I recently got the iPhone 14 Pro Max and one of the things that I wanted to test obviously
was the camera and the main reason why I got the camera, the phone in the first place was
because I'd seen a lot of footage and the camera just looks really good so I just wanted to test
it out for myself get some footage and just play around with some of the features that I
was really interested in seeing as well, so yeah.
It just started raining but the clouds behind me looked pretty awesome.
It's pretty overcast and dull today so I figured I'd come out and just see what the footage looked
like when there's not a lot of light and it's also not long before it's going to get dark as well
so as well as it being dull and overcast it is towards that part of the day where it's getting,
it's going to get dark so I think the footage looks pretty good looking at it on my phone.
It's a beautiful day today, I thought I'd come back to the same place that I was at before.
I'm trying to steer a pushchair and hold a coffee, and hold my phone so
give me a second whilst I sort myself out. Okay yeah so I was at this spot at the weekend...
oh nice, I love it when people don't clean up their dog poo.
So at the weekend, it was overcast, the footage that you just saw and thought I'd just come out on
a really nice day and just compare the footage really. I also forgot to mention that in the
previous clips I was shooting in HDR mode which is what I'm shooting in today, but what I'm actually
going to do, because I kind of just have it on by default, I'll switch it off so that I can actually
see what more, what footage looks like without the HDR mode on so let me do that for a little bit.
So this footage is now with HDR mode off, so this is just normal footage. I feel like
I kind of prefer this better because I feel like HDR mode makes my skin look a bit waxy and just
doesn't look really real, but I don't know, I have to have a closer look-- have a closer look,
but yeah this is what the footage looks like in non-HDR mode. So the other point in this video was
to just share with you five reasons why I actually really like this phone and like the camera,
mostly the camera, it's less about the features of the phone, it's more so the camera itself, so
I will run through those in this video also.
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turned the gain down on the receiver and the transmitter because I felt like
when I was listening back to it the audio sounded like it was clipping a little bit
even though it doesn't look like it on my audio levels.
So my first reason for actually really liking this camera,
I keep saying camera, I mean phone but I mean like the camera on the phone, is the fact that
you can shoot in ProRes and this is great if you want to have more control over color correcting
color grading and just get higher resolution video footage, and photos because when you shoot in RAW
you've got more dynamic range to play with and just more that you can do with an image rather
than shooting in JPEG, but yeah having ProRes is really great, and then also 48 megapixel photos.
The photos are really good I was so blown away by the fact that the photos just look so
sharp and clear and crisp but yeah the photos and the footage just look awesome.
Something I'm really keen to try out with the iPhone 14 Pro Max is different filters and lenses
so Sandmarc do some, other companies do some as well so I'm really keen to try out those different
lenses, but one of the things that I absolutely love about the iPhone 14 Pro Max is the macro
mode, I wasn't expecting it to work as well as it does, but it's so, it's incredible. You don't
have to change anything you can literally have the camera, hold it at a specific distance, whenever
you're doing something, and then mov in closer and it will automatically switch to macro mode,
and the macro footage and the macro photos just look awesome, they're not blurry, they're really
sharp and clear, and it's just, it's just awesome it's just every time I use this this camera phone,
this phone camera it just blows me away. So macro mode, wicked.
So this next thing isn't necessarily a big deal, it might not be for a lot of people
but for me it kind of is because when I want to get some footage or photos of my children I'm
always trying to decide, do I get a photo or do I get footage? Especially if they're
doing something funny or cute or anything really and so being able to take a photo
whilst recording is great, and I've noticed that the photo quality isn't quite as good
as if you were just to take a regular photo and sometimes it is blurry, but better that having the
option to have both the footage and the photo is great because you can't always take a still from a
video because in that respect it is pretty blurry, so yeah that feature is something that I very much
welcome and it's something that I really like about the iPhone 14 Pro Max. Don't know if it was
something that you could do anyway because I've never had an iPhone before but I really like it.
I've got company the other thing that I love is the stabilization whilst you're looking
at the footage back on the phone whilst you're doing something or walking it doesn't actually
look like the footage is stabilized but when you play it back it's pretty smooth,
you're gonna get more you're going to get better stabilization if you use a gimbal but
if you don't use a gimbal it's going to be fine, you know, the footage is really really good.
So the last thing that I wanted to point out which is probably the biggest thing
is Cinematic mode. I love this because if you are recording something and you forget
to put your focus in the right place or your focus shifts whilst you're recording you can
actually go in afterward and reset focus. You can also reset your aperture so if you
wanted to have a shallow adapter field or wider depth of field then you can do that afterward,
so that feature is just really cool and it works really well, and cinematic mode actually
does really well in blurring the background and making the subjects in there, the main subjects,
stand out but yeah just that whole being able to reshift focus afterward and also
just rack focus really nicely is just a massive bonus and just something that I really love.