- (Ethan) Hey, Catherine! - Hi, Ethan! Oh my gosh!
- Oh my god! That is too funny!
- I'm definitely impressed. I'm ready to sell some
of my professional equipment, man.
♪ (ragtime intro) ♪
- (FBE) Well, today, you are going to be reacting to...
this! - Oh! Oh.
- Is that the new X or XS? Something like that?
- (FBE) Apple recently came out with the iPhone XS and XS Max.
But since the iPhone XS Max has a bigger screen,
we're actually gonna be showing you this one
to show you some new features. - Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh.
I'll never own one, but I sure wanna check it out.
Well, I might-- I might down the road.
- It's pretty maxed out, I gotta tell you.
It's pretty darn gorgeous. - I'm surprised they don't have
the 10.1 and then the 10.2 comes out, and then the 10.3.
You have to have that one. - (FBE) Before we get into this,
you know, we had the elders react to the iPhone X last year.
- Oh. - (FBE) We tried out
the Animoji feature, which tracked the face movements
and some of the-- - Oh, yes, yes! I remember that.
Yeah, yeah. I did that. - Oh, I love Animojis!
- (Catherine laughs) Oh, (snorts).
- I remember that I wasn't gonna get one.
Well, I ended up getting both. (chuckles)
- (FBE) One of the heavily talked about features
with this iPhone is Memojis, which are similar
to Animojis, only this time, you can create a character
that looks like you. - Oh my goodness. How fun.
- (FBE) We're gonna get you set up with that,
and we will create you a Memoji.
- Okay. - I'm gonna make it look like me.
Skin color. Well, I'm pretty light-skinned,
and I don't see anything that matches here, really.
I'll go with this one, though. - This guy looks about right.
This guy's-- yeah, like that. - That's pretty cool.
My phone won't do this? - I don't know
what's most like my hair. Let's just do that.
There. That's close enough.
- How about this mohawk? I could do that.
- There. (chuckles) I just chose something
that looked very different. - (laughs) This is funny.
- She's moving. Oh. Oh-- oh!
- (FBE) She's moving with you! - Ohhh! I just--
I just caught that. (chuckles) How cool is that?
- I'm gonna do this grumpy old man one.
That's the best I can do. - Let me see.
Man, let me find a nice hat. So many.
- What do I wear? 'Cause if I'm on the computer,
generally, I do have the glasses on. Okay.
- Done. Yeah, that's as close as it's gonna get.
I'd like to trim her hair and muss it up a little bit.
- It's kinda different when it's you,
'cause you could spend hours just trying to tweak it
and make it look like you. - (FBE) Memoji will track your face
and replicate your movements and facial expressions.
- Wow. Huh. Interesting.
Mah. That's good.
- (laughs) It is cute.
- But if I talk, it talks. It's pretty cool.
- Didn't flip me off.
- Oh my god! That is too funny!
Now, this is what you can send to someone, right? I like that.
- (FBE) So, you can also use this to record a message.
Hit the red button on the side. - Hello. This is a lot of fun.
I think maybe I would use it. I'm surprising myself.
- (Vera) Hello, this is a lot of fun.
I think maybe I would use it. I'm surprising myself.
- It's very amazing that it can do all that.
- I never thought I would get to say hello to myself
without people thinking I'm crazy, but it's nice to see you. Bye!
- (Catherine) It's nice to see you. Bye!
- Oh my god! That's so cool!
- Seize the day. Enjoy life.
It goes by much too quickly.
- (Holgie) It goes by much too quickly.
- Pretty cute, but I wouldn't use it. it's way too much trouble
to say hello to somebody. - You don't have to read anymore.
It's amaze how we change and communicate.
- I have a little flip phone, and when I text...
like, if I wanna do C, I have to do A, B, C.
It's a pain in the neck. It takes me so long to text
just a simple sentence. So yeah, this would be great.
- (FBE) You can also use the Memojis during a video chat.
And so, we're gonna have you try that out next.
- Really? - God, that's great.
I mean, it's just unbelievable the things you can do.
- Is that you talking to-- - (Ethan) That is me.
- Oh my gosh! You look so cute, Ethan.
- (Ethan) Hey, Catherine! - Hi, Ethan! Oh my gosh!
- Hey, how's it going? - (Ethan) I'm good.
How are you doing? - Not too bad, you know?
Some-- testing this new gadget. This is fun.
For example, if I get up in the morning,
if I didn't do my hair, I don't have to worry about it.
- (Ethan) So, what do you think? - It's pretty cute.
- (Ethan) What do you think that cartoons talk about?
- About life, about problems, about work...
- (Ethan) Yeah? - ...about anything.
- Ooh, this is-- take a lot to sink in,
you know, how really we're old.
- This is not for me, but it's very intriguing.
But I'm more concerned about the future of this kind of thing.
- If you were gonna try and meet somebody to date,
if they show up on my screen looking like that,
it'd be like, "Bye!"
- I would never use it. I would get--
if someone called me and they looked like that,
I'd hang up on 'em. - It's gimmicky, but I like it.
I would love to FaceTime with people.
This gives me an opportunity to do it,
and they don't really know what I'm looking like.
- It's fun. I will have to find out if anyone I knew had one of these.
- (FBE) One of the other cool features with this phone is the dual camera,
which has been titled as one of the best for smartphones.
