Apple never really had wanted to do software for consumers or Pros. Each market they moved into was because the developers were neglecting Apple platforms. In each case developers were forced to step up thier game. This why Apple is willing to support them via their marketing campaigns.
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Apple Launches Worldwide 'Shot on iPhone 6' Ad Campaign Spanning Magazines, Billboards and More
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Apple never really had wanted to do software for consumers or Pros. Each market they moved into was because the developers were neglecting Apple platforms. In each case developers were forced to step up thier game. This why Apple is willing to support them via their marketing campaigns.
The only reason I like these ads is they are genuinely shot on iPhones. Almost all adverts in this genre are fakes or shot on pro gear with unrealistic expectations of the advertised product. Apple seems to appreciate we ain't dumb.
Apple is reallocating the resources to what they need to focus on. They have show Adobe and others that they are willing and able to compete in their market if they refuse to give Macs equal development attention. Much of what Adobe is doing on the Mac would be there otherwise.
There is a reason pros are not using those other phones in the same way. Pictures taken using an over boosted screen look terrible on anything else. Consumers accept it because the people they send them too think it's a filter. No it just looks like crap.
What this is about is attracting more people who hoard thousands of rarely revisited images on their phones to store it all on the iCloud for dough.
wish the phone manufacturers would stop relying on gimmicks such as camera and megapixels to try and sell their products. they were doing the same thing 10 years ago, trying to say that their phones take professional quality photos, and nothing has changed since then.
it's like gaming console wars - always trying to one-up each other with using terms and numbers that gamers don't care about. no one cares how many triangles it renders, or how many cores a gpu has as long as it provides a good gaming experience.
it's like gaming console wars - always trying to one-up each other with using terms and numbers that gamers don't care about. no one cares how many triangles it renders, or how many cores a gpu has as long as it provides a good gaming experience.
This is when sales die down and with Samsung showing off 2 models that basically kill even the Note 4 Apple has has to push the advertising hard.
This is Samsungs year. Apple better rethink those S models because it will give Samsung so much momentum. People that just flipped over to Apple could be drawn back to Android because of the S6.
And I would be shocked if Apple releases a 16GB phone. Tim Cook will just be handing over the crown to Samsung.
This is Samsungs year. Apple better rethink those S models because it will give Samsung so much momentum. People that just flipped over to Apple could be drawn back to Android because of the S6.
And I would be shocked if Apple releases a 16GB phone. Tim Cook will just be handing over the crown to Samsung.
Why don't they feature the video camera? In my honest opinion this is the REAL benefit of the new iPhones! The digital stabilizer of the iPhone 6 is pretty amazing and better than anything I saw before.
Here I made some demos (have a little sightseeing tour in Vienna, Austria):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S08JFHhC2V8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpew5yf3EUY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wg1JTJDE7c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqQtjoeqFxI
YouTube doesn't support the extra-smooth 60 frames per second though. When you watch your self-made clips via Apple TV on a huge modern tv set: Be prepared to be really impressed!
Note: When you record a video with iPhone 6 you won't recognize the image stabilizer during shooting. It will be applied by saving the file. When you watch it later the stabilization will be visible. Don't forget to switch to 60 fps in the camera settings!
Here I made some demos (have a little sightseeing tour in Vienna, Austria):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S08JFHhC2V8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpew5yf3EUY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wg1JTJDE7c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqQtjoeqFxI
YouTube doesn't support the extra-smooth 60 frames per second though. When you watch your self-made clips via Apple TV on a huge modern tv set: Be prepared to be really impressed!
Note: When you record a video with iPhone 6 you won't recognize the image stabilizer during shooting. It will be applied by saving the file. When you watch it later the stabilization will be visible. Don't forget to switch to 60 fps in the camera settings!
Yea VSCO cam has a weird UI but it's brilliant once you get your head around it. IMO it has the best collection of filters - really takes photos to the next level, without being overbearing like Instagram.
The trick is to realize that you need to import everything persistently first, as it treats every photo like its own project. It's annoying but then it allows you to go back and tweak or easily export after the fact. And you end up with a nice gallery. Other thing is, the effects can be scaled 1-10 intensity so you can be subtle if you like.
I shot my sister in laws wedding a few weeks ago with my micro four-thirds camera, edited via VSCO cam on iPad and she was really pleased with the results.
You clearly already have a preconceived notion about what you want to think about the campaign and are upset that the company you support isn't doing anything similar. Expensive tools do not a great artist make, and a great artist can create great things from anything. The point is that great artists can still make great art from their camera phone instead of an expensive DSLR.
Oh stop the hors **** please!!! The year of Samsung, sure!! The year when Samsung finally gave up everything they previously used to bash Apple and to convince the customers that "It is the same thing, but cheaper". Non-removable battery, no memory card slot, all metal and glass, cut 40% of the existing features that were previously used to convince us in the superiority of the touch wiz over ios. Como on man! You are pathetic troll or the one of the most deshonest persons I have ever met, nothing less could explain the stupidity behind your false statments.
p.d. Samsung use 40% less features in SG compared to SG5 as a feature itself for the new phone...thats how much they belive in their own software and the new **** they were throwing to us multiple times a year trough their endless game of smarthphone. You have to be complete moron or ignorant imbecil to choose to buy SG6 if you have the option to get iPhone 6 for the same price.
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I'll say it again, these are some beautiful shots. Only that terrible AT&T logo on the New Yorker magazine rear page
Where were you when AT&T was the only carrier to give the iPhone a chance?
Nice footage. I'm not sure if it's YouTube or my connection, but the footage exhibited an occasional stuttering.
Also, wasn't stabilization a feature of just the iPhone 6 Plus?
My photo is one of the selected.
1. I am not a professional photographer.
2. I sent them the photo untouched. No post processing. They didn't even crop it (but it should have been in my opinion)
3. I took it with the iPhone 6 Camera App.
4. They did take time to validate that it was indeed taken by an iPhone 6.
5. They found the photo using Flickr.
1. I am not a professional photographer.
2. I sent them the photo untouched. No post processing. They didn't even crop it (but it should have been in my opinion)
3. I took it with the iPhone 6 Camera App.
4. They did take time to validate that it was indeed taken by an iPhone 6.
5. They found the photo using Flickr.
Any decent camera/software
The iPhone camera is a perfectly capable camera, to be sure, but this campaign seems a bit... dumb. The logical fallacy of this campaign is false cause.
Great photos are taken with whatever camera the photographer has on them at the time. Once past a certain threshhold of "quality" or in-lense stylization, what makes a great photo great isn't the camera used to capture it, its the composition and subject/content.
A lot of cool photos are being taken on iPhones because, well, a lot of people, particularly creatives, have iPhones on them when presented with great photo opportunities. Not necessarily because the iPhone's camera or software are particularly or uniquely good or bad.
The iPhone camera is a perfectly capable camera, to be sure, but this campaign seems a bit... dumb. The logical fallacy of this campaign is false cause.
Great photos are taken with whatever camera the photographer has on them at the time. Once past a certain threshhold of "quality" or in-lense stylization, what makes a great photo great isn't the camera used to capture it, its the composition and subject/content.
A lot of cool photos are being taken on iPhones because, well, a lot of people, particularly creatives, have iPhones on them when presented with great photo opportunities. Not necessarily because the iPhone's camera or software are particularly or uniquely good or bad.
Optical Image Stabilization indeed is part of the iPhone 6 Plus. However, both iPhone 6 en 6 Plus feature Cinematic Video Stabilization, which is kind of an improvement over the Digital Image Stabilization used since the iPhone 4S.
Of course, Digital Image Stabilization is still in the regular iPhone 6 for photos.