Founded in 2011, Apexel are an award-winning company who cater for the needs of the ever-growing smartphone market by offering a wide range of lenses. I’d already been impressed with Apexel's PhoneMicro5 Smartphone Microscope Kit with its ability to capture detail at a macro and microscopic level.
As a keen smartphone photographer I enjoy using the iPhone 16 Pro’s 5x (120 mm) optical zoom, as this enables me to capture candid street portraits of distant subjects without distracting them. In theory, I can dial past the 5x optical range to get a closer view of my subject with a digital zoom. However I never zoom digitally, as this can lead to a fuzzy-looking picture (though on the iPhone 16 Pro the digitally zoomed results are surprisingly good). I was therefore excited to get hold of an Apexel lens kit that promised to capture distant subjects more clearly with an impressive 36x telephoto range.
