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All right, so today we're comparing two cameras.
One from this iPhone 11 Pro Max
and one which is this Black Magic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K.
Now, I've done a bunch of these
wacky comparisons in the past
where I compare iPhone to something
really ridiculously expensive
like that Red or an Arri Alexa.
But, what's interesting about this
is the price is not too different from each other.
Okay, maybe this is actually quite a bit more expensive,
but what's interesting is there is a 4K version of this,
which is very similar and really, really powerful
and it's actually less than the price of this
iPhone 11 Pro Max.
So it's not really about comparing an expensive camera
to a cheap camera anymore,
it's more about comparing a convenient smart camera
to a fully manual powerful camera.
By the way, we probably have the dopest giveaway
we've had on this channel by far in today's video,
so stick around for that.
But let's kick this video off
by showing you some of the footage out of these cameras.
Now if I were to show you
these two cameras side by side,
it's actually kind of obvious which one's which,
but it becomes a lot trickier
if I show them to you one at a time.
So what I'm gonna do is show you a clip,
you guys try to guess which one it is.
Here we go.
(upbeat music)
All right so, let me know.
I'm so curious how did you guys do?
Take that poll.
Did you get all of them right?
Most of them right, some of them right
or like none of them right?
Now let's start off by talking about
how impressive this iPhone 11 Pro Max is.
It's a phone.
Well, no one really uses it as a phone anymore.
This notepad app is probably what I use the most.
Like these are my bullet points
of what I need to talk about in this video.
Next I'm supposed to talk about
how impressive the HDR on this camera is!
It's super impressive when there's
a super bright part of the frame, like the sky.
It takes a lot of the orange in the skies
and recovers that and actually looks like the iPhone
has more dynamic range than the Black Magic.
This is exactly what I mean by how smart this camera is.
It's very software-driven.
Cinema cameras like this,
it literally just captures whatever hits the censor
and doesn't try to analyze it
or do some weird, smart voodoo magic.
And the ultra wide lens on this phone is ultra wide
and I've been having trouble
trying to find a lens wide enough
so I can match this camera to here.
And I have a pretty fat lens collection.
Like, look at all these lenses,
and none of them were wide enough!
So I actually had to go out and buy
this ultra wide angle lens.
This is 8 to 15 millimeter.
Super wide, so that I can get this to match this wide angle.
And here's the thing:
even with this ultra wide angle lens,
there's no image stabilization built into the lens
or the camera.
So as I'm walking around handheld like this,
there's quite a bit of shake and
to remove that, I'm gonna have to either
get like a proper shoulder rig
and make this a little bit bigger
and give me three points of contact
or something like a Steadicam or a gimbal.
But again, the phone utilizes that smartness
to stabilize the footage electronically.
Two out of the four lenses
have image stabilization in the lens,
but all of them are electronically stabilized.
And this is all stuff that happens
just completely behind the scenes, right?
So, you buy the phone, you turn on the camera
and it's doing all of this stuff
without you even knowing.
You look at the footage side by side and
it's very clearer that the iPhone
just looks so much smoother.
But the way they were mounted together,
they both pretty much had the same amount of camera shake.
There's a lot of lenses I could put on here
that has image stabilization,
but I can still tell you,
it doesn't even come close to being
as smooth as what this will give you.
The phone can do 120 frames per second no problem.
The Black Magic has to do a serious crop into the censor.
So even with a 18 millimeter lens on the Black Magic,
it still looks way, way cropped.
Anyways, I think this is just about enough footage
of watching some grown ass men
play in a children's playground.
And if I set the iPhone to the ultra wide angle lens,
it's just so much wider!
So that's kind of why I felt the need to
pick up this into 15 millimeters.
This is pretty much a (gasps) fish eye lens.
Another benefit of the phone,
it's actually pretty durable.
I've already dropped it a couple of times.
But, I don't think this would survive any drops.
On my iPhone, I'm shooting 4K, 24 frames per second
and the strong lens is definitely solid.
You can literally count
the number of hairs on Frank's beard.
You literally see the speckles of sand
and every snowflake that's fallen down.
But, when you put it next to
the Black Magic Pocket Cinema Camera,
you start to see the difference between
kind of artificially digitally sharpened images
versus something that was actually captured
at a super sharp, high resolution.
The iPhone does a good job at enhancing the image
out of this tiny camera and tiny censor,
but in my opinion at least,
it just never looks as good as the real thing.
Since the Black Magic is recording at 6K raw,
it doesn't have to do any sort of those
digital enhancements.
It just has hardware powerful enough to
capture everything, making everything look really true
and organic and beautiful.
So even though the iPhone does give you
a very sharp looking image
that looks crystal clear,
the Black Magic does a much better job
of showing you what's actually there.
You know, looking at some of the shots,
if we zoom way into the waterfall,
there's so much detail
in pretty much every quarter of the shot.
And if we look way in the background of these trees,
you can kind of see that the iPhone processor
is trying to enhance it,
and everything kind of starts to look muddy
and mushed together on the iPhone,
but on the Black Magic,
everything is still nice and well-defined.
Same with the snow.
If you look at the iPhone footage of it,
you might be like whoa,
you can see the snowflakes falling!
But then, when you put it next to the Black Magic,
you realize, whoa, there's actually
10 times more snow falling
that you couldn't see on the iPhone.
