https://thecineblog.com/tags/smartphone/Recent content in Smartphone on The CineBlogHugoen-USTue, 03 Nov 2026 20:47:48 -0600https://thecineblog.com/stories/tangerine/Tue, 19 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://thecineblog.com/stories/tangerine/<p>The camera is a tool of exclusion. A standard Panavision package costs more to rent for a week than most independent filmmakers will raise in a lifetime. When Sean Baker set out to make <em>Tangerine</em> with a restrictive $100,000 budget, he did not settle for a cheap prosumer camera. He made a radical, liberating choice: he shot a feature film on three iPhone 5s units.</p> <h2 id="engineering-the-aesthetic">Engineering the Aesthetic</h2> <p>Baker understood that shooting on a phone would be dismissed as a gimmick if it <em>looked</em> like a phone. To combat this, he engineered a highly specific workflow. He attached Moondog Labs anamorphic lens adapters directly to the iPhones. This instantly forced the clinical, square digital sensor into a classic, &ldquo;cinemascope&rdquo; widescreen geometry.</p>