 So I've had the Pixel 2 XL phone for about a month and been really happy with it and one of the reasons I got it was the camera I take a lot of photos and the best camera is often a camera that you have in your hand you know I come from background shooting with SLR and You know I did wedding photography. I've done a lot of professional photography, and I really love photography Not enough to do it as a business anymore. I got a little bit burned out. That's a whole different story sometime But I still have a passion for taking photos and as much as I love my SLR cameras and lenses and all that fun This is in my pocket all the time. So it's obviously very convenient But there's sometimes it's just not wide enough to grab that and that's where I see these moment lenses So when you're in the moment, you can really grab the scenery around you and pull it in now There's been all kinds of gimmicky things that you can adapt to cell phones To get a more enhanced photo wider telephoto, but they've always felt just that gimmicky and cheap and I don't mind paying for quality and there is a substantial quality difference So I know that there's some you know Inexpensive things that you can buy that you can attach and clip on but the moment lenses stood out because they're they're very well made These are heavy and the optics on them are really top-notch now One thing I like too is they fit in my pocket really well. So this is the 18 millimeter wide That's the that's the first one I got and I got it comes with the case comes a nice little carrying bag And I say case as in phone case and I'll show you the second how these clip in so the moment lens fits in here Oops, and it I don't mind dropping it doesn't doesn't feel fragile at all these like I said I knock on what I've never dropped a funny height other than the table But they they're substantial. So this is as long as you're not wearing skinny jeans I'll qualify that this fits in my pocket perfectly fine I find it like a really handy thing keeping my pocket and when I want to take a photo of something I'm like, okay, I got my phone, but I want a little bit wider and bring more of the scenery in I Just pop this on now I also have and we'll kind of review this a little a little bit less But I'll show you a few photos. I've taken with this I haven't used it as much, but this is the second lens I ordered is the moment macro does amazing close-ups I've only taken a handful of photos with it. I'll show you here, but I've taken a lot more with this The macro one is kind of strange and it doesn't fit in my pocket as well. We actually use it at the office a Lot more than anything else to look at things kind of like a microscope So it's a 10x macro lens and this right here is kind of like a lens hood for it Now this hood pops on and Allows you to let the light in so that's how close something can be so you can set something really really tiny under here or Put it up against your eye, which I've done that before and this allows that light to come in from around the side You don't have to have this on here, but it does set the right distance now when things are a little bit further away Everything's blurry until you bring it right in so when you're using this one It's not as much a of the moment It's more particular and we like it around the shop because we've used it to look at electronics really close We had we just had a USB drive when we wanted to see the solder connections really good To make sure what was wrong with it And it was just kind of cool to be able to look at it really close and see those detailed of the connections So that one I'll show you a few photos that this one though my favorite I've used a lot and I mean this came I ordered this as a kit with the camera now first Let's talk about how they go together So we have the moment case that you get not a huge amount of choices in their cases I think they got this one in a walnut one. I like the all-black said I just out of habit my phone cases So he's been all black Even for every phone I've had every time I can find a black case. I'm like that's what I don't know It I like I do wash my cases up, but they get dirty and scuffed So I don't like white or other ones also you may have noticed my phone's black I was like black on black. That's I don't know That's my preference so but there are other options and of course you can always play around and customize it yourself So the way these go together is actually really clever This snaps into here with like a twist lock and so I have it without the phone down here So you can see up close so this Whoops me look at it. So I'm not looking from an angle This twists in and holds in and it holds in really well like it doesn't come out of here You can hold the phone by this and then you just twist it and it comes out now the twist kind of gets as it progresses It's at a slight angle So it will pull in the lens more and more to which really tight So it doesn't wobble or wiggle or anything. So once the lens is on there. It stays on there really really well You're not You're not knocking this lens off now the lens elements nothing moves inside of them. So It's You can tell they're I feel pretty good about this. I don't want to beat on my phone with it in there But the lens doesn't pop off now They do have a spot here for a strap at the back and I think that's important to have that because with the back part here The weight of the phone becomes unbalanced and this this sounds weird But I'll tell you exactly how it works after using it I'm used to holding my phone my phone has a predicted balance and weight to it So my hand knows how to hold my phone with the case on it when you put that on there you change the weight and balance of the phone So let me snap it all together here So snapped all together I have now changed the weight and balance of my phone when I add this and I've almost dropped it a few times because of that So that being said the strap probably would be a good idea to put on there, but the Lens just to set it in here. Oops, and it's hard when you're not looking when you're looking at the camera