vivo X300 Pro Photographer Kit with telephoto extender hands-on | Infinium-tech

Vivo unveiled the X300 series yesterday, and we were there to cover the entire event.

In addition to having a quality hands-on experience with the X300 Pro and X300, we were also able to capture a ton of photos with both phones. However, we didn’t have time to take some long-range shots using the Vivo X300 Photographer Kit and the 2.35x telephoto extender lens. Today, we finally have them too, and you’ll find them further down, but first, let’s take a closer look at the actual gear here.

hands on

The photographer kit of the Vivo X300 Pro looks similar to what we used with the Vivo X200 Ultra. While the detachable lens Is Equally, by all accounts, not the case. It’s made with a slightly better design of the case and tighter tolerances around the area where you attach the additional lens, which gives it a little more stability.

The Photographer Kit is made by PGYTECH, and is a box of seven pieces. They reportedly have a kit for the regular Vivo X300, but we haven’t seen it ourselves, and the telephoto extender option is missing from the X300 camera app.

On the one hand, the Vivo

Unboxing the X300 Pro Photographer Kit

The Grip slides onto the case and connects to the phone via a USB-C port, which can be used to charge a phone via the Grip’s own port or to charge the Grip itself (it has a 2300mAh battery inside). There is also a wireless connection between the phone and the grip via Bluetooth, which is used for camera operations.

Controls-wise, you get a two-stage shutter button, a zoom lever around it, a control dial, and a video record button.

Once you enable the telephoto extender in the camera settings, you get some additional options that you can control. For example, pressing the shutter may trigger one shot or a burst series. You can lock focus and exposure with a half-press action of the shutter, or it can operate in continuous AF-C focus mode.

The zoom level around the shutter moves smoothly between the entire focal range instead of jumping only between the optical focal lengths of the Vivo X300 Pro.

grasp

To screw on additional lenses, you must first attach the special adapter ring. You can keep the adapter there all the time as it does not interfere with the regular operation of any camera.

Once you’ve turned on the telephoto extender, you’ll need to activate it from a shortcut in the camera viewfinder, which is different from the X200 Ultra, where you’ll have to enter a separate camera mode. Still, the principle of operation is largely the same – you activate use of the extender when needed and deactivate it accordingly when it’s not on camera.

The 2.35x teleconverter takes the Vivo X300 Pro’s 85mm camera optically to 200mm. You also get 400mm, 800mm, and 1,600mm toggles in the viewfinder, but they’re digital. The samples you see below are all taken at the original 200mm.

camera samples

Teleconverter Photos (200mm)

Teleconverter photos (200mm) in low light

And here’s a video we shot with the extender, completely handheld.

Price determination

Individually, the lens is CNY 999 (€120, INR 12,400), the case and grip are CNY 699 (€85, INR 8,700), but you can bundle them together for CNY 1,499 (€182, INR 18,700), saving CNY 200. Vivo will also sell you the Photographer Kit with the Vivo X300 Pro for CNY. ₹8,299 (€1,000, INR 103,600). We don’t have any information on pricing outside of China, as the phones have not yet launched outside their home market, although there are some indications that it will be soon.

It’s worth noting that for the X300 Pro, PGYTECH has come up with the standard black and gray colors as well as an alternative, lighter color version. For this, you can also take matching silver colored lenses.