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got a Lenovo moto Z phone got a yen for a zoom lens dia shoot a lot in bright light then the 250 dollar Hasselblad branded true zoom camera attachment part of Lenovo's moto mod series of add-ons is for you it's essentially a slim compact camera that attaches seamlessly to the phone and overall it's a really elegant solution but it's not without its crazy-making annoyances I can't emphasize enough how convenient to zoom lenses and this isn't the first phone with one but this one's dead easy to add and remove motor mods attached to the phone via magnets and in this case the phone stock camera app switches to a version design for use with the camera mod it has similar components to say a hundred and fifty dollar compact digital camera with the photo quality to match a one over 2.3 inch 12 megapixel sensor and a stabilized 25 to 250 millimeter equivalent 10 times zoom lens the lenses maximum aperture of F 3 point 5 shrinks to F 6.5 by the end of the zoom range limiting its usefulness in anything but bright light and its widest they're serious distortion and vignetting on Raw photos which gets automatically corrected for JPEGs the HD video isn't great with compression artifacts and somewhat bizarre non-standard frame rates like 28.3 for frames per second there's not a lot here that's really Hasselblad it's got the company's 75th anniversary commemorative orange shutter button with half press focusing a grip with the same nice physical feel as the one used by current Hasselblad cameras and the big h it will also ship with access to Hasselblad x' raw software focus to bed focus mobiles only available on iOS not Android unfortunately the app always routes to default settings even if you switch away from it for just a second which is something you do constantly on a phone that means for instance it forgets you're in manual mode or that you're shooting raw as far as I can tell if you use another camera app you can't shoot RAW it's also way too easy to accidentally hit the home menu and back buttons while holding it like I said crazy-making and keep in mind zoom lenses generally eat a lot of power and this one's no exception except now it's running down your phone's battery you