And I'll just roll it in rolls in real quick and once again, it's on there But now the phone Kind of wants a teeter-totter on me a little bit because it's so much weighted towards this lens because the lens is so heavy But that being said once it's on here Wow just the photos you take like it widens up the room quite a bit too now from the other side of it I might do somewhere. I've been wanting to do a little bit more vlogging ensuring some of my thoughts This with a little bracket on it brings you so much closer to the microphone It makes it even better because the one of the challenges with a phone microphone is yeah I sound decent talking on a phone But once you get further away you start losing that so in order to get something framed in you gotta get further away Well this being a wide-angle lens boardings it towards you now They do sell a fisheye lens and the fisheye lens. I'm not big on that whole fisheye distortion thing That's a bit much for me but the 18 millimeter here is a really nice lens without that distortion on there and actually something I'm gonna do here This might be kind of fun Is go ahead and show you the macro lens and I'll turn this on for video and Let you look up close at this lens, so we hit the record button here And I'll let you look up close at the Way this connects on there so you can get a close-up of it Oh Yeah, you got to be really close. I mean if you can see from the camera here Let me bring it closer to this camera You can see how close you have to be to get this picture in focus, so definitely a Definitely for a close-up there because there's the lens and then then we put that on there also So here's the studio and the lights and everything from this side We put the lens on Here's a lot more of the studio as you can see But you do notice the glaring and we're gonna talk about that one of the things is when you start adding optics Like this versus just the camera on the phone You're gonna get a lot more glare and that's the only problem I've actually found it all with this lens is some of the glare So enough be talking about it and showing you some of the physical structure I mean let's show a few photos now because of the wonderful way YouTube compression works and things like that I'm gonna leave a link to this gallery so you can see it yourself. It'll be in the description below That way you can just click on a gallery and see them right in Google photos I know Google photos cuts them slightly down for resolution compared to what's Actually shot from the camera, but it's gonna give you a really good representation of Some of the photos coming out of here and what it looks like with these lenses And I'm gonna walk you through those photos here real quick and I'm gonna jump over to my computer for that So this is some of the gallery that I'm gonna leave a link to in the description So you can look at these a little bit closer as I know Google cuts the resolution down a little bit But you could be able to get an idea As you can say very little lens flare in this we did have one little spot way over here So, you know, you're gonna pick up a little bit of lens flare with it But I went to Detroit and I wanted to highlight a few spots where you really get Kind of an idea of what maybe city photography would look like of this. So here's a coffee house with the moment lens Didn't move positions just took the moment lens off so you can see it really brings in a lot of the scenery and The lens flares kind of minor, but you see it right here. Now if we jump ahead Here's a photo from actually just spun around from the same street corner This is just raw the camera nice clear good picture. This is obviously at night and still the scenes well focused and everything else but Right here's what happens and these are a lot of those street lights are LED and they really flare the lens So where the lights diffused up here in the corners, you don't really see it as much But right here, they really do give a lot of that lens flare effect And that is the one thing I noticed that under like those harsh lights like these are It really captures in a moment lens it really get a little bit of diffraction on there But from a standpoint of how much wider it is for a nighttime photo right here It's very wide I can see both buildings versus over here. I'm sorry over here You only see the one building so you get both buildings here Just the one building and I'm not moving positions. You can see it just expands out quite a bit. I Also found spots and shared photos. I took a lot of photos But these are ones that kind of really caught the lens and flared I just want to show you like the extreme of it on this side, so they On the right angle as you move around it move it flares a little bit less And these street lights as walking under them. Wow, it really grabbed quite a bit of there But things that are diffused like this brake light. It just kind of gives a halo effect Still not bad the photos are, you know, not too bad now once you get back over here Just like a nature photo. This is not far apart by my office It once there's nice diffuse lighting outside. It looks great. The contrast is good It's still a lot into the photo and doesn't have any of those lens flare issues at all Back into Detroit We don't really have an issue with the led lights on this don't seem to cause any lens flare This is with the moment lens. This is without so you can see I brought a lot more scene in but still once again There's only a little bit of lens flare off to the sides here when we widen it up And maybe one little spot over here, but look how much wider of an angle we have and it's really not bad I mean these are the extreme conditions that are challenging for a camera Lots of little lights going everywhere to fool it and a pixel camera really holds up well I mean this is it's obviously it's nighttime. It's in the city and it's Christmas So there's a lot of lights, but it still does a good job of Showing everything. It was kind of a foggy foggy evening. Now. Here's the side of a building at night Really good contrast Shows up real strong and here's