ACCESSORIES
Camera Accessories
Pictar One Handgrip
Use your smartphone like a real camera with this camera-style handgrip. Get steadier shots than ever before, and do so in style. Modern iPhones take fantastic pictures, but even with a case attached, the slim exterior doesn’t provide the confident grip of a traditional SLR camera. If you miss that tactile grasp. Pictar One is an ergonomic iPhone grip that emulates the look and feel of old-school cameras. The all-plastic accessory features a standard quarter-inch tripod mount on the bottom, along with physical multi-state shutter button, zoom ring, and a pair of knobs to adjust exposure or perform other tasks.
It’s not just a grip with a shutter button. In fact, the second-most valuable dial allows you to adjust your exposure, there is also a smart wheel for quick access to present modes, but if miggö made the Pictar One with only the shutter button, which locks your exposure and focus, and the exposure compensation dial, it would be worth.
Mini LED Spotlight
This portable spotlight gives you continuous usable lighting wherever you go. And as a bonus, it doesn’t drain your phone’s battery extra fast.
Xenovo Pro Lens Kit
This .45x wide angle converter lets you expand your smartphone’s field of view. It’s made with high-quality glass for minimal vignetting. It also has close-up macro capabilities. Xenvo put together an excellent package, with wide-angle and macro lenses, a clamp for the lenses, a small rechargeable clip-on light, a USB cable, a quick-release lanyard, front and back caps, a microfiber cleaning cloth, and a well-designed carrying case with a karabiner. If you need a little more light, the kit's GlowClip clip-on light delivers a soft, albeit relatively small, swatch of illumination. Low, medium and high settings are available with a touch of a button. The power lasts for about an hour, and the light is conveniently recharged via the bundled USB cable.
Zhiyun Smooth Gimbal Stabilizer
This handheld stabilizer lets you get cinematically smooth video footage from your iPhone or other smartphone. Manual Zooming for Freer Capture,By connecting to the dedicated mobile APP, ZY Play, via Bluetooth, Smooth-Q allows instant zooming control of the camera right through the stabilizer. With a single push or pull of the switch, you can focus and capture the moment more freely. With the various innovative functions of the ZY Play, Smooth-Q not only perfects your footage with nice cinematic impact, but also realizes multiple smart controls. By activating the Object Tracking function, the gimbal and phone camera will be configured to follow and focus the target automatically, so now you can record any live moment. In addition, it also supports time lapse, slow motion, long exposure, multiple filters and more to inspire your creativity.
Gaming Accessories
This microSD card is fast, consistent, and reasonably priced. It’s good for phones, tablets, game consoles, and more.The Switch card is fast, consistent, comes from a reputable company, has a picture of a mushroom on it, and works in anything that takes a microSDXC card, not just the Switch. Most of the 128 GB cards we tested are fast enough but are more expensive and harder to find, or were slower than the Switch card in one or more tests. The Switch card performed well in all of them and (for now, at least) is easy to find without sorting through a bunch of third-party sellers hawking fakes.
Ventev Powercell 6010+
With a 6000mAh capacity, the Powercell 6010+ is in the mid-range in terms of capacity but still more than enough to top up a phone battery in the red zone but the saving grace is the design built around the battery itself. Everything you need to charge your phone — and keep the Powercell itself charged, too — is built right into this battery pack. There's a USB-C cable built into the side of the pack alongside an extra USB port for output along with fold-out outlet prongs that let you plug the pack right into the wall for recharging.It also works as a wall charger for your phone and will pass through current to your phone for those times you're waiting in an airport and want to charge your battery pack and phone at the same time. With 12W of total output, you're able to charge two devices at once. The size is basically perfect for both travel and daily carry, as it's roughly the same dimensions size of a Google Pixel with everything required to charge right there. Because of the length of the built-in cable, it keeps your phone nicely tethered so you can slip in your pocket or bag without fussing around with the unnecessary length of a standard charging cable.
