Well its been a while since my last entry into the captain’s log. Lots going on in the world right now but this will be on the topic of photography. For various reasons partly involving me doing video shoots with people and food, I have resorted to the use of iPhones to get the job done. I was also inspired by the quality of the images I took on my recent tour to Russia and Hungary. The iPad with a measly 5 MB camera turned out some pretty acceptable images. On the strength of the improvements offered by the better cameras in the iPhone 8 Plus I decided that the videos that I will be making could just as easily, in fact much more easily be done with phones. The size, the compact nature of them, battery life, on-board memory, quality of the video, all made them a front runner in putting together and editing the footage on an iPad.

In addition to them having a modest zoom function I looked into the reviews on third party lenses in particular the Moment anamorphic lens which attaches to the iPhone via a case sold also by moment. I ah e bought the Tele and the wide but as yet haven’t used them extensively. There are plenty of YouTube videos about them though. I did a photoshoot the other day with the anamorphic and was very pleasantly surprised by the results. I’m posting a couple of shots here of a mother and son in Mt Wilson