iPhone 4S new sensor can take 4K at 24p.FCPX can handle 4K.Imagine the possibilities.

[Herb Sevush]

I love it. Lets take a good lens and then focus it on a tiny screen and then shoot that screen with a shitty lens onto a big sensor. Or you could get a T2i and do it right.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions

[Herb Sevush]

And you figure the built in Mic is perfect for the audio, or does the Iphone come with XLR ins?

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions

[Steve Connor]

[Herb Sevush] “Or you could get a T2i and do it right.”

5 years ago you would have been ridiculed for suggesting you use a stills camera to shoot pro video 🙂

“My Name is Steve and I’m an FCPX user”

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Herb Sevush] “I love it. Lets take a good lens and then focus it on a tiny screen and then shoot that screen with a shitty lens onto a big sensor.”

Bit isn’t this what 35mm DOF adapters did on video cameras before the DSLR/interchangeable lens boom?

That idea seemed to work OK.

[Herb Sevush]

No, 35mm DOF adapters took a good lens, focused it on a large (comparatively) rotating screen to avoid introducing the screens granularity into the image and to keep the screen from gathering dust and hairs, and then shot it with another good lens. And still most people didn’t want to work with them.

Of course with one of these do-hicky’s hanging onto your Iphone it now has as large a profile as a DSLR, but without any ability to deal with exposure or shutter speed. It’s the FCPX of DSLRs.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions

[Jeremy Garchow]

Eh, whatever. I’m tired.

[Herb Sevush]

Before surrendering to your fatigue may I just state that I like the Iphone and I’m happy it has a camera in it. The value of having a camera in a phone is it’s immediacy, the fact that everyone has it at all times and it allows you to capture the moment and then distribute it rapidly. This is a great thing, as proven by the fact that almost every cell phone now has one. What doesn’t matter is how many pixels the sensor has – if you can see the picture, it’s good. Pictures of the uprising in Egypt would not have gotten more air play if they were shot with the 4S. If your interested in high quality photography get a dedicated camera. It seems a bit of overkill to have a 4K image in a cell phone – that’s all I’m saying. It doesn’t hurt, but I don’t see the big advantage. I don’t think that’s too controversial a thought.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Herb Sevush] “that’s all I’m saying. It doesn’t hurt,”

For a minute there, I really thought you were saying that people shouldn’t be allowed to take their own pictures as they aren’t photographers.

I will gladly take a higher res iPhone camera as many times it’s the only cam I have with me. Wearing a camera around your neck in the city is asking for it.

[David Lawrence]

[Jeremy Garchow] “I will gladly take a higher res iPhone camera as many times it’s the only cam I have with me. “

So true that the best camera is the one you have with you at the time. Here’s a couple articles from the New York Times that speaks to that. In this case, award winning war photos shot with an iPhone. Their candidness only possible because the soldiers were comfortable being photographed with a camera phone:

https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/finding-the-right-tool-to-tell-a-war-story/?ref=asia

https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/through-my-eye-not-hipstamatics/

I won’t complain when my iPhone shoots 1080p video but I wouldn’t expect to use it as a substitute for a real camera on a job. It’s about appropriateness to the job at hand. I think we all agree on that.

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[Shawn Bockoven]

EXT. D2 COLLEGE SOCCER MATCH – DUSK

I approach sports photographer from local TV Station curious about what appears to be a Panasonic camera hidden under rain gear.

ME: Is that a 300 or 370?

PHOTOGRAPHER: What?

ME: The camera, what model is it?

PHOTOGRAPHER: Oh heck, I don’t know?

ME: How old is the camera?

PHOTOGRAPHER: Going on two years.

ME: Probably the 300. Does it record on P2?

PHOTOGRAPHER: Oooohhh, yes.

ME: Hows the light sensitivity?

PHOTOGRAPHER: What is that?

ME: Does it shoot well at night and under these stadium lights?

PHOTOGRAPHER: I think so???

ME: Just purchased the same slot mic package, how do you like it?

PHOTOGRAPHER: Slot mic?

ME: The wireless system you are using.

PHOTOGRAPHER: We can’t figure out how to use both mics at the same time. The last guy could do it, but we can’t figure it out.

ME: You do anything else at the station?

PHOTOGRAPHER: I’m the sports anchor on weekends.

ME: OOOOHHHH!!!