- So, here it is, the iPhone 11 Max Pro,
or the Pro Max, whatever.
iPhone 11 Pro Max, that's the way to say it.
Literally the only reason why I bought this
is for that third lens right there,
that ultra wide angle lens,
if it wasn't for that lens I probably would have found
a much smarter way to spend
$1449
Like, I coulda gotten Pita the luxury dog bed
that he's been asking for.
But no, instead I got this.
I mean, come on, I'm a youtuber,
all I care about is getting dope shots of myself.
This is what influencing 400,000 people looks like.
Yeah, I'm having so much fun!
"Sam, can you edit out my double chin?"
Sure, better battery life and faster processer,
all that good stuff, cool, but I really just want
my videos to look as good as possible.
After using this camera for a little bit,
the very first thing I noticed was the improvements
on the selfie camera.
So let start off by comparing this camera to the iPhone 10,
which is two generation ago.
Across the board it's just a better image
and that highlight roll off is a big deal to me.
Basically, whenever your face gets blown out
or turns to white, it just looks really harsh on the skin,
it doesn't look very natural.
Like, look how harsh that lighting,
around my forehead.
- It's like right here.
- And your eye, yeah it's so intense on the 10,
looks so much better on the 11, so,
this is a noticeable difference.
You can also see it in the background of this shot,
on the iPhone 11 you can still see what's back there
but on the 10
it's completely blown out.
And if you're walking while vlogging,
you'll notice the stabilization kicking in
more on the 11 pro,
on the 10, you feel every single footstep and bump but,
the 11 smoothens that out a little bit,
you can sometimes see the artifacts of
digital stabilization kicking in here,
but I think the majority of
people would rather have that stabilization on
and just deal with that side effect.
Now let's take a look at the iPhone 10S Max
which is just one generation ago,
and for this phone they decided to
punch in this selfie camera quite a bit
so you can see that if I put them side by side
it's a lot closer and more zoomed in
on the 10S Max opposed to the 11
which I get a little bit more space with.
It may not seem like a huge difference now
but it's definitely noticeable.
Especially if you want to feature multiple people
in the same shot,
you kind of have to hold it all the way out here,
"Hey, hey Peter, smile."
Compared to the wider shot,
where I can get us both fitting
very comfortably and easily,
"Oh you must be tired",
and then I can hold it all the way out and get all of us,
look at that, that's a cool wide angle shot,
huh Peter, what do you think?
The way I see it, with these, the wider the better,
because I could always hold the phone up close to me,
but once you're extended
and you want to get it further away,
you can't.
Unless you're Elastigirl.
Is that, is that from, that's a character right?
Elastigirl?
Is that from the Incredibles?
You think?
So the new 11 pro just seems like the best of both worlds.
We get that wider angle like we do get in the iPhone 10,
but also the better image quality,
the better highlight roll off,
the dynamic range and image stabilization,
that we get out of the 10S Max.
So I'm Potato Jet and I approve this selfie camera.
Now, I've been dying to test out this wide angle lens
so let's go.
All right, so,
here's how the ultra wide angle lens
looks like on this camera.
So, far I'm really liking what I'm seeing,
and I am just hand holding it,
you can stabilize it with a Gimbal
like the DJI Osmo Mobile 3,
which is probably the one I would recommend
for this specific camera.
And how's the sound quality?
Hopefully it's decent and usable
if you do want better audio quality
you can always plug in an external microphone,
but wow, I'm really impressed at
how wide this frame is on this wide angle lens.
I can't actually see what I'm filming right now
because the wide angle lens is on the back of the phone,
but knowing that it's so wide
I can just hold it out like this and
I know that I'm getting everything that I wanted to get,
so that is cool.
If you're familiar with full frame cameras,
then this is equivalent to about a 13mm,
so its wider than what most vloggers are using right now,
I shoot on around a 16 typically,
and it's not quite as wide as something like a GoPro,
but it's not too far off,
it kinda does feel
like I'm filming with an action camera sometimes.
So now that I'm back here in the studio
looking at some of the super wide angle footage,
oh my god!
