Blake Calhoun

When shooting with a small sensor camera like an iPhone it can be challenging to get a lot of shallow depth-of-field - unless you're close to a subject or using a telephoto lens. If you're within 5 ft. or so and using the main 24mm f/1.8 camera, you can get background blur and thus some perceived separation and depth. But anything further away the DOF becomes deeper and more or less everything will be in focus. And by the way, there's nothing wrong with that.

No, there's no such thing as an iPhone Super Ultra Tele Telephoto - but there is a Super Telephoto and a Ultra Telephoto and a 48mm Tetraprism Telephoto and a 72mm Tetraprism Telephoto... And these are just from ReeFlex and Sandmarc. There are even more from Shiftcam, Neewer and I think now SmallRig, too. So, what are they? They are 3x and 2x teleconverters for the iPhone telephoto lens. And specifically for an iPhone 15 Pro, 16 Pro and 17 Pro.

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