iPhone 11 Pro VS $7500 Pro DSLR Camera By Matti Haapoja

Let's play a game this. This is gonna, be fun. Here are two photos: one of these photos is taken with a $7,500 DSLR camera setup and the other one is an iPhone 11 Pro. Can you guess which one is? Which can you see the differences? Are you pixel peeping really, really hard right? Now, your answers, locked, you know which ones which okay camera an is a 1 DX 2 with a 16 to 35 mil. This is a $7,500 setup and camera B was my iPhone 11 Pro, and now, if you were having a very hard time, pixel peeping and trying to figure out, which is which- and maybe you guessed wrong, and you're wondering how the heck can that be well, the answer is computational photography. Maybe you're wondering what the heck is that.

Well, it's basically just a bunch of digital images, capture and processing techniques that basically enhance your photos and honestly I. Never ever thought that smartphones, your camera phones, would be good enough to ever even come close to competing with something like a 1 DX mark -. But the one mistake that I made and thinking about the future is not taking into account software the computational photography side of things. That's just one part that my brain couldn't conceive of. Ok, so let's play the game a couple more times: here's another 2 photos.

I will give you guys a little of a chance to guess all right camera an is the iPhone camera B 1 DX mark -. Did you get it right? Let's do a couple more for fun. Here's another 2 photos for you. Take your guests this time, camera an is the iPhone and camera B is the 1 DX -? Maybe you got that one wrong? Okay, here's another two photos, man! These are like so hard I, don't feel bad at all. If you're getting these wrong.

It is not you! It's just that they're that close in image camera an is the one DX ? camera B is the iPhone, and then let's do one final one, just to maybe stump some more of you guys take guess which one is which I feel like some of you are having to pixel peep, just a little too hard camera an is the iPhone camera B is the one DX mark -? Well, how did you do out of five? How many did you get right? I'm, genuinely curious! Please comment down below how many did you get right out of the five because I feel like if I showed this to a lot of people, it would be like a 50/50 which people would guess, and I asked on Twitter the same question of with that first example, and most people were able to guess that that camera B was the iPhone, but there were still a lot of people that were getting fooled with one after another and to be honest, if I posted that iPhone picture and said that it was a 1 DX mark to picture I, think most people wouldn't argue with that at all they'd be like oh yeah. That makes sense yeah. That looks high-quality. That looks like a 1 DX, which is scary. It's scary, how close they are and to get the 1 DX even more of a leg-up.

Those photos were in raw and the iPhone. Those were just JPEGs through software. Now, even with a tiny little sensor like the one inside an iPhone 11 Pro, you can compete with something like a 1 DX tube. That has a massive sensor, like this sensor hold on guys this sensor in here. It's its huge.

It's way bigger! Furthermore, it's like it's bigger than this whole hole.3 camera plate right here, it's bigger than that. So all three of the iPhones sensors for the cameras fit inside 1:1 DX sensor. That's how big of a difference there is between the sensors, which is itbeing crazy. Now, with that software we can get similar looking depth of field or even more, we can get dynamic range even more than on the 1d x 2 and the overall colors and image is starting to look really, really high quality for a smartphone, even in low-light at ISO 1250 for the 1 DX, the iPhone was keeping up just fine. It doesn't look quite as good in my opinion, but again there's more dynamic range and I.

Don't even think that the HDR kicking in fully here so yeah, even in low light. The smartphones are getting a lot better again because of computational photography. I will say that the iPhone pictures definitely took a little more tweaking to kind of get them to the same level as the 1d x2, when I was editing them and I. Think the 1d X 2 has a nicer quality tone to the details. It just has this like smoother vibe to it, but still the detail is there, whereas the iPhone is kind of over sharpening things at times, but honestly I'm blown away that the results are this close when I, when I thought of this idea, I didn't think that they would be.

This close I knew that the cameras are pretty good and the iPhone, but not that good. And yes, the software is still limited. It doesn't always work perfectly. You kind of have to be at a perfect distance from your subject. You can't be too far away, and sometimes it just screws up the depth map beam, for example, in these photos of Matt the glasses.

They had a really hard time and a lot of times it would blur the side of the glasses instead of keeping those sharp like they should be, but even that can be fixed in post, and you can also make your photos even better with something like an app called focus, because the iPhone saves all the metadata inside that photo. You can actually use an app like focus, and you can refocus your image. You can change the focus to the background or the foreground. If you made a mistake, you can refocus it literally anywhere. You want, you can change the look of the both, so if you want it to be more like an metamorphic oval look or if you want to add a shape to the bouquet, you can do whatever you want.

