Plus, the sheriff is a very small stage, the only home we've ever known additional equipment.

So have you ever wondered about those shot on iPhone commercials or about any of those shot on any smartphone commercials?

Are those clips actually shot on smartphones?

Well, the answer is technically, yes, but often with some heavy adaptation.

A lot of times you can get a perfect shot out of a smartphone with just the camera hand held in perfect conditions.

No problem.

But that's pretty rare, and you can often guarantee a much better shot if you have a little gear with you.

So take this example of the video shot entirely on phones.

Some of shots are literally just a smartphone, so smartphone on a selfie stick or a smartphone on amount.

No special attachment needed.

But a lot of other shots get much more complicated.

Smartphone on a tiny drone smartphone on a much bigger drone smartphone attached to a city lens with a wireless follow focus on a gimbal attached to a motorized remote control four world skateboard.

That is a lot so at the end of the video of the commercial or whatever you're watching, you see shot on a smartphone.

And a main point of those commercials is that you see that it's shot on a smartphone that you can get.

It's supposed to make you feel like you can make movies just like that, because you get that same smartphone.

But when you see them behind the scenes of have a lot of these shots go down and how these things are made, it actually kind of have the opposite effect.

That kind of stuff is not available for 99% of us mere mortals to use.

But there is, luckily for us, quite a bit of dope tech that can bring a lot of that down to the consumer level and help us maximize our smartphone cameras.

Cameras are obviously, for the most part, really good.

They're also the most popular camera in the world at this point, and you may have heard the saying that the best camera is the one you have with you.

I think that's true.

But of course you like to take it to the next level.

So for photos, obviously, the sensor and the glass on the front of it are the only permanent thing about a smartphone camera lens adapter systems out there exist toe.

Add another layer to that, so there's a bunch of different styles out there.

Clip on versions, bumper versions, case holster versions.

This when I've grown to like the most, is the moment lenses.

So that's actually the new version.

The Moment V two and I've gravitated towards this one, mostly because of their focus on quality.

It does require a case which acts as the lens mount.

And then these tiny city lenses mount to the case to change the field of view, the focal length and the capabilities of this camera entirely.

There's an 18 millimeter lens, which is a little wider than the normal fear of you.

There's a super wide angle fisheye version.

There's even a 10 times macro lens that can get some crazy close up shots.

So this, I think, is pretty awesome.

Now, the fact that you need a whole case to be the lens mount instead of, you know, maybe just like a little clip on accessory means you are a bit restricted.

It means when you upgrade your phone you have to get a whole new case, so that's the downside.

But the benefit is the precision.

So you mount the lens over the exact center of the sensor every single time.

There's never anything getting in the corners, no loss of sharpness anywhere in the frame.

They're polarized lenses to so in terms of really upping the quality game from the camera of photos, These are pretty dope.

He's in particular support a couple of phones, but not all of them.

In fact, some I thought they would support.

They don't, but they said it's because they actually wouldn't be a precise fit or they would have something getting or it's not practical.

So they have a couple you can check out if they're compatible with yours.

And I was never really into these before as like a cheap alternative to D S Lars.

But when you think about it, that's exactly what these are.

You can never really match the quality of a DSLR that will always be better.

But this will always be smaller and always be cheaper.

Not for smartphone video.

You add a whole other dimension.

You add movement of the camera, a big part of video is movement, and you could do a lot handheld.

You can have really study hands, but after a certain point you're gonna have some shake.

You're gonna want to stabilize it.

So taking videos shot on smartphones to the next level means taking stabilization to the next level.

That's actually where D.

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Osmo Mobile comes in.

It's pretty much the standard right now.

As far a smartphone, stabilization goes, this thing is built specifically to stabilize.

A smartphone camera has some extra controls on the handle, of course, which are nice when it connects to your phone, which can trigger to pan left and right and told up and down and get all kinds of cool shots.

But mainly, the operator gets to just point and shoot and start moving, and the gimbal smooths out and stabilizes all the little twitches and shakes that come from being handheld.

And it works really well, and I can add a whole new dimension to videos or even live streams or whatever you decide to shoot on your phone.

It's just up to you to decide how to use it.

Now I found that it doesn't really handle the extra weight of also adding the moment lenses to it, so you can't use the osmo and your phone with the lenses at the same time.

You need a bigger gimbal that supports a little bit of a heavier payload, like something like this Julian Crane, which is made for actual cameras.

But the gorilla pot adapter.

Let me put my phone on it.

But that's just if you're feeling daring.

So bottom line is all this tech exists to help you take your smartphone, photo and video game to the next level.

And, of course, it's not just about the gear.

It's also about the strategy and all that you know about photography and video.

Already, I could probably make a whole separate video about just that, but the whole point is yes.

A dedicated camera, while it's bigger, will definitely do a better job every time and the quality department.

That's what it's built for, but your smartphone cameras will always be at your side.

They'll always be smaller, and they will always be cheaper than actually going on buying a separate camera system.

So while it might not seem super practical to actually go out and be able to shoot those commercial level, crazy, high end videos that people are doing with technically smartphone sensors on crazy Riggs and gyms and stuff like that.

It's also a lot of fun to try to maximize what you can do with the tech that's in your pocket right now.

And I feel like that's where a lot of people I tell is to start your YouTube channel with your smartphone cameras.

You see my inbox like every day there's questions about I have this gear and this lens.

Is this enough to start a YouTube channel right now?

Yes, you're probably already set.

If you can watch this video on something, you probably have a device that can shoot video.

Just start doing it right.

I'm gonna end this before I start renting.

That's pretty much it.

Thank you for watching this quick one.