all right so today we have the iphone 13
pro max now every generation the camera
seems to be getting better and better
but what recently came out is the
ability to shoot in pro res but let me
go ahead and get started by shooting a
few things in pro res and intercutting
it with some footage out of this canon
c70 and see how obvious it is whenever i
switch between the two cameras
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it's just so beautiful here is that a
massive penis that someone carved out
well over there
was like right on any no your accuracy
was maybe like 50
yeah yeah yes no but that's i they do
that's not that good that's not
literally 15
so it's like no i mean there's only two
options like if you literally flipped a
coin you would probably get 50
try to have something here okay so you
thought this first shot here was a
professional camera i thought but i
guess not you probably thought that
because of the depth of field the
background's actually a bit blurry so
that's usually assignable professional
camera but with iphone 13 pro max having
that bigger sensor you can actually
achieve shallow depth of field so this
is actually iphone that's iphone no this
is c70 so all slo-mo shots are from the
professional camera how about this one
uh
iphone you call this one out accurately
yes it's just the way she is moving
there's something about the motion of it
that caught my eye and it just made me
feel more like iphone did it feel almost
like overly sharpened in terms of just
like the motion i guess yeah that would
be okay i think what you're looking at
is the fast shutter speed which is
correct because on the professional
camera the shutter speed is locked in
the iphone is kind of just doing
whatever and every time it gets brighter
or darker kind of just does its own
thing that is not iphone that is iphone
what did you say it's german now the
biggest giveaway for this shot is that
it's very stabilized and i didn't have a
gimbal while i was out there now the
iphone stabilization is really good to
where it can look like you're on a
gimbal even if you're just walking
around being all bumpy now one of these
shots is iphone and one of these is
professional that's the iphone when he
swings his hand around it has that kind
of i guess oh okay so your main giveaway
is the shutter speed being fast that's
interesting because for me my biggest
giveaway is the artificial sharpening so
here everything looks really natural
right but then you look at the iphone
shot and all the details in the back are
almost overly sharpened and then you
look at the image and you go oh wow
that's sharp but in reality it should
look a little bit more flat like this
now it can come down to preference
sometimes people like the super
sharpened look but most of the time in a
professional camera you don't have to
actually add in any sharpening
professional camera that's professional
camera that's iphone the biggest
giveaway here is that little green lens
flare you see over carrie's jacket right
there now the reason why that flare is
jumping around like that is because the
camera is stabilizing the image but it
can't stabilize the flare so the flare
is jumping around even though everything
else looks nice and even regular camera
or professional
professional were you expecting it to be
this hard to tell the difference i guess
not no i mean i knew they were coming
out with better cameras i just it's like
oh so we're basically almost at the same
level unless you knew what you're
looking for but it is case by case so we
will try out a few more scenarios where
the difference might be more obvious or
maybe not as different as we thought so
the next one we will do with the a7s and
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all right so now we have a better idea
of how the cameras look let's go to the
next round of footage and see if you can
tell the difference
and action
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yeah i gotta say the difference between
the phones and pro cameras it's getting
slimmer and slimmer every time i make
one of these videos i mean before they
would both look really good but as soon
as you go into low light it was a dead
giveaway that the iphone wasn't nearly
as good but here
it's holding up pretty damn good all
right so i'm dragging carrie into this
and she's gonna try to call out some of
the shots let's see how accurate you are
okay iphone
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iphone
a7 a7
maybe a7
iphone
a7
iphone
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i don't know they're going so fast
uh
iphone
a7
it's hard it was so fast the cuts were
so fast i didn't have opportunity to
really get a good look at it so you may
be wondering why people spend thousands
on camera when an iphone is pretty dang
close yeah i'm wondering why we have so
many cameras then
now camera itself is very important on
creating the image but the lens
selection can be just as or maybe even
more important to the image that's why
we also have a lot of lenses
exactly
so so far we've been using the 16 to 35
f4 which is my kind of go-to vlog lens
but swung by the room swapped it out for
the 35 to 150 and opens up to f 2.0
let's see how this competes
all right carrie this is your chance to
redeem yourself iphone
a7
iphone
a7
iphone 7.