You can even change the look of the lens, so you can emulate different types of lenses using this app, which is just crazy and, more importantly, you can fix those little errors in the depth. Mapping like, for example, Matt's glasses, and you can choose what parts should be in focus and what shouldn't be. Are you freaking out yet because? This is like mind-blowing stuff, the fact that we could do so much with a $2,000? Yes, that's so expensive, but a $2,000 smartphone that does so much more than just take photos and videos. It also takes really nice photos and really nice video I'm speechless what the heck. How is that even possible I feel like there's like these magician engineers that are just like working in the background just creating this magic and just like, not even making a big fuss about it.

But then, of course, for things like the super wide angle on the iPhone, we can't use portrait mode, so we can't get that nice, shallow depth of field and all of those extra things. So this is where I think something like a 1dx really starts to shine. You get that nice depth, but again you get a little more dynamic range on the iPhone. So it's like it's its getting pretty wild I, don't think we're quite at the point where a pro should get rid of their DSLR or mirrorless cameras and just shoot on an iPhone, but I do think for a lot of kinds of hobbyists or amateurs. The iPhone is way more than you'll ever need in your lifetime right now, and it's just getting better with every software update with every new iPhone and every new smartphone, it's just getting better and better and better DSLR and mirrorless cameras, they're big they're, heavy they're, expensive.

This lens alone is $2,000. This camera body is $5,500, it's really, really expensive. It only takes photos and videos, it doesn't do social media or anything like that, and it's hard to use an iPhone is so much easier to get that shallow depth of field, whereas with a with a real camera like this, you kind of have to know the settings and figure out how to get that nice shallow depth of field- it's not hard, but still take some figuring out and for just like a person using a camera for the first time it might not be completely obvious, whereas with the iPhone you're like oh portrait mode boom, oh yeah got it, but of course, DSLR. Mirrorless cameras also have huge benefits, for example, being able to change the lens. That's probably the biggest thing, or one of the biggest things you have way more control over the settings.

You're not gonna, have any hiccups with the shallow depth of field or anything. It always works. You're not gonna, have any errors with the software and, of course, that bigger sensor size really does give more pleasing details and just highlight Roofs. It just looks a little more natural and organic in my opinion. So there are big advantages to having something like a DSLR or a mirrorless camera still, but for something like posting on social media using all of those computational photography techniques- software, that's that's happening in an iPhone.

I really do think you can get away with just posting an iPhone photo nowadays in portrait mode and nobody will bat an eye at it. Nobody will be like. Oh that's, just I phone that doesn't look as good. You could literally go back to being iPhone only on Instagram right now and I. Don't think anybody would really notice.

Anyways I just wanted to make this video a to show how crazy it is that we have this super powerful photography and videography machine camera in our pockets. Right now and be you really have no excuses. There are no excuses nowadays, because even your iPhone takes incredible. Pictures incredible photos, incredible video. All it takes for you is to get out there use your camera, use your phone figure out the techniques figure out lighting composition, all of those things and work hard at it.

Anybody right now could become a photographer or videographer, which is amazing, but it also means for people like you, maybe or people like me, who do this as a profession. It means we can't get complacent because there's a lot of up-and-coming people, because everybody has one of these there's a lot of people getting into videography and photography, and you got to kind of raise the bar. You got to raise your level of skill and just keep learning. You cannot get complacent right now, and I'm also really, really curious to see. When is computational photography really gonna start coming into these mirrorless and DSLR cameras, because I think they have to start using it in order to step up their cameras because Apple Samsung, all of these companies are putting so much effort into researching better ways to make their camera's better and I think the cannons the Nikon, the Panasonic Sony's they're, all just mostly focusing on the hardware side of things and not as much on the software.

So I'm really curious to see. When is computational, photography really gonna start kicking into DSLR and whether we're going to have smart. Mirrorless cameras soon, oh you'll take a photo, and it'll just like redo your whole image. The way you want it I am pretty sure. That's going to happen in the future.

Anyways I hope you guys, like this video I would love to know your thoughts, so comment down below give this video a like and subscribe to the channel. If you haven't already I will see you guys later.

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