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iPhone 17 Pro Said to Offer Bigger-Than-Usual Video Recording Upgrades
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By “screen” do you mean a display on the camera bump?
Presumably, a tally light LED could be used to display other information as well…
Vision Pro records on 2200 x 2200, perhaps we are going to have square videos (I hope better resolution) with portrait/landscape view depending on the device, similar to what happens when viewing photos/videos from memories on vertical/horizontal. Giving also room for content creator to manually choose their favorite.
Square video also would solve the problem for spatial videos while holding the phone vertically.
I hope they fix the Camera Control button position though.
Square video also would solve the problem for spatial videos while holding the phone vertically.
I hope they fix the Camera Control button position though.
It is interesting that you see it that way. Because I see it exactly the opposite. I have always felt that a camera bump across the whole top of the phone would be the most functional way to lay out the lenses. Except that I am totally ignorant as to how lenses interact with the interior of the phone.
Why do you say "the flash placement makes NO SENSE" ? You do know that increasing flash distance from the lens is critical for reducing redeye and making flash people pix look better, right? Which is why wedding and PJ photogs often have the strobe unit on an arm, a foot away from the lens.
If you wanted "something smaller to hold in the hand" you could have gotten a Pro instead of a Pro Max.
Somewhat true, but still not really. The Pro models are chonk. The 17 Air will be dramatically thinner and lighter, which makes a lot of difference to what it feels like to hold in the hand.
None of them are products designed to be held at all, but that's another conversation.
So you always want your pictures to look like they were took at a wedding? Red eyes can be fixed with software nowadays, stronger shadows on one side and always that one side can’t.
I suspect the extended bump allows for additonal camera capabilities.
I’m not sure the flash will actually be all the way on the other side; it makes more sense to have it closer to the cameras, given that Apple has historically placed it as close as possible to the cameras.
Perhaps the additional back space will allow for another spatial camera on the back, but more importantly:
The additional internal space may allow quality parity for the facetime camera (as others have noted).
I’m not sure the flash will actually be all the way on the other side; it makes more sense to have it closer to the cameras, given that Apple has historically placed it as close as possible to the cameras.
Perhaps the additional back space will allow for another spatial camera on the back, but more importantly:
The additional internal space may allow quality parity for the facetime camera (as others have noted).
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If the goal is to appeal to content creators and there will now be a glass panel on the back, wouldn't it make sense that this back glass panel is actually a screen for recording yourself using the best camera on the phone?
Por qúe no los dos? I suppose it’s possible for them to add a back screen, but to me it doesn’t seem like a good fit. Is it costlier in terms of component cost and battery life to upgrade a camera which is already used a lot, or to add another smaller display for a function that will not be used nearly as much? Will that display always turn on during a photo, or only when any face is detected, or will I have to turn it on manually with a special “tiktok” mode? Will the main display turn off while the back display is in use? Which display is better for selfy-sticks or tripods? Will controls be visible on the mini-display? Will they use sapphire for that entire area to protect it from normal use?
I said that in a thread last week… Plot twist… It's also a new iPhone Mini!
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Mostly useless features for most folks as most the time we will be watching that content in tiny screens.
Apple really is loosing the ball in the innovation department. No foldable iPhone this year?, no on screen finger print reader?, no way to edit a mistyped number?, the worst notch in the WHOLE industry?, thick and easily overheated devices, super mediocre battery duration in day to day activities.
Just for “big improvements” in battery diarios I would happily pay the “upgrade”, as it stands, it is not and upgrade.
Apple really is loosing the ball in the innovation department. No foldable iPhone this year?, no on screen finger print reader?, no way to edit a mistyped number?, the worst notch in the WHOLE industry?, thick and easily overheated devices, super mediocre battery duration in day to day activities.
Just for “big improvements” in battery diarios I would happily pay the “upgrade”, as it stands, it is not and upgrade.
Good strategy as that's the lucrative and growing market. Most creators start with an iPhone and move onto something else when/if they start making money. Right now I'd say the standard to meet is the DJI Pocket 3. One reason it will be hard to compete with that one is due to the ability of the camera to reverse direction and give the same quality for filming yourself as filming in front of you.
Conspiracy theory:
In Camera preset settings you can turn on that Live Photo is auto turned on OR that it remembers whatever you last had on.
You can NOT turn on to have Live Photos auto turn off.
And I believe that’s for the same reason you mentioned.
Yeah bet ya that recording front and back at once in the native app will be unlocked with a future iPhone, some new format only new iPhones can every possibly support, of course.
A stream for you library or something. Personally I’d be happy to just sometimes be able to switch cameras mid video but we aren’t Pro enough yet it seems.
Lots of comments on MacRumors by people who have said something similar, that they don't need a phone that's a simulated DSLR with multiple cameras but instead just a half-decent, single-lens camera, if it meant that at least part of the iPhone would be smaller, even if it's just to reduce the weight and/or thickness.