we got everyone right this time
was this a lot easier i think so yeah
the difference is all in that lens like
the iphone is technically great for what
it can do but when it comes to lens
options you're rather limited the low
light performance is great on the 1x
lens but if you go into the ultra wide
or telephoto you immediately see it's
not nearly as good now on a pro camera
choosing the right lens is everything
and it's not like there's the best lens
that's perfect for everything it's kind
of like musical instruments you know
it's not like one instrument is superior
to all others even though the dude with
the guitar is always getting all the
chicks the guy of the clarinets over
there just like what the hell dude i'm a
piano player myself i was kind of forced
into it but you probably already knew
that so so far everything we've shot on
this iphone has been in prores 422 hq
which is a codec or basically a type of
compression so you shoot something with
your lens and sensor and that file gets
compressed down to smaller file sizes
like hd64 is very small and it looks
pretty good hd65 is even more compressed
but the goal is to maintain a good
looking image with small file sizes
prores on the other hand is just like a
slight er it's barely compressed it's
visually lossless which means massive
file sizes but you maintain all those
details is it worth shooting in prores
on the iphone i would say most of the
time no because you could have a file
size that's a fraction of the size and
pretty much get a very similar looking
image i would be more interested in this
prores if there was an option to shoot a
log format so i can color grade it
pretty heavily but right now i don't see
any options like that even in filmic pro
there's no option to go flat the basic
codec seems to be pretty good already
until you switch over to slow motion
that's where i feel like the codec
really has a hard time staying together
and keeping that quality up so if there
was a way to put slow-mo in prores that
would be awesome but i just think the
phone can't really handle that because
that's a lot of data to process very
fast but it is nice knowing that there
is prores available in here especially
if that's the codec we want our workflow
to be in and also if i'm just trying to
get the best possible image out of this
camera possible then that's how you
would do it at the cost of massive files
now i have some cine lenses that open up
to t 1.5 and cinematic mode on the
iphone is supposed to digitally emulate
it so we'll see how these two compare
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all right what's interesting about this
is that this is kind of like real depth
of field versus fake depth of field now
we've had fake depth of field in
portrait mode and stills for a while now
but we're starting to finally see it in
video and it's not quite there yet you
could definitely look at it and see that
there's like a glow going on around the
edges it's not a perfect cutout dylan
what do you think it's close but yeah i
don't know the what the glow thing
you're talking about it just stands out
so much
yeah it's like not a perfect cutout i
don't know how they make cinematic mode
look so good in the apple commercials
but in real world use it looks like this
more often and they're definitely on the
right track though sometimes it's not
bad at all like this shot here it's
almost convincing like it takes me a
second to see for sure if it's real or
fake but once you look at it close
enough becomes a little bit more obvious
but
i don't know i mean it's getting there
the iphone looks a lot more vibrant yeah
the color well that is the color grade
so we can of course take the c70 and
adjust the colors and saturation and all
that there's a couple times where i
missed focus right i couldn't track you
with the iphone you can actually adjust
where the focus goes afterwards because
it has that lidar depth information but
man i love your dance though where'd you
learn those moves man i just made it up
on my own
one of these days we're gonna make an
episode like this but we're not gonna
even be able to tell the difference
between the two three generations down
the line am i gonna start being like i
don't know what camera that was shot on
you know especially if they give us more
versatility on how much it's sharpened
and all that stuff it's getting there
the technology is getting pretty insane
after checking out the footage i think
the big takeaway from this video is that
it's all about the lenses like see how i
have all that unorganized crap back
there and it's all messy my background
doesn't look that nice well there now
we're at f 2.8 oh my gosh it doesn't
look nearly as distracting anymore it
still actually doesn't look that great i
was hoping it would just like get really
soft i would need to go to a prime lens
for that but anyways i think i should
probably make a video where i just go
into detail about lenses trying to pick
out what lenses what to look for and all
that i don't know is that something that
you would think would be useful because
if so i will make that video but if you
want me to just go do dumb stuff i'll do
that too i don't really care i'm here
for you guys all right so let me know in
the comments if you have questions about
lenses if you have trouble picking out
lenses then i want to help you i got to
wrap this up here so i can upload a
video because i'm trying to stay more
consistent and it's really tough to stay
consistent on things when you have adhd
as hardcores but anyways uh see you guys
later