Which Mobile Lens Is Right For Me?
Read about all of the Moment mobile lenses and which is right for you, including the Wide 18mm, Tele 58mm, Fisheye 14mm, Macro 10x, and Anamorphic lens.
Are you thinking about buying a Moment lens for your smartphone camera? Or do you already own a Moment lens, and are you wondering which lens to get next? We've got you covered.
Following dozens of hands-on testing with nearly 50 different smartphone lenses over 4 years in unique corners worldwide, Wirecutter believes Moment’s Wide 18mm and Tele 58mm lenses to be the best for mobile photography enthusiasts who like to use their smartphones as a substitute for their DSLR. While our lenses tend to be on the "higher" priced side of the smartphone lens market, we believe that our quality craftsmanship cannot be beaten and proudly reflect this kind of execution in our prices. Additionally, check out all the creator reviews from our community!
1. Wide 18mm Lens
Our Go-To Popular Lens
Range: 2x As Wide
When To Use It: Made for the everyday photographer and filmmaker, first-time Moment users, and those capturing landscapes, interiors, kids, and tabletop scenes. Capture landscapes, interiors, and people without cutting out the important details. Get a tabletop shot of your brunch table without standing on a chair. Capture the entire sunset from the top of your hike, not just part of it — document kids and pets without having to back up and miss the moment in the process.
Overview: The Wide 18mm Lens is our go-to everyday lens for mobile photographers and filmmakers. Its updated cinema-quality glass and wide-angle design allow your phone to capture 2x more capture. The most advanced lens we’ve ever made, theWide 18mm Lens captures smartphone photos and videos that are beautiful, crisp, and straight with no wide-angle distortion. It's a must if you're filming at all on your phone since the phone camera crops in on video. A little-known fact about the Wide Lens is that you can focus on objects only a couple of inches away, getting details that are way too close for the native camera to focus on. This is the most versatile and best option for your first Moment lens purchase. And just like the other lenses, it's interchangeable so that you can use it on multiple devices.
What a Photographer Thinks: "This is the best lens for my phone, period." - @cameracaleb
Photo By: @ramygrams
Photo By: @alohacrabs
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Wide 18mm Mobile Lens | M-Series
Arguably our most recognized product. The Moment 18mm Wide Lens captures beautiful clear wide images and video on iPhone, Pixel, or Galaxy camera phones.
Buy for $99.992. Tele 58mm Lens
The Closest Things To a DSLR On Your Phone
Range: 4x Closer On A Dual Lens Phone when used with our Moment Pro Camera App.
When To Use It: Photographers who want close-up landscapes, action, and portraits. Filmmakers who want that compressed look. Capture the deer on your hike, the action on a soccer field, or the skyline from your hotel window. Its natural depth of field becomes even more dramatic when shooting on the newest devices.
Overview: This telephoto lens has aged into a fantastic portrait lens. Sharp in the center with a natural drop-off on the edges, you can capture more intimate shots of people, nature, and still-life scenes. Its 58mm focal length will get you closer to the subject without zooming in. This bad boy is the perfect companion when traveling, so you can capture your new surroundings from afar without the pixelation of digital zoom.
What a Photographer Thinks: "I seriously cannot believe this was shot on a phone." - @taylorxpendleton
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Tele 58mm Mobile Lens | M-Series
Get the goodness of your main smartphone camera and 2x magnification! The Moment Telephoto 58mm is the sharpest lens designed for iPhone, Pixel, Galaxy phones
Buy for $109.993. Anamorphic Lens
The Holy Grail of Filmmaking
Range: Normal viewfinder, but it offers delicious flares and an unbeatable cinematic touch.
Who’s It For: Perfect for any filmmaker or photographer who likes cinematic stills. Now you can shoot like the pros on your phone. Cylindrical optics and efficient vintage-style anti-reflection lens coatings create the highly desired horizontal flares associated with vintage anamorphic lenses.
Overview: Our anamorphic lens is the sexiest product we’ve ever made. This is the holy grail of filmmaking. Sweet horizontal flares and that widescreen, letterboxed look. Typically super expensive, we made anamorphic affordable. Depending on the light source, these cinematic flares can be either blue or gold.
What a Filmmaker Thinks: "This lens is beautiful and captures scenes in all their glory. I love it." - @tristanervin_
Shot on 1.33x
Moment
1.33x Anamorphic Mobile Lens - Blue Flare - M-Series
Get that unique wide cinematic film look on your phone with the Moment Anamorphic Lens Blue Flare! It gives you bright blue flares and a 1.33x widescreen look
Buy for $109.994. Fisheye 14mm Lens
The Ultra-Wide Perspective
Range: 14mm Focal Length
When To Use It: Tight scenes won’t be cut off, landscapes will appear larger than life, and cropped video will become a thing of the past. It's incredibly useful if you're taking selfies or vlogging, filming yourself doing sports, and a really fun tool for filming vertical Instagram stories. Made for creatives who want to pack a lot into the frame—filmmakers, documentary-style photographers, athletes, architects, vloggers, and Instagram users.
Overview: This lens is a full-frame fisheye because it allows you to use the full image sensor on the latest camera phones, like the iPhone 11, with no dark corners or vignetting. This means you get a crisp image edge to edge, using 15% more of the image sensor than Moment’s Fisheye 15mm. This lens is also sharper than ultra-wide, especially on the edges. This is due to the additional elements of bi-aspheric glass, an all-new optical design, and the fact that the lens mounts over the built-in wide lens letting in 25% more light on top of a higher-resolution camera. Best of all, it works in Night mode when an ultra-wide lens does not. This is undoubtedly the widest and sharpest lens you can shoot on a phone.
What a Filmmaker Thinks: "Aspheric glass, crisp edge to edge, this lens is amazing" - @nilesgrey
Image shot on the Moment Fisheye 14mm lens.
Photo By: @gess8.
Pixel 4XL w/ Moment Fisheye 14mm Nightsight
Moment
Fisheye 14mm Mobile Lens | M-Series
Get everything in frame! The NEW Moment Fisheye 14mm Lens is wider than an ultra-wide and cheaper than a GoPro. With a 170 degree huge field of view
Buy for $89.995. Macro 10x Lens
The Up Close and Personal
Range: 10x as close
When To Use It: Made for nature photographers, food porn lovers, and creatives who obsess over the details. Marvel at the details of a ladybug in your garden or inspect the intricacies of a handmade piece of jewelry.
Overview: Great for extreme close-ups of flowers, insects, food, and other objects with fine detail. Unlike traditional macro photography, this lens has a fixed focal distance. It works about an inch away from the subject to capture rich textures, materials, and living things that our phones (and eyes!) were never before capable of seeing. It works like a little magnifying glass on your phone. With the sharpest glass imaginable and the most impressive bokeh you can capture with your phone, the Moment Macro Lens is perfect for getting lost in the tiny details.
What a Photographer Thinks: "Capture every fleeting detail" - Reign of Colors
@randy_paterson22
Moment
Macro 10x Mobile Lens | M-Series
Get super close! The Moment Macro 10x Lens captures tiny details of the World on your smartphone with 10x optical magnification in the highest quality on mobile
Buy for $89.99💌 There's More!
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