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hey what's going on everybody welcome back to another video and today
is fun because we are comparing the iphone 12 pro max versus the blackmagic pocket 6k here i
actually took my zhiyun crane 2s which i'm testing out some of you are still waiting on the 3s video
well i'm working on it in comparison with the 2s because they actually just sent this out to me
and so i thought it'd be kind of cool comparison so i had my black magic pocket 6k with my irix
uh 15 millimeter cine lens on it and then right on top of the camera mounted
is the uh iphone 12 pro max little garage as well as of course i was using the largest sensor
on the pro max which is the was it 26 millimeter basically the main wide angle lens now on the
black magic i was shooting in 6k b raw and then for the phone we were filming in dolby vision and
we were actually doing it through the filmic pro app a handful of days ago just got the update to
support dolby vision and the h.265 codec which is super awesome so we have the blackmagic pocket 6k
on the left and the iphone 12 pro max on the right now to be honest i was incredibly happy with how
close some of these shots were there were some key aspects which we'll go into a minute which
are the dead giveaways that it's a phone now i did go through and color correct all of these clips if
i turn off all effects so you can see that the iphone footage looks super weird because it's
hdr footage and so that had to be transformed in the pocket 6k footage
obviously it's flat b raw i did a transform node where for the input color space and input gamma
basically was the design wide gamut gen 4 even though technically we're using gen 5
because that's still in beta and then we're just using the timeline color space which is just a
regular rec 709 for this guy basically was just um some corrections to match the iphone footage
so if we look at our parade scope down here you can see that this half of the image is the pocket
6ks and this is the iphones and so with just the transform it was still a little compressed
because i mean it's 12-bit raw footage you can flex this out thing like crazy so
kind of made them match a little bit better and kind of similarly on the iphone footage here
i simply did a transform from rec 2100 gamma 2.4 to a rec 709 color space and then basically i
use the different hdr tools to correct it back again to match the pocket and so with that i
created stills for each and applied those to all the footage just making those minor corrections
to align the scopes as best i could so this first shot here was kind of a decent dynamic range test
because we are shooting inside of a parking garage as well as have the outside you can see that
pocket 6k here still has all of its information again if we look down at these scopes which i
can bring up here you can see that we have all that information i could pull it down even more
but again i wanted to keep it kind of matched to the iphones a little bit but you can see
for the iphone the highlights are blown because they're the flat line so all that information
is indeed gone so honestly this was one of the kind of closest shots and again i could go in
and match this guy i could add a gradient and make this a deeper blue so i actually did away with the
mask and just use the primaries um still a little bit different shades of blue you could spend a
lot more time on it but you get the point that you can go in and match it with black magic no problem
now this shot right here is a good example between the difference between the film cinematic look and
the commercial cinematic look so a film look is actually flatter in the scope so if we look on the
left here this is our black magic you can see that the highlights and the mid tones are a little bit
lower than the iphone footage on the right and we can see the shadows are a little bit lifted
compared to the iphones neither one of these is wrong and so i could take the black magic footage
and if i just increase the contrast you can see down in the scopes you can see the highlights
start to lift and the shadows going down a bit and so now you can see i've commercialized the look
now this shot right here is a great example where phones really start to have issues
phones like the iphone 12 pro max and the galaxy note 20 ultra with their bigger sensors start to
close the gap a little bit as i was saying before phones are great for landscapes because you want
everything in focus but Hey! hey something like this where i'm just a couple feet away
from whoops from this tree and these ornaments you want to see that kind of fall off that natural
depth of field out of focus look to it and you can see over in this tree behind um
the main tree that i was focused on on the iphone footage this is out of focus that is real depth of
field that is not fake or digital or added in post-production so that's looking really good
now in the iphone footage you start to see a lot of noise which is definitely on that list
of three things the phones don't do all that well is they have built-in post-processing and so it's
pretty heavy on the denoiser and yeah so phones normally are dead giveaways in close-up footage
but to be honest this tree shot is looking really good on both sides now i really loved this shot
on both sides and again this really shows the dolby vision here you can see that the clouds
in the background are ever so slightly on the overblown side but still pretty respectable now
if we look over here on the pocket 6k you can see how much detail is kind of in the fence and the
chair here whereas if we zoom in on the same part for the iphone you can see how muddy it is
and again this is a combination of extremely low bit rates so less detail in the image
as well as the noise reduction post processing if i hit play here you can see all that noise
uh really just kind of making things muddy and this whole thing kind of speaks to the difference
between the two as well is how many of you have shot a video on your phone and you're looking at
it on your phone and it looks absolutely great you're like whoa this looks just like a camera
but then you come over and make it full screen and you start to see all those little details
nonetheless this shot i thought both cameras did extremely well on and out of the camera in terms
of a quick grade i actually really liked the contrast and the colors on the iphone footage
a lot better now this shot right here was probably one of the closer ones where i really think you
could fool people the only giveaway is again that kind of ugly noise reduction that you can
see going on but overall if you had to incorporate this shot with uh and match it to another camera
i totally think that you would fool absolutely everyone here the leaves and the trees and just
everything looks really good and our final shot here another kind of architecture one
again i think this looks fantastic i think i even exposed better on the iphone than i did on the
blackmagic although again that data is there so i can pull it down and keep in mind that the shutter
speed on these is a little off when shooting directly into the sky here so it's not that
180 degree rule and so the shots may look a little jittery so an nd filter would make this look a lot
more natural and again off to the right here i kind of took all those same clips but made them
full screen again and this is where you can really start to feel the difference between the two most
of these shots still look really good from the iphone there is some artifacting going on right
here you can see this branch is almost looking purple so i don't know if that is kind of the hdr
conversion or if that's in the actual footage um i'd have to dive deeper into that but i'm
really curious to hear what you guys think about this who do you think won should i even ask the
question who do you think won it's kind of unfair so rather i'd ask the question are you surprised
at how close um or how far if that's your opinion away the iphone footage is from the pocket 6k and
a dedicated you know cinema camera that's it guys that is the iphone 12 pro max versus the pocket 6k
and in just the past month we've had nearly 4 000 new people crossing over the 20 000 mark
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