- And we're back with another comparison video,
comparing this beast, and these phones that shoot 8K video.
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But first of all, what exactly does 8K mean?
Well, if you measure a video by its width,
it's generally around 8,000 pixels,
so the resolution of this phone, is 7,680 by 4,320.
So I guess 7,680 is close enough to 8,000,
so there you go, 8K video.
So 4K, is generally around half the width of that,
and usually about half as tall, and then you have 2K,
which again, half of 4K,
and 2K also very similar 1080P, or full HD.
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and let's get back to talking about this guy.
Now, this is the Arri Alexa plus,
it's part of their classic lineup.
These were first introduced about 10 years ago.
So this is definitely not their latest and greatest camera,
there's been lots of improvements in the newer models,
but this ones kinda the first digital camera
that Hollywood really fell in love with.
And it was super popular because it had this
classic cinematic film look that everybody loves,
but it still had a super easy digital workflow,
so you hit the record button, you pull out the memory card,
plug it into a computer, and there you go,
definitely a whole lot easier, and cheaper than
feeding it expensive film for her to burn through,
and then you have to take into developing,
going to a dark room, I don't even know how it works,
but here's the thing internally,
this thing only shoots two 2K fraction,
of what most modern cameras can do.
So is it possible that an 8K phone,
now it looks better than the legendary cinema Arri Alexa?
One way to find out, let's go shoot.
Now here's our very first shot over at the beach,
looking pretty nice, let's switch over to the other camera,
and any thoughts on which ones which,
let's take a closer look and crop into both of them,
and if you guess the one on the right is 8K,
then you are correct.
No doubt that the 8K looks different because every single
little detail is extra crispy and sharp.
Here's a good example of this, if we crop way
into the railing, the 8K definitely looks sharper,
but here's the real question, right?
Is it sharper because it's 8K, or is it sharper because
of the post-processing that the phone automatically
does to the video?
Here's the thing, digital sharpness is something that you
can easily add in post, and when I do that to the Arri,
definitely starts to look a lot more similar.
A side effect of sharpening that Arri footage
was that it brought out a lot more noise.
So it's a lot more visible.
Luckily with computers, I can do a whole lot
so I'm gonna go ahead and run it through a D-noiser,
and now we have a clean, sharp look out of the Arri.
So yeah, if you are trying to get that hyper sharpen look
out of the Arri, you definitely can with a couple of clicks,
but to be honest, I don't do it all the time
because you don't always want a super sharp look,
especially when you're trying to make people look natural.
I am definitely not loving the way I look in the 8K phone.
Basically how digital sharpening works,
is it takes any sort of detail or contrast,
it can find it essentially bolds it.
So sharp putting something can be good,
but you also want to use it sparingly.
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Now I've said this a whole bunch of times,
before already, but I'm a really big fan
of really good HD.
I like 4K, and 8K is Cool, but I think this image looks
really good, and we're just shooting in just 2K.
What do you think Carrie, do you think it looks pretty good?
You should agree. - Yes.
- You concur, how's that cookie dough?
- Its so good, it's too good.
- Obviously having more resolution is awesome,
but it also comes with a cost.
You really need to supplement it
with a lot of power behind it.
If you look best by right now,
pretty much all the cameras there will probably shoot 4K.
That's awesome, but there's still a lot more to consider
like your dynamic range, your color science,
and your color depth is a big one.
For example, this lighting might look pretty nice,
it's a pretty neutral, warm color,
but once you start experimenting with different colors,
things can get a little bit trickier,
or the Arri Alexa has an insane amount of color information.
So it retains that detail and many different shades
of these different colors.
But when it comes to something like a phone,
even if you have 8K may not have that much color depth,
or bit rate or dynamic range to try to keep up
with these unique settings.
What do you think?
- I think information is knowledge,
and knowledge is power (chuckles).
- Yes.
- I don't know what came from. - What she said.
- (chuckles) I don't know where that came from.
- One thing for sure, is that this Arri Alexa
is not a lightweight camera, but this is pretty cool.
It's called an ergorig, and I look a little bit like a
Cybertron, yeah I just made that word up.
- [Man] Ain't that like the villain for "Transformers"?
- It sounds like it actually.
This thing's like magic, I feel this on my shoulder,
and it's like the weight just disappears.
I feel like I'm barely carrying anything now.
- Now time to snag a couple of shots during blue hour.
Honestly, one of my favorite times of day to shoot
because of how moody it is.
And one of my favorite sayings is that,
you have to learn all the rules so that
you can learn how to break them.
