When it comes to photography these days, I’m primarily an iPhone user, though I have a long history of writing about Canon photography for PhotoPlus magazine and Nikon photography for NPhoto Magazine. One of the main attractions for using an iPhone 16 Pro is that I can change lenses in a tap (or a swipe of the Camera Control button), quickly summoning a 13mm lens for wide-angle shots or a 120mm lens for a telephoto opportunity. The iPhone’s ultra-wide 0.5x lens can also be used to capture macro subjects (such as bees pollinating a flower) while creating a soft and abstract background bokeh. Although I’m impressed with the multiple cameras in built into my iPhone, I’m always interested in the opportunity to expand their scope using third-party lenses such as the Apexel Wide Angle & Macro Lens Kit.
Apexel is a Chinese-based company that designs and manufactures a wide range of smartphone lens kits. For example, the Apexel PhoneMicro5 Microscope Kit enables you to delve deeper than a typical macro lens to photograph microscopic textures and details. The Apexel 36x Telephoto lens conjures up a more cinematic look by compressing the distance between far and close subjects, which is great for smartphone movie makers. I was therefore keen to see how the Apexel Wide Angle & Macro Lens Kit might expand my smartphone photography.
