- Welcome to Las Vegas.
Wow, this lighting is absolutely terrible, look at this.
Now this is a pretty common lighting scenario
because people go oh look at this nice view.
Take a picture of me in front of this window
and they're just like completely dark like this.
I need some sort of balance
because all the lighting's coming in this way.
I just need like this towel here,
look at this.
Boom, I got a little bit of lighting on me.
All that lighting is coming in from there,
bouncin' back on my face but we don't need that right now.
Inside this adorable little satchel
is a little lens for your camera phone.
Now these lenses are made by a company called Moment
and you've probably heard of them.
They're kinda the leaders in the phone lens world.
Okay, will this work on here?
Can I just put this in front of my lens?
Not really.
Not this video isn't sponsored by Moment or anything
but to be honest
the first time I heard about these high-end lenses
for your camera phone
I thought it was kinda of a little bit of a gimmick.
I mean my thought was
why don't you just get an actual camera?
But I've been playing with these lenses during this trip
and I actually kind of like them and the main reason
is because this camera may not be as powerful
as a camera like this EOS R that I'm filming on right now
but it's smarter.
So check this out.
If I try to expose me, this background totally blown
out and then if I expose the background
I'm in the shadow again.
So with a scene like this
I would definitely want to maximize the performance
out this camera so I would definitely switch to C log.
So there we go, that looks a little bit nice and flat.
We're getting a little bit more dynamic range performance
but I have to go in and manually color grade my levels
to go up a little bit and that to be down a little bit
so the separation doesn't seem as intense.
A camera like this, always gonna be more powerful
than your camera phone but this on the other hand,
it's a lot smarter.
So right out of the camera, look at that.
That's not bad right?
And notice
that it does a lot of the work for you automatically.
Like I haven't even touched the settings,
this is just straight out of the camera
and it looks like it has more dynamic range
than standard on this camera, 'cause look at this.
On standard the sky just looks totally blown out
and I'm totally in the dark
but the phone does a little bit of a better job
at just balancing it in its smart features.
It's not because the sensor or the lenses on it's better,
it's just smarter.
So the beauty of shooting on your phone
is the convenience of it
and also since the processing is done in the phone
it doesn't have to save a giant file size.
On the EOS R I'm shooting on a flat picture profile
on a pretty big file
so that I can go in and color grade it later
and have that flexibility but since the phone is pretty good
and smart about color grading it
just right here in the phone when it saves it,
it can save it at a much smaller file size
and still have that dynamic range information.
So sure this EOS R better, but convenience wise
this phone's pretty good and the smarter phones get
the more it makes sense
to have some lenses for these phones.
All right, so for my iPhone XS Max
I got the 18mm which is a wide angle lens
and then the 58mm lens, which is much tighter,
it's gonna be more like a zoomed in lens
and an anamorphic lens.
So let's start off with my personal favorite,
the 18mm wide angle lens.
I always felt like the camera phone
was a little bit too zoomed in
so it looks good if you're standing still
and filming other people but if you wanted to move around,
vlog, and do all that stuff
it was a little bit too tight for that.
And our newer phones are starting to come
with these super wide angle lenses built in
and the new iPhone looks like it's gonna have three lenses
so one of those is probably gonna be a super wide angle lens
so that's great that that's already just built in.
But for the rest of us,
I think this 18mm wide angle is probably the most useful.
Next up is the 58mm which zooms in my shot,
and I already have a zoomed in lens on my iPhone XS Max
but the wide angle lens has an F stop of 1.8
which is gonna give me better low light performance
so it's nice to be able to throw it on your standard lens
but you could also throw it on your telephoto lens
and that's gonna give you extra zoom
on top of your zoom lens.
So if you're gonna go to a concert or a sports game
or anything where you're seated far back,
this is a good option.
And then of course there's the anamorphic lens
which I'm actually having a ton of fun with.
Now in case you're not familiar with anamorphic lenses
it basically takes your image and squeezes it in
then afterwards you can take that image
and stretch it back out, and what's the point of that?
You get that super widescreen image
and yeah you can fake that look
by cropping off the top and bottom of your picture
but then you're just slicing into your image.
You're not utilizing your full sensor
and you're gonna be cropped in further
than you might want to
but the beauty of anamorphics
is that it maintains your entire height of your image
and just pulls in extra information from the size.
So instead of just slicing off parts of your image
you're literally gathering more.
And when you start shooting anamorphic
everything feels so good
and everything just feels very grand.
I can't really explain it but it just does
and aside from the obvious widescreen look
it also gives it this certain characteristic
which is always tough to describe with anamorphic lenses.
I think it comes down more to the way the footage feels
because we've seen so many movies and cinema
that's been shot with anamorphics.
And of course, if you're into the flares
then shine a flashlight at it.
Now it's not that difficult to shoot it squeezed
and then just de-squeeze it in post-production
but if you wanna skip that step
then shoot with the Moment app.
And I actually love this Moment app
'cause not only does it let you de-squeeze
your anamorphic shots but it gives you full control
over the camera.
You can monitor your audio levels, your histogram,
and you could actually dial in your ISO
and know exactly what the camera is doing
so that's pretty cool.
It also gives you a flat and log profile,
which is nice in case you want to color grade yourself
and you can manually switch between your standard lens
and your telephoto lens.
So that's a feature
we don't get with the standard camera apps.
Hello Kari.
