Before starting the competition in the skill of mobile photography, you need to look for an appropriate smartphone. You can do this in the full directory mobile phones or directly in the subsection camera phones. TOP 5 best smartphones for shooting in the genre of mobile photography as of the end of 2016 is given in the material « Mobile Photography: Top 5 Camera Phones (Fall 2016)”.

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1. Selfie Stick

unprecedented popularity in the wake of the worldwide selfie craze. In addition to fulfilling its main task (taking self-portraits), selfie stick allows you to save yourself from the need to ask an outsider to take a picture or send one of your friends to the shooting point - with its help the entire honest company gets into the field of view of the smartphone camera.

The accessory is also suitable for use as a monopod - it can help stabilize the picture and get rid of the movement by resting the selfie stick handle on a fixed surface. Other options for getting original shots with a selfie stick are given in the article "Buy a stick - take great selfies".

The stick consists of a telescopic handle with a number of retractable sections and a platform for attaching a mobile phone or action camera. The dimensions of the accessory can vary from a modest 10 cm when folded to more than 1 m when unfolded. The smartphone mount is often made in a sliding form factor, so that it can be adjusted to fit any size of a mobile gadget. The camera shutter is controlled either via a wire connected via a 3.5 mm headphone jack, or via a Bluetooth connection, or using a remote control that also works via a Bluetooth wireless network.

Joby GorillaPod SLR-Zoom

2. Mini tripod

Every self-respecting photographer has something in his arsenal tripod is an almost indispensable thing in many situations. Especially for fans of shooting on a smartphone, portable versions of this accessory are produced with a special clip for attaching the gadget. They can be quite miniature, only slightly rising above the supporting surface (Joby GorillaPod SLR-Zoom ,

Joby GorillaPod SLR-Zoom

7. Overhead Camera Module

It seems possible to achieve maximum image quality together with overhead camera modules. In fact, they are independent cameras with the only caveat that the entire shooting process is controlled through the application of a smartphone connected via a wireless network - there are no controls on the body of the modules. For the convenience of photographing, the design of the devices includes mounts for fixing them on the body of a mobile phone.

Due to the rather high price tag, such devices are awarded the name of niche products. There are not so many options for modules on the market, among which stands out Kodak PixPro SL10 , a pair of Sony representatives with built-in Carl-Zeiss zoom lenses (Sony QX10 and {! !! block='price' idgood='342987' !!!}), as well as a more recent solution from Olympus (Olympus Air).

The latest camera supports the entire wide fleet Micro 4/3 optics - a matrix of exactly this format is installed in its bowels.