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most people don't know that the lenses on your phone aren't just lenses they're

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more like completely separate cameras each with their own image sensor so if

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you've ever experienced lackluster performance from your phone's telephoto

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or ultrawide cameras it's probably because they're equipped with smaller or

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lower resolution sensors with slower lenses that capture less light that's

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where the idea of products like this come from if you put an accessory lens

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over top of your main shooter in theory you get the best of all worlds creative

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flexibility and a higher quality image without the

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bulk of a traditional camera but most people do know it's going to take a lot

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more to convince me that this can replace

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accessory phone lenses are nothing new and they've gotten a lot more refined

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over the years these feel great they're really quick to swap and they're really

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conveniently sized compared to normal lenses but there's a problem at a cost

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of a hundred and twenty dollars each for these wide and telephoto lenses

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they really need to outperform my phone's stock cameras can they be

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justified actually yes but it's complicated here's our first photo of

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downtown vancouver's olympic village starting with the ultrawide on the

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iphone stock and the 18 millimeter moment lens on the iphone's primary

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shooter at first glance they aren't that different the field of view is different

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which causes the perspective to change a little bit like how the bridge looks

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shorter in this photo once we punch in though the story changes a bit and we

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start to see one of the benefits of an external lens setup like this our moment

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setup definitely delivered a better result dark parts of the scene

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demonstrate the better dynamic range of the main shooter and the image isn't as

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soft as the iphone stock ultra wide it's particularly noticeable in the back

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buildings where the lines on the stock ultrawide start to become mushy while

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they remain relatively defined on the moment lens setup to see if this result

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can be replicated for cheaper we also grabbed this 45 zenvo lens from amazon

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for starters it's really finicky to place compared to the phone's case twist

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system on the moment no matter where i put it i got heavy vignetting every

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single time which gets old fast and even if it fits your phone better there's

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also a shocking amount of distortion towards the edges of the frame

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to be clear the moment lens isn't perfect in this regard either but it's

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so much better than this generic clip-on i'll focus just on stock versus moment

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for the rest of this video on to the telephoto lenses the first thing that

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stands out to me here is how amazing apple's deep fusion has gotten this 65

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millimeter shot looks great in comparison the 58 millimeter moment

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setup is a touch wider at first glance and seems

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not as punchy it's hard to tell exactly what's happening here until we zoom in

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and wow the supports on the buildings look so

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much more defined on the stock telephoto and i had to double check if the moment

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setup was out of focus it wasn't

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what a plot twist of course this could be a one-off let's see how we do in an

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indoor scene this is a very challenging shot due to the beam of sun coming

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through the window and once again the stock telephoto was clearly the better

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performer i don't even have a good explanation for how much worse the

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moment setup is here except to guess that maybe something about using an

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accessory lens interferes with apple's auto exposure once again multiple

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attempts didn't really improve the capture quality much at all the moment

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ultrawide lens on the other hand was a much stronger competitor sort of Linus

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and i both found the image noticeably warmer which isn't a big problem it's

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just something we noticed and as for clarity

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it's a little complicated at the edge of the frame this lobster sign above the

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cast register becomes illegible with the moment but look at these nuts in the

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center of the frame apple's ai sharpening is clearly compensating in

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the stock photo while the moment setup retains a much more natural look up to

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this point it feels like the moment lenses can deliver better results but it

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can end up working against apple's own multi-shot compositing and ai cleanup

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fascinating for sanity then we moved on to a note 20 ultra to compare the

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results in this photo of a statue our 12 megapixel stock ultrawide did a pretty

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good job retaining detail in the shadows and has overall minimal fringing even on

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difficult objects like our flagpoles as for the moment this is what it was made

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for the main shooter on this phone is a whopping 108 megapixels

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so when it face planted i was shocked i'm not trying to be mean but this isn't

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great this lens flare is one thing but the fact that it's

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orange is another and we got this weird blue fringing on the edge of our statue

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detail-wise i can find places where it's a little sharper than the stock if i

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looked for them but considering the 9x increase in pixel count and the fact

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that the object is optically closer i'm not calling that a w

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and here's the notes telephoto versus the 58 millimeter moment lens attached

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to the main camera i think the stock lens edges a win here it's tighter to

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begin with offers better detail and has less ghosting overall some people might

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not like how noisy and processed it looks compared to the moment setup but

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to my eye it's worth the trade-off for the additional warmth that we've now

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confirmed comes from the moment lenses and the bokeh here is not the most

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appealing and yet for some reason this video is

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not over yet that reason is video look

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at this in this darker lit studio scene you can see that the ultrawide camera on

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the iphone is significantly worse than the primary shooter with the 18

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millimeter moment lens the stock image has a lot of unpleasant looking noise

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and lacks sharpness which is especially noticeable on the spinning globe and

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this clipboard at the back ltzstar.com get yours

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and this same scene on the telephoto tells a similar story with the noise and

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overall detail improving dramatically on the moment this seems to confirm our

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theory about deep fusion or other multi-shot compositing techniques

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working against a clip-on lens setup like moments the thing is

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no lens setup especially one for a hundred and thirty dollars is optically

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perfect and no hand is perfectly steady so when you've got multiple shots that

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need to be combined for better dynamic range or sharpness the moment's

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imperfections can end up multiplying themselves video by nature doesn't lean

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so heavily on these kind of processing techniques double checking on the note

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20 ultra the ultrawide and moment 18 millimeter are honestly very similar in

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performance here there is a minor difference in the dynamic range of

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taran's shirt on the note's primary shooter with the moment lens but even

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punched in 200 noise and detail are very close so i

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don't know if it's worth the price but at least it's functioning as intended

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giving me additional shooting options on the telephoto end the 58 millimeter on

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the primary camera is a bit wider than the note stock telephoto detail wise

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they are again quite similar but i will give the edge to the moment setup with a

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slightly more pleasing bokeh it adds the background of this shot however if range

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matters more to you than the stock telephoto on the note wins here the last

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and most interesting lens moment makes for video is their anamorphic this is

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the one i'd personally use the most out of the bunch because it's the one that you simply can't replicate from a stock

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camera on any phone for those unfamiliar anamorphic shooting allows you to shoot

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ultra wide cinematic footage with a standard aspect ratio sensor see i could

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shoot ultra wide like this but then i'm giving up valuable resolution so instead

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i could use a lens that squeezes the image while i'm shooting then i can

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unsqueeze it in post or if you're lazy

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or want the convenience moment has a 10 app that includes an on-the-fly

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d-squeeze so you can preview your work immediately this lens is a little bit

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more expensive at 150 dollars but this is exactly the kind of thing that can

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add a lot of cinematic fun for future jj abrams who want to play with lens flare

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so in conclusion if you're the kind of person who makes a lot of videos on your

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iphone i can see the moment lenses or something similar potentially being very

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useful to you but for everyone else the stock ultrawide and telephoto on the

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iphone and other phones in its class are likely all you need unless you need more

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in which case your money is probably better spent on a decent secondhand body

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and a basic lens which this is not even if it's less convenient to carry or

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