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iPhone 16 Pro 🌍 📱 Photos taken with iPhone 16 Pro / Pro Max 🌟 - Worldwide - (2024-2025)
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Well that’s the recent hot weather over for us in Derbyshire!
Wow. Clear as crystal here in Lancashire. Obviously the correct side of the Pennines 🤭😉
I’ll remember that come Autumn/Winter when you’re posting pictures of heavy snow and it’s lovely and mild around here 😁
Clearly I spoke to soon; cloudy and cooler here today... Dammit 😂
That's the brandywine and San Marzano toms planted on in the greenhouse 
The rest will get planted next month to go outside...
The rest will get planted next month to go outside...
And not a Jaffa Cake in sight… (for those of us who are old enough to know about a certain advert!)
An External 2x lens attached to my iPhone greatly improved & reduces odd looking artifacts seen in night mode blending when imaging the Milky Way.
Amazon link
https://a.co/d/a4mUABJ
The brand is Neewer. It’s a budget 60mm / 2x lens for the iPhone $69. I’m using it on my Beastcage by BeastGrip with the 17mm thread plate. There are several different options available. There’s Moment, BeastGrip, Sandmarc, Reeflex, & Shiftcam. The lens comes with a clip on attachment, I don’t recommend using it. It’s difficult to align perfectly over the camera of the iPhone.
Get a BeastCage or a dedicated case with 17mm threads for the lens from either Sandmarc or Reeflex. The other brands have proprietary cases for their lenses and only their lenses can be used on the case. The Beastcage has three different plates to accommodate their own 1.7x telephoto along with 17mm lens mounts, & a plate for Moment T-series lenses.
If you go with Neewer, it’s a good option and is built very well. The optics are multi coated and my copy is very sharp. However I had a bad copy when my first one arrived. I ordered a replacement via Amazon & purchased a send one. Two were delivered Saturday, the replacement was much worse. Bad flaw in the center. The third is nearly perfect!! Super sharp and clean. It’s on par with the other brands.
It’s definitely helpful when shooting the Milky Way because the 24mm 1x camera is too wide and causes the odd artifacts as the images during night mode are blended. Increased magnification is always best for better resolution.
Samples:
Milky Way (heavily edited due to light pollution).
Tight crop shows the Bokeh of the tree limbs.
Amazon link
https://a.co/d/a4mUABJ
The brand is Neewer. It’s a budget 60mm / 2x lens for the iPhone $69. I’m using it on my Beastcage by BeastGrip with the 17mm thread plate. There are several different options available. There’s Moment, BeastGrip, Sandmarc, Reeflex, & Shiftcam. The lens comes with a clip on attachment, I don’t recommend using it. It’s difficult to align perfectly over the camera of the iPhone.
Get a BeastCage or a dedicated case with 17mm threads for the lens from either Sandmarc or Reeflex. The other brands have proprietary cases for their lenses and only their lenses can be used on the case. The Beastcage has three different plates to accommodate their own 1.7x telephoto along with 17mm lens mounts, & a plate for Moment T-series lenses.
If you go with Neewer, it’s a good option and is built very well. The optics are multi coated and my copy is very sharp. However I had a bad copy when my first one arrived. I ordered a replacement via Amazon & purchased a send one. Two were delivered Saturday, the replacement was much worse. Bad flaw in the center. The third is nearly perfect!! Super sharp and clean. It’s on par with the other brands.
It’s definitely helpful when shooting the Milky Way because the 24mm 1x camera is too wide and causes the odd artifacts as the images during night mode are blended. Increased magnification is always best for better resolution.
Samples:
Milky Way (heavily edited due to light pollution).
Tight crop shows the Bokeh of the tree limbs.
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Thank you! The quality of the Portrait Mode of this device is out of the ordinary.
It was a challenging shot, as the entire area was dark and crowded, with everyone vying for the perfect shot of the iconic Hongyadong enclave in Chongqing.
Both taken today at the former American Adventure Theme Park in Derbyshire - nowhere near as spectacular as some of the great shots shared previously, granted.
I think I'm going to pick up one of those lenses and a case with 17mm threads for my 15pm to try out before jumping to moment or sandmarc
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I think you should!! Sharp lenses. On one of my replacements, I saw distortion again on one side of the image. Man I was disappointed. I thought… REALLY! Then I started making adjustments by unscrewing the lens out some raising it up a millimeter or so and took test photos again and the image was sharp and clean. I concluded that the lens screwed in too far where the camera started picking up too much of the edge distortion. I used the thin cardboard from one of my case packages & cut out a shim to keep the lens from going in too far. So far so good. It’s definitely a good lens though. You’ll be pleased….. hopefully.