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Using iPhone 6+/SE
I am building a portable setup for my iPhone to use as a second emergency camera.
Around is full of cases, lens addons, lights, etc... I found what suits me and I guess each of you found their own gimmick combination. My question here is on the video quality of the iPhone. The camera has a 4032x3024 resolution when making photos but when making videos the picture seems cropped (less wide-angle) so the real sensor resolution that is used is around 3400x or even less. So.. what about 4K video? Is there some interpolation here? How much? And what if I use the zoom feature in 4K mode? Even more interpolation! And, if I keep in HD mode? Can I use the zoom with confidence until.. let's say 2.0x believeing that there will be no interpolation here? I know there are differences between the actual sensor size and the photo file (4032x), and I know that seniors have built in some sort of interpolation (to create square pixels from single circle/hexagonal RGB cells)... but i'd like to know more... Can somebody address me to REAL ACTUAL TECHNICAL DATA on the iphone camera? What is the real sensor size? How is video extracted (cropped?) from the original picture? What happens with zoom? Etc... Thanks, M |
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Re: Using iPhone 6+/SE
I would think the best solution would be to test different scenarios and see how you feel about the quality of the footage and go from there. At some point, testing is far a more worthwhile use of your time then perusing specs.
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I am doing my tests... I also found apps that limit the zoom to crop without digital interpolation... but still.. I would like to have the specs
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Takes less time to Google than to post.
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Tried.. Can't find it
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Re: Using iPhone 6+/SE
Is there not something about variable frame rate that makes it awkward to edit?
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Yes.. I am having some problems with that too.
For example if I shoot a slowmotion at 120 fps then in Premiere I expect to have 1200 frames for 10 seconds of shooting and I expect to be able in the clip properties (INTERPRET FOOTAGE) to set whatever framerate I want. Let's say I put 24fps I should have 24 DIFFERENT frames every second... but sometimes Premiere gives me two identical consecutive frames and I don't understand why. The only explanation is that the iPhone couldn't keep up with the 120 fps and created artifical frames from the previous one, so actually jumpong frames. Again.. I'd like to have proper technical data on this. Seems Apple is very good at hiding REAL TECH info M |
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You may want to look into FimicPro
Not only a very professional video app but perhaps their support can tell you a bit about the phone specs which they must know to develop an app like this. FiLMiC Pro - Mobile HD Video Camera for iPhone, iPad | App of the Year | Mobile HD Video Camera for iPhone, iPad | App of the Year |
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I already use Filmic Pro as well as another few pro apps. I wrote to them and they are very kind. They replied all my emails... except this one asking tech info on how they implement the zoom (other apps have a limit to crop resolutions and no interpolation...and if you select it in 4K you get, correctly, no zoom at all).
I am not a developer but I think the pro app developers haven't full access to the sensor (like for example the Magic Lantern people that created the alternative firmware for Canon 5D). I think iPhone app developers have to stuck with what Apple passes them. At present, for iPhone, I couldn't find an app that has the following... - RAW picture - Flat colour settings - Separate (truly) shutter controls (they seem to link to ISO and EXPOSURE, so you can't change them independently)... for video (in photo apps you can) |
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The iPhone currently does not have an API to allow raw image capture (raw is not an acronym). This is coming in iOS 10, but will require you to have the 6/6S, SE, or iPad Pro 9.7.
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Thank you Gary .. you seem well informed.
I know RAW just means raw and is not an acronym.. I just like using capital letters every now and then. R.A.W. would be how I write an acronym I understand there are no APIs for shutter.. ok... let's hope for iOS10. I don't completely understand your idea on the FLAT colours. I am not asking for a fake flat (first I have the colour, then I take it out etc..). What I was thinking (butI guess I am wrong) is that the chain should be RAW -> FLAT -> CONTRASTED/COLOURED So if RAW (full control on picture) is not available.. a FLAT (pre-treated) image might be. Anyway.. Is great news to know that RAW will be available soon (iOS Beta is out already) Are you informed also on resolution (real, interpolated, etc..) ? Thanks, Marcello |
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I understand.
So you think iOS ill make RAW available to developers but not directly in the file for the users? Maybe some developer will make it so the file can be saved in a format with RAW info. Any info about resolution and zoom? thanks, M |
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This is for photographic stills. Not for video. |
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Thanks. Ok... I hope that if it is technically possible, some developer might do it for video too.
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