chris here and welcome to a real world test of the action mode and the iphone 14 pro
max video quality so i do have an external mic because it's incredibly windy here at the moment
it is very stormy as you can see so i'm using a wind filter with an external rode mic
hooked up but when i do the action mode test i won't be using any mic
here so what i plan on doing is riding up to this tower here at the top now this is
two times a digital zoom so i'm gonna cycle right up here this is the three times optical camera now
this is what i'll be using as my mount here so it is a gopro chest mount and i've just got an
adapter here from manfrotto which i'll be putting the iphones into so it's on my chest to give us
that well action camera perspective testing out the action camera mode this is basically what it
is going to look like i've got the iphone there you can see in the mount now the iphone is quite
heavy this particular mount style is not actually designed to chest mount to carry this kind of
weight so hopefully it's not going to rock around too much but i've tightened these straps up as
hard as possible to cut down on the movement here of the iphone so from now on i've got no external
mic connected up this is the internal mics of the iphone 14 pro max and this here is the beast that
i will be riding which is the trek rail five 2021 for those interested in mountain bikes and e-bikes
okay so let's do this the footage you're looking at now this is the ultra wide without the action
mode enable just to get an idea of the kind of stability as i just ride along casually here
keeping with the ultra wide steel but i have now turned on the action mode
should look quite a bit steadier ultrawide super steady mode off so i just wanted to show you very
quickly the tower which i'm climbing up to now this is a 16th century coastal defense
and what it was used for is to defend against pirate race which
used to be a big problem here on the mediterranean coast so that's one time
two times and three times you can see those people walking down there so it defaults to the ultra
wide the action mode which i have on now and this is 2.8 k resolution and as i showed you before
a gopro pro chest mount is what i'm using it's a beautiful spot this here but let's get on with it
let's do the test already so i can feel it bobbing up and down with the mount here but it seems to be
not moving around as much as i thought it would be so how does the footage look i can't see it of
course i'm gonna go down the real rough rocky part here roll over all of this and hopefully
this is some usable footage imagine one day you came out you forgot your gopro if you've got
your gopro hero 10 you're 11 and if hang on i've got action mode on the iphone 14 pro so i'll use
that now the climb back up i'm going to be lazy here and use the motor that's why i brought this
bike and get back up to the top so still still in the action mode ultra wide 2.8 k resolution
now it's time for me to swap over to the iphone 13 pro max i don't have
an external mic so you're going to hear a lot of wind noise it's probably sounding terrible
you can see there just to confirm that is the 13 pro max i'm going to put that in the mount now
so here we go iphone 13 pro max it's the 4k option and i don't of course have action mode
with this so i'm going to go down the rough part here i'm not going to keep to the smooth part and
we'll see if the footage is actually going to be usable i imagine it probably won't be
so i'm just going to drop down here oh need to drop my seat down as well
okay so a little bit of rocky stuff here same as before but is this footage usable
is it better maybe sharper resolution maybe it looks a little bit better but it will probably
be shaking a lot more because it doesn't have that aggressive electronic image stabilization
okay so one last test here action mode and i can see that what i'm doing is very very rough
you really do need a gopro camera for this kind of rough stuff this downhill stuff here
so i've got it in the mount again i'm going to try and tighten it as tight as possible so it
doesn't bounce around too much this time around i'm going to keep to the smooth road perhaps
it might be usable then or more usable with just a smooth road here i've got the camera
unfortunately pointing down a little bit because of the mount we're going down this
trail here how does this look hopefully this is some usable footage right here
and i'm on the smooth part and the camera is not just bouncing around the whole time
there's a little bit of bounce that i can feel now
certainly don't want to go off that edge right there it's a long drop
no safety handrails here in spain
a little bit rougher here now
still a lot smoother than before with all that rocky stuff
let's go watch my speedo otherwise i'll go flying off the edge here i do not want to do
that so that's a wrap what do you think of the iphone 14 pro action mode is it a usable quality
i don't think it was with the real rough stuff certainly not that iphone 13 pro footage that was
shaking all over the place so if you did forget your gopro hero 11 or 10 you left it at home go
back and get it you don't want to be using your iphone here unless it's super steady stuff where
you'll be on smooth surfaces handheld not a chest mount like this that tends to bob around a little
bit too much it's just too heavy for this kind of mount which does make sense now if you want to see
a side-by-side comparison of the action mode up against the galaxy s 22 ultra from samsung and
then the xiaomi 12s ultra which has a one inch sensor check out my camera comparison video that
which should be popping up now and i do hope to see you in the next one please like if you liked
the video dislike if you didn't like this kind of video so then i know not to ever make one again
but if you want to see comparison with the gopro hero 11 let me know in the comments maybe i'll
buy one maybe i'll compare it and do the same exact test and see just how close or how far away
this iphone 14 pro really is so there we go what did you think action mode is it actually usable
if you forgot your gopro hero 10 or 11 could you get away with using some of that footage
i definitely don't think so when it comes to that real rough stuff that i was riding here with my
mountain bike but maybe smoother kind of roads or you're running behind someone using a handheld
yeah it definitely would be possible there and you've got 2.8k resolution now if you want to see
the action mode up against the galaxy s22 ultra and also the xiaomi 12s ultra where this one inch
sensor i've got a camera comparison so do check that out it features some footage of that action
mode as well as just using the normal video video mode so that is interesting and again thank you so
much for watching this video here and do subscribe for more and i'll see you in the next one