Gadgetory

the picture I showed you before this was taken in an iPhone 7 plus the earth is a very small stage the only home we've ever known additional equipment I've ever wondered about those shot on iphone commercials or about any of those shot on any smartphone commercials are those clips actually shot on smartphones well the answer is technically yes but often with some heavy adaptation a lot of times you can get a perfect shot out of a smartphone with just the camera handheld in perfect conditions no problem but that's pretty rare and you can often guarantee a much better shot if you have a little gear with you so take this example of a video shot entirely on phones some of the shots are literally just a smartphone so a smart phone on a selfie stick or a smart phone on a mount no special attachment needed but a lot of other shops get much more complicated smartphone on a tiny drone smartphone on a much bigger drone smartphone attached to a cine lens with a wireless follow focus on a gimbal attached to a motorized remote control for wheeled skateboard that is a lot so at the end of the video or the commercial or whatever you're watching you see shot on a smartphone and the main point of those commercials is that you see that it's shot on a smartphone that you can get it's supposed to make you feel like you can make movies just like that because you get that same smartphone but when you see the behind the scenes of how a lot of these shots go down and how these things are made they can actually kind of have the opposite effect that kind of stuff is not available for 99% of us mere mortals to use but there is luckily for us quite a bit of dope tech that can bring a lot of that down to the consumer level and help us maximize our smartphone cameras more cameras are obviously for the most are really good they're also the most popular camera in the world at this point you may have heard the saying that the best camera is the one you have with you I think that's true but of course you like to take it to the next level so for photos obviously the sensor and the glass on the front of it are the only permanent thing about a smartphone camera lens adapter systems out there exist to add another layer to that so there's a bunch of different styles out there clip-on versions bumper versions case holster versions this one I've grown to like the most is the moment lenses so that's actually the new version the moment v2 and I've gravitated towards this one mostly because of their focus on quality it does require a case which acts as the lens mount and any tiny cine lenses mount to the case to change the field of view the focal length and the capabilities of this camera entirely there's an 18 millimeter lens which is a little wider than the normal field of view there's a super wide angle fisheye version there's even a 10 x macro lens that can get some crazy close up shots so this I think is pretty awesome now the fact that you need a whole case to be the lens mount instead of you know maybe just like a little clip-on accessory means you are a bit restricted it means when you upgrade your phone you have to get a whole new case so that's the downside but the benefit is the precision so you mount the lens over the exact center of the sensor every single time there's never any even getting in the corners no loss of sharpness anywhere in the frame they're polarized lenses too so in terms of really upping the quality gain from the camera of photos these are pretty dope these in particular support a couple of phones but not all of them in fact some I thought they would support they don't but they said it's because they actually wouldn't be a precise fit or they would have something getting or it's not practical so they have a couple you can check out if they're compatible with yours and I was never really into used before as like a cheap alternative to DSLRs but when you think about it that's exactly what these are you can never really match the quality of a DSLR that will always be better but this will always be smaller and always be cheaper now for smartphone video you add a whole other dimension you add movement of the camera a big part of video is movement and you can do a lot handheld you can have really study hands but after a certain point you're going to have some shake you're going to want to stabilize this so taking videos shot on smartphones to the next level means taking stabilization to the next level that's actually where DJI Osmo mobile comes in it's pretty much the standard right now as far as smartphone stabilization goes this thing is built specifically to stabilize a smartphone camera it has some extra controls on the handle of course which are nice when it connects to your phone which can trigger to pan left and right and tilt up and down and get all kinds of cool shots but mainly the operator gets to just point and shoot and start moving and the gimbal smooths out and stabilizes all the little twitches and shakes that come from being handheld and it works really well and I can add a whole new dimension to videos or even live streams or whatever you decide to shoot on your phone it's just up to you to decide how to use it now I found that it doesn't really handle the extra weight of also adding the moment lenses to it so you can't use the Osmo and your phone with the lenses at the same time you need a bigger gimbal that supports a little bit of a heavier payload like something like this Zoo yen tete crane which is made for actual cameras but the gorilla pod adapter let me put my phone on it but that's just if you're feeling daring so bottom line is all this tech exists to help you take your smartphone photo and video game to the next level and of course it's not just about the gear it's also about the strategy and all that you know about photography and video already I could probably make a whole separate video about just that but the whole point is yes a dedicated camera Wald's bigger will definitely do a better job every time in the quality department that's what it's built for but your smartphone cameras will always be at your side they'll always be smaller and they will always be cheaper than actually going on buying a separate camera system so well it might not seem super practical to actually go out and be able to shoot those commercial level crazy high end videos that people are doing with technically smart phone sensors on crazy rigs and jibs and stuff like that it's also a lot of fun to try to maximize what you can do with detect ups in your pocket right now and I feel like that's where a lot of people I tell is to start your YouTube channel with your smartphone cameras you see my inbox like every day there's questions about I have this gear and this lens is this enough to start a YouTube channel right now yes you're probably already set if you can watch this video on something you probably have a device that can shoot video just start doing it right I'm going to end this before I start renting that's pretty much it thank you for watching this quick one and I'll talk to you guys the next one bass