ladies and gentlemen boys and girls welcome to London
welcome to London's Covent Garden the main Piazza of Covent Garden is just behind me
there I'm filming right now on my camera that I use for making most of our
videos the canon g7x mark 2 as you can see the footage the quality of
the footage is phenomenal for a compact camera
if I spin around it looks great and the camera fits in
your pocket however last year I spent a lot of time going live and you can't do that
Compact cameras you need to use a phone and my phone was is
an Apple iPhone 5s which i think is a 2013 phone don't quote me on that but
yeah for 2018 I need I don't need a better phone this makes phone calls
perfectly it's great for texting but the camera is nowhere near as good as these
cameras and nowhere near as good as the latest phones so I'm here in Covent Garden
to pop into the Apple store and get a newer model iPhone which will have
better camera so my live videos will look more like this and less as they did
on this let me switch to this camera and I'll show you what I mean in terms of
image quality and stabilisation
iPhone 5s
OK so this is filming on my iPhone 5sand as you can see it will be far less stable than using the
the compact camera the Canon G7X and if I spin around
it probably wont look anywhere near as good image stabilisation is a problem so I won't a newer phone with
better image stabilisation
also I'am hoping the newer phones with newer cameras will look better in low light so at night like
as its getting dark now hopefully the newer phones will be better hopefully they are just better all around they should be
so here is the Apple store lets pop in and see which phone they recommend and upgrade
(music)
okay I've upgraded from
my iPhone 5s to this which is the iPhone 7 plus so hopefully the footage will be a little bit better maybe more stable just
better image quality than my my last camera my last phone
and I'm recording this in the YouTube app which is what I would typically use
to record live videos this isn't the native camera application on the on the
phones it wasn't I was using the YouTube app on the iPhone 5s as well which is I
guess it probably isn't the best settings for the camera because it's the
best settings for YouTube so it probably be more concerned with file size than the
maximum capabilities of the camera what it can do which the native iPhone app can't do
is this which is in the middle of filming switch camera views which is
very handy when you're going live and yeah the iPhone itself can't do that
that's a function within the YouTube app itself both for pre recording and live
but hopefully this will be a vast improvement
for my live videos
it definitely looks a lot better on screen it looks a little bit more stable than
the last one I'm walking on cobbles so this will really put it through its
paces also there are better phones than the iPhone the seven plus out now but
I was been a bit tight I don't want to spend the most amount of money
this just seemed like the the camera capabilities of this seemed almost as
good as the the next models up the eight and the 10 there was a significant jump
from the six but the next models up they didn't seem like a significant jump in
camera quality which was really all I was after my last phone worked fine as a phone I just wanted to
increase my camera quality so yeah right now the seven plus was
a great camera but also reasonable value for money it has good zoom as well it's got
telephoto lenses lets check that out
see that will come in handy the two camera lenses for zooming in when I'm
filming out and about trying to pin highlight landmarks for you
that wasn't that far away was it lets be honest check out Covent Garden at night
okay I'm gonna call it a day there I'm back at the Apple Store here this is
about as tough a test as it gets for phones its getting dark the lights
changing and I'm walking on cobbles its a pretty good test for a high-end compact
camera yeah hopefully this will improve my life broadcast so until next time
guys toodles