{"id":8302,"date":"2015-10-15T17:30:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T17:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.wordpress\/?p=8302"},"modified":"2018-12-13T20:12:14","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T01:12:14","slug":"18-ways-to-trick-out-your-smartphones-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/18-ways-to-trick-out-your-smartphones-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"18 Ways to Trick Out Your Smartphone’s Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"

Camera phones keep on getting better and better, and the ability to instantly connect with social media and share images makes them a very seductive and powerful tool. But in almost all cases, a smartphone is a phone\/communications device first, and then a camera. For photographers, this often means modifying your picture-taking behavior and techniques to the camera, rather than the other way around.<\/p>\n

So today, we’re going to turn that paradigm on its head. Here are 18 products that will let you take better-quality images, zoom in more and zoom out farther, focus much closer, hold steadier, make prints, and attain better lighting.<\/p>\n

In other words, make your camera phone more of a camera (but not less of a phone). Let’s go!<\/p>\n

Prices and availability are current as of September 26, 2017.<\/p>\n

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Let’s face it: The lens on your phone doesn’t zoom optically, and your phone’s sensor is tiny, compared to most stand-alone cameras. But you can change one or both of these parameters by adding clip-on lenses and lens\/sensor attachments.<\/p>\n

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