The Ultimate iPhone 11 Pro Camera. By Mrwhosetheboss

You've probably heard all about how capable the iPhone 11 pros camera is, but today we're going to push it to its absolute limit. We've got the beast grip, which is going to let us mount a full-frame camera lens onto the phone, but we've already done this on past phones in this series, so for this particular episode, I'm introducing three completely new pieces that are going to help to elevate the video to a whole other level. So, first up in this massive package, titled great video maker we've got a slider, but not just any slider. This is an electric motorized slider, which means if we mount the beast grip on top of this, we'll be able to remotely control it. And this means you can do things like time lapses or, just generally add a bit of motion to your recording, but there's more to make the quality of the footage better, not just at nighttime, but also in the day. We've got a spotlight which should be a powerful light that can travel long distances, but also on that we can control the direction off.

Oh, and also in the Box. We get a number of colored pads so later in the video I'm going to attach these onto the light and see the results. This spotlight is actually made for DSLR cameras, but the beasts grip we're using on the iPhone lets us attach it onto that, but then to stabilize all this equipment, we've had to get hold of a top-tier Manicotti tripod. This is cinema, great equipment, and it is not particularly portable anyway. So I spent a morning just checking everything making sure it all works, and it was finally time to take the rig to London to test it.

So I'm now going to show you my top seven things about this rig and what it lets you capture with a smartphone I. Think it's gonna, surprise you number seven with just the smartphone and the lens alone. It's impressive! How cinematic the footage is the first thing: you're gonna notice is depth of field. You get natural DSLR like background blur, and this is pure optics. There's no software trickery at all, but there is a catch.

The video quality itself can take a bit of a hit. The only way we're able to mount these lenses onto the phone is via something called a DOF adapter and to use one you've got to turn off the image stabilization built into the phone, and it also results in less light, a flipped image and a smaller capture frame. You have to use a bit of digital zoom to compensate and a piece of pro software in order to flip the image back to how it should normally be, and so it doesn't sound great, but the rig also has a few notable advantages, plus the accessories we're going to be attaching onto it, they're going to counter a lot of its weaknesses. So the idea was I was gonna, carry this entire setup to central London, where I seemed to end up for every single one of these videos, and let me tell you it didn't feel very portable at the time, but we got there in the end- and this brings me on to number 6 stabilization. Using a tripod of this kind of caliber gives you rock-solid stabilization, which means we can just plonk the phone on top without the lens to start with and capture London's skyline, and by accelerating this footage, it really exaggerated the contrast between the static parts of the frame and the moving parts.

If we add the slider into the mix, things get fascinating. All of a sudden you can get these beautiful, sweeping time lapses. The extra dynamism you get compared to just a static one makes footage way more engaging. It was also just good to see that, whenever recording with the iPhone 11, Pro I literally noticed zero spots of overexposure, it is a perfect job, creating a balanced image, I even try to slide a shot using the phone's ultra-wide camera, and we managed to fit the entire shard into one frame. That's the tallest building in the country, if we bundle all three together, the tripod, the slider and now that lens ? you'll notice, three things.

First, this looks amazing in part due to the accidental black and red color coordination. The second thing is that, yes, this is clearly overkilled. If you were going to get this much equipment, you should almost definitely just use a DSLR to record, but the idea here was to see what the upper limit was in terms of what the iPhone 11 Pro can record, and that brings us onto the third thing, the quality, because it's pretty high. This video is also partially inspired by the idea that a lot of commercials for smartphones that are entirely shot on these devices are done similarly. It's very rare that a company will literally just take the phone on its own and use it.

So the message so far is not really that smartphones are now just as good as DSLR, because to achieve this effect, you need quite a lot of equipment, but we can say that smartphone, camera sensors, as well as all the software that goes around them, are getting pretty great and capable of some stunning footage. This lens also has the spin-off effect of being able to pull focus while shooting, from the background to the foreground, or vice versa, and now low-light performance, which surprised me. A combination of this lump we're using and just a really capable camera on the 11pro meant that, even though the lens attachment is limiting the amount of light getting to the sensor, alt is still pretty crisp, even as the light dips further and further, the crispness still holds up even over the iPhone 10s last year. This is a marked improvement, and we need to keep reminding ourselves here. This is shot on a smartphone.

It was only a few years ago where the idea of shooting video in super low-light, like this on a phone, was unheard of. If you wanted to do something like that, go and buy a proper camera, but here we are on the iPhone 11 Pro that literally pretty rigged up, but still I. Think it's impressive also just on a bit of a side note if you are enjoying this video, it would be amazing if you could consider subscribing I'm really trying to push the boundaries when it comes to tech. Videos now I also had a play with the color filters we unboxed earlier, which sure reduce the brightness by a bit, but they create mood, and they work particularly well. If combined with one source of white light, it creates a much more interesting frame than just having plain colored lighting all over and now one of the coolest perks of this beast grip system is interchangeable lenses.

So, for example, I could take this metamorphic lens screw it straight in and bam. We've got a completely different. Looking video and I kind of like metamorphic. It's this super wide video format, because the way it works you'll see that when we shine bright lights into it, you get this iconic horizontal lens flare. A lot of feature-length movies use this kind of lens, it's especially effective at night.

Now, probably my number one favorite thing with this setup is photos to which you might be thinking what, but it's easy to forget that having a DSLR lens here makes every shot a portrait mode shot. Yes, the images are upside down when you're using the normal camera app. But the results speak for themselves. There's no software trickery, you don't need to worry about edge detection. This is real background both to take a look at some other ultimate smartphone camera rigs.

I've made I'll leave some links from this video plus. If you haven't already seen the complete iPhone comparison, video do check that out as well that'll be linked. It took like two months to put together thanks a lot for watching, and we'll catch you in the next one. You.

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