We love to shoot video and we’ve always wanted gear that makes our phones as good as our big cameras. Today we have that...introducing the Moment Filmmaker Collection. An Anamorphic Lens, iPhoneX Battery Photo Case, Universal Counterweight, and Lens Filters.
I'm not even a mobile filmmaker, but this video had me hooked. Amazing job Marc and co. I think you're solving exactly the right problem at the perfect time.
I love the horizontal flares effect !! I was wondering if you can do such effect on a software level? Anyway nice jobs guys!
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if you are debating on Lenses I strongly suggest you consider how what are your usual subject. I personally found that the Wide lens is my go-to lens. I take it everywhere I go! While the tele and macro lens I don’t use as often.
I love the battery case, but it can be heavy, definitely pair it with a wristlet or the neck strap.
Ps used the product for more than a month but less than a year l
Pros:
I can’t rave enough about Moment & their lenses. They are by far the best product on the market & an amazing team. Go with moment #noregret
Cons:
I don’t have any at the moment. Just too happy with it. The benefit just outway cons.
You have to own one to understand how much of a game changer moment lenses are in the mobile photography world. Lucky enough I own 2 and the 3rd is coming soon.
hey everyone, we're really excited to launch our next set of gear...our Filmmaker Collection. happy to answer questions about making / producing this gear, making hardware, or building hardware startups. @moment started five years ago on kickstarter, building this one product at a time.
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Moments products make magic. You seriously can't go wrong with anything they produce. I spent the better part of my afternoon today watching all the videos featuring this new lens and it looks incredible for the mobile creative. I do a ton of mobile photography and often forget my car keys at home more than my moment wide angle.
This looks absolutely amazing. I’d love to hear more of the backstory... What it takes to bring something like this to life and gain traction. Congratulations!
@prsarahevans hey sara. happy to share the high level points....
we started in 2013, basically we were using our phones more and more but missing elements from our traditional cameras. so we put a first lens set together to give people a different pov on their phone. that first project raised $500K which helped us get started.
fast forward 4 years you learn a lot with each new product. some of the gear we've launched has done better than we thought and some worse. this did way better.
recently the number one request we have been getting is more video. from the success of filmmakers -> vloggers, snapchat, ig stories, etc people are just shooting more video. with traditional cameras an anamorphic lens delivers amazing video but was always expensive. so we wanted to come out with something that was great and more affordable.
when designing lenses we spend a lot of time tinkering with different optical design directions, playing with size and layers of glass, etc. what made this design hard was figuring out how to optically align the lens so it would work when shooting in both landscape and vertical. on the KS page we show this but the back of the lens rotates 90 degrees so you can shoot either direction.
we definitely have a few months of work ahead of us as we move through production so fingers crossed we don't hit too many....oh $%^& moments. ;-)
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if you are debating on Lenses I strongly suggest you consider how what are your usual subject. I personally found that the Wide lens is my go-to lens. I take it everywhere I go! While the tele and macro lens I don’t use as often.
I love the battery case, but it can be heavy, definitely pair it with a wristlet or the neck strap.
Ps used the product for more than a month but less than a year l
Pros:I can’t rave enough about Moment & their lenses. They are by far the best product on the market & an amazing team. Go with moment #noregret
Cons:I don’t have any at the moment. Just too happy with it. The benefit just outway cons.
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