I'm definitely not an engineer or software developer
or anything like that.
I have an IQ of like four,
but what I do know is typically,
when you have a small censoring camera like this,
you end up with an image with quite a bit of noise.
So, a lot of modern cameras now
are de-noising the image in camera.
Which is cool because now you have less noise,
but there's a lot of estimations
that go on in that process
and when you overdo it,
the image can start looking blurry.
So from there, to make it look sharp again,
you have to go in and resharpen everything
kind of digitally.
And a lot of times, you digitally sharpen something
and it can look better,
but I see it as kind of like
tracing an image with a sharpie.
This one is blue, I don't want this (beep) blue.
I have all these sharpies
and I don't have a single black sharpie.
This makes no sense, guys.
I've got like a value pack of sharpies
and they only gave me like one black sharpie,
which of course, I lost.
That's why I got the value pack,
so I'd never run out of sharpies.
But, okay.
(banging)
Oh, look at that, it stuck!
And the resharpening process is kind of just going through
and like tracing it with thicker lines like that.
So there, now Mr. Happypants looks sharper
than he did earlier,
but it's not like it actually made the image sharper,
I just kind of went over and traced over
what was already there.
And like I said, I'm not an Apple developer or anything,
so I could be way off,
but this is kind of my educated guess
on how this all works.
But that would make sense,
because when we get into low-light footage,
low-light means more noise,
which means more de-noising,
which ultimately gives us a very blurry image,
so when we put the two cameras side-by-side in low-light,
the iPhone gets crushed.
The Black Magic does start to introduce some grain,
but the censor is capable enough
to where it still looks pretty dang good.
The phone's, on the other hand,
sure, you can see what's going on, which is awesome,
but a lot of the detail gets lost in low-light.
Now even though the Black Magic
doesn't have smart HDR like this phone does,
it does have a lot of dynamic range.
So you can take the raw footage out of this camera
and you could essentially
make it look like an HDR shot,
but you have so much control of
how you want the footage to look.
Of course to get the best results,
you're gonna wanna hit that link in the description
and buy my LUTs that I made specifically for Black Magic.
Why in the world would you color grade yourself
when you could just buy my LUTs and give me money?
So in the end, with the Black Magic,
you will end up with a better shot,
but it just takes a little bit more work
opposed to a phone that just does it all,
literally, without you even knowing.
But just like with every smart features,
it's not always 100% accurate.
Sometimes it will flatten things out
where you didn't want it to flatten out.
And finally, of course, we get depth of field
with a proper cinema camera like this.
In other words, blurry backgrounds.
We love that stuff because we tell the audience
hey, look here.
Gotta admit the portrait mode on these phones,
they've done a killer job
of making it look like it was taken
on a professional camera.
But I'd be curious if they could
apply that technology into video.
But the beauty is that these cinema cameras
are becoming more and more affordable.
Like I said, the 4K version of this camera
is a beast and again,
it's less than what I paid for this iPhone.
And that brings us to our giveaway.
We are giving away a Black Magic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K
to one of you guys.
All you gotta be doing is
following me and Kondor Blue on Instagram.
And when you see this photo pop up
on their Instagram page,
make sure you like it and then boom, you're entered.
So shout out to Kondor Blue for giving away that camera.
That's a hot item right now.
They make a whole bunch of camera accessories,
so it's definitely worth checking them out.
Like this arm, which you use to mount like a monitor
or any sort of accessory.
But I love that they have this little hole right here
so that you can take a little Allen wrench or something
and stick it through it and just really crank it down
so that it doesn't come loose,
'cause I hate it when you mount a monitor
onto a rig and it just bloop, so,
tightening it down with that extra twerk is awesome.
They've got quick release plates,
so you can mount this to your monitor
and it can just clip onto it like that,
instead of taking your monitor,
you know, and just like spinning it around
with all the cables wrapping around.
And this is my favorite right here,
this is just a handlebar that
attaches to a Rosette.
So you could attach this onto a cage or a shoulder rig.
You could extend it out to where you want it.
And there's a button right here
to adjust your angle.
Oh, I mean, this is so simple,
but why haven't I seen this before?
This is awesome, ho-ho, look at that!
I love it!
So good luck to everyone's who entering.
I don't know, maybe if you sweet talk them
they'll send you a rig,
along with the Black Magic.
Anyways, let's wrap this up
by reading a few comments from my last video,
which was all about the Zhiyun Weebill S,
currently one of my favorite gimbals to use
with my EOS R.
Basically every comment here
is about the giveaway,
because we did do a giveaway in that video too.
So congrats to the winner right there
for winning a gimbal.
Every single comment starts off with Gene,
"does anyone want it?"
Me, "hell yeah."
Gene, "does anyone want it?"
Me, "I must have it."
Gene, "does anyone want it?"
Me, "I need it."
Like, what is going on?
Have you guys all turned into clones?
Every single comments starts off like,
am I missing something?
(ticking)
Finally, we got one comment
that doesn't start with Gene, "does anyone want it?"
Does anyone notice how he says Zhuiyn instead of Zhiyun?
Okay, to clarify, that is how you say Zhiyun.
- This is the correct pronunciation for Zhiyun.
- Now you know.
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