First Images and HD Video Footage From iPhone 4

[ChocolateApple]

No matter how high tech your cell phone is, the video taken will ALWAYS be jumpy/stuttery.

The small tiny sensors just cant work fast enough.

But the iPhone 4 isnt a SLR, its a cell phone, and it shoots suprisingly amazing videos and photos, atleast thats possible

Agreed. They say the best camera is the one that's with you. I own high end A/V equipment, but the cell is usually with me, ready to shoot-n-share on the fly. So any quality improvement is cool.

 

[Pechente]

Pictures don't look too good but HD Video Recording is pretty nice for a device that small, although the camera picks up lens flares quite easily.

 

[applefreak2000]

The white iphone takes better pictures.

What the heck is freedevil thinking? its just a color difference not a camera difference.

 

[bpfesq]

You know I would never post a video or pictures on here for others to see. You think you're doing some folks a favor by sharing but all you get is a bunch of complainers and whiners. The members of this group never fail to amaze me. Sometimes I think the average age must be about 16.

IF that.

 

[Small White Car]

Ok, I just compared the raw video on a few different machines here.

People are saying "jumpy" and "stuttery" without explaining what they mean. I'll ignore those words and say it this way:

It is NOT dropping frames. If you're seeing that then it's your computer's fault. It's playing back at a full, normal frame-rate here. No problems there.

It IS pretty shakey, which is how hand-held (small camera) footage should look. What's going on is that we're all used to our video cameras having image-stabilization built into the lenses which the iPhone doesn't have. So it's not that the iPhone is strange or anything. It's normal. Rather, it's that other camcorders are better at getting rid of that and that's what we're used to seeing.

 

[rjg125]

You know I would never post a video or pictures on here for others to see. You think you're doing some folks a favor by sharing but all you get is a bunch of complainers and whiners. The members of this group never fail to amaze me. Sometimes I think the average age must be about 16.

You read my mind...

 

[BOSS10L]

Can anybody give any info on file sizes for HD video shot on the iPhone 4? My wife and I are getting the 16GB and 32GB versions, and I can't decide which I should take for myself.

 

[SockRolid]

Article Link: First Images and HD Video Footage From iPhone 4

Very impressive video quality. I suppose eventually Apple could, if they wanted to, bump the resolution to the holy grail of 1080p, then later add image stabilization, then later an optical zoom. But whatever. I'm really looking forward to Wednesday morning! (FedEx tracking page says "Estimated delivery Jun 23, 2010 by 10:30 AM".)

For everyone planning to post videos: be careful how much of your iMac or other computers' screens you shoot. You can almost read this guy's email addresses and aliases.

p.s. What's up with that Dell Monitor standing on its left edge? You can see it up against the wall as the video pans left and up.

 

[milo]

Is it too much to ask to hold the phone horizontally when shooting video?

Seriously. And this time footage of the desk? Would it be so hard to walk outside? Or even open a window?

Did apple have a special screening process to make sure the early deliveries got sent to the most clueless users?

You think you're doing some folks a favor by sharing

Not much of a favor if the footage is pretty much useless. I swear, if this thing had a lens cap, people would be posting footage with it left on.

 

[Apple Knowledge Navigator]

Hey does anyone remember the 'Mac'?

What a great platform! I think it had something to do with this website too, y'know, MacRumors

 

[kiljoy616]

Nothing like HD video in portrait mode!

haha, yes, probably did not want to show the rest of the room, maybe some funny things on the walls that better not to be seen.

 

[JackAxe]

What are your computers?

I saved that test file from a few days back and it jumped a bit on my work PC but played fine on my Mac Pro.

HD H.264 requires a fair bit of horsepower (or a dedicated decoding chip) to play back smoothly.

It's not the computer, the video isn't exactly smooth. But none the less, still impressive for a phone.

"All" of Apple's Intel Macs have hardware level decoding for h.264 btw... At least for their own internal apps like Quicktime. Apple keeps the best to themselves for their own apps, they don't like to share. :]

 

[iOrlando]

come on you are one of the few in the world to have an iphone 4 and you take a photo of brush?

take it to a beach and take it of beautiful people.

 

[diamond.g]

Is iMovie for iPhone 4 up yet?

 

[kiljoy616]

Very impressive video quality. I suppose eventually Apple could, if they wanted to, bump the resolution to the holy grail of 1080p, then later add image stabilization, then later an optical zoom. But whatever. I'm really looking forward to Wednesday morning! (FedEx tracking page says "Estimated delivery Jun 23, 2010 by 10:30 AM".)

For everyone planning to post videos: be careful how much of your iMac or other computers' screens you shoot. You can almost read this guy's email addresses and aliases.

p.s. What's up with that Dell Monitor standing on its left edge? You can see it up against the wall as the video pans left and up.

1080p now that would get big fast. I like to see image stability, that would be the holy grail of the new iphone I wonder if it is something Apple should have looked into, I wonder if it can be done at the software level so we don't need to wait till 2013 for it.

 

[HiRez]

Meh. Can't say I'm really impressed, it's OK but not great. Panning in video is pretty brutal, it's strobing probably because it's using too high a shutter speed. I'm also seeing a lot of compression artifacts. But hey for a phone it's fine.

 

[KALLT]

Pictures don't look too good but HD Video Recording is pretty nice for a device that small, although the camera picks up lens flares quite easily.

Yes, exactly what I thought too. I'm very impressed by the video quality, especially in 720p. A really sharp video for a phone camera. I can't say this about the photo though. It's overexposed and somehow too noised.

 

[Mystikal]

 

[Mazeman]

I'm glad to see someone actually went outdoors.

 

[dmelgar]

Looks sharp but stuttery but hard to know for sure.
If someone takes a video... please have some motion in it. Otherwise its a glorified still picture.

Other video on Youtube outside looks good. Sharp. No stutter that I notice. Bright areas are very blown out but thats not unusual.

Framerate will probably go down indoors. Would be interesting to see more videos in lower light.

 

[diamond.g]

Just noticed, the posters GPS coords are in the video file. Not sure how bad of a thing that is...

 

[longofest]

video is just fantastic for a cell phone. A few years ago you couldn't get this kind of video digitally period in any consumer device.

 

[Ibjr]

This is fantastic.

 

[marksman]

Regular Francis Ford Scorsese

Kills the EVO videos I have seen. I am very anxious to get an iPhone 4 now. Hopefully next month.

 

[kyleh613]

When is Macrumors going to make a section of the site for iphone 4 made porn videos?