Interested in Smartphone Lenses? Find out whether the LIEQI 3 piece set is right for you.
Fisheye? More like Drunkeye
Lieqi 3 piece Lens kit for Smartphones
Manufacturer: Lieqi
Category: Smartphone | Camera
Price: $14.60
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| This is what's in the box |
“Specification:
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Model LQ-001
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Color: Black
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Material, Aluminum alloy housing + High Quality
Optical glass lens
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Compatible Models: Universal, HTC, iPhone,
Samsung Galaxies, Tablets etc.
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Lens Effects 0.67X Wide angle, 180 Degrees Fish
Eye, Macro
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Clip lens, convenient to use, Macro Lens can
take clear photo of small objects (the diameter of the object smaller than
16mm)
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0.67X wide angle lens can shoot large range of scenery;
180 degree of the scene can be captured by fish eye lens, which can let you
enjoy the unread world. To use this lens enable you easily enjoy photography
and find the instant beauty of the week.
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Universal clip compatible with most of the
cellphone and tablet PC
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Packing List
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1 X Fish Eye lens
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1 X Wide angle + Macro lens
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2 X Lens caps
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1 X Clip
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1 X Cloth bag” – via DX.com
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| Before wide angle lens |
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| After wide angle lens |
What is it?
This is a lens kit for your smartphone or rather any
mobile device (Smartphone / Tablet/ iPod). You get a wide angle, a macro, and a
fish eye lens. You use the clip to attach the lens to your device and you are
good to go.
The Good:
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Cheap
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You get 3 lens, well technically 2
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Works with pretty much any smartphone
The Bad:
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It’s cheap
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Slow shipping from DX.com
The Ugly
The moment you realize that the fish eye lens won’t focus
on the Nexus 4 or any of the devices I own... (Nexus 4, Nexus 7, iPod Touch, iPhone 4s)
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| Taken with the Macro lens |
My Thoughts:
For the lenses that worked while I tested it out I have
to say it met my expectations. My phone naturally takes wide angle pictures so
the wide angle lens doesn't make that huge of a difference but it does work.
The macro lens works like you would expect but it if I had one gripe would be
that it takes away a little too much depth of field. Now to the fish eye lens,
It just doesn't want to focus on my Nexus 4, I tried everything including
reassembling the lens but to no avail. I also tried it on my Nexus 7 and iPod
touch and had the same issue so I just going to label it a bust for now.
Recommendation:
I find it hard to recommend this product to anyone
because only 2/3 of it works. I may just have a defective one but the fisheye lens just doesn’t work as far as I’m concerned. If you are a photo-nut or just want to get
more functionality out of you cell phone camera this may something cool to
check out.
Build Quality: 3
Features: 3
Usefulness: 4
Value: 3
Average: 4
Score
17/25
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All of the images were taken with the Google Nexus 4
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