The best iPhone camera accessories for professional photos and videos

Smallrig’s mobile video suite consists of multiple parts that come together to create powerful shooting settings for your iPhone. Your phone slot enters the main cage with bayonet mounting points for connecting third-party lenses, including Moment’s excellent lens range, including its infamously shaped lens (below). The kit also comes with a filter mount and included variable neutral density filters that reduce the amount of light shot at a more cinematic blind speed using applications like a flash camera to help you shoot at a more cinematic blind speed.

The cage also has mounting points for other accessories, including a tripod panel and a cold shoe slot for connecting the microphone or video light. The included side handle is perfect for you to achieve a sturdy, smooth footage and features a quick release fixture to make it easy to remove the setup while shooting.

While everything in the kit can be purchased separately, the entire kit offers a comprehensive set-up to help you get started shooting your loved ones with your iPhone.

Typically, you can find deformation lenses in a kit bag of professional photographers. These lenses offer a wider, narrower aspect ratio that you can get from regular camera lenses as well as unique blue-line lens flares, giving the lens a higher cinematic quality. The moving deformation lenses on your iPhone can really do this.

Clamping it, it squeezes your lens into a shorter, wider format, completely changing the look of the video you can get from your phone. I absolutely love the look of the phone lens using the lens, which is a must for any budding filmmaker who wants to start the game with a phone.

You need to shoot with an app like Blackmagic Camera, which lets you “unquiend” the lens so that it doesn’t look distorted on most cameras. The lens uses a bayonet mount connected to a compatible case, including the shelf at all times or various third-party options, including the aforementioned small shelf.

Don’t want a deformed appearance? Moment can also do a variety of other lenses, from wide angle to telephoto options, as well as macro lenses to shoot close-up on small details.

By using glass elements that cut into hard corners, Polarpro’s Litechaser 16 creative lenses can produce a variety of dramatic, kaleidoscope effects when you shoot with your phone. The company offers a range of effect lenses, from simpler split glass options that create lightweight lenses on one side to multi-faceted refraction lenses that create multiple dreamy “ghosts” of your theme in the frame. The lens can rotate the lens to provide some effect of action, all of which are great ways to try to add actual effects to the video.

The look is very extreme, so they certainly won’t be everyone’s taste, but I really like bringing them out of Edinburgh. The dreamlike effects produced by the lens are unusual and can be well suited to the summer sun, refracted playfully in the glass. If you’re looking for a way to add quirky looks in YouTube videos or vertical Tiktoks, they’re worth considering.

They are attached to your phone using Polarpro’s Litechaser 16 case, which also allows you to use the company’s regular lens range, including its UV filter, polarizer or mist filter.

Leica’s cameras are known for their quality and luxury status. So it’s no surprise that the company’s Lux iPhone grip feels very high. Essentially, it’s a grip attached to the back of the phone, allowing you to hold and operate it like you would with a compact camera. It uses magsafe to attach, and I found it provides a solid connection that makes some very vicious shakes go away. It uses Leica’s Lux app to communicate with your phone over Bluetooth. It won’t work with a standard iPhone camera, and given the high price of the grip (and the fact that the app is $7 a month or $70 a year) is a bit frustrating, but the use of the Lux app is great, I think most people are very keen to want Leica accessories and want to use the Leica App with it, too.

Not only does the app model Leica’s various lenses—for example, providing real bokeh when simulating the company’s iconic 50mm Noctilux lens—but it also allows you to use the same color profiles found on Leica’s regular digital cameras. I especially like using the Leica Chrome look, and when I shoot on the Leica Q3 43 camera, I almost use it. The app simulates the tone perfectly, and I forgot a lot of lenses from it, I shot it on my iPhone instead of the actual camera.

The grip has a shutter button and scroll wheel to control various settings, but I found the main benefit to it was just to provide a more comfortable shooting experience, especially when I was shooting on the street in the city.

iPhone cameras don’t have the biggest lighting, so having backup lights is always a good idea. This USB-C rechargeable video light is full of LEDs and is small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, but when you don’t have proper lighting, a lot of light pops up.

Whether it is for portraits, product photography or macro, or video recording at night, it can illuminate your subject, whether it is portraits, product photography or macro. The power output is easy to adjust and the light temperature is easy to adjust.

It also has a variety of creative lightweight effects to add to your production, including fireworks, lightning, a flashing fireplace or a flashing police car light in the flashing red and blue.

The built-in image stabilization of the iPhone 14 is already great, but for a smoother ride, consider using a dedicated gimbal like DJI’s OM 5. In addition to the most aggressive action, it also allows you to get a smooth tracking shot while shooting a chase scene.

It also has a built-in expandable selfie stick, which not only makes it perfect for YouTube Vlogger, but also allows for a more creative angle by lifting it up or even flipping it and extending the camera to the ground or through grass or through grass.

It is crucial to record good audio for your video blog or your next iPhone-based short film, and while the iPhone does a good job of capturing audio, a dedicated microphone will take things to the next level. Rode’s Videomicro Shotgun Mic plugs it into the phone’s lightning port (via the adapter) and provides clear audio when recording using the standard iPhone camera app or any third-party video app, making it one of the best iPhone camera accessories on the market.

I love using it on top of my phone for video voting, and the included wind shield is great to reduce wind noise while working in position. Alternatively, get the 3.5mm extension cable, you can try recording audio in the conversation you are shooting using a microphone at the end of the boom.

If you are looking for directional microphones, that would be a huge investment.

Moment’s tripod mount uses Apple’s MagSafe system instead of using screw clips to hold the phone in place, which makes it very quickly to pop the phone in place and start shooting. Once done, just tear the phone away from disk and put it back into your pocket. Simple!

The minimalist approach to mount design makes it very compact, so it’s not a hassle to always carry it with you when you’re hitting inspiration. The magnets are also strong, so you don’t have to worry about the phone being loose when you walk. It can be used as a mount alone, or with a cold shoe bracket (pictured) to connect to the microphone while the video is spreading.