On the other hand, if you’d prefer to shoot architecture or street photography, I recommend something between 15mm and 20mm. That combination of excellent optics and ease of use makes Moment stand out among the rapidly growing competition. Image quality on the wide angle lens is great, especially for the price. While they can also be expensive, the special mounting system that they use may be phone model specific so that the lens is in the correct place on your phone. We don’t think the Olloclip Fisheye/Super-Wide/Macro Essential Lenses combo is worth the price. The case system also makes it easier to continue using your Moment lenses when you upgrade your phone; a new case is an inevitable purchase with each new phone, but Moment’s excellent track record of quickly releasing new cases for new phone models means the glass should work with the next generation of your device.

The Moment Wide Lens flies off the shelves and performs as soon as it’s attached to your phone. Moment makes the highest quality attachment lenses on the market.

At $120, the lens also requires a Moment case for proper attachment.

However, these heavy lenses require a clip attachment, and in our experience, a heavy lens mounted via a clip makes the phone feel off-balance and is easy to knock off-kilter (owner reviews confirm this experience with Sirui lenses too). Great for video, time-lapse, panoramas and 360° VR photos.

The iPhone has consistently had one of the best cameras on a smartphone, and Moment has consistently offered the best iPhone lenses to extend the photographic capabilities of Apple's smartphone. Shop the gear creators actually recommend. ... We want nothing but the best experience for our customers and your current internet browser does not support many of the features we offer to provide that experience and to ensure your security. Verdict: 4/10. Because it’s so easy to use and protective, we didn’t mind keeping the case on even without the lenses.

Once the footage is re-stretched out to a 21:9 aspect ratio, the distortion-free video is amazing. If you want to use the lenses with a gimbal like the DJI Osmo Mobile 2 you will also have to invest in a counterweight to keep the gimbal stable. And yet good optics will help you get amazing photos, while poor optics will result in consistently blurry images (maybe even with vignetting and color fringing). The best thing about the case (apart from the snug fit and quality look and feel) is the fact that Moment lenses easily twist and lock into the lens mount housing which is located around the phone lens. Offering 10x magnification, the Moment macro lens comes with a plastic diffuser hood.

There is no rear lens cap to protect the back of the lens but there is a provided velvet bag that you can safely secure with drawstrings to keep your lens protected when not in use.

Setting a budget will help you choose the best option for your needs. The AnazaLea is a budget lens kit for iPhone photographers, offering both a wide angle and a macro lens. Moment’s wide-angle lens delivers crisp, clear photos with a wider angle of view than a phone’s fixed lens offers, without adding noticeable distortion.

So even though the price is considerably lower than that of the Moment system and the image quality was terrific in our tests, the ShiftCam combo itself is difficult to use.

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Without the additional cost of a specific case, the Pro Cinema Wide G4 is a more affordable glass-optics choice, but you should know that clip-on systems are always a little fussy, as a slight bump can jar the lens out of place and ruin your image. Black Eye lenses also come with a lens cap that is terribly tricky to remove.

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Phone compatibility: iPhone 6-XS Max, Pixel-3 XL, Galaxy Note 8, 9, S8-S10+, OnePlus 6, 6T (all require separate case) | Included lenses: Macro. In terms of image quality, these lenses are a noticeable step down from those of the Ztylus Revolver M Series Lens Kit, with blurring throughout the frame, including the center. I’m a photojournalist, a writer, and a professional photographer, and I have a wide range of experience researching, testing, and writing about photography trends, techniques, and tools—including in my role as mobile-imaging editor at DPReview, the most popular camera review site on the Web. Most people fall into one of two categories of smartphone photographer: the enthusiast who uses their phone’s camera just as seriously and frequently as they would any other camera in their arsenal, and the more casual snapshot shooter. Get one email per week for one year (Unsubscribe at any time).