Moment’s latest T-Series II mobile lens kit demonstrates significant advancements in optical quality and versatility, pushing smartphone photography closer to professional standards with redesigned lenses and a broad range of creative options.
Moment’s latest mobile lens kit makes a convincing case for taking the iPhone camera seriously.
The T-Series II range is the company’s broadest smartphone lens system to date, and Moment says it has been redesigned for the larger sensors and higher resolutions found in newer phones. The line uses upgraded glass, sharper optics and a new SuperTele 240mm lens, which Moment describes as its longest mobile optic yet and one aimed at periscope-style telephoto cameras. In practice, that ambition is clear: the set is designed to do more than add novelty effects, and to give phone users a wider creative range without resorting to digital zoom.
A hands-on test by PetaPixel found the Moment Camera app to be a useful companion, particularly because it supports manual control, RAW capture, ProRes Log recording, 4K open-gate shooting and automatic desqueezing for anamorphic footage. The reviewer used 4K at 30fps with a 180-degree shutter, kept ISO low where possible and relied on a variable ND filter to manage exposure. That workflow mattered, because it allowed the lenses to be judged more on their optical character than on the iPhone’s default processing.
The strongest impressions came from the 8mm fisheye, the 16mm wide and the 58mm telephoto. The fisheye was described as sharp and playful rather than excessively distorted. The 16mm lens was seen as a restrained wide-angle option that stayed close to the phone’s natural rendering. The 58mm stood out most, giving what the reviewer called a genuinely cinematic medium-shot look and making the iPhone feel less like a phone camera. By contrast, the 240mm telephoto brought obvious reach but was difficult to hold steady by hand, making it better suited to tripod use than run-and-gun video.
The anamorphic adapters and macro lenses showed both the promise and the limits of the system. The 1.55x and 1.33x adapters produced distinct flare patterns and, because the Moment app desqueezes the image in preview, composition was easier than it would be with manual post-production correction. The two macro options went the other way, pushing focus so close that framing became highly specialised. PetaPixel also noted a practical weakness in the mounting system: repeated swapping caused the plastic case and mount to deform slightly, which can affect alignment, especially with anamorphic lenses. Moment has reportedly acknowledged the issue and says it is working on a fix for future iPhones.
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