I am so impressed.
It looks so good.
And it's so smooth too at this ultra wide angle,
you almost don't even need a Gimbal,
this is just footage of me just walking with it and
it does definitely help to have a wide angle lens
I really think not having this ultra wide angle lens
is really what was keeping me
from using my iPhone camera very often,
but now I feel pretty comfortable using iPhone footage
in my videos.
Like anything, if we look closely enough,
we will find some imperfections
like the purple fringing that goes on
in the top left corner here.
But still, for something that is always in your pocket,
this is phenomenal.
Yo, Jonathan, here check out this camera real quick.
- Oh what's up.
Yeah, it's almost like a fisheye.
You could literally get right up there.
(laughs)
- [Gene] It's pretty dope having it in the phone
though, huh?
- [Jonathan] Yeah, I know.
(laughs)
that's insane, dude.
I'm close.
- And are you still seeing most of my face?
- [Jonathan] I see all your face and Steve.
- What about this close?
- [Jonathan] Yeah, I still see your face.
- And can you still see Steve?
- [Jonathan] Yeah.
- No way, I'm like right up in it.
Look, look. Gene look how close I am.
- [Gene] I know,
(laughs)
I'm seeing how close you are to the camera,
and look at that.
- He's all up in it.
- [Jonathan] And I have jiggly hands.
(laughs)
- [Gene] Jiggly hands.
- I'm impressed, yeah. I'm impressed.
- Look at how cute they are all the way over there.
So that's when we pull out our two-x zoom lens here,
so here that is
and I'm holding it handheld and
it's looking pretty stable, so.
The stabilization is optical, on this lens,
so that's pretty good.
Anything past this
is not gonna be an optical zoom anymore,
it's gonna be a digital zoom.
So, lets see how that looks,
we're at two-x zoom right now,
that's about a three-x zoom.
So, yeah the six-x zoom,
nothing special, it definitely looks pretty bad,
digital zoom, yeah, no thank you,
but it's good to have.
The telephoto lens is also the way to go
if you're trying to get some of those super close up
macro shots too,
it does a pretty good job with that.
And you could very quickly switch
between the different lenses, while recording,
which is nice.
I'm not much of a photographer but
let me just play around, see what happens.
So the ultra wide angle in photo mode is also
super fun and
you could definitely see the HDR kicking on
to kinda even out some of those shadows.
It's not bad.
It's really pretty impressive.
Of course, portrait mode is still cool to have,
especially if you're going for that blurry background look.
Few parts where you could clearly see that
it didn't get the perfect outline around your ear,
and I think it just, like,
it couldn't tell what that cable was.
- [Steve] Oh.
- [Gene] There's a little USB dongle
that's hanging out in front of your face,
and it just tried to erase that
or blur it out I think.
For the most part, it's pretty solid
like these look pretty good, here.
And just for comparison,
this is how a photo looks out of this camera.
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All right so now we're in the shade,
let's try to take a few more shots of
Sam over here.
I didn't tell him to pose like that,
but let's just go with it.
The ultra wide lens is like ultra wide,
I love it.
I don't know how to feel about these photos.
(laughs)
again we've got some portrait mode shots.
What else do we have here?
We have, high key light mono.
Whoa.
Its actually just like masking,
he's just like, real time masking.
Its crazy.
I'm impressed at how smart this camera is,
there's no effort going into these photos,
it's literally like, sit there,
and then we take a picture,
boom,
and a relatively good photo for that, wow.
With the wide angle lens
I am noticing that there is a lot of
distortion around the edges,
which is pretty common for wide angle lenses.
Like, right here my face looks kind of skinny but
as I come to the edge,
it looks like it kind of bubbles out a little bit,
which is common, but on here
it seems like it's doing it more.
Look how skinny your head looks right there.
So quick tip,
when you're shooting people with this ultra wide
try to keep them as centered as possible
once you start getting to the edge of the frame
it just kind of widens out like that.
All this looks great in all,
but the weakness definitely shows
in the dimly lit, or low light situations.
