The new Honor Magic 8 Pro Photography Kit is changing my expectations for smartphone camera quality
The new Honor Magic 8 Pro Photography Kit is changing my expectations for smartphone camera quality
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Publish Date: 2026-02-28 11:30:00
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About two weeks ago, I unboxed the Honor Magic 8 Pro Photography kit. It’s a delightful package that includes a special case for the phone, a MagSafe camera grip, a few different straps, lens adapters, and a telephoto extender.
Honor partnered with Telesin, a company that specializes in photography accessories for smartphones, GoPro cameras, and other portable camera products, making it easy to buy camera filters for your Honor Magic 8 Pro’s Photography kit. Curiously enough, it doesn’t seem like the company sells additional lenses, so we’ll just check out what’s in the box and whether it’s worth your money.
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The Honor Magic 8 Pro Photography Kit is an 8-piece set. Snap the phone into the very “camera-looking” case, pop the magnetic camera grip on, click in the lens extender, then open the camera app and enable the Teleconverter option on the left/top bar of the camera viewfinder. If this is your first time using it, you’ll need to enable the Teleconverter accessory in the camera’s settings.
When the Teleconverter mode is enabled, it’ll restrict the camera to three supported shooting modes (photo, video, stage) and swap the zoom buttons out with 200, 400, 600, and 800mm options. You can also use the zoom wheel on the screen or on the camera grip to zoom in to a maximum of 5400mm. I’m not even sure what…
