Moment lenses for iPhone: a Little review to get acquainted

Image courtesy of  Warren R.M. Stuart at Flickr.com

Technology right now is amazing everybody everywhere at all times. Every day we see a new advance and a new breakthrough that amazes us in every way possible. For example, mobile phones and their applications. We see new things come out every day and new apps that help people get entertained or organize their lives or even start a new business. 

Well, there are some other devices out there that can be considered as accessories for the iPhones that are also getting very trendy. One of those accessories is the lens that can be attached to the iPhone and used as a regular camera.

These accessories make the camera on your iPhone have all the variations that any other camera has when you apply the lenses. These accessories appeared in the market due to the demand form users to have more option to pictures when they were in trips and vacations. Also, professional photographers wanted more options to the camera that already had amazing applications for their back up pictures.

Two of those lenses are the Moment Wide Lens and Tele Lens that offer the users something a little different, something especially practical: unlike other iPhone camera lenses that sit on top of your phone, Moment’s lenses attach to your iPhone’s lens using a special plate which is specially good for travelers and people that want to have variety on the go for their iPhone pictures. This feature is a thin, strong piece of metal that adheres to the back of your phone like a sticker and has a screw that works just like the lens screw that you can find in DSLR camera and that allows you to screw on different lenses. The brand Moment went live in Kickstarter to look for funding for this pair of lenses in 2014. Yes, the lenses help the users take better pictures, but the mounting system is the state of the art that attracts so many buyers.

This system sticks to the phone and has the hole that will receive the lenses. Installing the Moment lenses’ adhesive plate is not a big deal and does not require a great amount of time. This plate-based installation system is an amazing advantage for techies that love to have the latest iPhone model because they can use the same lenses in their new IPhones without buying new lenses, but by buying a new mount for 10 dollars and installing it in their new phones

It is not all peaches and cream because you have to semi-permanently attach the mounting plate to your iPhone. You really have to be committed to having lenses and to using your phone as a camera more often than regular people. If you decide later on that you really don’t want the mount any more on your phone, you will have to heat the mount system up using a hair dryer in order to get it off your device. Also, special occasions are a key thing. Neither lens is very big as compared with other lenses but they are bulky and not comfortable to have around all day. So you have to choose the moment to put them on. Attaching the lenses isn’t exactly a quick process, either. When you see something you want to snap a shot of, you have to reach into your bag, pull out the pouch, take out the lens, and then line the lens up just right so that it locks into place. 

Image courtesy of  Warren R.M. Stuart at Flickr.com

When you use the lenses the difference in the photos is amazing. For example, the telephoto lens allows you to capture close up pictures of things that are very far that you could never get with your regular iPhone camera. There was a very happy user that took a close-up photo of Alcatraz from a dock where she could barely make it out with her eyes, and she could actually see it in the picture. When using the telephoto lens along with the iPhone’s built-in zoom she was able to get close enough to read previously unreadable signs and get a good look at people who were once just small figures in the frame.

On the other hand, with the wide angle lens users can take pictures that cover crowds and that include as many things possible into the frame at very closes distances. For example, you can take pictures of buildings when you are standing in front of them or across the street. There’s a bit of frames on the corners of the images, but nothing that couldn’t be easily removed in a photo editor or with a little cropping.

Take a look at this amazing article to understand more about gadgets for smartphones and how they are changing the way we use mobile technology.