Vtin 2 in 1 Professional HD Camera Lens Kit – Item of the Day
Every day I bring you an item on Amazon that I personally use or has been purchased by many members of the audience and I have researched enough to recommend.
Today’s TSP Amazon Item of the day is the Vtin 2 in 1 Professional HD Camera Lens Kit. For only 16 bucks this little gadget provides both a .45 wide angle lens and a 10X macro lens for your camera on your phone. This kit works with the iPhone and Samsung Galaxy and most cell phones where the lens is within 0.51in (13mm) in diameter. That is the distance between the lens and one of the edges of the phone is within 2.5cm (0.98in). Pretty much most any smart phone.
Again this is a 2 in 1 product. The .45 wide angle lens provides a much wider field of view when shooting still or video on your phone. This really excels for close up table top review style content production and larger landscapes as well.
The second feature is a 10x macro lens. This is for taking very close up detailed still photos, see the photos below for examples of how well it works. For this feature you want to get the lens 4-5 centimeters from the subject. This is great for detailed photos of say insects, plants, sea shells or any small object you want to photograph in great detail.
Props on finding this product goes out to Steven Harris who recommened it to me when he saw this video where I show my sprouting system. It would have come out much better with this lens for sure.
To use this all you do is clip it on your phone and start shooting. It has no electronic parts and is pretty much fool proof. Just like any lens, you need to keep it clean.
I have to tell you that it does a better job with photography then many of the early DSLR cameras and man that says something. So how much will it set you back, well a whopping 16 bucks. So check out the Vtin 2 in 1 Professional HD Camera Lens Kit and upgrade the hell out of your photo and video ability on your phone for under 20 bucks.
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PS – Here is a live video showing the lens in action. Please understand this is not really the way the lens is meant to be used, it is much easier to center properly if you put it on before shooting rather than take it on and off during shooting.
PPS – Next up here are some photos I took with and without the macro lens of a knife handle to give you an idea of the added detail you can capture with the macro 10X lens. The reason the non macro pic is so out of focus is the camera is way to close in an attempt to capture small details. Again distance from the macro lens is best at 4-5 cm, or about 1.9 inches.
Jack… SO GLAD you fell in love with the lens. Almost EVERYTHING I shoot is at .45x and that is with a .45x lens on my canon video camera. I don’t shot much video with my phone. You’re shooting on your iphone and then doing an immediate upload to youtube, which, makes life easy for you. I shoot video, then I bring it into an editor for various things then I upload.
I cannot tell you people out there, how fantastic of a quality of a video you an make on a modern smart phone, especially with this .45x lens. You can go to radio shack, get a WIRED lapel mic, and plug it into the ‘earphone jack’ of your smart phone and have pro sounding sound and pro looking video. I highly highly encourage people to show us what you are doing and to put the video on youtube and facebook. We all learn from each other. Don’t by shy… don’t worry about your ah’s and ah-hems and stuff.. .just f’n do it as jack says, and put it out there for all to see.
All my best… and… you can always email me with any photo, video or sound questions. My email box is always open to you.
Steve
Let me just add the demo video for obvious reasons didn’t have a plugged in mic, taking the lens on and off was a PITA enough. But normally I just use the ear phones with built in mic that come with the iPhone, they give great audio.
When your mouth is a foot away from the camera (of any type) it is almost as good as a mic on you, I’ve done LOTS of videos with the ambient mic on the camera and I’m speaking directly to the mic in the camera and I’m less than 1 foot away and it comes out sounding just FINE …… I’m with you Jack…get it done, get it recorded and get it out there. I also speak loud… I’m not a quiet person. 🙂
Steve
Think you need to check amazon’s inventory next time, this is sold out now! Good job Jack!
I’m the one that sent Jack to the device….OBVIOUSLY it was NOT SOLD OUT…. OBVIOUSLY when Jack told everyone about it, it WAS NOT SOLD OUT. So if you snoozed…. you loosed….Amazon only gives the quantity when it hits 20 items or less. Signup on the page to be notified when the item is back in stock.
Steve
the item is BACK IN STOCK but its not in AMAZON PRIME stock, for instant delivery, its coming from China because today is Oct 15th and it says Get it as fast as Nov. 9 – 29….. so that means its being shipped from China. There are OTHER competitors to it on amazon that you can get. The main thing you want is you want the .45x wide angle. You do NOT necessary want the ‘fish eye’ lens. .45x is not fish eye, its just wide angle.
Steve