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3.0 out of 5 starsGood quality but some drawbacks- will reduce camera quality with added glare! not needed
Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2024
The installation was super easy thanks to their applicator so i will give credit there. The 3 main cons for me +my final thoughts that made me take them off is as follows
1. the case I have which is a TORRAS case has a raised camera bump of a few mm, as im sure alot of cases have. With these on it now sits flush to the back of the case therefore if you were to drop your phone on the back, it will have an equal chance of hitting these vs not having them then it would only impact if you land on an uneven surface in the right spot. my concern is if you were to say drop it flat on its back, since these are flush would the force not transfer to the underlying camera lenses? vs if the bump was allowed to protect it, there would be 0 to min impact forces applied to the cameras.
also biggest thing is now that its flush with the back of the case, you now have to worry about surface scratches i.e setting your phone on its back. so you induced a problem for yourself on that regards, granted it would scratch these not your lenses. these are easily replaceable but its still a self created problem
2. SMUDGES 24/7. These are not treated with oleophobic coating at all as soon as you touch them with your fingers they will smudge and stay there. during installation one of the smaller covers for the right cameras fell out and when i picked it up. my fingerprint was on the inside and it remained there even when cleaning it multiple times with isopropyl alcohol so that one had a permanent fuzziness to it
the others once installed attract fingerprints like crazy you will be have to wipe down the lenses everytime you want to take a photo in case its smudged enough to be noticable (slight fuzziness in photo, trouble focusing etc
3. GLARE! putting glass on top of glass will induce a higher chance of glare in your photos, that is just physics, this gets especially worse considering point 2 since smudges will also increase the glare effect
Final Thoughts:
I never ran my fingers over my camera lens until i bought these so for an experiment i took them all off and proceeded to vigorously wipe em down with my fingers and there wasn't even a single smudge on the stock lenses at all, they also sit a few mm below the camera cutout on my case as designed
I would say for the average user these are NOT needed and you will just be reducing your camera quality for very little benefit
I would say these are worth it in 3 situations
1. your stock coating has worn off and you are not longer getting that anti smudge benefits anymore, so why not?
2. you really do not care about potential loss in camera quality under certain circumstances and would rather play it safe
3. you are in an environment that has alot of potential for scratches from micro particles in the air. i.e the beach, a job site, etc