Camera & Smartphone Accessories

Cool Tools For Your SmartPhone to Turn it Into a Professional Video Camera

Who ever thought we’d be able to use our smart phones as high quality video cameras? It was only a few short years ago when you needed a separate phone and video camera, but now you can create incredible looking videos on a camera you probably already own and carry in your pocket. Despite incredible advancements in the quality of video cameras in smartphones there are still a few areas where they fall short from creating really professional videos, but today I want to cover a few cool inexpensive tools you can use to take things to a whole new level. A lot of these suggestions are for the iPhone specifically but some can be used for any smart phone, so if you have a different phone then you will be easily able to find something equivalent if you simply head to google and do a little bit of research. Please also remember that with all new equipment there will be a learning curve to using it. Just like any new piece of electronic equipment you buy you’ll need to play around with it to make sure it works the way you want it to.

In this article I‘m going to show you how to turn your smartphone into a professional camera you can use to take high quality videos without spending lots of $$. I also take a look at some of the best audio and lighting accessories you can use to help overcome some of the iPhone’s shortfalls, when it comes to poor audio and low light. For each product I have looked for the product in the US, UK and Australia so you can see where you can buy the product from. Please feel free to do your own research as well as you might be able to find these products cheaper in your local area.

I have tried a lot of these accessories myself, but not all of them. Some have come as recommendations by friends in the industry. Please remember that everyone has different preferences on the equipment they use so therefore please treat these as suggestions and please do your own research to make sure they will suit what you need. I simply wanted to provide you with a guide of the kind of low cost equipment you can purchase that will improve your videos considerably when shooting videos on a smart phone. Every purchase is at your own risk. With that aside, let’s dive straight in and have a look at some of these neat accessories. You definitely don’t need all of them, you can just pick out the accessories that you think will be worthwhile to you.