Ultra-Wide 0.5x Lenses Have Utility Beyond ‘Photography’

Some follow-up thoughts on my earlier piece , regarding the second-gen iPhone Air’s additional camera lens being a 0.5× ultra-wide, not a 3× or 4× telephoto: Ultimately, it’s the fact that I use my 0.5× lens not so much for photography but for scanning documents and notes, and taking “What is this?” images of things in my hand, that explains its utility compared to a telephoto. I think of photography as meaning, roughly, “I’m trying to capture an aesthetically pleasing image that I intend to keep in perpetu