After using dozens of lens films, I found that the phone's photography became worse

I don't need to be verbose about the matter of applying film to mobile phones, since the moment when smart phones were popularized, film has been the most popular thing for the masses of people on the mainland.

From the soft film to the later anti-privacy film, and then to the tempered film and so on, in order to protect our mobile phone screen, everyone can be said to have taken great pains...

Of course, everyone's obsession with film has also fed a large number of businesses that make mobile phone films, and even now many domestic mobile phones come with a film when they leave the factory.

However, when Tony held a topic selection meeting two days ago, a colleague said that Weibo has been pushing him an advertisement for a lens film recently...

Good guy, even if it's a film on the front, what does it mean for you to also film on the back lens?

Normally, a thrifty housekeeper like Tony would be dismissive of this kind of advertising, but after all, that's what we're doing, and it's hard not to wonder what the use of this thing is on the back lens...

So I opened the lens film store of a well-known e-commerce website, and it felt like I had opened the door to a new world.

It's not that I said, big brother, your blowing is a bit mysterious, it's impact and scratch resistant, and it's also anti-glare...

Lei Jun: Thank you

But then I thought, what if this thing really works? Wouldn't iPhone users be able to get rid of glare and ghosting?

If it really works, then everyone is just eating my Amway wave and making the photo quality better.

If this thing were an IQ tax ... Then I also helped everyone step on the pit in advance.,Poor friends should be a picture.。。。

In order to compare with the iPhone, I also found the Xiaomi 13 Ultra, which has its own coating, and the vivo X100 Pro, which has its own Zeiss coating, and bought the so-called "lens film" for all three machines.

Look at the 8 lens films we bought with a huge amount of money, whether it is a mule or a horse, and pull it out for a walk.

After a few days of waiting, the film arrived as promised, with a red angry orangutan on the package, and it was hard not to be reminiscent of Corning Gorilla Glass.

And the lens film names of these three phones are different, probably because of different versions.

For example, the iPhone 15 Pro is called HD Lens Film, the vivo X100 Pro is called Anti-Reflection Lens Film, and the Xiaomi Mi 13 Ultra is called "AR Anti-Reflection Lens Film".

This AR stands for Anti-Reflection, so AR films are also commonly referred to as anti-reflective coatings or anti-reflection coatings.

Next, take a look at the body, in addition to the lens film, the package is a classic three-piece tool set for applying film - wiping cloth, dust removal paste and wet wipes.

Let's start with the AR lens film with the longest name and see how well the Xiaomi Mi 13 Ultra looks after using this thing.

The lens film itself is not transparent glass, but black, and only the lens and sensor become transparent or perforated.

One thing to say, the position of this "cut-out" is quite accurate, and it even gives an opening to the Leica font in the middle of the Xiaomi 13 Ultra...

So how does this thing actually work?

Saving: Not only has the glare not diminished, but it even seems to be more pronounced...

For example, at night, when you use a telephoto lens to shoot a distant light strip, there will indeed be a thin ghost in the photo, but if you don't look carefully, you won't notice it, and it's not a big problem.

As a result, after the lens film is pasted, how do you feel that the ghost under the light strip becomes more obvious? . .

As for the anti-fingerprint, it's completely nonsense, and it can't resist a little.

Its only use should be scratch resistant, and Tony tried it with a key and a knife, but there were really no scratches.

So you can't say it's useless, even if it's only the most basic protection, it's not useless.

For example, Tony's vivo X90 Pro+, which he used from 2022 to 2024, already has some tiny scratches on the lens.

Next, if you are a valued Guoguo user who has bought a new iPhone 15 Pro and is very annoyed by its ghosting, and still wants to try a lens film, then Tony has also tried it for everyone in advance.

The iPhone 15 Pro looks different from the Xiaomi Mi 13 Ultra, it is still in the form of a transparent tempered film as a whole, but there is a black border around the lens...

And it's more like a thick glass pane than a lens film, because each lens of the iPhone is protruding individually, so the lens film has to be made thicker to cover the entire lens module.

Although it doesn't look good, because the lens of the iPhone 15 Pro is protruding separately, it can be easily pointed and pasted as long as it is in the right position.

It doesn't matter.,Although this thing looks ugly.,But it doesn't play a role in alleviating the glare.。。。

There should be ghosts, there will still be, what am I expecting...

The only consolation is that since the iPhone 15 Pro will produce ghosts with or without this thing, iPhone users can safely and boldly buy it to protect the lens...

The last player to appear is the best calender in the mobile imaging industry, vivo X100 Pro.

After the cooperation between Blue Factory and ZEISS, the X series can be said to be in the first echelon of the leading position in terms of the suppression of highlights and the control level of glare.

The idea of the blue factory's film is similar to that of Xiaomi, and it is also mainly black, and the lens and Zeiss LOGO and other parts are cut out separately.

But I think the X100 Pro is the least needed of the three phones...

As long as you look at the samples taken in the same position, you can see that the X100 Pro produces almost zero glare, which can be said to be a benchmark in the mobile imaging world.

This is how the blue factory's self-confidence in the night scene also comes from, do you understand the gold content of Zeiss T* coating?

And after the film, once the focal length is enlarged to 200mm and above, the ghosts are all back...

Before the film, the 200mm focal length sample looked like this:

As long as a few dozen dollars, you can make the hard work of Blue Factory and Zeiss fall short, this thing is too powerful...

In short, this thing's control of glare is basically fart, especially for X100 users, don't buy it, run away!

So you can see the test results.,It's impossible to improve the image quality.,It's good if you don't stack a layer of debuffs.。。。

And after sticking this lens film, the appearance of the mobile phone will also be reduced, iPhone 15 Pro seems to have dark circles under the eyes...

The only function is probably the same as the screen film, which plays a protective role such as anti-scratching.

But then again, the lens glass of the current flagship mobile phone is either sapphire or some new material, and even if you run naked, there will be no big scratches.

The lens glass of the thousand-yuan machine may indeed need to be protected, but for the flagship machine, if I want to say that it is "not necessary".

And the price of this thing is not too cheap, taking Xiaomi 13 Ultra as an example, two pieces cost 34 yuan, converted to 17 yuan to buy a tempered film the size of the lens module...

If you just want to protect the lens, then buying one and sticking it on can really play a certain role in protection.

But if you want to control ghosting, then it is recommended to choose a third-party specially customized lens cover, or...

Buy a mobile phone with your own Zeiss directly...