the picture. I didn't move my feet. I just popped the lens on so it really can get a Grass the idea of just how much wider this lens is and brings in so much more to the photo So right here I did a couple photos because like these lights pointing almost directly at me It created this one lens flare here And it kind of created a flare effect here with the different lights I'm assuming these lights here are being reflected in pairs right here So that is a downside of the moment lens if you have a lot of these harsh lights pointing at you They're going to create some random lens flares and reflections within it. That's the only downside I found with the lens But still the scenery you get is really good. Now. Here's a close-up of a chip. This is a sand force chip on a ssd It is impressive how you can just set the macro right on there and get these like, you know, almost textured close-ups of things And really take a look at it. So that's pretty cool the way that works And I zoom in a little bit here. So yeah, it's The macro is amazing for the macro lens and here's a salted cashew. We took and put it under a macro lens This is with that little hood that's on it. So you just set the hood on there It lets the light in it takes an amazing photo every time So if you have something small you just pop that little lens on there and you get a nice close-up of it Snow is amazing close-up There's been plenty of snow here in the last month. So I went outside and took pictures of it. So that's really cool I took a picture of my eye and you can see definition and detail and kind of creepy Looking at it. So it's kind of yeah, it's almost so unnerving looking at it like that And yeah, that's just it's impressive, but uh, kind of creepy at the same time. I did a motion one as well Yeah, it's sorry about that. I know it's a little weird Now a couple other things when you're out there, uh, I have these photos here So this one is with the excel lens on I'm standing This is the Fisher building in Detroit and it's a beautiful building I was visiting one of my clients and took a moment from the second floor Uh to kind of look over it and they're like, wow, that looks great Now I couldn't capture that without the moment lens. So here's without There's with the moment lens Dramatic difference in how much you can see so in some photos It's just you're really noticing it more and this is one of them where to try to bring in the beauty of this place The lens was great. And this is nice thing about keeping your pocket. Just pop it on I'm happen to be there. I can just stop and take a photo while I'm walking in And you're like just you get this really impressive views Now here's something I wanted to note as well and you can see it here And we'll jump real back to this one real quick Notice the quality of the photo the contrast and the overall like tonal image you don't lose A lot or really any so you do have more lights So it's hard to say it's not really comparing apples apples because you got more in the image But look at the detail work that you can see even though it's wider So you're further away from those details But the lens is the lens doesn't detract from it. It doesn't soften the image It's still really sharp. So we still have lots to look at. We still have a Like a really nice These patterns and everything just solid which I like that about the lens It doesn't deter from the photos, which you don't want to ruin the camera This is a with the moment lens. This is without the moment lens now the light adds a little bit more Kind of a glare to it. So you don't have the same level of contrast So you see it gets a little bit more contrasting. These are raw I mean I could easily adjust the contrast and sometimes it's also the lens The camera optics and the camera sensor going there's a lot of light in here. So let me figure out what to do with it and So you're going to get a little bit better contrast without it But still the details and the sharpness on these edges is really really good and the center is still it's not soft It's just the lights flared a little bit on there, which like I said, that's a challenge for any camera Here's the ceiling with a moment lens Ceiling without the moment lens. So you can see and I put the camera on the floor and took this picture It really big difference you can see on there and this one because the lights are more off the side You'll still see it around there, but the center stays really sharp each time and it almost looks like I'm just cropping in the photo It didn't take away from the photo and it doesn't really seem to have much effect on the lens Here's a couple more of the macros I left this in here and maybe I'll add some more before I publish this post But you can see I'm I'm overall I'm really happy with this lens. I'd highly recommend it Like I said, I I like it. I happen to have paid for it myself and bought it So like I said, maybe my reviews buy us because I really want to like it, but I really enjoy it and I've had a lot of fun taking some of these photos I'll leave them in the link to this gallery so you can look at it and maybe stare at my eye here If you want, but hopefully this was helpful to you if you're trying to if you're on the fence about making Decision with these lenses, they're well made. They're metal construction. I have no complaints after using them for a month My only concern is you know in certain lighting conditions, you can get some flare in there But it's not I to me really not into the world in majority of the pictures I especially a lot of the I do this for some of the job photos when I'm taking pictures for clients It wonderful take a picture of the wiring closet. No problem about the moment lens on there It takes an amazingly wide photo right away Without me happen to take my multiple photos of things So really handy great lenses Highly recommend them. So I have a very positive review. I'll leave a link to the where you can buy them from All right, thanks for watching if you like to come here like and subscribe and all that good stuff If you have questions or comments, leave them below. Thanks