iPhone 11 Pro vs 4K Video & 6K Cinema Camera! By Max Yuryev

Hey guys its max today, I will be comparing the Sony a7 3a super popular hybrid 4k camera and the Black magic pocket Cinema Camera 6k that shoots raw against. Yes, my iPhone 11 Pro Max this video is sponsored by Squarespace and all-in-one platform. That makes it easy to make an amazing website now, before you hardcore filmmakers, go in the comment section and tell me that an iPhone isn't a true video camera. I just need to preface this video by saying. I am NOT trying to say that at all you should not try to buy an iPhone instead of an actual. You know, video camera like this, or maybe this camera or the 4k version, if you're trying to become a filmmaker.

But what I'm trying to do in this video is to see how far have smartphones come, especially the newest, iPhone or Apple's, leading the video game as far as phones, and how do they compete see what their strong points are? Show you guys the weaknesses as well and then see. Can you actually use an iPhone to shoot video maybe supplement something else, and if you're starting a YouTube channel, you can't afford an actual camera and lenses and all that stuff? Maybe you can afford to upgrade from your iPhone 7 up to an iPhone, 11 and see, can actually be used to shoot stuff like that. So that is what we're going to take a look at now. Let's start out here, comparing it to the 4k from the a7 3 I have a freeze-frame here and the biggest difference here is the dynamic range. Now this is so impressive.

We look at the concrete. We have more ti lite detail with the iPhone and inside the building. Furthermore, we have so much more detail, we're not crushing the shadows it's way brighter and then, if I play this video, you guys will see that trend continues. If we look at the sky and look at all those clouds that are not there at all, with the a7 3 and in this scenario, actually exposed for the clouds, and then we look at the difference in shadow and mid-detail here, it is truly impressive and same thing with this I expose for the barn here. Look at the sky now, of course, I.

Can you know pull down the highlights, push up the shadows here, but still the Sony cannot compete with the iPhone and here's a shot with a 50 mil lens. Look how bright the wood is, and the sign is while maintaining those clouds and then, if I, push and pull the image. Yes, we can get a lot better from the Sony. This is similar to kind of slog slightly worse, but it still will not compete. Now.

I will be explaining how the iPhone is doing that here in just a second, but in this kind of scenarios you guys look at the sky there, man iPhone, really excels and also with auto exposure and auto white balance. It gets this here spot on where the Sony blows out. The tree and is way too cool now another area that I've been quite impressed with the iPhone is the microphone quality. Now the Sony is quite good as well, but you guys take a listen to this sample and, let me know down in the comment section which one you think is the best now. One downside of having this really great dynamic range is the fact that in certain scenes, everything just kind of looks flat because it's pushing everything together, especially when you don't have that background blur that you can get with a hybrid camera or a cinema camera everything just doesn't look as nice.

You don't have that same separation. Now, both these cameras can shoot slow motion. This is both at 1080p 120, but I might look quite a bit worse than its 4k counterparts, but the iPhone has even bigger difference. I, don't know if it's trying to push and pull the image too much, but it is soft. We have artifacts.

We also have the same thing with the Sony, but it does look better now. This next scene is here in the office with some studio, lighting, and I'm. Trying to see can the iPhone be used to record YouTube videos like I said earlier. If you can't afford an actual camera now, I'm playing this right here, and I have to say: I am just shocked and floored by how close this iPhone using its 50?mm lens, the telephoto lens, which is worse than quality, to the Sony. Now, yes, it is not as good but dang I was not expecting.

This I tried this out with the iPhone 10 s before, and the results weren't much different compared to the a7 3 we're here. This definitely looks usable now. If we punch in more yes, the tonality of the skin, the colors are not as good. We have more artifacts a little less much noise, less detail, but wow. This is a 200% crop and a lot of people are watching on smartphones, they're streaming in 720 or even 480p.

If they're, you know unlimited plan which a lot of them limit you know to 480p. In that case, it will have an even smaller difference. I'm really surprised. Now I also looked at low-light and I. Think I pushed this a little too far.

This is that 3200, ISO and the iPhone looks terrible. It definitely looks horrible a lot of denoting, so we lose a lot of detail. We sell a lot of noise in the image we're at 3200 ISO, the a7 3 looks spotless, and you can actually shoot it at 3200, ISO with pretty much no lights and get a perfect usable image where you do not want to do that with the iPhone. Now before we move on and take a look at some awesome 6k footage. Let me tell you about something else that is awesome, and that is our sponsor Squarespace.

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Grading mainly what I was trying to see is we're shooting, with this camera, shooting bra a lot of flexibility. A lot more than with the Sony, much better codec I'm trying to see can I match up the dynamic range that we saw previously, where the iPhone really beat out the Sony. But can I still maintain shadow detail and also nice contrast, the mid and still have good you know highlights, but before we look at that before I explain how the iPhone is doing such a great job. Let's first take a look at detail, so this is 6k right here. It's really detailed, and then I put the iPhone next to it and once again, I want to say that I am pretty dang shocked.

