 What is up guys and welcome back to the Johnny Q channel. Thanks so much for watching. Today's video is all about getting the most out of your mobile phone when it comes to filmmaking. I'm being dead serious. I wish I knew about this piece of gear because when I first started out on YouTube I was using this thing, my phone. But I'm glad you're here because I want to show you one piece of gear that literally has changed the way I've used my phone when it comes to taking photos and videos. And I'm talking about this piece of gear by Sandmark, literally made for your phone. This is the Sandmark Wide Lens. This is the Wide Lens 0.56x. When I was first starting out using my phone I knew that these were available, not specifically by Sandmark. You know at first I didn't think they were useful. I thought, uh, why am I going to use it? I just think it looks cheap. It looks lame. I'm not, I don't have a DSLR. Let me tell you I was completely wrong and I'll tell you why. But before I roll this intro video I'm going to tell you that I'm going to be using only this lens and my iPhone to shoot B roll footage. So with that being said, roll that intro video. Let's go! Man, it is so nice out right now. It's like almost 60 degrees. Before we even get into this whole lens and what this does to your phone, disclaimer, Sandmark has sponsored this video. I want to thank you Sandmark for sending me this piece of gear to review. I'm not going to have to sponsorship kind of skew my view or my thoughts on this product. If it sucks, I'll tell you if it sucks. If it's great, I'll tell you it's great. What I want to do is actually be honest about this product, be honest with this review and kind of hopefully, you know, help you find an alternative to something other than a DSLR so you can get something like this for your filmmaking. It's very simple really. Let's start off on how it actually works. Typically just the lens and this little clip. Cap off the lens here and you take off this cap in the back of the lens and then you take it and you honestly, all you have to do is just see if I can get it right here. All you have to do is screw it on just like that and that portion clips onto the iPhone. Now I will say that you have to, this little piece right here that comes from the back of this clip, you have to put this on or else if you just clip it on to your phone like this, that is the wrong way. If you clip it on just like this without this little kind of sticky piece, your phone will move and as you're moving your phone, your lens will actually move as well and you don't want that. This little sticky part prevents it from moving and actually sticks to the phone quite well. So what you want to do is grab this, what you want to do is grab this piece here, put it right in between here and you'll hear a click just like that and it should be flush with this piece of the back lens here. Clip it onto your iPhone but you want to make sure that you're pretty centered else you'll get that and you don't want that and if you don't get as centered, you'll get kind of this warping kind of like matrix, you're on drugs, you don't know what's going on, so you want to center it as smooth as possible, you want to center it right in the middle and you should have a good picture. I'm not saying you're going to replace your DSLR, I'm not going to, I'm not saying you're going to replace your vlogging camera but this tool, this piece of gear, this lens for your phone actually helps you so much. Again here it is, this is without the lens, you put on the lens and you instantly notice what it does, it just gives you a more, it gives you more of a wider range to shoot and to film your videos. Another really cool part of this little gadget here from Sandmark is they make cases for your phone that actually have the screw on piece for your lens, let me show you. So here's the case that I was given, so essentially here's a lens, here's the case and there's two little options here, there are two screw on options for those lenses, you can just choose a side, all you got to do is screw it on, you have an on-the-go with the case wide lens. This clip on actually I'm very impressed with, I thought it was going to be kind of a gimmicky thing but in reality when I kept trying it with the clip on and the lens on my phone, honestly it was really easy to use, all you have to do is just clip it on, make sure it's lined up with the lens of your camera and boom, you're golden. From that perspective, if you're looking to get more of a wider shot, more of a wider angle for both of your video and photos, this is a really good option to do that. When I first started making YouTube videos, I was just using my phone, I don't have any lenses, I don't have any cameras, any DSLRs and it was honestly kind of hard to actually shoot because again I couldn't zoom in, I couldn't have wide angles, I just had one stationary, you know, shot from my iPhone. Yes, you can zoom in on your phone and it's that digital zoom but still it just looked really odd sometimes, it looked out of place and it wasn't kind of that natural organic feel that I was going for. This isn't replacing the DSLR but if you can't afford in the moment, you know a DSLR like this Canon camera or a Nikon or Sony, whatever DSLR you're looking at, if you can't afford it and you just want to start, you know, filming YouTube videos, start filming projects, taking better photos, this thing can actually save you. So I'll put this product in the description below for you guys to check out. I have been using this setup not for shooting video but for shooting photo for I would say a few days now on and off, you know, sometimes I will say do forget about it just because in the moment I want to take a photo of what's happening and I don't have this directly, you know, in arms raised to grab it and to screw on and to place it on my camera. That's why something, you know, like the case actually could work a lot better because the case could just go on. Oh, I just got to grab my lens, I screw it on and boom, I'm there, I'm ready to go, I'm ready to shoot. I really do see this as something being really useful and, you know, in always in my backpack with all of my other lenses. You know, let's say you're out just like this, you're on a sunny day out by the stream or a bridge and you don't want to get a little bit of a wider shot but don't want to back up too much because you'll miss out. Throw this thing on there and you got some great wide photo shots and not only can my phone take really good photos, I can enhance it, take it to the next level and use these lenses as a better means of taking better photos. I am very impressed with the amount of grip this actually like holds on your iPhone like it's not slipping, you know, if again if you don't have that little sticky piece it will slip but the way it actually contours your phone and your camera, I mean this thing isn't going anywhere you can shake it, you can move it, it's not going anywhere and I do like that a lot because I'm a very active guy and I'm always moving so if I got to shoot something I'm going to be moving so much to get that angle, take the best shot and I don't want this to be lost, I don't want this to you know come off because there's a river right down there and if I lose this it's gone. So with that being said guys I hope this, I hope this video helped you with you know finding hopefully an alternative to filmmaking and taking better photos, again if you can't afford a DSLR, if you're not there yet and you're still using your phone for everything you're doing as far as vlogging, YouTube making, taking photos, I would highly encourage you to get the lineup of these lenses, I will include this lens in the description below along with the other lenses that they have because this is just, you can't just get the wide piece, you have to get the other lenses that they offer because it just gives you a whole array of different focal lengths and just different lenses to choose from to get better quality images and video. This is so pocket sized, all I have to do is just put it in a little baggy that they provided, comes with this right here, all you gotta do is put it in the baggy, zip it up and boom, put it in your pocket and you're good to go, that with your phone you are golden. Yeah guys this is just another way to just really step up your level of mobile filmmaking and photo taking just by adding this little piece of lens to your arsenal. Like always guys thanks so much for watching, please subscribe, like, comment below and let me know if you're going to use this, let me know if you're going to pick it up, it's pretty cheap and it's going to enhance everything you do. So with that being said, I'll catch you next time on the Jonicky Channel, peace.