![]() ![]() The most useful is Action, which prioritizes faster shutter speeds to help avoid motion blur. Moment’s reputation for producing the best smartphone camera lenses is well deserved.The native camera app features four scene modes: Action, Night, Sunset, and Party. For now, I’ll stick with my clunky 5D.įor everyone else, step up your Instagram game. (I had naively hoped for this.) The iPhone X’s camera is great for daily snapshots, but the image files lack enough detail and information for my anal retentive Lightroom and Photoshop workflow. Their lenses are impressive, but they’re not going to magically transform smartphone photos into DSLR-quality images. I can’t completely switch over to a Moment lens mounted iPhone X as a travel camera just yet. Moment lenses add a bit of charm and perspective to mobile photography, to the point where you can trick the average person into believing the pictures were taken on a real camera. On smartphones that don’t have built-in telephoto lenses, this would be my second choice to break away from sterile smartphone picture-taking. If you’re on an iPhone X and are fussed about soft edges, skip this lens. L: iPhone X telephoto lens, R: Moment Tele Portrait Lens The images produced were clear, dynamic and without much edge distortion. New Wide Lensīy far, this was my favorite of the three. I did, however, spend a couple afternoons testing them out. I opted out of the Superfish lens (it’s not really my aesthetic) and packed the other three with me on a recent trip to Little Corn, a remote island several miles off the Nicaraguan coast.Īlthough I had planned to extensively use the lenses, the week was spent mostly napping in hammocks and eating lobster tacos, as one does when on a tropical island far away. Snapping it in was quite simple and I roughly shook the phone to make sure the lens was secured - it was. ![]() They mount to the Moment case using a twist and lock system. They’re heavy little nubs handcrafted with aerospace-grade metal and the same high-end glass used in 4K film lenses. These lenses are not cheaply made of plastic, mass-produced in some dingy factory. Prices range from $89.99 to $99.99, with an additional cost of $29.99 for the Moment smartphone case - you’ll need it to attach your lens. Their Wide lens also received a glass upgrade to a multi-element aspherical design for edge to edge clarity. The update includes a new attachment interface where the lenses are slightly larger in diameter to provide a more secure attachment to the Moment smartphone cases. Moment recently released a new version of their four lenses: Superfish (fisheye), Wide, Tele Portrait and Macro. The first few Google search results for “best iPhone lens” led me to Moment, a company that started off with a 2014 Kickstarter fund and since has grown into a well-respected smartphone lens manufacturer. I needed more creative control and didn’t want to rely on mobile software. ![]() Despite our Editor in Chief’s praises for the iPhone X’s camera, it wasn’t enough for me. Switching lenses is cumbersome and not ideal in certain environments, like a Saigon street market, densely crowded with vendors, tourists and thieves.Īfter lugging this camera kit through six countries last year, I upgraded my iPhone to the X in hopes of replacing the DSLR as a travel camera. I travel with a Canon DSLR and two primes, a 35mm f1.4 and an 85mm f1.2 (endearingly nicknamed, “the fat kid”). ![]()
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