Moment Debuts New MagSafe Mount Options

Yiiiikes. I would not trust my phone magnetically mounted to any of my bikes.

I would LOVE to get that Mobile Filmmaker Cage, and then rig it up with a microphone and light like shown on the website. I'm sort of tempted to just buy the equipment shown in this photo, but I'm wondering if any of you have experience with lights and microphones like this? I basically just want to enhance the lighting and sound of my home videos (personal use for family videos, etc.).

Your family is going to run and hide when you come after them with that contraption.

Interesting new MagSafe accessories. $10 stick on adaptor seems good.

I would LOVE to get that Mobile Filmmaker Cage, and then rig it up with a microphone and light like shown on the website. I'm sort of tempted to just buy the equipment shown in this photo, but I'm wondering if any of you have experience with lights and microphones like this? I basically just want to enhance the lighting and sound of my home videos (personal use for family videos, etc.).

I do. I’ve owned the Shure MV88+ mic (among others). It’s actually a really well made and good sounding mic, and the accompanying app is well thought out too. What’s nice about the mic is that it retains the settings IN THE MIC so anytime you plug it in, its already set. The video app allows you to access the parameters of the mic (stereo width, polar pattern etc). That all said, I ended up now using a Centrance Mixerface as my main device for audio capture. It’s more expensive but I didn’t want an app to dictate my hardware settings. While I had no problems using the MV88, it always concerned me that if there’s a faulty app update, Im sort of beholden to the apps stability. The Mixerface on the other hand is it’s own recorder as well. One idiosyncrasy about the MV88 is how it behaves with say extention cables and such. It seems the Shure lightning to micro usb is proprietary (a chip in the cable probably sort of has to “see” the iPhone). So some run of the mill amazon cable may not work. Also my friend used his mv88 to connect to an iPad Air and it didn’t see the iPad. Some rudimentary control was possible, but not the usual full range. I know it doesn’t apply here, but just saying. All that said, I actually still do recommend the MV88. for a small portable unit, it sounds quite good. I don’t know anything about using lights unfortunately.

Very cool to see more MagSafe accessories. I'm really surprised we haven't seen more since MagSafe's debut.

I would LOVE to get that Mobile Filmmaker Cage, and then rig it up with a microphone and light like shown on the website. I'm sort of tempted to just buy the equipment shown in this photo, but I'm wondering if any of you have experience with lights and microphones like this? I basically just want to enhance the lighting and sound of my home videos (personal use for family videos, etc.).