iPhone 11 Pro Camcorder or iPhone 11 Pro for video?

[satchmo]

If one wanted to get started in video producing short 15-30 min clips (documentary mostly), would you recommend an iPhone 11 or perhaps go with a dedicated camcorder.

Budget is around $1000 so it’s either a new phone or a camcorder? Im thinkng optically and cheaper storage might skew the favour towards a camcorder.

 

[MacNut]

Optically you want a bigger sensor so go with a pro camcorder. It would be roughly the same price as a new 11 Pro Max

 

[BODYBUILDERPAUL]

As a travelling marketing guy, here are my thoughts and experience...

Many of the YouTube vloggers use the £500 Canon cameras or the SONY / Panasonic ones. I've used the Canon's and they are super.
I can instantly tell when an iPhone video has been uploaded to YouTube. It always makes my heart drop as it seems to lack a certain sparkle or life which you get with a proper camera.
Even the ones from photographers that Tim Cook promoted the other day did not look good to my trained eyes the other day. I can tell within a split second. Whether the quality is dropping when edited in FCPX/Premiere, I don't know but a small camera still seems to make a more polished job - but you go to remember that the iPhone does around 100+ extra things - and in all fairness, it does most things really, really well.

Pro standard or YouTube vlogging, making film/docu's or client work - buy a £500+ camera.

Every day life, travelling videos etc, filming your friends & watching in the Photos app on your Mac, filming to upload to Instagram - buy an iPhone Pro.

Check out a few vloggers on YouTube - EverythingApplePro uses a Panasonic camera.
The Wolves (Adam) uses a £500 small Canon camera, edits on a MacBook Pro in FCPX AND his videos look very very clean with great picture quality. For audio, he's using a RODE mike.