- Hi. (giggles)
- We're indulging with fancy stuff
like room service right now
'cause Kari just won us a ton of money in poker!
Look at how much money Kari won!
Look at this!
This is a lot of money!
This is how much we buy in with right
and I left with about this much
and ya know still kinda learning
so I think that was pretty good.
I didn't lose everything.
Kari went in with the same amount
and literally destroyed like four people on the table.
It was really great just watching all these grown-ass men
just get destroyed by Kari.
If you guys are poker players and ever happen to see Kari
at a casino just (screams) run!
Look at this one,
this one's $100. - Yep.
- This is $100 chip in here.
Kari I don't know what you're doin' as a teacher.
All right so now we're back in LA
and I'm actually liking it more and more.
One little thing I like about it
is that you can put the anamorphic lens
on either your regular lens or your telephoto
so it's kinda having like two lenses
that are anamorphic with this thing
and then I got the Movi Cinema Robot right here
which you can get some counter balances like I have on here
so that you can take your lenses and it'll balance out okay
and it actually pushes the lens out this way you can see
because with a wider angle
a lot of times it can see the motor right here.
So that's why the phone has to be pushed out that way.
But this combination is definitely really cool.
I mean you just turn it on
and you have an anamorphic gimbal stable shot.
How cool is that?
- [Bystander] I love your reviews.
- Hey, thank you.
(laughing)
It's worth mentioning that the iPhone is really smart
but it's not perfect.
Like in this shot it's a little bit confused
about how to balance out the image
and sand skin tones just look kinda messed up.
So the beauty of professional cameras
are that they're dumb, they don't do anything on their own
so it's very predictable how the image is gonna come out
and of course I have a ton more flexibility with my EOS R.
So my mirrorless cameras and DSLRs, not goin' anywhere.
And I also heard that Moment made some lenses
for the DJI Maverick Pro
so that would actually be really cool.
I was filming a whole bunch of drone footage
while we were at Red Rock Canyon and man
if I had an anamorphic lens on the front of that,
that would've been so cool.
So hopefully I'll get my hands on one soon enough
and go test it out 'cause that's pretty exciting.
Now I definitely went into this a little bit skeptical
about the whole putting a lens on a camera phone
but I actually am starting to see the value of it.
It is super convenient because your phone is always charged
and ready to go so if you're heading out the door
and all you have to do is grab this thing,
then you're good to go.
In a lot of cases
I think this can replace a point-shoot-camera
because yeah they're very compact and portable too but again
you have to make sure there's a memory card in there
that has space and has a battery charge on there.
Certain point-and-shoot cameras
like the ones with a one-inch sensor like the G7 X,
they still have their advantages with that bigger sensor
and they're really good in low light compared to a phone
but if I'm going out
and I know it's going to be bright on a sunny day
then I might just take this with me.
And I asked you guys on Instagram
what you guys thought of lenses on camera phones
and sounds like there's some mixed opinions out there.
"This just like putting gas in your (beep)
"skateboard, (beep)
"don't need it." (laughs)
Phillipbloom says, "Let me think about that for a moment."
Clever, clever.
Discoverwithdima says, "I love Moment lenses,
"they're really great."
I mean yeah Moment lenses are definitely high-quality stuff.
"Why spend that kind of money
"when you can get a real camera for that price?"
That's exactly what I was thinking when I first got these.
"I love using the Moment app
"even though I can't afford the lenses."
That's one of the cool things about the Moment app
is even if you don't have the lenses
you can still install it and it still gives you
some pretty powerful features.
"While not the best tool in the shed
"they offer great versatility
"to an already versatile camera system,
"just one more tool to help in the process."
Thumbs up.
Couldn't have said it better myself, thank you John.
That's why I just read stuff now,
I don't even have to come up with my own opinions
I just read what you guys respond and I make a video ta-da.
(laughs)
But yeah, overall not for everybody
but it's definitely one of the higher quality lenses
you can get for the phone if not the best.
I definitely don't suggest
getting some cheap stuff on the internet, oop,
and luckily it's the crappy one.
Anyways, let's finish this off by reading a few comments
from my last video which was about the DJI Ronin-SC.
Perfect little gimbal for little mirrorless cameras
like this from DJI.
Let's see what you guys had to say about that.
"Potato Jet always has the best product reviews.
"Come on DJI, hook Eugene up with some of that goodies."
Guess who emailed me the other day?
DJI, I'm in, I'm in with yes!
Gerald Undone says, "This was awesome!
"Really fun and funny.
"Loved it."
Thank you Gerald and fun fact about Gerald,
he's really tall.
Are you surprised, are you shocked like me?
See, I may look tiny next to Josh
but Josh looks tiny next to Gerald, true story.
"Hey Potato, what are your thoughts
"about the red SSD mag controversy?"
You know a felt a little bit burnt after that.
I mean, for those of you who don't know
Red has these proprietary SSD mini mags
and they're expensive.
Basically, someone opened up these mini mags
and found out that these SSDs inside of here
are actually really cheap little SSDs
like some that you can buy for 20 bucks
that they're selling for almost a thousand bucks.
Here it says made in the USA
when it was using I think Kingston SSDS
or some like that where it was made overseas.
I don't know, I'll be pretty curious
to see how red responds to this
but I personally never had any issues with my mini mags.
They're still running pretty solid.
So fingers crossed that when they were making mine
they were at least using like $35 SSDs instead of 20, so.
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