The new iPhone allows you to adjust the depth of field
after you shoot a photo in portrait mode,
so it makes your photos look pretty much as good
as a professional camera. - Wow, fantastic.
- (FBE) So, we actually had our PAs go out and take a couple of photos
so that you can test this feature. - Okay.
- I am a professional photographer, right?
And a lot of times, I don't have to pull
my big camera out. I just use my iPhone,
and, I mean, it's incredible, man.
- (FBE) So, if you look on the bottom of the screen,
there is a bar or a meter there, and you can adjust the f-stop
so that the depth of field changes. - Oh, right. The dog is in focus
in the foreground, but background is out of focus.
So, you can actually do your own editing
on the camera as such. That makes life easy.
- I like that. You can decide how you wanna--
you can make the background very hazy. You can make it very sharp.
That's a really neat feature. - As a photographer,
I think this is the key thing for them.
- I like to have this better than I care about the Memoji
or whatever you call it. - When I started out,
they had the thing called a box, called a brownie.
And you cranked it by hand. Maybe it had 12 exposures on there.
Push the button. People had to-- You had to stage everything.
There was no freedom of-- like we have today.
We just take anything, anywhere and any time.
- I'm a wedding photographers. I shoot weddings, what-have-you,
and a lot of times, you'll just see so many phones
up like this, you know? They're taking pictures.
They don't really need a wedding photographer a lot of times.
- So, I should get one of this rather than a new Nikon,
because I was thinking about going back to the heavy equipment
to just play with for travel, but this is better.
- (FBE) To better show you a comparison between an iPhone
and professional cameras, up next, we're gonna show you
two similar pictures, both shot by our PAs
who are not professional photographers at all.
One was shot on an iPhone XS, and one was shot
on a professional camera. We want you to guess which is which.
- Oh, okay. Great. - iPhones look so professional
these days. - (FBE) Which picture do you think
was shot with an iPhone? The one on the right
or the one on the left? - I think the one
with the blue background is professional.
- The one on the right. - Oh dear.
This one has some shading. I think the one on the right.
- That's difficult. Um... Professional camera on the right,
iPhone on the left. - I would say the one on the right
would be the iPhone. - The one on the right's
the professional photograph, and the one on the left's
taken from a phone. - The one on the right
is with the iPhone. - I think you're stacking
the deck here. The iPhone is probably on the left,
and the professional camera on the right.
- I'm gonna say the one on the left--
oh no, I don't think that-- no, I don't think it could be.
You couldn't put out the whole background
with that, so the one on the right is the phone.
- (FBE) You're actually... - Wrong.
- The reason why I said that was because I see little bits
of cloud, which I don't see in the other one.
Now I am impressed. - Here's another example.
- Wow, that's hard. This one is much sharper.
- The lights are different. The one on the left
is the real camera. - The one on the left.
- I'm gonna go with the one on the right again.
- Well, the one on the right looks like a professional photograph.
The one on the left looks like a camera.
If the one on the right's the camera, the camera's better.
- The one on the right was taken by the... iPhone.
- I'd say the one on the right again. - The one on the right,
that one, is the professional. - I'm gonna go with right.
- The background blurred on the right. So, is that the iPhone?
- (FBE) That is not. That is actually-- - That's the professional.
- That's super sharp. It's sharper than the professional.
- The better picture is the professional one.
The one on-- the iPhone one, it's just not as clear
on the top of the ball. - (FBE) And finally,
we've got these two photos. - Okay, the iPhone is the one
on the left. It's clearer.
The iPhone has been taking clearer pictures.
- iPhone on the left. - The picture on the left.
- iPhone was the one on the left,
and the professional camera was the one on the right.
- The one on the left is the-- the one on the right's the iPhone.
The one on the left is professional.
- The one on the left is the iPhone.
- Yeah, it could go either way. iPhone on the right.
- That's all blurry, and then that's rather clear.
I don't think the professional one would be blurry like that.
The iPhone on the right. - It's a toss up, isn't it?
I'm gonna go with the one on the left is the professional one.
- (FBE) Once again, you are... - Wrong! (chuckles)
Boy, I love that iPhone. - It took me a couple pictures
to look at to see what the differences are
and then try to find them in this one here.
- I'm definitely impressed. I'm ready to sell some
of my professional equipment, man.
- (FBE) So finally, tech has changed so much since you were younger.
What has been the most surprising thing
about modern-day phones and technology in general
that you didn't expect to see when growing up?
- Well, I didn't expect to have anything
where you could just walk down the street
and talk into a phone. - The internet wasn't even here
when I was growing up. But once it came,
the iPhone, you know, was just amazing to me.
You could handle your business. You could pay bills.
You know, you could do everything from the palm of your hand.
- What's really impressive, I think it's great that we have
this new technology at our fingertips
that anybody can use without spending an arm
and a leg for a camera. - You could have your whole life
in this little thing like this. And you can do almost anything.
Now, you can edit photos. I mean, it's scary,
but I'm glad I got to experience it.
- When you look at the iPhone or the phone or the smartphone,
you can count as many as 30 things, maybe 40 things,
that end up daily used. Maybe we're getting close
to Star Trek time, you know? "Beam me up."
It just blow me away how fast and how fast it change
and what's next.
- Thanks for watching this episode of Elders React.
Shoutout to Taylor Wise. - Subscribe and hit the bell.
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