No matter how superior your smartphone digital camera is, shaky, wobbly pictures could make your movies look amateurish. This is why stabilizing your smartphone — both with a mount or a tripod — is important to good cellular filmmaking. But if you need a extra secure software for handheld pictures and a number of choices for personalization, Moment’s new Mobile Filmmaker Cage with MagSafe could do the trick. The videocage attaches shortly to your cellphone with MagSafe, and has a number of attachment factors that will let you mount mics, lights, handles and every other filmmaking equipment you want.

The most blatant perk of Moment’s Filmmaker Cage is it permits you to have extra handbook management over your smartphone. Your smartphone will stay regular as you grip the big, rectangular body that surrounds it. There’s even the choice so as to add further handles for much more stability. If you’re sick of dangling cables, there’s additionally a useful cable administration system that permits you to tuck in these free wires. And if you have to pack mild and skip the tripod, relaxation assured that the Filmmaker Cage can stand upright by itself.

If you solely use your smartphone to take movies of your cats, the Filmmaker Cage shall be overkill. We’ve written about how the iPhone 13’s cinematic mode can mimic the main focus capabilities {of professional} movie cameras. While the wealth of stabilization and video enhancing options are unmatched on the iPhone 13, it could actually solely achieve this a lot. Smartphone filmmakers nonetheless depend on plenty of instruments to good their taking pictures, together with mounts, lights, lenses and mics. If you match into this class {of professional} filmmaker, or perhaps a critical novice filmmaker, the Filmmaker Cage could also be funding.

Unfortunately, the Mobile Filmmaker Cage is barely appropriate with the iPhone 12 and 13,  however older fashions can work if you happen to use certainly one of Moment’s MagSafe circumstances. If you’re an Android user, Moment does make circumstances, lenses and mounts for the newest Samsung and Pixel fashions. The Mobile Filmmaker Cage is available now on Moment’s website, for $99.