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- Yeah, this is gonna be longer than two minutes.
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Okay. What's up, guys?
What's up everybody.
Um, downtown Toronto right now, super windy, super cold,
my hands are frozen, my body's frozen,
my face is frozen.
It's even hard to, like, speak without mumbling.
I apologize for that, but we're at the skate park
with the guys from Moment. Mattie's here,
and they came down to show us a new prototype item
that they're coming out with that is oh!
Super exciting.
I'm legit pumped about it.
So let's go introduce you to these guys,
I think they're skating right now.
There he is, just shreddin.
Let's go meet him.
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[Peter] State your name for the record, please.
- My name is Caleb, I work at Moment.
- [Peter] And you're out here, I said,
shredding the concrete waves?
- Yeah. Peter and Mattie brought us to
kind of this sketchy skate park.
I'm not that good, but my bag of five tricks
might hold up here.
- [Peter] Yeah, no, it'll be great.
- Testing out the new anamorphic lens, so.
- Oh, we're allowed to talk about it?
I was being all cryptic.
- Well, if it comes out on Tuesday.
- [Peter] This, this is your vlog camera.
- Yeah, dude, I mean--
- This like, outdoes me. - Yeah, you know.
- Look at this. You're vlogging on a C100 right now.
- Okay, you guys all know, like, this is obscene enough.
A 1D action, like, dead cow, all that.
A C100, look.
- Now you got this spot.
- You one-hand it.
Oh my goodness.
- The Sigma 18-35.
And that - it looks pretty good.
- [Peter] It looks absurd.
- No girl applaud, but you got the good hand placement here.
- [Peter] Oh, that is so funny.
- Alright, what is this, tell me what this is.
- Alright, so we got the anamorphic lens,
1.33 anamorphic lens.
- [Peter] Explain what that means to everybody on my channel
that's like, what's, what's that?
- Gosh, that honestly is, like, the question of the century
is 'What is anamorphic?'
Essentially, what it does is, it's gonna
make the front of your image look more compressed,
but also achieving, like, a wide angle.
So you see this in, like, Hollywood, in movies,
like, basically--
- [Peter] In my B-roll that I take?
- Yeah, yeah, totally.
Oh, yeah, that's such a good point.
Everyone puts black bars on their footage,
that is because of anamorphic.
And I don't even think a lot of people know that.
Do you think people know that?
- [Peter] No, I don't think they do.
- [Peter] I do it, like, to simulate that anamorphic look.
- Exactly.
- [Peter] Because I'm not, obviously,
getting it with the DSLR.
- Exactly, so you would compress it.
- [Peter] This, this gives it to you.
A straight-up, ana actual anamorphic lens.
And the flares look so good.
Tell me about the flares.
- So the flare game is so strong with the anamorphic.
Basically, that's what you want, you want
it kind of bends the light horizontally,
so, you know, if you see movies like,
headlights, or flashlights,
especially in like, Stranger Things,
there's tons of flares and they're dialed,
they look super good.
It's just like a cinematic look.
I don't know when that became--
- [Peter] And they're basically just done
from an anamorphic lens.
- Yeah, it just happens naturally in-lens.
And I know people are like, putting that
in their footage now, too, you're like adding
a flare to the sun, but, - [Peter] Yeah, yeah.
- At least for big cameras, anamorphic lenses are like,
thousands and thousands of dollars.
This is affordable, and goes on your phone.
- [Peter] It goes on your phone.
Okay, hold it up, let me see it
Oh, I'm so pumped for this, show me like,
a nice crispy view.
Ooh!
Look at that.
- My like, frigid hands.
- [Peter] Yeah, it's cold here, sorry.
Canada apologizes. Look at that, that is dope.
- Yeah. Thanks dude.
- Okay, let's insert some footage of flares here
from said lens, so you guys can see
what we're talking about.
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Alright, it's too cold, we're outta here.
Going to get something to eat.
Okay, we're talking Moment,
that's what we're talking about, right?
Moment Lenses. Moment Lenses. Now,
I came home because it was too cold in the city,
it was too windy, it was just like.
It just wasn't optimal vlogging conditions,
and I had the thought, I don't have to be here and do this.
So I decided to come home.
I think it's important to say, first,
they're not paying me to say any of this.
I don't work for Moment,
they didn't ask me to say anything in these videos.
They didn't even ask me to make these videos.
I don't even have that new lens,
I'm pretty sure it's a Kickstarter thing,
if anything I'll drop the link below,
because they're good guys.
The two dudes that are running, like, their social front
Caleb and Niles.
Two super-awesome individuals that care about filmmaking
and photography and the process, the art
as much as I do, and they chose to come to Toronto
to spend their time with us.
Me, Mattie, Chris, Jessie,
the "Dope Squad" if you will.
And I'm just really appreciative of that.
So I thought that like, I just wanted to
share this experience with you guys.
It's such a cool product. Because, I mean,
I have Moment lenses.
I have the mackerel lens, the telephoto lens,
the super-wide, which is one of my favorites.
The other wide, which is in my backpack.
They're great products, but to see that they've actually
made a lens specifically for, like, cinematography
being an anamorphic lens,
I mean, anamorphic lenses are so expensive, and
that's some high-end cinema gear right there.
So to be able to just offer that to an everyday, like,
mobile user, to put the power of anamorphic lens
and flares, and the nice wide screen
into the everyday user,
I just.
I'm pumped on that.
If you guys wanna learn more about anamorphics specifically
I think Mattie's doing a video on it that should be
either up today or tomorrow, if not,
I'll link it below, but keep an eye out for it.
I think he's gonna dive into the specifics, you know,
show before and after and what anamorphic actually means.
And I know Niles explained it like two minutes ago
in this video, but if you're wanting to learn more about it
cause it's super fascinating.
Yeah, check out Mattie's video,
or just do some research on it, it's really cool.
That's why I'm so pumped that they're offering it now.
Alright, I'm gonna wrap this up real quick.
I just wanted to end on the note of that neon footage.
Now that whole little segment, I didn't shoot that,
Caleb and Niles shot all that stuff.
But I wanted to include it because it looked so good.
And it kind of just proves a point
that I really really like, which is like,
good light, good location, some good props,
and someone that knows how to use a camera,
even if that's just a mobile phone,
you can get incredible looking,
incredibly cinematic-looking footage.
Like, that stuff looked great.
And it was all done on a device that sits in your pocket.
So, to me, it's proof of concept, right?
But to have this power in your pocket.
Exciting times, folks. Exciting times.
Caleb, Niles, it was a pleasure meeting you guys.
So dope hanging out, thanks for including me.
And you guys at home watching,
thank you so much for watching this video.
Check out all the links below if you wanna
further dive into the anamorphic world.
If you wanna check out their lens on Kickstarter,
any of that. If you just wanna say hi.
Hit that like button if you liked this video.
Smash it, if that's something that you're into.
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And, and, I will see you guys later in the week.
Peace!
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