iPhone 15 vs. 35mm Camera

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With the new iPhone 15 Pro and Max, it's all about the camera. But USB-C changes everything.
With the new iPhone 15 Pro and Max, it's all about the camera. But USB-C changes everything.

Internally you are limited to 4K 30p (which is still a lot), but when recording externally, that opens up 4K 60p.

4K 60p. From your iPhone. That you have in your pocket all the time.

That's just astounding. It was only a few years ago that a lot of folks doing action sports work started defaulting to 4K 60 fps for everything they shot. Not every camera could do that at the time and now your everyday iPhone can.

The more significant news here is Log recording, which allows filmmakers to shoot in a broader range of exposure fitting into a smaller dynamic range file. This is a big step forward for the iPhone and adds a tremendous amount of flexibility to the post-production process.

With the 5x, the zoom range is just insane. On top of that, Apple has built in some very nice image stabilization that even though we are hand-holding there, it's still quite acceptable.

Because I happened to be shooting in my 35mm class zoom dolly shots, we figured it would be fun to compare a 35mm zoom/dolly shot at the zoom/dolly on an iPhone 15 Pro Max.

Obviously, the Pro Max zoom isn't quite as smooth since it's bumping digitally between three different lenses, but it was still a great way to see how well the zoom worked and get a sense of the optics from a variety of zoom settings.

The other thing to pay attention to is we shot tungsten film and we light it to tungsten, but the iPhone is natively daylight-balanced. This makes sense in the modern era (mostly shooting under daylight or LED light) but might have left the iPhone a bit noisier than usual since it was exposed to warmer light than it's optimized for.