Turn your Phone into a DSLR — How to use a Wide Angle Lens on an iPhone

Atti Bear
5 min readMar 10, 2019

You love taking pictures with your phone, but the built in lenses don’t give you the creative flexibility you are craving? This tutorial is showing you how you can achieve the versatility of a DSLR with the help of interchangeable phone lenses. I’m showing you how to use the Sandmarc Wide Angle Lens on an iPhone XS. If there’s no pic it never happened so I’m also showing you my results. If you want to up your Mobile Photography game, this is the Phone Accessory you’ve been looking for. All the photos featured in this post were taken with the Sandmarc Wide Angle Lens on the iPhone XS.

A Lens is just a Lens isn’t it?

A few weeks back Sandmarc reached out to me whether I’d be interested in testing their Wide Angle iPhone Camera Lens. To be honest I’ve been intrigued by such accessories for a while now, but the poor product quality of most manufacturers did hold me back. You may wonder “Isn’t a lens just a bunch of glass elements?”. We are talking about optics here so you have to know what you are doing. If you take a 4.000€ Full Frame Camera and put cheap glass in front it you’ll probably end up with decent photo. Now take a entry level DSLR with a high quality lens you’ll get a…

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Atti Bear

Creator, Tech Enthusiast and Drone Pilot. Based in Munich traveling the World