They'll look sharper on the phone than 1080p does, plus you can zoom in with more detail. Watch on a larger Retina device or TV.
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4k Video Looks Awful in Sample Videos
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They'll look sharper on the phone than 1080p does, plus you can zoom in with more detail. Watch on a larger Retina device or TV.
People around the world have gotten their phones by now. We should soon see how good it really is, rather than rely on sample videos.
https://www.macrumors.com/2015/09/25/iphone6s-plus-optical-image-stabilization-4k/
Looks like the issue may just be with the 6S? Hopefully Apple can improve this via software updates after launch.
Looks like the issue may just be with the 6S? Hopefully Apple can improve this via software updates after launch.
Stabilization is a physics / hardware thing. You can't emulate it with software without sacrificing quality somewhere. All the motion stabilization algorithms need to crop the image and determine the "motion parameters" to smooth the picture, so you lose details at the edges / border, which can sometimes be quite thick.
This is why professionals use specialized equipment to keep their camera steady while filming. I never really appreciated the importance of all the gizmos you see at movie sets until I tried making decent videos myself...
There's absolutely nothing wrong with the image quality, thankfully. The demo's gave me doubt, but now I'm seeing it first hand and it really is crisp.
I think it comes down to the horrid compression these sites put the videos through. I sent both a 4K and 1080 video to someone through whatsapp, and it turned out incredibly bad. And then when I played it back through whatsapp, it sucked. But straight out of the phone it's gorgeous.
Give it a chance. There gone a brilliant job with it.
I think it comes down to the horrid compression these sites put the videos through. I sent both a 4K and 1080 video to someone through whatsapp, and it turned out incredibly bad. And then when I played it back through whatsapp, it sucked. But straight out of the phone it's gorgeous.
Give it a chance. There gone a brilliant job with it.
That's not the question you should be asking. You have a PREFERENCE for a punchy, vivid picture profile. Apple's preference seems to lean towards the more natural, with less contrast, less sharpening, and higher dynamic range.
Here's an extreme example of this. The Galaxy S6 Edge's photo completely blows out the highlights on the stone column, losing the detail of the cracks and texture. The iPhone is much more natural, retaining detail in both the highlights and the shadows.
Professionals also prefer more natural and flat picture profiles because if your camera outputs a punchy, vivid picture, it's much more difficult to make that look natural vs. the other way around. Vivid profiles tend to remove data at the ends of the histogram.
Citation needed. I would seriously love to see a camera that does this, because it still makes absolutely no sense. This is like those people who convert their 96kbps MP3's to FLAC and claim it sounds better.
Sorry buddy. The sensor in the Galaxy S6 (a Sony IMX240) has a resolution of 5312x2988. 4K video is 3840x2160.
Quite obvious that it must either be scaling the sensor's image down to 3840x2160, or (the easier method) taking a 1:1 crop of the middle 3840x2160 portion of the sensor.
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s6_has_a_sony_imx240_camera_sensor-news-11392.php
lol.
If you have it set to shoot at 1080/30 the phone should really film in 4K and apply software stabilisation and downscale it to 1080p automatically.
And I assume you are aware Samsung also uses Sony sensors in some of their devices as well right. Most manufactures use parts from other sources to save money and speed development.
I shot some 4K video when I got my phone yesterday and watched it on my 5K iMac and my 4K TV. Definitely better than 1080P. It looks fantastic.
The point being that Samsung have expeience and specialist knowledge in building their own cameras and sensors, this meaning that they know a thing or two about good cameras.. So the original posters comments about the new iPhones camera should be automatically better than the s6 just cos it's an iPhone holds no water.. Do Apple phones take better pics than a Canon or Nikon.. Of course not...why, cos they are specialist companies who build their own gear.. The point is the same..