What a pleasant surprise! The monocular far EXCEEDS my expectation for the price. This seems to concur with most other people’s experience based on the reviews I’ve read...all seem to be quite positive. The only negative comments I’ve read seem to be about the mount for the camera/monocular connection. I played around with it for awhile and I believe I’ve discovered an easy way to avoid the frustration some folks have experienced. Do NOT attempt to make the adjustments with BOTH the camera and monocular attached at the same time, it makes alignment and tightening of the bracket far to difficult. Mount the camera FIRST, it’s a breeze to line up the phone and the eye cup when you do it from the backside...a 15 second operation to center and tighten. Then mount to the monocular as the twist grip is self centering. Bingo, perfectly centered, mounted and tightened in under a minute! Another complaint I’ve read is that it was hard to focus or the photos were blurry, I suspect this is not a problem folks had with the monocular/camera but rather a problem with trying to hand-hold a 50X monocular combined with the manual shutter button. I suggest folks use a tripod and a remote shutter release to avoid vibration and movement. I got the CAMKIX blue tooth and it works like a charm. I’ll try to follow up with a field test next month as I’m taking the kids and grand kids to Japan, so it should get a work out. This isn’t a $1500.00 Nikor lens, so don’t expect professional results, but if you are looking for an extremely inexpensive way to convert a cellphone into an effective recreational camera/telephoto combination, this should fit the bill...like I say, I was pleasantly surprised. T