Ahoj! Look at that clip or than one. Those were shot with the Moment
anamorphic lens. What I've got here is my Android Samsung Galaxy S10 plus and 2
gimbals. DJI Osmo mobile 3 and Zhiyun smooth 4. Today though, I want to talk
about the Moment anamorphic lens in great detail including some tips and
tricks. And if you are new here, welcome. My name is Zdenka Darula. I create photo
and video tutorials, tech reviews and creative camera challenges, so if that's
something you're interested in, consider subscribing. Many of you who watched my
DJI Osmo Mobile 3 videos asked me if I'm using Moment lenses. So what I did, I
reached out Moment and they provided me with this beautiful setup. This is not a
sponsored video, however they did provide the product for a review. So what is anamorphic
lens? Those lenses are usually super expensive and you will find them
in Hollywood, but these days they are no longer just in Hollywood. How does Moment
describe their lens? The lens is made with aerospace grade metal and the same
hand polished glass used for high and 4k film lenses. The 1.33 x anamorphic lens
will bring you the widescreen letterbox look and beautiful creamy flares. As they
say, you can now capture a super wide angle image with the inherent shallow
depth of field and perspective of a telephoto lens. It mounts over any lens
on your smartphone. It is compatible with the Moment photo cases, battery cases and
wallet cases. Simply twist and lock. Twist and lock, twist
and take out. When I'm holding the lens in my hands, I can absolutely see the
quality. The quality is absolutely there. The lens comes with this really nice
lens cap which is very tight and it's not gonna fall off. It holds very very
well. On the other side, there is no cover. There's no lens cap but it came with
this really cool bag so you carry it inside of it.
Also on the back, there's a little screw so that I guess is for adjusting the
lens. Can the dust get in? Well, I cannot really answer that question, I would have
to have it for a long time but realistically I think the dust can get
in so keep it on your phone most of the time or in the bag. Don't just have it
lay down somewhere on a table. I took it out the other day and I did a lot of
filming with it and I took lot of photos and there are a lot of things I really
like about it. First and foremost, those cinematic bars. I like to add it to my
b-roll in my videos. There is simply something about the wide view. Now, I've
been in photography business for 14 years and in those years I trained
myself to perfect framing. What I mean is when I'm taking a photo, I need to see
the final image already framed perfectly on my camera because when I simply
upload it to Photoshop or Lightroom I don't want to waste my time cropping the
image. And it works amazing when I'm taking photos. It really helps a lot, it
saves me a lot of time. But it works against me when I do video because most
of the time when I'm filming, I don't realize, or I completely forget
that I want to add those cinematic bars in a post. So I will take out a lot of
space on the top and at the bottom and obviously when I upload the footage on a
computer then I'm just very upset at myself because there's not simply enough
room. I can't crop it down, it's just, it just looks bad once I add the cinematic
bar so that's one of the reasons I really like the anamorphic lens. I
already see, I already see the footage with those bars on the top at the bottom.
I can do the perfect framing right there. I don't have to worry about the fact
that I'm gonna lose some more of the image. I really like that a lot.
The streaks are cool, I don't always have to have it in every single shot. I'm not
purposely choosing scenes just to film the streaks. As far as depth of field
goals, cell phones don't really have such a depth of field you would get with
bigger lenses from mirrorless cameras or DSLRs. You can also use it for
photography. You will get excellent shots in this
really wide view which can be very interesting. Especially, if you place the
main subject in the center, closer to the camera. These photos stand out and are
visually interesting and powerful. Well, how do you film with the anamorphic lens?
You can film with it in just regular camera app and you can obviously take
photos there as well. It's just your photos and the video will look kind of
squeezed. You are not gonna see the final result as you are filming. You will have
to disqueeze the footage and photos in post. If you will be using gimbal, you can
use the gimbals app just like DJI Osmo Mbile 3 has DJI Mimo or Zhiyun smooth 4 has
ZY app. But the same thing applies here. You will kind of see that squeezed
footage here, not gonna see the final result yet. You will have to disqueeze
it again in the post. The best is to use filmic Pro all the way. You will be able
to control everything here. You can shoot manually and you can already see the
result as you are filming or you can use Moment Pro camera app. The app doesn't
come with moment lenses. You have to purchase it separately. It is $5.49. It does
offer manual controls and you can disqueeze your photos and videos there.
You can also do that in Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro. We should
talk about gimbals. Is it too heavy for the gimbals? I have two of them here.
Quite popular right now one is DJI Osmo Mobile 3. The other one is Zhiyun smooth 4.
What I would like to know... is it too heavy for the gimbals? Is it gonna affect
the motors? Is it gonna work them too hard? Is it gonna be even able to balance
it? This phone Samsung Galaxy S 10 plus it's quite heavy phone on its own and
when you add the anamorphic lens, you will definitely feel, you will definitely
feel the extra weight. When I was communicating with the Moment rep, they
suggested that the setup might be a little bit hard on the motors on the DJI
Osmo mobile 3 gimbal and that was before I even told them which lens I'm going to
pick. And they have very wide selection of lenses.
Some of them are much heavier than the anamorphic lens. So let's start with the
DJI Osmo mobile 3 gimbal. Well, the balancing is OK. I had to move the phone
quite a bit this way to get that right. Once you turn it on, you can see that it's
is working. The gimbal is working with it, it can balance it, you can use it but
when you start watching the phone quite a bit, you can see it is sort of drifting
and then you look at the footage, it's definitely cricket, it has a hard time
balancing the phone. This is heavy setup. Also, when you're listening to it
very closely, you can hear vibrations in the gimbal. That means that it is working
hard the gimbal. I don't know what would happen to the motors down the road if I
would be using it like this for a while. If it would damage the motors. I gotta
say that the Moment guys were right about this. I think that this setup, this
particular heavy phone with the Anamorphic lens is way too heavy for DJI Osmo Mobile
3 gimbal and it could potentially damage the motors. If you're
going to be using it a lot. I gotta say definitely, it feels that it's too heavy.
Smaller phone with the same lens would probably be okay. Next gimbal is Zhiyun
smooth 4. Much bigger and stronger gimbal than DJI Osmo Mobile 3. Moment also
send me this counterweight here so I can balance it properly and it's balanced
really well now. I had to move the phone a little bit now this way and I can
actually tell that it could handle even heavier phone than I have. So let's just
turn it on and I was playing with it the other day, I was walking around, I was
filming with it. There's no vibration, there's no sound, anything like that, so
it is working no problem. This gimbal can handle absolutely anamorphic lens and
heavier Moment lenses. This gimbal Zhiyun smooth 4 is very different than DJI
Osmo Mobile 3 gimbal. It is definitely more advanced,
it's sometimes even more complicated. It's geared towards serious smartphone
filmmakers, but on that topic I'm gonna talk about in future videos. I'm gonna
review it properly and compare it to all other gimbals I actually have here. Links
to all this you'll find in the video description below, just below the video
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know what do you think about the anamorphic lens? Are you using any Moment
lenses, are you using any of those gimbals or other gimbals? Let me
know. I'm just very curious. I always try to read all the comments and I try to
respond and I will see everyone in the next video. Cau.... Ahoj...