Definitely find that to be the case with cinematography,
you have to understand how to expose your shot,
which ISO to use, what white balance to use, and all that.
But the fun really starts after you learn
all your one-on-ones and you start experimenting.
And I'm not just talking about camera settings,
am talking about some dramatic, harsh lighting,
maybe using some unique vintage lenses,
that give it a certain characteristic.
There's a whole lot of stuff to experiment with.
I think that's where the magic of the Arri
really starts to shine through.
There's this cool video I just came across,
and it shows you a huge handful of movies
that have been shot on Arri Alexa,
and the cool thing about it,
so notice that no two movies look exactly the same.
Every film, every scene,
has a bit of this personal touch to it.
I really love the Arri looks right out of the camera,
but what makes it really impressive is,
all the things you can do with it
in different lighting situations, and different setups.
And since the camera capture so much information onset,
there's so much room for color correction in posts.
When you shoot on an Arri, it's never about
how many pixels can you capture in a shot?
It's more about how well can you convey a scene and emotion.
This video is actually pretty fun to watch,
so I'll throw a link down there in the description.
I think we got a couple of shots,
so we can go back to the studio and take a look at it.
Whoa! Rabbit hey bunny, come here.
Thought I was gonna to go home with another pet.
So far, all the phone shots have been 8K,
and all the Alexa footage has been 2K,
but now we're gonna to switch both of them to slow motion,
which is going to force both of them to come down
in resolution, and now we're shooting HD on both cameras.
So right now, they're both the same resolution,
technically speaking, same number of pixels
but the difference here is good HD, versus poor HD.
It's very easy to look at this graph that I showed you
up front and say, oh, 2K, not nearly enough,
but you can go ahead and see for yourself that
even if it has the same number of pixels,
it doesn't mean the same image quality.
Apparently Steve doesn't know how to use a power tool.
(laughs)
I guess if you have it at an angle,
you're supposed to slide this out, Steve did it,
and it just cuts straight to it look at that though.
That's a clean cut.
- I didn't even feel it,
it just went right through, taking it down.
- [Man] Wow.
- This thing is no joke, it's a joom right through that.
Whoa! You see the piece fly off?
That's kinda crazy.
- [Man] It cuts over there.
- It's (mumbles) it did wow! (laughs)
What do you guys think of this new studio space by the way?
It's still work in progress.
The intro, we just kinda put up this piece of duvetyn
like this, block out the light, turn on these lights.
I got something cool, Steve,
I need your help because you're tall.
Look, this box looks like you.
- Oh, it does.
- (laughs) It's just kind of a mess
with all these light stands everywhere.
This is called a vera pole, each side is kind of this
rubber grippy stuff, so you extend this out
to whatever length, I wanna get of a lot of
different stands, and just replace them with these rods.
I might be able to work with this, I love no lights stand.
How cool is that?
Oh, I just realized I had filmed the close,
of this video already.
So the next scene, the lighting's not gonna look like this.
Oh, shit I thought that through a little bit better (laughs)
Anyways, that's probably enough blabbing from me,
What'd you guys think of the footage?
Was there anything that particularly (mumbles).
particularly? I can't say that word,
anything surprise you?
It's what I'm trynna say.
I'm definitely impressed with how good these phones look.
Even though I don't really care about the 8K portion of it,
and I also think it's pretty cool,
that this is a 10-year-old camera, and it still holds up.
Like the biggest, of the biggest movies are shot
on Arri Alexas, and even though this is a very outdated
version of the Alexa, it still hangs in there.
Oh, and the Samsung S20 Ultra,
that we're doing a giveaway with.
If you want a chance to win, just drop a comment down below
within the first 24 hours, of this video
going live, and good luck.
Let's wrap this up by reading a few comments
from my last video, The Hangover Potato and Sam Edition.
That's a film I'd watch, I mean,
we have the camera to do it lets do it.
Sam should be called Tequila Jet,
What do you think about that?
- No, am f(beep) mango copter.
- In case you guys missed the last video,
Sam and I got irresponsibly drunk.
Try this challenge again, but put the Arri Alexa
LF on the end of it.
- Oh, no.
- I swear as soon as Gene said that they're gonna get drunk
to use the Snorricam I paused the video to make some
popcorn. There's no way I'm not gonna enjoy this video.
I think it was a pretty funny video.
- Yeah.
- If you haven't checked it out yet, should check it out.
Gene hanging around Sam's shoulder like a devil.
- That's literally all you do.
- You know you want to do it Sam.
I can't decide whether that shot of Sam peeing has me
traumatized or has to be turned on.
- What? (laughs)
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