Being able to hand someone the picture you just took rules. This camera has great light metering, bulb mode, double exposure mode, and is (barely) pocketable. I take it everywhere.
All four lenses fire at once, yielding the smoothest wigglegrams you've ever seen. Like the Instax, it's kind of weird there isn't a great digital version of this, but there really isn't. It uses standard 35mm film so it's cheap!
Snap your phone in and you suddenly have a steadicam. Works like magic, and has an incredibly good frequency response. You could shoot a feature film with this, and people have!
A ridiculous amount of drone for the price and size. It fits in a backpack, shoots beautifully stabilized 4K, streams 720p live to YouTube, and can fly even in 20 knot winds. Also, it's cheaper than a really fancy point and shoot, and easy to fly.
Moondog Labs made this anamorphic lens for the iPhone, allowing you to get a Kubrickian look out of the phone's increasingly capable camera. Sundance favorite "Tangerine" was shot entirely on one of these.
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