Gadgetory

hey what is up guys I'm Kip EHD here and a proof of concept is a demonstration whose purpose is to verify that some concept or theory has the potential of being used this is the Hasselblad true zoom mod and it is definitely a proof of concept it's like the textbook definition of one so moto mods are already an awesome idea in my opinion there are smartphones that don't sacrifice much in the way of design and then just use some pins and magnets to connect to a store of accessories that add functionality for specialty use cases I mentioned it in my full moto Z review that even though there's only a couple of them moto mods are easily my favorite attempt at the whole modular smartphone thing they just work you just smack it on the back of the phone there's no rebooting there's no tools no screws no extra thought required you just take what you want to attach to the phone smack it on the back and it just works so why not another one why not a camera one so moto or Lenovo I guess partnered with Hasselblad to create this the Hasselblad true zoom mod an attachable camera replacement told megapixels sensor 10 times optical zoom something like a 25 millimeter to 250 millimeter equivalent toss in a xenon flash a dedicated two-stage shutter button and optical image stabilization for photos and have them all in one package that can be snapped onto your phone seems awesome right just take all the things that you can't put in a smartphone because it's too thin and put them in a mod to take advantage of the extra space boom done ship it and I agree it's a great idea but the one little problem is it's not that good like the camera itself isn't very good now don't get me wrong it still does what it says which is zoom that's what smartphone cameras are not very good at doing is zooming in and out but that's about the only thing that it does better going through the shots taken on the tree zoom camera you'll see a lot of things first off the colors and exposure are pretty inconsistent but overall it's kind of underexposed and a little oversaturated but then also you'll notice everything is soft the pictures are lacking in detail from corner to corner and even the center I ended up like wiping off the lens on my shirt because I thought I had like something on the glass but it just didn't it's just soft in almost every photo and then also in almost every photo no the lighting conditions it just had way more noise and grain than it should which is strange even outdoors there was noise in the shots in fact the more I shot with this the more I noticed that the camera that's already on the moto Z is actually better than the one that's in the mod the true zoom goes from the 25 millimeter equivalent to a roughly 250 millimeter telephoto equivalent which is a lot of optical zoom and you can see it does it also very quickly but something to notice is the aperture is fixed while you do it from F 3.5 all the way wide to F 6.5 so it's not very wide aperture and that prevents you from getting a shallow depth of field with your close-up subjects and it's not letting a lot of light in which is why it has to bump up the ISO so much to make up for it the phone's fixed aperture is F 2.0 so the true zoom is actually a worse low-light camera letting in way less light and that explains also why there's so much more noise in every shot all of this plus there's no battery built into this mod like there are and pretty much all the others so it can actually draw a lot of power from the phone plus it has a very small not exactly ergonomic grip especially for a Hasselblad and it has this wiggly shutter button and is just generally a plasticy build quality all around and then to top it all off it maxes out at 1080p video at 30fps which is a bummer because pretty much every smartphone camera coming out nowadays including the ones that this is supposed to be replacing can shoot 4k video and even slow-motion at 1080p so the only thing that this does better than the stock camera it's replacing is optical zoom obviously digital zoom and smartphones is really bad it's literally just zooming in on the picture you already have but optical zoom can be much more powerful but how many people are after that in a smart phone I don't really know so for 250 bucks which is what this thing cost right now yeah this is probably not worth it for most people if you're a smartphone or mobile photo enthusiast just use the camera that's already on the phone it's better and if you're more of a mobile camera person you can get a point-and-shoot for the same money that takes better pictures in this I'll leave one link below that looks like way better but you know what this all comes down to again now that we have summarize it all is proof of concept in 1997 Pixar made a 5 minute short film called Jerry's game that you new techniques for animating cloth and human facial expression whoo it was the first Pixar production to have a human main character wasn't the best thing I've ever made you might not have heard of it but these new animation techniques graduated up to be used in 1999 in the full-length Toy Story 2 you've heard of Toy Story 2 it's really good so look I'm thoroughly convinced still that motor mods are the best execution of this modular concept as far as smartphones go and I think they're really good they're really easy and I think I have a future but right now they're still super generation 1 it's the first year we're doing this so they're not that great but maybe if we give it some time we'll get our Toy Story 2 but until then don't buy this thanks for watching I'll talk to you guys in the next one peace