Sometimes the worst part about gaming on a phone for long stretches of time is that our phones weren't designed to be held in landscape for hours at a time. If you regularly get hand cramps while gaming, this universal phone grip accessory can give your palms something substantial to rest on while also including an on-screen joystick adapter. The aim of GameSir’s new F1 controller is to improve gameplay on Android & iOS games where the left thumb is used to control an on-screen characters movement. Games such a FIFA and Grand Theft Auto both utilize this left thumb control method so will work well. Where the F1 controller will really shine will be on MOBA games such as Mobile Legends where split second control of your character can mean the difference between life and death.
The Stratus Duo is the latest and great Bluetooth gaming controller for Android and PC from SteelSeries. It's quite comfortable to hold for marathon sessions and includes a rechargeable
Film Making Accessories
The JOBY GorillaPod is a handy smartphone accessory that should be in every filmmaker’s bag. The moveable stand firmly secures your smartphone, and you can use it in almost any situation to stabilize your footage. You can adjust the flexible arms for uneven terrain or even wrap them around a tripod or C-stand.
The LitleCane gimbal brings smooth Steadicam motion to your smartphone. The gimbal has built-in auto-tracking capabilities and fingertip rotation control. It’s perfect for filmmakers working on everything from run-and-gun action sequences to long-form moving live streams. LitleCane can panoramas of 180 and 330 degrees, by putting together 5 and 9 1080p photos respectively, while maintaining the result unreduced in resolution. It can also mix 12 photos in two rows, to create a panorama of wide angle. There's no need to worry about battery life. The integrated battery has up to 3 hours of battery life. If that doesn't fit your appetite, the gimbal can work while being charged from an external power source. What's surprising is that the rig can also charge the phone while being charged.
For all those pocket directors of photography, the ExoLens ZEISS wide-angle lens boosts your smartphone’s video capabilities. The ZEISS Mutar 0.6x Asph T* wide-angle lens operates at about an 18mm equivalent, which means more flexibility in your coverage.
The quality of the images that the lens captures justifies its size. The wide angle increases the angle of view of the iPhone's built-in lens without introducing distortion into the image and without introducing any other image-quality problems. The images we captured had the same excellent sharpness and color as those from the iPhone 7 Plus camera on its own. Even at the edges of the frame (where cheaper lenses tend to get blurry), the images from the Zeiss remain sharp and clean, with excellent detail.
Still an active Kickstarter campaign, this innovative smartphone camera cage gives you full-motion protection and two-handed smoothness for all your filmmaking needs. Its customizable construction also accommodates add-ons like microphones and LED panel lighting for the ultimate professional smartphone filmmaking setup.The Rover smartphone cage comes with two handles to achieve more stable handheld footage. You can of course reposition the handles to wherever on the cage is more comfortable for you, and they can fully rotate. They can even serve as “easel arms” — think of it as a little kickstand for your smartphone so you can shoot from the floor, or so you set your device on a table for easy editing on the touchscreen. You can also stack the handles, giving you a longer reach for high-angle shots or if you want to go selfie. The Rover system has been designed to be compatible with the Matthews MicroGrip line of clamps, clips, knuckles and more, meaning you can mount the whole Rover cage system to virtually anywhere you need.
This ingenious dolly car invention brings smooth camera dolly movement to your smartphone filmmaking arsenal. The iStabilizer Dolly Car is a cheap but sturdy build on skateboard wheels, which brings precision motion to a vast array of camera moves across mostly smooth surfaces. Since the arm is flexible, it can be positioned in any number of ways. And it stays put once positioned too. The angled it so it was just ahead of the front right wheel. The Dolly’s heavy, it’s no lightweight that can easily tip over. That makes sense since the last thing you want is to have it tilting on you. The wheels feel like some kind of silicone — regardless, they are big and move across a surface with an easy, smooth motion (provided the one pushing isn’t jittery). I can see wiping them clean of detriment regularly though.