Vivo X200 Ultra Photography Kit Hands-on Review
Some things go to hand with an ultra than a photography kit. Xiaomi is putting them for several generations of its final flagship, while Vivo had a third-party option for the X100 Ultra last year. For the X200 Ultra, they are making an official, and this is an-ups Xiaomi.
The Vivo X200 Ultra photography kit is built by PGYTECH, a famous company in the camera accessory field. The set includes a protective snap-on case that also serves as a mount for other bits, holding a battery, several rings with various functionality, and some straps. Then is the star of the show and is there no Xiaomi Ultra – a telephoto exterminate lens.
The lens borne the Zes Branding that expanded continuous collaboration with Vivo’s German optical glass company. This provides 2.35x magnification on the 85 mm-equivalent lens of the phone’s telephoto camera (it can only be used on that camera, no idea is found), leads the optical zoom range to 200 mm. It is a relatively large part of glass and metal (209g, plus 2.5g and 1g worth cap) and leaves a very concrete impression in itself.
The secondary lens mounts on a serious socket in a dedicated black metal ring (18G), which binds itself in the case of the phone. If you remove the telephoto Extender, but mount the attachment of the exterminate, you can use all three cameras as if nothing has been mounted on the back. If you mount the ad-on lens, however, it occurs in the area of 14 mm and 35 mm cameras.
If you remove the lens mount completely, you can replace it with another metal ring (11.3g) that can regularly accept 67 mm screw-on filters. Then there are two plastic rings (2.6g each) for examples when no real functionality is required, and you would prefer to reduce dimensions when using the case.
The case itself is a strong and well -made piece (33 grams). It has a faux leather support, a kick-up stand to pursue the phone, and two chords of two cords. There are also two slide-in attachment points for the battery grip, in a third place, one third place inside the kickstand.
Battery grip (94G) consists of 1,500mh juice and a handful of control. The two-phase shutter release is surrounded by a zoom rocker (only zoom, unlike non-customatic, switch between cameras at this point). There is also a video record button and another button that enables the battery inside the grip to work as a powerbank to feed the phone.
Additionally, there is a dial that mistakes for exposure compensation (works in most modes), but shutter speed, ISO, white balance, or manual focus (all of them only in pro mode), or background blur (in portrait mode) can also be set to change. If you ask us then dial is not clicking – a missed opportunity.
The battery grip makes for very safe handling – it provides excellent purchases on the phone and Extender Assembly, although you will still like to support the Extender – using both hands is more supportive anyway. Alternatively, you can use Arca Swiss Tippai Collar (57G) included on the lens itself.
In the operation, the lens connects the black serious mount with a positive click, although it lives there with a small voble. In fact, it is a black ring that is more to mount on this case – it sounds something strange to lock.
At this point, the phone does not know that this lens is attached, so if you switch to the telephoto camera you will have an upside down and perhaps the focus in the visualization will be very blurred by the image. You need to switch to telephoto extension mode from additional mode and get both photo and video tabs.
Extender attached, photo mode • Pop-up to confirm going into dedicated mode • Mode UI
Vivo Telephoto Extender Camera Samples
We shot some samples with telephoto exterrends, to see how good it is and it compares the phone with the native 85 mm telephoto lens and some couples digital zoom.
If you are taking shots to people, 200 mm focal length is best suited for tight framing, or for those examples when you can’t just get closer to your subject, but somehow quality is excellent in these shots. Photos taken using Extender are not only super sharp, but they also have better subject isolation than regular people.
Portrait, 200 mm: Extender • No Extender (Digital Zoom)
Now, you can go beyond 200 mm, although the distance of the shoot starts coming out of the hand, and 1: 1 quality deteriorates. You may stick to the native 200 mm and leave the additional zoom when no other option is available.
Portrait, Extender: 200 mm • 400 mm • 800 mm • 1600 mm
Shooting of distant topics is also better with add-on lenses. The phone is fine in itself, especially with subjects containing straight lines, but if you look in random detail in bricks or decidals, you will see benefits in photos taken with additional glass.
Daylight photos, 200 mm: Extender • No Extender (Digital Zoom)
Further zoom, the 400 mm level is looking fine, even 800 mm is quite usable, while 1600 mm is somewhat staining, but the quality of completely throwing.
Daylight Photos, Extender: 200 mm • 400 mm • 800 mm • 1600 mm
In the dark, we would say that the exterrender makes even more obvious difference in quality, giving the vivo very good details that become smooth than the combined effects of digital zoom and noise deficiency.
Low-light photo, 200 mm: Extender • No Extender (Digital Zoom)
Depending on light and subject matter, you can also go away with zooming, with 400 mm, again quite decent.
Low-light photo, Extender: 200 mm • 400 mm • 800 mm • 1600 mm
Telephoto Extender will also be your friend for video recording during the day and at night.
Daylight Video Framegrabs: Extender, 200 mm • No Extender (Digital Zoom), 230 mm
Low-light video framgrabs: Extender, 200 mm • No Extender (Digital Zoom), 230 mm
Wrap
Vivo X200 Ultra is a notable cameraphone in itself, adding some of the best hardware experts of the industry with processing. Adding a secondary lens to your telephot makes for another more versatile setup. It already enhances great depiction capabilities of the phone and brings far closer to distant subjects with excellent pixel -level quality.
If you are going through the problem of getting your hands on the smartphone, it may not be too high to spend additional cash to get a photography kit. This adds € 200 to the top of the 16GB/1TB version of the X200 Ultra (which seems to be the only version that Vivo will sell you with kits), around € 1200, around € 1200.
Before you have to incite whatever import duty you will have to bring to your door, and do not forget that you want to get just 16GB/512GB phones at € 860 (again, before taxes and WhatsApp).
We will admit that a bill of a billionaire mentality is required to leave that amount on a handset with some software limitations and essentially no support after sale, but if you have money to burn, you will be at least happy about what you get in return, about it.
