Hey everyone. My name is Victor Melchor and welcome back to the channel.
Today we're going to be talking about my experience shooting on my
phone and the moment anamorphic lens.
So, a few weeks ago. I took a trip to Hawaii with my girlfriend and our family.
And I knew I wanted to film,
but I didn't want to bring all my camera gear with me
because not only was this a backpack that I had to carry through the airport.
This is also a backpack that I have to carry with us on beach
trips on hikes, literally anytime we'd go anywhere that I want to film.
So it all came down to a convenience factor for me.
And that's where my phone in the moment anamorphic lens.
Had me really hyped. The fact that I can fit both my phone and my lens in my pocket,
and still get great videos. Something that I was really interested in.
So now, let's get into what an anamorphic lens actually does passing the camera to you.
Mr. Victor. Hey, what's up Victor? So what an anamorphic lens does is squeeze your footage.
So you could then desqueeze it in post
so you can get this grand, ultra-wide cinematic aspect ratio,
and if you go within the moment pro camera app and you go to your lens selection,
and you select anamorphic. This will actually desqueeze the footage
for you and it'll save you an extra step in the editing process.
So essentially that's what an anamorphic lens does.
And the reason why it's associated with being cinematic
is because there's so many popular movies that are either shot with anamorphic lenses
or they're actually cropped to emulate that anamorphic aspect ratio.
That's because this ultra wide screen look tends to just give you a much more grand look.
And that's also another reason why I wanted to shoot Hawaii with this
is because I really wanted to capture the beauty of Hawaii
and capture these grand landscapes that are very,
unique to Hawaii specifically. So yeah,
and also one of the reasons you would want to shoot with an actual anamorphic
lens rather than just put those black bars on top
and bottom is because it's not actually cropping out the top and bottom.
It's stretching your footage. So you what you're seeing is what you're getting.
And the characteristics of this anamorphic lens are really cool and really unique.
The first one is that you get some distortion around the edges,
which it technically makes your image imperfect,
but I think it has some cool character
and it gives it like a cool look too. And another cool characteristic is the lens flares.
So for example, when you're shooting without an anamorphic lens,
you get these circular lens flares, and they do kind of look cool.
But once you start shooting with anamorphic lens,
all the flares that you're going to get in your camera are going to be
these really cool blue streaks across your footage,
whether you're pointing it at the sun or you're pointing at headlights.
Or just anything? That's really bright. Every time I see that blue streak lens flare.
I don't know. I always just get kind of hyped. It looks pretty cool in your footage.
And now onto what I liked about shooting on my phone and the anamorphic lens.
So overall filming in Hawaii with both of these was great.
I had a great experience with it. And for me,
it's the convenient King. I really enjoyed it.
It wasn't once getting in the way of me experiencing and enjoying my trip.
It was just something that was in my pocket.
And if I saw a shot that I wanted to get I would just take it out,
put the lens on and get it.
And also what I wanted to do
when I was shooting is potentially get some
footage for YouTube with the anamorphic lens and also just some vertical videos,
just with the native iPhone lens.
And the way I did it is that out actually just put my anamorphic lens
on and I would shoot all the anamorphic footage.
I wanted within the moment, Pro Camera app.
And then after that, I would just take the lens off
and I would switch back to the native iPhone app.
I was able to film a fun, little food Tik-Tok and vertical video for Instagram reels,
but I was also able to shoot some cool little cinematic shots
that I really wanted to get with this lens.
And again, it was all seamless, the apps weren't buggy at all.
It was really fun. Really fun experience. Truly
what stood out to me is how good phone quality has gotten both for pictures and videos.
It's so good. That I feel like aside from the trained eye of photographers and filmmakers.
Your general audience isn't going to notice that much of a huge difference.
And say the videos. I shoot on my camera are getting like a thousand.
Well, people are going out
and shooting cinematic videos on their iPhones and getting millions of views on Tik,
Tok or Instagram Reels. Not that views matter,
but I guess my point that I'm saying is that you could definitely get great exposure
and shoot a lot of really great stuff with your phone.
So I feel like the barrier of needing a professional camera is slowly kind of closing in.
Also what I really liked is that you do need a case to run the moment lens
and connect it onto your phone,
but they make a lot of really, really nice cases.
This is the thin case and it's not clunky at all.
I really like the color. I have this case on my phone all the time,
regardless of, if I'm actually shooting with the lens or not.
So that's everything I liked and Now on to what I didn't like,
this is a very short list. It's actually only one thing.
So on the moment then case it's a detachable plastic piece that you actually slip in for them out.
Once you slide it on, the mounts just ever so slightly loose.
I noticed it was windy on one shot that I had gotten
and it looks like a mixture of both my hands shaking probably
and also this moving around but the lens was.
kind of- it looked like it was kind of like shifting around just ever so slightly.
So yeah, that's like one small thing that just kind of bothered me.
But again, no shot should be like. You should not be filming like this.
You should be trying to get as stable, nice footage.
as you can. Just a quick tip for anybody that shooting with any moment app.
I Some of the shots from the moment app didn't look as crisp as others
when I was watching it on my phone
and I believe the reason behind that
is because you need to go within the app and go to your bit rate setting and switch it to high.
This will give you the opportunity to capture the highest amount of information
you can within your footage. So that's all, I wouldn't consider that a negative.
I would just make that a note to change that setting yourself. Hey everyone, editor
Victor here. I noticed I was going on a little bit of a rant in my conclusion.
So I just wanted to make this a little bit more concise.
For anyone that wants to dive into filmmaking
and take the time and invest into cinema cameras, by all means you totally should.
I just wanted to make this another viable option
for someone who doesn't have it within their budget to go out
and buy a camera and I don't think we should look at this as a direct comparison to our cameras.
I think we should look at it
as another tool to create and have fun and this is definitely a fun making machine.
Even if you don't have the lens, you can still create some amazing stuff with your phone alone.
So anyways, that's all for today and I just want to say thank you for watching.
And let me know if you have any questions in the comments down below and I will see you in the next one.