What's going on you guys, it's Potato Jet here to talk to you about cameras and to
remind you to always eat your vegetables, just like this broccoli. Broccoli juices
up your body and brain it's seriously like eating smartness. You're gonna get
sick less often, it's gonna help you manage your weight and give you all day
energy because taking naps is for a little b*$%! It's like kale's little
brother, but it's not as popular by hipsters, so nobody loves them anymore.
Don't worry broccoli, I'll always love you..ARGHGHHGH!!! Uhh, I'm gonna go change my shirt.
Now I keep comparing these super cameras to my iPhone and people in the comments
are always saying, "Man if that was a samsung galaxy it would destroy the cinema
Arri camera!" First of all, no! Who, wha- A smartphone is not gonna destroy a cinema
camera. This is designed to fit in your pocket this is designed to make Ryan
Gosling look better than he already does to make sure that none of us average
people will ever have a chance with Stacy's mom. In case you're not familiar
with the Arri Alexa camera, I made a video on which camera shot the
oscar-nominated films. The Arri Alexa shot more than two-thirds of the
nominated films this year, so I think it's safe to say it is the dominant
Hollywood camera. But it's impossible to deny that these phone cameras are
getting better and better every single year constantly improving closing the
gap between a consumer phone camera, to a professional-grade cinema camera. So
where do we currently stand? So we're gonna take this brand new Samsung Galaxy
S9 Plus, mount it right next to this lens here and we're gonna go out and get
some test footage so let's see what we come up with. Super bright sunny day in
Los Angeles which cameras which? Camera A or camera B? Again camera A, camera B. Next
sample: camera A and camera B. Wow I'm starting to sound like an optometrist. First impressions
they're both doing a really good job. The fact that they're comparable means that
Samsung's definitely doing something right. Camera B is looking a little bit
sharper, so is that the cinema camera? Actually no, camera B is the galaxy S9
plus okay so why does this Galaxy S 9 look sharper than a camera that costs
more than a luxury car? From what I can tell Arri has never really cared so much
about being the sharpest highest res camera. They design their camera to
produce the most organic natural-looking picture. And that becomes a lot more
apparent when you start filming people and skin tones and in my opinion, the
Arri Alexa is the camera that gets closest to your human eye. We're filming
under direct sunlight, which is not ideal but the Arri Alexa's dynamic range kind of
makes the light look a little smoother, while on the Samsung it looks
like she's being blasted by a super harsh light. - I'm also like sucking in
really hard. don't breathe Ahh!
One of the things I really
love about the Arri Alexa is that it has built-in ND filters. ND filters are kind
of like sunglasses for your camera so you can open up that lens a little bit
more and get that shallower depth of field. In other words, the background
looks blurrier and looks generally more cinematic. Usually it's a dark piece of
glass that you put into this tray and you drop it in in front of this lens,
but the Arri has three of them already built in so you can literally push a
button and it applies all these filters. Noice! Once we drop in this filter and go
to a tighter lens I don't think I need to tell you guys which ones which, it
becomes pretty obvious. I mean this looks like the title sequence to CSI Miami and
this just looks a little bit sad I'm sorry.
OOH! Ha I'm just kidding. -That's not funny! -Oh God! haha - That's not-
Now moving on to slow motion
what's something that's really cool to see in super slow motion? Well luckily I have a
lot of chunkiness in my cheek in my face I'm doing this for a YouTube videos this is...
this is what my last come to. So I met up with Steve and had him throw a couple of
punches we just weren't getting the results we wanted so I made the mistake
of asking for... Give me one like juicy one, just one just go do it before I f$*%&- , change my mind. Oh! Oh my god that
one hurt! Yep I was feeling that punch for the rest of the day. Now let's just
take a nice slow look and appreciate all the fat in my face. Oh the things I do
for YouTube. You can go ahead and hit that like button now. The best part might
be the look I make here where I'm rethinking my decisions. Like I can't
even stretch my face out that far right now. How did that even happen? Brain cells are
overrated and plus you can make more by eating broccoli! Now Steve claims he felt
really bad doing this, but Steve the camera does not lie. Clearly you were
enjoying this maybe a little bit too much Steve. Now let's get some dogs in
this video because I hear they'll get me more views. Now Samsung can actually go
all the way up to 960 frames for a second, which is much slower than the
Alexa's 200 frames per second. But the issue with the Galaxy is that it can
only record that frame rate for 0.2 seconds. Which means you only have 1/5 of
a second to capture that action. And to give you an idea of how short that is
here's 0.2 seconds. And here's another .2 seconds. So
I find it difficult to get just the right moment in slow motion. But it's
definitely a fun feature to play with. And of course Arri's 200 frames per
second is continuous and a ProRes so it is definitely more built for
professional use. Man, everything just looks so cool in slow motion!
