Ulanzi’s 52mm MagFilter Magnetic Filters offers interchangeable filters for smartphones: Digital Photography Review – digitalcameras.ie

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Lens filters for smartphones usually are not a brand new idea. Designed to offer photographers extra artistic and technical management over their photos, there are a number of varieties in the marketplace right this moment that may management how a lot mild comes into the digicam, cut back reflections and flare or add extra vibrancy to your photos with totally different colour tones.

Up till just a few years in the past, photographers wanting so as to add a bodily filter to a smartphone would wish to connect a clamped filter that sits on the prime of the cellphone’s digicam lenses or use a third-party smartphone lens with filters.

Though helpful, clamps are usually cumbersome and aren’t at all times the simplest to align along with your digicam. Third celebration lenses supply extra accuracy, however good-quality choices can price in extra of $100, with out the inclusion of filters.

Ulanzi goals to be totally different by providing a light-weight foldable adapter ring that snaps on to the middle of your MagSafe appropriate system or case, which the manufacture says results in a faster workflow and extra correct alignment of the filter to the digicam lens on the again of the cellphone. On an iPhone 14 or 15 it really works by magnetically attaching to the rear utilizing Apple’s MagSafe attachment system.

For customers with out an iPhone, there are workarounds by way of using third-party smartphone circumstances with magnetic ring plates that emulating MagSafe. WIth such a case, you may connect Ulanzi’s adapter to the ring plate and use the filters as regular.

As we reported final week, the idea isn’t new. Tiffen not too long ago launched an analogous product with its MagSafe 58mm Filter Mount. Each merchandise strategy an answer to including filters in an analogous method however differ in design. The Ulanzi opts for compactness with a foldable design.

The Tiffen comes with one polarizing filter (you should buy different filters individually) at round $40. In distinction, the Ulanzi’s model comes as a package for $219 with an ND filter, a polarizing filter, one tender focus filter and a choice of colour impact filters. There’s a storage case as nicely. Having a number of filters packed in could also be engaging to customers looking for to experiment with totally different filters and need the simplicity of getting all of them packaged collectively.

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