Now, of course, I one doesn't look as good, but it looks way better than I thought it would and way better than the previous iPhones or Samsung's. Now, if we punch- and we see clearly that the 6k has a lot more detail, less artifacts anything like that, but it's not as huge of a difference as I was expecting. Previous phones would look terrible if you punch in you would never want to punch in this isn't look amazing, but it looks way better than I expected. Now. We have this next scene here.

It's not a super difficult, dynamic range scene, but I did try to match up the contrast, especially in the mid. You know pulling the shadows down, so we have some true blacks and then not blowing out the sky, or anything like that. So I got a pretty matched up here in this scene. Of course, some colors are different, but then, when we go over to the left, we do see that a lot of those shadows are crushed. In that case where the iPhone is still able to maintain some of that detail and even still, even though it's not as crushed in the shadows, the have more kind of contrasts in the mid, which is pretty impressive.

Now this is a fairly easy scene. So if we go to this one here, it's more difficult. We have this bridge a lot of kind of darker areas, underneath the bridge and I push and pull the raw image quite a bit here. I wanted to maintain the contrast and when I did that, and even though it's not as good especially the trees, look at the sky difference. It's massive.

We have almost no color in the sky and the the detail and the clouds are pretty much gone, even though they're not blown out. Of course, I could have pulled all of this down, crush the blacks, pull down the shadows, the mid a lot and then had a nice sky. But with this rot image, we're dealing with just one frame and what we're doing is we're just pushing and pulling, and you either have to choose your highlights or your shadows now. The way they're able to achieve this is taking two images at different exposure levels in combining it. So it'll actually take one out of really high shutter speed, one out of low shutter speed or an ISO difference if you're in lower light, and then it will combine that just like you for doing HDR photos.

So, with an image like I said, you have to push and pull and choose what you're going to maintain but photographers for a long time. I've done HDR, where you take two frames, combine them, and then you can have nice contrast, shadow detail and highlights, and the iPhone is actually doing that on the fly. So not only if you're, shooting 4k 30 will issue 4k 62 different exposures and blend them together, but even if you're shooting 4k 60, it will do 4k.120 now I actually took this a step further, and we went under this bridge, and here it's super dark, just like the darkest Bridge. It's really wide covered on both ends, not a lot of like getting into there and the Sun is just blaring outside and the iPhone. You look at much how much detail we have in the mid and that's not flat.

It looks bright and then we look outside. We do have that sunspot, but still we have better contrasts with more brightness underneath the bridge because of that dual exposure. Now, of course, I could have just crushed the shadows, a lot, that's what you would do if you're shooting a film. Some of those actual cameras like the Lexus, have quite a bit better dynamic range in this, but you would choose you want your highlights or shadows. You would shoot differently use different times of the day.

You would add extra lighting, but in this scenario I mean a dual exposure is great, and now we have this crazy scene where the iPhone looks pretty poor because of how difficult this lighting situation is, but still compared to the black magic, where I kind of expose in the middle I really push and pull the image as much as I could, I wanted to see myself I actually see quite a bit of noise here and I. Try this out with different ISO's in da Vinci Resolve. But if I'm trying to see myself I have to sacrifice the highlights and the background is really bright, where the iPhone looks terrible, but we get a lot more contrast in color, while still seeing my face both look terrible. You wouldn't want to shoot in this way, but that's what dual exposure could do for you now. One issue with iPhones is, if you have a scene like this, specially with that standard lens with all that detail from the trees, it just looks so crunchy and so bad.

Now you can get around this by using film Pro by using let's say a log profile or just recording. Without the extra sharpening and using a higher nitrate, you could actually go about twice as high as what the standard camera app will do and that will help out. But in this scenario the Black magic draw all that extra bit rates, and not you know not having that over sharpening makes everything, look natural and pleasing, while still having detail now one area that the iPhone really excels with in and I really hope. Some of these cameras start implementing. This is image stabilization, so not only it has the lenses stabilized, but along with that, it's actually using an accelerometer and mapping the shake that you have and then, after you chord the video clip not during it will process that use that data and give you a super, steady image that looks like you're almost on a gimbals compared to so much shape.

You know recording with the camera like this that doesn't have Ibis or lens stabilization. Now there is an add-on for these cameras called steady XP that will use a similar thing, has sensors and recorded data and then all towards it knows exactly how much to stabilize exactly how much shake you had gives you great footage, but why not have added that into a camera like this? Where later in posts, you have that extra data that's embedded into the file or maybe into a sidecar file, and then you can use that to stabilize the footage and not have the weird warping that you get with warp, stabilizer or other stabilizers and have some nice smooth footage that would be so awesome to have so there you go guys. That is my comparison. Once again, I was just trying to see where this camera, where this phone really excels, that and some weaknesses. This is better than I expected when I was shooting us, I didn't think I was going to do as well and a lot of these tests.

So let me know your thoughts down in the comment section below once again, a huge shout out to Squarespace for sponsoring this video and sponsoring the channel for multiple years now. I would highly recommend them. Thank you guys for watching. This has been max and I will see you guys in the next video.

Source : Max Yuryev