This is Mozzarella by the way. She's a super cutie and she loves me.
At least when I have food. Samsung does have a continuous slow motion option
similar to the iPhone. There's definitely a loss in resolution but definitely good
enough to get some really awesome stuff. We're here in downtown Los Angeles, we
got Jonathan over here we got the Alexa and the Galaxy setup right over there. We
got the Aputure 120D dome light here, which is honestly becoming one of my
favorite LED lights at the moment. It's powered off one V-mount battery and
here's the shot with the Samsung Galaxy. The low-light performance is definitely
impressive for a camera phone. It was pretty dark there, we only set the light
to 25% so that we don't wash out the background. Switching over to the Alexa,
yes! Look how beautiful that looks! Especially on this tighter lens look at
that bokeh in the background! I love it! Now Jonathan's gonna take off the
softbox, so now it's gonna hit us much harsher, it's not gonna look nearly as
nice, but it's really gonna test out the limitations of the camera because oh god!
Do you see that? Now it's just harsh light smashing into our face and it
really tests the limitations of a camera. Get away from me I'm allergic to you!
Jonatan just found this random cat. He just picked up this random cat. It might
have rabies! So here's the Samsung, ouch! Obviously this super harsh light is
making it very difficult to keep everything looking nice. And on the Alexa
it's definitely still really sharp light, but the dynamic range generally keeps
everything still in detail, and it's far more forgiving. And this just goes to
show that it's always important to do a good job of lighting or finding good light,
but the Alexa is definitely a lot more forgiving in times where you can't. Now the
most important thing you need to know about shooting on the Galaxy S9 Plus is
that broccoli has a lot of enzymes that actually get killed off by heat so it's
best to eat it raw that's how you ensure you get the most nutrients out of this
food. I'm just kidding, I can't rip another shirt this is a YouTube video I
don't have that kind of budget. Two shirts? You're crazy!
Cameras are both set to 60P, so they're gonna be slightly slow mode and we're
gonna be riding at night, so it's gonna be dark. A pretty challenging situation
for any camera, but we're gonna see how they do.
So let's go. So here is camera X, why don't you take a guess out which one it
is.
Now here are the same shots with the other camera.
By now you guys have probably figured out that this is the Arri Alexa. The lack
of sharpness on the phone made it pretty obvious right off the bat I think. And
earlier we talked about highlight rolloff and we had really sharp harsh
lighting hitting our faces. But dynamic range also takes a really big part in
the darks. If you look at the side of my motorcycle you can generally see details
on the side of the bike, but on the phone it's all just bottomed out and black. So
yeah, nobody's surprised the Arri Alexa takes the win for low-light
capabilities. But interestingly the Arri Alexa iisn't necessarily the best
low-light camera. The C300 mark ii and the Sony A7S, their is ISO go way way up there.
But the Arri still holds its ground. Even though the Samsung's low-light capability
isn't to where a DSLR or pro camera is, it's still impressive. I mean even just a
few years ago I would have never pulled out my phone camera at night. I should
also point out that even though the Arri Alexa is a very forgiving camera, the most
important factor is how much you practice. A pro with the Samsung can
definitely produce much better content than a beginner with an Alexa, I promise
you! So always be learning how to get the best results out of the gear you
currently have. Remember that a good camera is nothing without good lighting
and good video is nothing without good audio. And absolutely nothing matters
without good content! Thank you guys so much for watching if you guys like this
video please don't forget to eat a piece of broccoli!
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