Customer Reviews

Olloclip 3-In-1 Fisheye, Wide-Angle and Macro Clip-On Lens System for iPhone 4 and 4S - Red

5 star:		(17)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

The olloclip is a great toy for your iPhone 4(s). It comes with a pouch, it's quite small, and it gives you macro, wide angle and fish-eye all at once. Yay! I'll take you through the three options:

WIDE ANGLE:
The smaller lens. It gives you a significantly wider view of a room or place so you can fit more in when you just can't "Back 'dat up" any more. This is probably the most "useful" of the features, as the barrel distortion is minimal and most people won't notice that there's anything different about it unless you show them a side-by-side with a picture taken without any attachments. The iPhone's lens is frustratingly narrow in view, especially in video. This helps fix that.

FISH-EYE:
The most fun of the options on the olloclip. It allows you to take some really cool-looking shots. Portraits taken with this thing can be particularly hilarious, though it won't do you any favours in the looks department. :D Obviously, it has massive barrel distortion. That's kind of the point. More frustrating is how muddy the picture gets outside the central sweet spot. It's a shame, but as this is a "for fun" feature, it's not really a massive issue. Taking pictures, it leaves black at the corners. Taking video, the camera just about crops off all the black and you get a cool, ultra-wide-angle shot that's probably useful for the sk8er k1d5 among you. I wouldn't really know about that myself.

MACRO:
Take the wide angle lens off and you've got AMAZING MACRO!!!! Wooohooo!!! Sounds brilliant, and it can be. You get really really close to the subject and can achieve some incredible detail. However, you do have to get so close that you're almost touching what you're taking pictures of. Yeah, it doesn't really give you any zoom, just allows you to focus more close up. Well, I say "allow", but what I mean is "force". Once you take the wide angle off, you physically cannot focus on anything further away than... an inch. Tops. As you can probably imagine, this leads to difficulties with shadowing the subject and also living subjects running away before you get anywhere near close enough.

All in all, great fun, but flawed in a lot of minor ways. I give it a 4 star rating rather than a 3 as it really is that much fun and also a good talking point.

Beautifully made, simple to use, versatile and giving remarkably good image quality. The surprise for me is how good the macro is. The least impressive is the wide angle but its still good. All in all the best Iphone gadget this year.

I"ve been taking some amazing photos ever since i've gotten this! I love how I get all three lenses in one and it just slips onto the iphone easily.

The only downside is that you have to take your phone out of it's case if you've got one, and also be careful putting it on so that you done catch any screen protectors you've got on.

Apart from that, this product paired with an app like "Camera + " will give you some amazing pictures!

Easy to fit and use. I was most interested in the close-up; the wide angle works too, though the lens result is no better than I should have expected.

I'm always using my olloclip, great idea, easy to use, and makes the pictures amazing.
Use all the time, great purchase, be good to find it cheaper, =]

Good fun, easy to use, handy to carry around in little bag. There is probably an updated version now !

Cool toy, very happy with it...I really only use the Fish Eye lens but its an effect you cant get anywhere else...theres a much more expensive alternative but im happy with this one.

Small, cheap and effective. Takes good quality shots and is easy to use all 3 lenses, doesn't need a attachable case and includes a cleaning bag.

But

Is hard to switch lens's quickly, cannot be used on front camera.

If your in to photography but don't want to carry around a camera and lenses this is fantastic. Brilliant photos!!

Although the blister packaging of this product could be improved, the function, ease of use and overall quality is good.