Moment lenses5/16/2023 ![]() He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Otherwise, Moment is surely the way to go when it comes to optics.Ĭhris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. If you’re doing more serious work with your iPhone involving accessories like microphones, go for Zeiss. Moment gives me a case that doesn’t try to cut the creases of my hands apart. ![]() Zeiss gives me a case with a tripod mount and a mount for a shotgun microphone while still being portable. But I’m truthfully torn between them and the Zeiss option. The second iteration of them can help me yield great photos all across the board. Adobe Lightroom is super powerful these days on the phone and phones are shooting great RAW photos. If you’re shooting a landscape, you’re doing processing. But remember: if you’re shooting street photography, you’re probably going to do processing. It’s the same as your DSLR or mirrorless camera, shoot RAW and tweak the image to your liking. But if you ensure you’re shooting at a low ISO, wipe the lenses off to get them clean, have good lighting, and do a bit of editing/post-production, then you’re going to get nice photos. Image QualityĪpple iPhone and mobile images in general aren’t going to be the sharpest. It’s not meant for you to think too much about. Then when I’m done taking a photo, I import it into RNI films, apply a filter, and send it off to Instagram or Facebook. You get some beautiful lens flare, good colors, and an overall simple experience. I’d much rather just use the lenses the way they are with the Apple camera app. Moment has their app that they encourage you to use, but I’ve never really seen the use for it. Screwing the lenses onto the phone and shooting is simple enough. They work out really nice in real life use. Additionally, the mounting system is stronger and the elements I believe are coated with substances that prevent smearing and smudging. The build quality is much more solid and the exterior texture of the lenses is a bit course to let you grip onto them better. Build QualityĮverything about the Moment lenses is an upgrade. Instead, you line some stuff up, twist and it’s all set. It’s unlike the screwmount system Zeiss uses with their ExoLenses. Like the previous versions, they mount using a twist and lock system. Here’s what the side of the lens looks like when it’s mounted to the iPhone case. In the case of the wide, it’s very convex and otherwise looks like a fisheye. Those front elements on both the wide and the portrait optic are pretty big. They also come with their own rubber lens caps that goes over the front of the lenses–or this in this case in front of the front element. Moment incorporated these to get better image quality overall. ![]() For starters though, the optics are larger. These lenses, while still using more or less the same case, have a completely different exterior though similar ergonomics. ![]() The Moment lenses are a much different breed than the previous ones. So you’re honestly just better off going to their website and checking them out for yourself. Moment doesn’t really give any sort of hard tech specs. We tested the Moment Telephoto (60mm, so not really Telephoto) and Wide (18mm) with the Moment iPhone case and the Apple iPhone 6s. But if you’re going for these types of products, they’re pretty fair. If you really would want to complain about something, it could be the price.
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