is the iphone 13 pro the beginning of
the end of large mirrorless cameras is
computational photography here to change
your life
let's talk about that today
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so
i'm rafael and welcome to the channel
where our goal is to always fix it in
camera and then finesse it in post and i
always appreciate the early thumb bump
because i said last year computational
photography is here to stay and there is
no stopping it at this point the biggest
reason i didn't upgrade last year to the
12 pro is when i saw that the ultra wide
camera did not perform well in low light
as equally to the other two cameras it
really seemed like apple did the ultra
wide really dirty but this year the
ultra wide is so good it feels just as
wide as last year but now it's in line
with the other two cameras in terms of
quality which all have larger sensors
which means larger photo sites and the
lenses have larger apertures as well
both of these allow way more light to
get into the camera resulting in cleaner
images especially in low light and let
me tell you the low light photos and
videos on all the cameras are fantastic
from what i can tell it can see better
than i can in these darker scenes and
combined with computational photography
and some fancy software denoising magic
from apple it leads to some pretty
images in many lighting conditions it's
one of the main reasons the sony a7s iii
is so good in low light the three camera
setup reminds me of those old bolex film
cinema cameras with built-in switchable
lenses and i can see apple's inspiration
for adding cinematic mode it's through
the software and not the optics and last
year it was photos only this year it's
for hd video at 30 frames per second
cinematic mode is pretty cool but it's
not perfect and if you're a pixel keeper
you can see how it falls apart very
quickly but if you design the shots
knowing the limitations and keep the
focus of the shots to be well defined
like the person which this software is
actually designed for most viewers won't
notice and it will cut nicely with your
other footage overall it's really good
but gets pretty noticeable in many edge
cases i'm pretty sure that this will get
better over time as the machine learning
gets better with those literal edge
cases as two minute paper says what a
time to be alive and remember hollywood
is built on movie magic it's all fake
behind the scenes so as long as you can
make the shot work for the viewer this
is going to be really good cinematic
mode is great and all but i feel macro
photography may be that one sleeper
feature that just knocks people's socks
off it's actually the thing that i'm
liking the most with this phone right
now the macro photos i've thoroughly
been impressed with how close you can
get to things and it's still in focus
and for 90 of shots this will work
really well so no need for some crazy
expensive pro blends you can create so
many shots with this iphone and if you
get really close turn on the flash to
light the shots up close the sensor
stabilization tech is quite smooth it's
really good for handheld video and long
exposure photos though it kind of falls
apart in macro video it gives us weird
motion that is very very noticeable but
when you go into ultra ride that's when
the stabilization really shines and the
13 pro also records an hdr dolby vision
which many larger cameras don't even
have if you're working in an sdr
timeline the amount of range you can
pull back is fantastic you have to crank
down quite a bit and still have a
beautiful image if you're trying to use
iphone footage in your timeline you can
color correct or a simpler way is to
override the color space by going into
the clip info inspector switching it to
settings
and changing to rec 709 or 2020
and adjust with minor color tweaks
i'm just going to touch briefly on the
120 hertz display it is noticeable it
seems really nice the refresh rate can
go all the way down to 10 frames a
second if it's just on a static page
which is another great bonus compared to
other large cameras no more battery
banks they have to carry with you
and compared to the iphone x and to the
eight it is a huge leap in camera tech i
did a whole video with side by side
comparisons of those three phones in
different scenarios so the question does
remain is this truly the end of large
mirrorless cameras well
no
but
life is about to change in a big way
this is the beginning of a huge
transition to computational photography
making its way into larger cameras there
will eventually be a huge convergence
where the difference between smartphone
cameras and large cameras will almost be
indistinguishable computational
photography is already creeping its way
into the post processing space with
photoshop luminaire ai and other
software like that of the big players in
this space right now sony has the best
chance to get it right for large sensor
cameras they make the sensors they have
the track corrector with software
development so unless apple keeps making
their phone sensors bigger and bigger
year over year
or like i said in the video last year
with the iphone pro 12 announcement is
it really crazy to think that this will
eventually merge with this i believe
that sony is next in line to bring
computational photography to full-frame
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