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Zeiss and Apple always seemed like a natural pairing and now you can pop a Zeiss lens on your iPhone for a little variety in your angle of view I'm Laurie grinning and these are the Zeiss EXO lenses for iPhone the product of a partnership between Zeiss and fellows you know the office supply company Zeiss is solution consists of the fellows mounting bracket and its own lenses the wide-angle lens which covers about 60% more of a scene than the iPhone lens is available now via Apple outlets and it'll set you back $200 the macro lens covers a varying angle of view between one and four inches depending upon how close you are and the telephoto has a narrower angle of view by half than the built-in version the latter two lenses are slated to ship late this summer overall it's a mixed bag the lenses definitely allow you to get more flexibility out of your camera and as you'd expect the lenses are well constructed of aluminum and glass in fact with they're bundled lens hoods attached they look like Zeiss high-end ODIs line shrunk to lilliputian levels and they're definitely sharp and clear with no perceptible light loss color artifacts or fringing but going with the shrunken lens approach means tiny untethered back caps that come off too easily and lens caps that are easy to lose the excellence screw on mount is a pain for quick changes I prefer competitor moments bayonet mount or other snap or slide in approach and like many of these the mounting bracket blocks the iPhones flash so you have to remove it if you just want to use the base iPhone camera you