iPhone 12 Pro - A Filmmaker's Review By Moment

What is up moment family. It's your boy, Joshua martin. Today we're going to talk about the iPhone 12 Pro and my hands-on experience and thoughts, and a little behind the scenes of the recent cinematic film we posted on our channel. If you haven't watched it make sure to do that, what up dude? What's good? What are you working on trying to get this uh cinematic iPhone? 12 pro video going? We got the girls under a blanket. It was cold, uh yeah, so today's mission this is day one of Joshua shooting his film, and we're out here in the van of course, giving him his classic moment. Initiation uh we got to do a van trip kind of hang out and uh we're going to go up to the mountain, so should be fun now to preface I'm coming from an iPhone XR and jumping to the pro was a massive difference.

Um already, I was excited for having three different lenses: the wide ultra-wide and the tell, and they all improved in terms of how the aperture is. They all are much larger than previous versions. I believe so that was very exciting to actually get my hands on and see for myself now the new design of the iPhone 12 Pro is quite nice. I, like the chambered edges, it's more boxy now. One thing I was actually disappointed was the battery life.

I did have to charge it multiple times. We were shooting almost countless hours throughout the day. Hey! What's hey, can you show me? What's powering your phone right now, because you're shooting so much you can get a little crosstalk. This is a briefcase, a product placement right here. Oh, this dude.

This is the zen Zenger, the zinger gender charger. Let me get a close-up. Oh, it's a tank, this thing's a tank, but it's so good, USB-C, yeah USB-C is there's a laptop touch, the laptop right and granted. Yes, the screen is always on sometimes in full brightness, because I have to see what it is, but it drained a lot quicker than I would imagine, but we were shooting at a higher bit rate at the moment app. You can change the nitrate how high, so we had that at the max.

So that was probably one of the reasons we're just really pushing that phone to get the most quality out of it. The image quality obviously, is a huge selling point for this phone adobe vision 10 bit HDR. That is a lot, but we'll actually get into why we didn't use HDR first thoughts on that dynamic range. It's actually very impressive, like we're the horses in shade, and you still saw like blue sky. Oh, I should look at the camera- oh my god, okay, oh we still like blue sky still, and then we have the Cindy bloom on here.

So it's giving that little little little cream dude I mean as cinematic as possible, new gold flare metamorphic with cine bloom on the iPhone 12 Pro. Oh my god, those colors look at that. Oh that's, very haunting! Actually, look at that spooky! What's up hey, I got a serious question for you yeah. When is okay for me to call you Tatar, you can do that right now, hey that, with like another match, cut wrapping around something. Now referring back to the cinematic film.

If you watched it, you know we're featuring our gold metamorphic and I mainly use it on the wide and the telly because it can be used on both. So on the wide end, you get more of a 18 mil is field of view, with the distortion on the side and everything and these very gold metamorphic flares. Now on the telly end, it's a lot more cropped and less distortion, obviously because you're on a tighter lens, but it still has those same characteristics and I feel like the metamorphic flares were just a little more present with the telly. Oh Joshua, don't get pooped on. Oh, I saw this question a lot in the comments of the video.

Did we use HDR, and the answer is no a couple of reasons why one using HDR and the iPhone you have to be tethered to the native app and there are some cons of using the native app one since we're shooting metamorphic I couldn't d-squeeze squeeze? I couldn't squeeze the image to have proper composition. Framing all those things two, I didn't have real control over my exposure. I couldn't drag the shutter like you saw some examples in the film I couldn't quickly change variable frame rates I shot in 48 frames. A second at 60 frames, a second. I could quickly do that with the MoMA app versus the native app, but for kicks and giggles.

I did shoot a little of clips with the HDR and the HDR is actually very interesting. It reminds me a lot of how proves raw works. What I mean by that, if you have a HDR file, you drop it into your standard timeline. Of course, this is not the proper way you would want to have a HDR timeline, but in this case I just dropped it in it looks awful. It looks overexposed and that's fine, don't worry, because when you go to your color control in Final Cut Pro, you just bring the highlights down, and you're back to normal sort of.

You still have to watch the highlights because again, you're shooting an iPhone, much more small sensor, but you do have that control where you can bring back all the information, and it looks perfect all right. So, starting with the optics, we have our gold flare, metamorphic mounted on the stubble ring for the 67, and then that has a cine bloom as well as the variable ND. So we can just control that shutter, and it's light all around. This is mounted to the move gimbals. This thing is actually my first time using it, and it's kind of sweet.

My favorite feature is the barrel roll, so we're just trying to get a lot of those different types of shots, yeah and the reason the one of the main reasons why we're using the move on this, because it can support a lot of weight, so the weight of the filters two filters stacked to each other, plus the lens um. Their counterweight is fully maxed out, actually yeah, so um, and yet this is obviously the filter, the 67?mm filter, adapter and yeah. I did want to implement motion blur just because it makes it a little more visual, interesting in my opinion, especially with night shots, because it can get a little too static and to infuse some type of light for energy or emotion. I wanted to drag my shutter now when we say drag our shutter simply just means we're pulling down the shutter speed um lower than what is recommended when filming. So if you're filming at your know, 24 frames a second, you want to be double your frame rate in this case, we're dragging that below uh 1 13th of a second 1 10th of a second, and that just allows in much more light.

So you have to bring your ISO down to compensate, and this allows more light to kind of pass and string along. So you have these long light streams which can imply motion, especially if you're going towards something like the shot in the tunnel, uh all the lights kind of swirling past, and now you can change that speed in your edit. If you just remap regime it basically, so you can make it faster. You can make it shorter, so you can feel like it's choppier or smoother. So all depends on what you want, so you have more flexibility afterwards and posts when dragging your shutter.

Like this. I like that technique- and I hope you guys appreciate it too. The iPhone just keeps getting better and better each year. Um now, can you tell the difference from like an iPhone 8 to now in terms of video quality? Maybe some difference, but it's not major. So do you need to upgrade to this? Probably not, but having this new technology just pushes things forward, and I think that's exciting, to see 10-bit, adobe, HDR and a small phone that can fit in your pocket.

That's that's kind of crazy um, but it's exciting to see that uh will I be shooting on it more than likely. I will if I need something in a pinch, will I pick it over a cinema camera? No, I wouldn't um, but it is fun to see and just have a tool, that's capable of things to create, so there's really no limit, and it just should be encouraging for anyone who's out there who wants to get into filmmaking or even photography that you can start with your phone. That's really encouraging! I think that's the takeaway from this whole video anyway, that running final thoughts on the iPhone 12, maybe and that other video is up or your weekend in Seattle yo. This was fantastic. You guys are awesome.

I just have to say thank you for everything and I look forward to everything we're going to create moving forward dude. Thank you for sending it so hard. True initiation see you soon. Let's do it! You.

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