 Hi there and welcome to a little garden on the prairies. So today's video is going to be an unboxing and review of a product that I purchased from Amazon and this is called the a pixel high-power telephoto lens with remote and for the iPhone So my reason for purchasing this is because I think it will maybe help enhance my Videos hopefully for my channel and it's a small lightweight telephoto lens that you can attach to your iPhone and I just thought while I'm out in the garden, you know, I've got lots of birds coming around and The hummingbirds are buzzing around my head and it would just be so nice to be able to stop and be able to zoom in on some of these nice wildlife around me and maybe you know use it on some of my videos and I spent a lot of my time working from home now and I have a nice office in the living room of Overlooking my front yard and I've really become a bird nerd I got bird bass and bird feeders and lots of finches and chickadees and a whole bunch of different kinds of birds come in to eat in bath and I just thought this would be really cool to Maybe capture some of that as well So I'm going to open this up and see what's all about and then we'll hook it up to my iPhone and test it out So again here is the box. It's quite compact and it looks like it's a mini zoom lens that we should be getting here and the other thing that was Appealing to me as that it comes with a remote So I thought if I can you know set it up on my camera stand Near the bird bath or some whatever. I'm trying to film maybe that little chipmunk that I'm pretty sure is Eating some of my vegetables in the garden. I thought I could set it up on a on a tripod and Just run the remote from a from a distance that I could maybe really get some cool videos So this is the remote. It looks like the same kind of little mini remote you get with most of your Attachments that go with the iPhone So it comes in this little carrying case, which is kind of cool It's got a little Clip on it so you can attach it maybe to your tripod Little handle so it's easy to carry around. So I like that. It's very compact So it appears to be made out of metal. It feels pretty solid So I realized there is no stand with this I just shows a picture of a stand on the box, but it's an extra Attachment of course that you would have to order But I do have a couple of my own stands right now. So hopefully this will work with that so if I touch this piece on here and it seems to turn it into a Telescope so to speak so you can use it just as a regular Telescope I guess without actually attaching it to your camera So if I wanted to just look out the window or catch something I can I can actually see it's a very small circle, but it does definitely Bring things a little closer Okay, so I think I got this figured out. So I've just brought one of my little tripods here It's just so this is Set up and I can attach this easily So this little gadget here is what is going to go on to your phone over top of the lens And you just loosen it up and slide it over the camera Now my personal phone has the double Lenses theirs, but it looks like it will fit for both. So that's good. So I'm just going to Tighten it up and that just screws into that there Tighten it and Okay, so this is what it looks like when it's all put together the only part that I Didn't add to this was this and I believe by reading the instructions if you were to purchase their tripod That you see in the picture here This is just a part that would you'd slide over the lens and it would screw into their tripod. So So we're just using mine here So what I'm going to do now is I'm just going to take this around my house and my yard and see if I can Capture some some cool stuff using this telephoto lens so here's my camera set up in my living room which overlooks the bird bath and This is kind of gives you a visual of what it looks like set up on my tripod So if I was to just use my camera with the zoom lens standing at the window, this is basically as close as I can get to The birds that I'm watching bath here. So I just want to show you the Difference between using your camera without the lens and then using the telephoto lens So I tried just doing some filming with holding the camera in my hand with this small tripod here and just walking around the yard I did find that it is a little harder to hold the camera steady and get a steady shot of things so having a Stable tripod is actually better for this camera lens So I'm just trying to film this little chipmunk here while holding the camera and as you can see it It's a little shaky So here I was able to capture a cute little gopher Snacking on some of the droppings from the bird feeder And you can use the zoom feature on your camera to get even closer to your subject that you're trying to video or Take a photo of So here's another setup. I did with my tripod. I have it sitting on the bird feeder out by my garden and Just having it ready for when some birds or maybe the little chipmunk shows up and then just using the remote to Press the record button and start videoing So if you enjoy capturing videos or photos of all the wildlife While you're outside in your garden or yard or even want to try it from the comfort of inside your house I give the apexel telephoto lens the thumbs up It's an easy to use economical lens that works with any type of smartphone And I've left a link to this item in the description box below. I Hope you enjoyed watching today's video and will continue to follow along with me on my channel