Sean Baker’s Tangerine brought mobile filmmaking to an international audience. The feature was shot on iPhone 5s handsets fitted with anamorphic adapters, using a mobile app to gain control over capture settings.
The Academy Museum holds an actual iPhone 5s and anamorphic lens rig used on the production. That is rare, direct object-level evidence connecting a specific camera to a culturally important movie.
Even though CamerasObscuras emphasizes vintage hardware, this belongs in the archive: today’s ordinary device can become tomorrow’s historic motion-picture camera.
Connected cameras and equipment
- iPhone 5s and anamorphic adapter — Tangerine: the iPhone feature (2015)
Sources and verification
We link to contemporary interviews, museum collections, manufacturer histories and specialist cinematography records when available. Historical camera attribution and an item being screen-used are different claims.