photos the polarizer filter probably wouldn't fit into my use case too much where a lot of my photos are just a product but in the limited time that I did try it indoors in a kind of well-lit Cafe type environment and you can see the difference between the photos so this is very much a beginner's appreciation of the kind of tools that Sunmark develops definitely you can still produce a lot of good content with cell phones more so if you have tools like this from sandmark which really enhance the capabilities of a cell phone to bring them in line with what you can expect from much more expensive cameras using the lenses from San Mark so if you're a Creator or a hobbyist in photography or videography you might actually want to consider using your phone more often with tools like these to capture the settings and the video that you want in fact there are content creators that produce exclusively using their cell phones even MKBHD has a separate YouTube channel where he shoots exclusively on an iPhone so definitely you can have a YouTube career just using cell phones more so if you start using stuff like this from sandmark thanks for watching computer shop not trusted full service PC store and Hardware PC components fully assembled rigs we clean computers excellent cable management and CPU Cooler repastings are cleaning we also clean and reface gpus tournament and you can also buy from our site www.hwsugar.ph now 100 palagging up to date you inventory items available in society we also shipped Nationwide thanks for watching and maybe one of these days mankita ties a shop\n"