If we're talking about just that standard
wide angle lens,
it's definitely shown some improvements over the 10S Max,
a little bit richer,
and a little bit better contrast and detail.
So in low light, still nothing amazing but
it's getting better, so that's a plus.
And to get the best video in low light,
definitely keep your camera at the one-x zoom,
the Standard wide angle,
and then if you go into telephoto mode,
you go into a F2.0 so not as good but still decent.
Next up is the selfie camera,
it definitely does not look that great in low light,
and the worst of all is the ultra wide angle lens,
it just looks terrible in low light so,
even though I love that wide angle lens,
just don't do it when you don't have enough light.
So, that slightly better low light capability
is awesome to have in video,
but the night mode for Photography
is pretty insane.
So, we got Sam here being lit by this candle,
lets see how this looks.
On the first one Sam came out blurry 'cause he moved,
but, Sam let's try one more,
this time stay as steady as you can.
Here, we go, and.
(camera shutter)
All right, let's see how that looked.
Oh, that's, that's pretty good.
Dude, you look really creepy.
(laughs)
All right, let's just try going completely dark,
let's blow out that candle.
(blows)
Okay, so, already it's actually pretty impressive.
Three, two, one.
How'd that come out?
Wow!
It's really impressive
what this thing is capable of doing.
Super cool, I'm digging it,
with the telephoto lens you can do that as well,
but there is no night mode on the wide angle lens,
and this is how dark everything looks.
Slow motion capability's always super fun
to have in a phone, right?
So, 240 frames per second on this rear camera,
awesome, yes, I love it.
The resolution definitely takes a huge hit,
everything looks quite a bit softer, but again,
we're talking about super slow mo on a cellphone so,
heck yeah.
And of course super slow mo does require a lot of light,
so if you are in a somewhat dimly lit area or shade,
I'd recommend shooting all your super slow mo
on that one-x zoom lens.
You could even get up to 120 frames per second
on the selfie camera or "Slowfie" as they call it.
But overall, just super impressed with the images
coming out of this camera.
And as usual, whenever I get a new phone,
I will be comparing it to another camera,
I'm kinda curious what kinda camera
do you guys want me to compare this to.
I could compare it to this Canon EOS R,
I've got my Red right there,
ooh, maybe this, the Blackmagic Poket Cinema 6K,
that'd be an interesting comparison.
You guys take the vote, right there, let me know.
Anyways, let's wrap this up
by reading a few comments from my last video,
which was kind of a vlog we shot over in Ireland
about just kinda getting over my fear of public speaking.
Top comment, "the segment when Sam wants to get a selfie
was hilarious".
(laughs)
What's funny about that whole segment
was that you were actually kinda nervous to talk to Peter,
right?
- Aw, dude. Ever since I started working for Gene I'm like
"Can I please meet Peter",
"Oh now that we're in Ireland
you're gonna get the chance to"
and I kept begging him, "Okay just don't embarrass me,
don't embarrass me", and then Gene goes,
"Oh, you know he's actually like a really huge fan of yours"
(laughs)
and I'm like "Oh my god, stop".
- He like turns so red.
- And I actually did get my selfie guys,
so there's this one,
this one,
and this one.
- "You actually look nice in your young days, mate."
How about now, huh? Huh?
We need to get in shape, huh?
- Yeah.
- We're gonna get ripped.
See this? This is gonna be gone.
(laughs)
- Potatoes today, french fries tomorrow.
(laughs)
- That's good, that needs to be a t-shirt.
- "Having a Sam in my life is friendship goal.
God give me a Sam".
So I actually took a screenshot of this,
I circled it, and I sent it to all my friends,
and I'm like "You guys take me for granted".
(laughs)
- I can attest to that.
I think the fact that you think everything is funny,
and the fact that I think everything is funny,
we're just non-stop giggling 100% of the time.
We should never go to a funeral together,
that would be bad news.
"Why you seem to me fat version of Jet Lee".
If Jet Lee had a double chin would that look like me?
- Yeah, he looks like a better looking version of you.
What do you mean?
Not that much better looking though, right?
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