Three iPhone lenses aren’t enough. This case adds four more

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ShiftCam for iPhone 11 and pro lens
Lots of lens options without the heavy lifting.
Photo: ShiftCam

ShiftCam is in its third year of making innovative iPhone cases with a cluster of lenses that shift over Apple’s native glass. To look at a ShiftCam case is probably not much different than having a staring contest with a spider.

Maybe you can’t stand the thought of staring into the many eyes of a spider. With the ShiftCam case, especially it’s new MultiLens case for the iPhone 11 series, you won’t want to look away.

Before deploying any of its four lenses to make a picture, the design begs the question, “How’d they do that?” At the top of the case is a module of four lenses and a polarizing filter, each of which can quickly slide and click into place.

There is a lens cover that flips open and out of the way. The module can be slid across the tracks and off the case to make room for one of ShiftCam’s new pro lenses that mount on a bracket that clicks in place.

fisheye lens on ShiftCam iPhone case
A fisheye view from the ShiftCam MultiLens case for iPhone.
Photo: ShiftCam

The lenses that come with the case include a 4x telephoto, a fisheye lens for a 180-degree field of view and macro lenses of 10x and 20x. As a case, ShiftCam says it gives the iPhone two-meters worth of drop protection.

The ShiftCam MultiLens case comes in clear and black and runs $79.99 for the iPhone 11 Pro models. A 3-in-1 MultiLens case for the iPhone 11, is $10 less.

The complete set of six pro lenses can be purchased individually or as a set for $399.99.

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