If this is the "must-have" feature of the 5S, I'll be happy I upgraded my 4S to a 5 earlier this spring.
If you upgraded from a 4S to a 5 it sounds like you're getting each version.. which means you'll probably get the 5S and the 6.
That video was from my old 4S running iOS 5.x in 2012. I now have an iP5 running iOS 7 b3. I think if the 4S was capable of 60fps 720p capture, the iP5 could've done 60fps 1080p
while the 5S will be able to do 120fps 1080p.
Just because something would technically work on older phones does not mean it will work well. Take Maps. Google's Map App works like crap on older iPhones (don't love it on newer one's either). When Siri came out often times she would suffer from network congestion. If Apple allowed all the old phones on, it would have been much worst
You mean like combining a cell phone with a camera, a media player and a PDA all in one convenient, pocket-sized touch screen device with access to thousands of apps to customize your experience?Really. Have there been any new features from Apple that haven't already been done a year prior by Samsung?
You mean like combining a cell phone with a camera, a media player and a PDA all in one convenient, pocket-sized touch screen device with access to thousands of apps to customize your experience?
By the way: why 120fps. Cant most of those newest phones record 300fps?
Nope, none of them - only standalone P&S cameras. BTW, it's absolutely unlikely the iPhone 5S will have 120 fps at 720p, let alone 1080p.
so basicly they lie saying its 300fps? or do they mean they can make it go slower then 120fps by just making it play back at 15fps instead of 30 or something?
Fast capture is even better for photography, when done right. No more posing!
SnappyCam on iPhone can take high quality photos up to 60 pictures/sec on iPhone 4S (iOS 5) and soon on more devices with iOS 7.
The higher the resolution, the slower it gets, but there's nothing anywhere near as fast and high-res as SnappyCam.
Shooting photos at 120 pictures/sec would be amazing. Can't wait!
jpap
Are you ABSOLUTELY sure it's capable of resolving 2112 x 1188 pixels? For my forthcoming article, I've made some very serious tests on the absolutely clean, just-restored, 6.1.4 (no jailbreak, no previous restored backups, no nothing) iPhone 5 to properly evaluate the image quality of SnappyCam and found it to be much worse in Extra FoV mode than even in the smallest-resolution modes (let alone the Large FoV mode, which basically operates on 1080p video framegrabs). The same is the case under iOS 7.0b3.
This is the highest-resolution (Extra Large FoV ) mode (2112 x 1188) with in 16:9 mode:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33448355@N07/9350233579/sizes/o/in/set-72157634760530375/
and in 4:3:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33448355@N07/9350233731/sizes/o/in/set-72157634760530375/
And this is the Large FoV (as has been explained above, simple 1080p framegrabs):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33448355@N07/9350233255/sizes/o/in/set-72157634760530375/
(16:9)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33448355@N07/9350233413/sizes/o/in/set-72157634760530375/
(4:3)
As you can see, these screenshots are WAAY better than those of maximal resolution.
The other FoV modes' resolutions are, as expected, the same as the source video files. They're also in the dedicated Flickr set ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/33448355@N07/sets/72157634760530375/ )
Could you please look into the problem so that I can publish as timely info as possible in my article?
Thanks for getting in touch via e-mail Werner.
I've sent you a reply and am looking into this in more detail.
jpap
Just a quick heads-up before I publish all this in my full Action Shooting bible (after publishing my panorama / HDR / low-light roundups):
I've very thoroughly tested the recent update (3.0.0).
I've tested the three best (highest-resolution) modes (all in 4:3) the new version on my iPhone 5 (6.1.4, non-JB'n).
Resolution: great in all three modes – that is, in the two larger-than-Full HD modes too! That is, it no longer has problems in resolution(s) higher than Full HD.
Effective fps, benchmarked with my programmatically generated 60 fps tester video:
Full FoV: After the first 7 frames (with between 3-4 framedrops; effective framerate: around 15-20 fps), 12-18frames between (effective framerate: around 4 fps)
Extra Large FoV: around 3-4 frames between all frames during the entire recording (effective framerate: around 15-20 fps)
Large FoV, 30: true 30 fps
That is, in the highest-resolution mode (“Full FoV”), the framerate drops from the 15...20 default to around 4 after some frames. If you need as high framerate as possible during as much time as possible (with definitely better resolution than Full HD), use the “Extra Large FoV” mode (the one with the second-highest resolution). Finally, if 30 fps is important for you and the somewhat lower resolution (Full HD) and significantly narrower FoV isn't a problem, use the “Large FoV” mode.