{"id":265534,"date":"2026-02-03T13:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T13:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/265534\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T13:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T13:10:13","slug":"vivo-and-oppos-telephoto-extender-comes-to-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/265534\/","title":{"rendered":"Vivo and Oppo\u2019s telephoto extender comes to iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">PGYTech, the accessory manufacturer behind the official telephoto extender lenses for recent Vivo and Oppo flagships, has launched a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/pgytech\/pgytech-retrova-vintage-imaging-kit\/description\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kickstarter<\/a> for a new version developed for iPhones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The RetroVa Vintage Imaging Kit looks an awful lot like the camera kits for those phones, complete with a custom case, slide-on camera grip with built-in battery and manual controls, and of course a 2.35x telephoto lens extender. This is the first to include a microSD slot though. There are versions for iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max, and iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max. Since it\u2019s unofficial, the telephoto will only work in PGYTech\u2019s camera app, not Apple\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Other companies have made lenses like this for iPhones, but rarely full accessory kits like this. I tested PGYtech\u2019s hardware on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/mobile\/680552\/vivo-telephoto-extender-lens-x200-ultra-photography-kit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vivo X200 Ultra<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/800600\/oppo-find-x9-pro-launch-china-telephoto-extender\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oppo Find X9 Pro<\/a>, and found the lens extender extraordinary, and the grip convenient, though build quality for the case is a little lackluster. That\u2019s the main thing that worries me about the $229.95 price tag here \u2014 down to $184 for early Kickstarter orders \u2014 though it\u2019s less if you just want the case and grip, not the lens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PGYTech, the accessory manufacturer behind the official telephoto extender lenses for recent Vivo and Oppo flagships, has launched&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[16637,356,342,111,43,139,69,2063,370,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-265534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-cameras","9":"tag-gadgets","10":"tag-mobile","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-phones","16":"tag-tech","17":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}